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Being an ED nurse for over 40 years, it has been my experience that admission orders are not performed in the ED unless something is ordered Stat.

I am with you Emergent. After 40 years of nursing I plan to retire. I wish you the best of luck!

I have been a nurse for over 30 years and have worked the ER for at least the last 25 years and I have always loved it. I work in a small rural hospital, close to the interstate and also in a farming community. We have a 10 bed ER and we see quite a bit of trauma. We don’t have any of the specialized teams the larger ERs have so we have to rely on each other. We work as a team to care for the patients. We take care of the high acuity trauma and critically ill patients as well as the lower acuity patients. When you are in a rural ER you perform tasks that you would not do in the larger Urban ERs. This is where I gained the majority of my knowledge. With being a small hospital we also rely on help from the Med-surg and the ICU nurses, we all function as a team, that’s not to say that everyone gets along well 100% of the time, but usually problems that arise are from misunderstandings. There is not the pettiness that ER nurses are better than any of the other nurses that work in the hospital. I have worked PRN at several facilities and the reasons I have named above is why I have worked full-time at this facility for over 30 years. I hope you can find a nursing position that you are happy with.

OH NO!! It's another full moon!!

The Room, the Myth, the Legend!!!

Sorry this was for the other site.

Follow your Nursing intuition, 99% of the time it will be spot on!!

Follow your Nursing intuition, 99% of the time it will be spot on!!

Them mooning everyone in the hall!

Have you tried Kentucky?

I have been a nurse for 26 years,I was an LPN for 8 years before I obtained an ADN then a BSN degree. As an LPN I had a lot more clinical experience than I did in either of the RN programs I attended. One of the main things I learned as an LPN was organization of my time which I still use today.

I work in an ER and we are allowed to wear any type of scrubs we want to. I also used to prefer the plain scrubs, but the children love the fun scrubs and will open up to nurses more by first commenting on the scrubs.

undefined Several Years ago a nurse did give Vistaril IV and the patient went into 3rd degree heartblock. According to the pharmacist it is not the medicine that causes the problems but the diluent that is used in the medication.