EMSnut45

EMSnut45 BSN, RN, EMT-P

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  1. Volunteer in the ED

    The volunteers are WONDERFUL staff members in the ER setting!!! At the entrance to our ER, we have a volunteer who helps direct the patients to registration and triage. On good days, we have someone...
  2. April Fool's Joke

    One of our ER doctors planted rx pads in one of our gullable nurses purse. He then told the police officer who had just brought in an EP to question her and search her purse as the rest of the ER...
  3. Worst visitors ever

    EMS brought in a "working code with an unknown down time." We worked him for an additional 20 minutes, and the doc called it. The family/friends came in by the CAR LOAD for the following 5-1/2...
  4. I'm cluless

    I'm an ER Tech, and I love it!! In Maryland, you have to be a CNA- the Maryland Board of Nursing wants to have control over you (where as an EMT is governed by the Maryland Institute of Emergency...
  5. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    As a tech in the ER, I often instruct patients to change into the very fashionable hospital gowns (yes, the underwear and bra have to come off too...), start IV's, and disrobe them to obtain an EKG....
  6. Jollyjenny- Like so many before me have said, this website is a way for the nursing community to anonymously vent. We all have bad days, and we all have days that put us on cloud 9. Here, we can...
  7. What brand/type of shoe should I get?

    I am on my feet all 12 hours of my shift as an ER tech, and absolutely LOVE my "Quark for Nurse Mate" clogs. They are light weight, snug (you won't walk out of them), and have holes in the bottom to...