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do your time in the ICU. what's not to lose? with the current trend toward "holding" in the ED..........this is invaluable experience. do it. you'll have a broader knowledge base......... do it!! L.

Allez Cuisine!!!!!! Iron Chef Morimoto, and Challenger Kenshisandesu-san, the ingredient is.......... CHEESECAKE!

i haven't seen it since my first job in nursing (though i've heard similar stories- guess it's not all that uncommon). i was a CNA in an LTC and one evening at bedtime one of the ladies was doing her bedtime routine. she started her prayers as usua...

found this on the bathroom wall at work today. found it funny as well as accurate! not sure who wrote it or where it came from, but felt it was worth sharing. enjoy! fever, fever, mvc fever, fever, std chest pain, back pain, hard to breathe bumps ...

everyone knows tanning beds are a bad idea. that's old news. something i haven't researched yet: what are, if any, the adverse effects to the unborn? appreciate your input!

thanks for your responses! they have been helpful- esp. the links! my best girlfriend just called last night to tell me she is about 10 weeks pregnant. as we were talking she brought up the question, and i had to admit that i didn't know much- but...

Oh, God bless you!!! That would be so very traumatic........i can't even imagine....... Being nurses does not make us "un-human" or "superhuman". You cannot expect to be "tough" when it's happening to you. You are not expected to feel less sick or...

was just thinking about this on the way home, but from a different angle...........for some reason tonight we had so many kids in the ED who's parents had bought them in: "fix my kid, make them feel better, ect,".............but then they are refusin...

welcome to the BB! hope we are a good source of support, info, and relaxation!!! glad you are here!!!!

deepoohbear- sorry i can't shed much light on it either, but i also caught some of the buzz on this case and it really got me thinking, too. thought that didn't happen so often..... sounded like a lot of complications all at once in that OR...........

the only job that could really get me away from my ED would be stay at home mom!!! i'm serious........or, maybe, if money wasn't an option, go back to radio. that was good times.....another lifetime ago.

in my dept we work every other holiday (those being= new year, memorial day, july 4, labor day, thanksgiving, christmas). it alternates each year (if you worked july 4, 2002 you're off july 4, 2003, ect.) it is an excellent system-IMHO. i was on t...

glad you continue to get better. rest while you can on this day off!! will be thinking of you.

by "all OK", maybe he just meant "not too abnormal to be of much concern". our er docs say "normal" to pts all the time when the labs are 'close enough' to being WNL- esp when current tx is bringing resolve. did you actually see your results? i'll...

i was naive enough to think that in this day and age people had too much to do to have the time to go about making others' lives suck......... so sad. you were so free in offering your support to me when i was just a newbie on this board...............

i hate wrong numbers to my house!!!!! the number i have used to be an investigative service, so people are ALWAYS calling for help with very personal matters (i think my spouse is cheating, i need a summons served to so-and-so). they start talking ...

just a thought........... we allnurses hoosier sibs may want to get together for a welcoming party when Cheerfuldoer gets to indy.......????????? that could be really neat to meet each other......??????

a couple days ago one of the RN's i work with told me she remembers tasting the urine to check for spilling out sugar........... hmmm.........TASTING THE URINE??????????????

work in ed. saw my first (and a very impressive, i'm told) degloving injury a couple of weeks ago. his skin was just "off" from right below the knee to his ankle. the skin was still intact to itself, though, and it just looked sort of like a sock...

DelGR- i got my license may of 2000. i was using dakins solution up on the floor then.....not so very long ago.............hmmm.....

a thing i've found helpful more than once: seems pretty simple BUT listen to your pt. i've seen too many people with that "I do this all the time" attitude, then they stick all around and guess what??? end up getting the stick where the pt told th...

some other things our volunteers do: clean and make up carts, occupy pt's children, keep the coffee brewin'!!, provide ice chips, drinks, snacks (only after checking NPO/diet status).......

yes, welcome ya'll (to the BB as well as the nursing family as a whole)! i'm just getting started on the boards, too!

i work in an ed. 3p-3a. med-surg with renal focus before that. been in ed a bit over a year now. don't think i'll ever go back to the floor, but can never let myself forget how it is up there.

Hi!! this is my FIRST post BTW!!! so, i am newly engaged and my fiancee has an amazing 6 y/o girl. do i get to claim her as my own in such a poll?!