RainbowSkye

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  1. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    RainbowSkye replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Head wounds can be really scary because they bleed so much (which is why they generally heal so well). I think this is a great pediatric info site.

  2. diploma grads

    RainbowSkye replied to yasmina's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a diploma grad from 1974. I went back to school 15 years later to get a BSN. All of my courses were accepted, but I did have to take all the core classes (English, History, etc) that my diploma...

  3. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    RainbowSkye replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Well, I don't disagree with what you say, but I think it is more than not having access to a primary care provider. I live in a very rural area in the deep south, and even here we have a Public Health...

  4. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    RainbowSkye replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I ate a handfull of Hot Tamales (bright red cinnamon candy) just before I left the house an hour earlier. Yup, many a mom has brought a child to the ER with bright red blood in the diaper (usually...

  5. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    RainbowSkye replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Gee, let's see: -broken acrylic nail -child vomited once, now sitting on mom's lap eating chips and drinking coke -laceration too tiny to be seen by the naked eye ("it was bleeding just a minute ago"...

  6. medications: take home packs

    RainbowSkye replied to MAGIK GIRL's topic in Emergency

    "bushie" is the only president thus far who has taken an interest in furthering the nursing profession by increasing money for education, by furthing advanced practice nursing agendas, and is...

  7. Drug Seeker Antics and Dramas

    RainbowSkye replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Okay, I hope I don't offend anyone here: To the person who has a note from her doctor telling the ER that the patient has "real" migraines and apparently will require narcotics: A note like that is...

  8. Drug Seeker Antics and Dramas

    RainbowSkye replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Here in my little ER Stadol nasal spray is quite popular with the abusers. A pharmacotherapeutics instructor once said that anything you can put up your nose can quickly become addictive: cocaine,...

  9. Drug Seeker Antics and Dramas

    RainbowSkye replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Drug seeking in the ER has really been troubling me lately, to the point that I'm considering leaving the ER (to where, I'm not sure). I've been an ER nurse for over twenty-five years, so you know...

  10. Do you arrest abusive patients?

    RainbowSkye replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    I wonder what that is?????? Sorry, I meant to say I wonder why that is... For me it started way back in the seventies in nursing school. We were taught to always stand up when a doctor came into the...

  11. Do you arrest abusive patients?

    RainbowSkye replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    Amen. I've always wondered why nurses feel they have to put up with abuse that no other profession would tolerate. I understand that we don't see folks at their best in the ER, and I'm willing to...

  12. The "Queen and her son" of Frequent Flyers

    RainbowSkye replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    Hey, we have the same family down here in the deep south. Plus many others who carpool to the ER (amazing that four friends all have a migraine at the same time, or maybe it was back pain this

  13. Drug Seeking Behaviors?

    RainbowSkye replied to JLN1129's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I agree with most of the other posters, but wanted to add a couple of other things. You have a lot of decisions to make. Depending on what area of nursing you choose, it can be brutal on your back....

  14. Your Worst Mistake

    RainbowSkye replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, my gosh, where to begin? I'm very lucky that I almost made a terrible med error my first year of nursing - I drew up epi instead of inderal to give iv push to a patient in svt (this was way back...

  15. Lorcet OTC

    RainbowSkye replied to RainbowSkye's topic in Emergency

    Oh, I totally agree. However, if people were not already getting it and abusing it right now and using very limited tax dollars to do so...I think it would be far better to take it out of the health...

  16. Fibromyalgia

    RainbowSkye replied to veetach's topic in Emergency

    To all those suffering from fibromyalgia: I absolutely believe this condition exists. However, most of the people I see in the ER where I work who tell me they have fibromyalgia have never seen a...

  17. ER treatment for CP

    RainbowSkye replied to SunnyKC's topic in Emergency

    It might be helpful to take your experiences and observations to an emergency physician site in addition to this nursing one. Because, when all is said and done, it's the docs who order the...

  18. IM injections

    RainbowSkye replied to KellyT330's topic in Emergency

    I pretty much hold it to 3cc IM in adults, although I will occasionally do 4cc in a big person. And I very rarely give an IM in the deltoid unless it's a tetorifice shot or the like. However, in the...

  19. lidocaine for IV starts?

    RainbowSkye replied to NativeTexan's topic in Emergency

    Let me tell you, I've worked in ERs which encouraged using Lidocaine for IVs and others who felt it wasn't necessary. After using Lidocaine on most everyone in the ER that routinely used it, it's...

  20. Question for ER nurses...

    RainbowSkye replied to matchstick's topic in Emergency

    Are you a nurse? Can you check her pulse and respiratory rates during an attack? Can you listen to her lungs with a stethoscope? What happens before the attack? And how does the attack end? (I...

  21. ER vs ICU, how did we get there?

    RainbowSkye replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    I've always considered the change of shift admission to be kind of like the Bemuda Triangle or a black hole of the hospital. In this day of 12 hour shifts it usually starts about 6am (or pm) and...

  22. ER vs ICU, how did we get there?

    RainbowSkye replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    Okay, this is the first time I've replied since the new system went into place, so here goes: I'm not sure this can ever be resolved. Although I go agree with the poster who said that both ICU and ER...

  23. Antipyretics Tylenol vs Ibuprofen in Pediatrics

    RainbowSkye replied to TlhRNED's topic in Emergency

    Please check out the fever information by Dr. Barton Schmidt; your docs are right on the money about fever being helpful in fighting infection. 100°F to 102°F Low-grade fever: Beneficial....

  24. How do you handle patients "holding" in your ED?

    RainbowSkye replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    I understand being busy and taking care of too many patients; I've been working in ER for twenty-five years. However...if the ICU nurse is too busy to care for more than two patients (and I know that...

  25. Hawaii NP Program

    RainbowSkye replied to zenman's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't know the answer to your question, but I wanted to ask you a question since you're an APN who lives in Hawaii. Is it difficult for NPs to find work in Hawaii? Do you know anything about...