TaraER-RN

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  1. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    TaraER-RN replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    Tim...I've been there for 3 years...nothing new, those are just some of the pet peeves :) I love the

  2. book: anyone ever read this one?

    TaraER-RN replied to jusjan67's topic in General Nursing

    I agree loved the books...start with her first...its

  3. Does anyone else have this problem with their hospital pharmacy?

    TaraER-RN replied to nursenancy57's topic in General Nursing

    In the ER the pharmacy has no say in when we give the meds...we give them when they are ordered and if we start the floor orders we give stat or "give first dose now" meds at the time we recieve them,...

  4. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    TaraER-RN replied to ferfer's topic in General Nursing

    I hate the "When will I be seen?", or "why did you take that patient before my daughter"...daughter in for nausea/vomiting, guy I took clutching at chest, diaphoretic, can hardly speak. Lazy nurses...

  5. NG tube trouble

    TaraER-RN replied to zacarias's topic in General Nursing

    In regards to the hurricane spray and worry of aspiration, I have never used so much of it to get rid of the gag reflex. I use just one spray, it just seems to help get past the back of the throat...

  6. New Grads verses seasoned R.N.s

    TaraER-RN replied to the ole filly's topic in General Nursing

    Its called being in a union....they can't get rid of the seasoned RN's unless they have extremely good reason! Job Security! Plus with the shortage and now rations...not really a worry where I

  7. NG tube trouble

    TaraER-RN replied to zacarias's topic in General Nursing

    I have used the ice method and the curling it in my hands trick. I always numb the patients throat with hurricane spray, and the tube with lidocaine jelly and then tilt the head forward until I get...

  8. advice needed

    TaraER-RN replied to LoriT's topic in General Nursing

    Thats a tough call...are you applying to one particular part of the hospital and they aren't calling you back, or did you just apply in general and the HR people won't call back? I would hate to go...

  9. "Clean" areas of nursing? Need advice.

    TaraER-RN replied to ideastoday's topic in General Nursing

    If it doesn't bother you with seeing these things in kids (the urine etc) then you could always go into pedi...otherwise, I think you're stuck with a bit of the

  10. IV Bolus not so simple

    TaraER-RN replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

    you could always set the pump like MMB said above as the piggyback mode and then set the regular infusion at whatever it is suppose to be after the bolus is done...thats what I do

  11. do you report assault in the er?

    TaraER-RN replied to brown's topic in Emergency

    No ifs ands or buts in our ER we have to report all assaults, if the patient then doesn't want to pursue it any further than thats fine, at least we did our part by reporting it to the

  12. Haldol IV??

    TaraER-RN replied to dabestrn's topic in Emergency

    In our ER we can only give it IM, even though in the drug books it is safe IV....haven't yet been able to get a straight answer on why we can't give it

  13. Sentinel Event

    TaraER-RN replied to VickyRN's topic in General Nursing

    wow...that is scary...thats why I still doublecheck things that don't seem right, its been a year since I was the "new grad" but I'm still a newbie and am lucky that the minor errors I have done have...

  14. How do you deal with a patient slapping you?

    TaraER-RN replied to AmyRN1227's topic in General Nursing

    working in the ER i get paranoid every day that something will happen...been a year and so far I've been lucky enough to be ok. We have quite a few guy nurses and guy EMT"s there and paramedics will...

  15. Gotta good "poop" story? I do.

    TaraER-RN replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

    man...this stuff cracks me up! I had a teacher tell me once...and she swears this is true...that a psych patient came in, and amond psych problems also compained f blly pain and constipation. I...

  16. I snapped

    TaraER-RN replied to Sundowner's topic in General Nursing

    It may not have been nice or appropriate really to say what you did to Bertha...but at times we all snap, especially when we are pushed to far. I think it was completely appropriate to move the...