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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.

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

our ED is also having an increase in waits to being seen, usually it is around 1 hour, now we are up to 5 hours or so, all the patients are pissed, we are swabbing everyone for the flu and we do have positive's, just had a 13 day old yesterday. The ...

These are great, about the guy who cut off the dog's head, you gotta admit, at least he was thinking of his kid and was concerned for their well-being, no matter how unusual it was, lol

I just love it when they tell you they've got the "sugar". :)

I don't believe that medicare will pay for a transfusion unless the hgb is 8.0 or less and there has to be good documentation by the physician to transfuse if it is higher. Usually insurance companies follow suit, so that is how 8.0 is probably the ...

Todd, you are assuming that patients actually want to be educated!!! Most people just want their problem fixed immediately. If they vomit once, they come into the ER to have it stopped. People don't care about taking care of themselves and prevent...

This is a good thread. I have been a nurse for about 12 years, I started out as an LPN and finished my RN and am now getting my BSN. (I still think my best educational experience was with my LPN) I have been greatly disillusioned myself recently ...

Hi everyone. I have tried a search and it has not given me the info I am looking for, so I post this question for everyone here.... If you will, please answer, I am not looking for a correct answer, but just how you feel as nurses and if you have p...

I was searching for some info on something else and this caught my eye. I'm glad it did, because the last half hour reading this has been great. I will add...you know you are a nurse when,... you page a doc to your home phone and the doc finally c...

Hi, I don't think you should transfer at all. You just need to take care of yourself a bit better. I agree that people react to stress much differently. Maybe you could wash your hands more, change you clothes before you go home, shower when getti...

Just want to say that the web site for Community hosp is ecommunity.com. I looked at the site, was very nice and I emailed the recruiter, haven't heard anything yet, but it does seem nice. Thanks for everyone;s help,