momoftriplets

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1. law school

   momoftriplets posted a topic in General Nursing

   a quick question. has anyone considered law school after their nursing? I had been looking into MSN programs, but have always been interested law school. I just want to know if there are many nurse lawyers out there? Thanks.

2. Drug of Choice?

   momoftriplets replied to VickyRN's topic in General Nursing

   I think you should check your potassium level as well. I do a lot of cardiac recovery from open heart, and we will treat our K's to keep above 4.7. Our docs think it helps with pvc, and other arrythmias. I haven't made up my mind, I still see quit...

3. Emergency Room Urgent Care/charting legalities

   momoftriplets replied to Sam5352's topic in Safety

   try posting this in the ED forum, more er nurses would probably look at it.

4. Newsweek letter to editor

   momoftriplets replied to CoffeeRTC's topic in General Nursing

   I posted the article in the ER forum last week, under newsweek article,

5. mcdonald's is not us

   momoftriplets replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

   I have done ICU and an currently doing ED, so, though there shouldn't be the attitude of "which nurse has the roughest time", this is a forum where ED nurses are here to vent. I am not disagreeing with Richard's post, but as both an ICU and an ED nu...

6. Personalities of an ER Nurse

   momoftriplets replied to harry Krishna's topic in Emergency

   How about the Busy Bee. That's the nurse who goes from task to task without actually getting anything done!!! They are the type that looks like they are working hard, but they can't complete anything. They are so busy doing nothing!!! Our ED has ...

7. newsweek column

   momoftriplets replied to momoftriplets's topic in Emergency

   Here is the column, I hope this works, I have never pasted before, so forgive me if it doesn't. If ER Nurses Crash, Will Patients Follow? I'm so overworked that I go home at night praying I haven't made a mistake that might hurt someone Hazardous c...

8. newsweek column

   momoftriplets posted a topic in Emergency

   Has anyone read this weeks newsweek? they have an opinion column each week where someone writes their own letter, this week was about an ER nurse in Michigan talking about the patient load. I thought it was a nice letter to get the public to start ...

9. Divorce & Nursing

   momoftriplets replied to NorthStar's topic in General Nursing

   and I wasn't even going to read this post... I wonder if the nurses who have bad marriages are the ones at work who are the least assertive and aggressive in their job. I married a mamma's boy whose mother did everything for him, but, when we got t...

10. Possible OD?

    momoftriplets replied to tiredfeetED's topic in Emergency

    you are assuming he od'd on methadone....lol...I would've given the narcan, standard protocol, and our docs would've done the same thing. Also, our medics would've given the narcan as well. Just this week we had a 30something female found passed o...

11. Standby: VENTING

    momoftriplets replied to FlyingED's topic in Emergency

    I think your venting is right on the mark. When I was interested in CRNA school I noticed that they only wanted ICU experience prior to admission. I have ICU experience before I started ER and though it is like comparing apples to oranges, ER is mu...

12. Come backs...

    momoftriplets replied to ER Tigger Girl's topic in Emergency

    This is one chance to use HIPPA to your advantage. Just say, " Sorry, due to federal guidelines and HIPPA, only 1 visitor, no phone calls, can't give out info, stay in the patients room, no looking at the pt board for your friends names, no more eav...

13. I saved a life today! hehe

    momoftriplets replied to marcicatherine's topic in Emergency

    That's cute. I see a lot of stuff at triage where the patients just need to stop and think first before freaking out. Depending on the facility and the doc, she could've gotten a PE study to rule out emboli, lol...

14. Flu epidemic?

    momoftriplets replied to marcicatherine's topic in Emergency

    I'm sorry, but it is amazing to me that most people do not have the common sense to take care of themselves. I just can't imagine someone not knowing at least a little bit about health. It is not that as ER nurses we don't want to take care of sick...

15. Flu epidemic?

    momoftriplets replied to marcicatherine's topic in Emergency

    an update, I called work and asked what we had in place to protect staff, they are now having the patients wear masks once they hit triage (if they are having any sx). maybe that will help.