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wizap

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About wizap

wizap has 14 years experience and specializes in ER, OB, Med/Surg,.


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  1. What exactly is Rural Nursing

    Rural Nurses stretch and grow!!! Never know what you will be doing next!!!!
  2. new ED RN needs IV encouragment!

    Practice, practice, practice...that's how you get good at IV's. P.S.- messy ones aren't bad ones, sometimes they are very good ones! Also, do not pass up the chance to start children and the elderly....
  3. When the going gets tough, so does your skin...

    People can be rude and crude. Especially drunks who just ran their car into a tree and are trying to get out of their spider straps and off the back board. It is your job to keep them safe, even if...
  4. Rozerem works for me. I got free samples from my MD. I take it only when I need it. It works better than Melatonin. I do not wake up feeling drugged like I did with diphenhydramine. You do...
  5. What do you like about your ER?

    Working with great people can make all the difference...and being there for one another! Knowing that you are part of a team where everyone is working for the welfare of the patient...that makes all...
  6. Incompetent nurses

    Keith, I am a frontier nurse. As one, I have never had to work on a tele unit as you describe. Our cardiac patients are all sent out to larger hospitals. By the way, I can read an EKG ... and...
  7. Florence Nightengale Pledge.

    NO....Wasn't, pinned, wasn't capped, didn't go to graduation... and I feel like a REAL nurse!
  8. Looking down on those who take lunch breaks???

    I'm a Charge Nurse working 12 hour night shifts in a frontier hospital. At night there are only 2 RN's working. If it is crazy, it is hard to cover for each other. I think meal breaks are...
  9. Mature Nurses over 50

    I turned 50 this year. I am a Charge Nurse at night. I work in a Frontier Hospital, and pretty much do whatever comes in the door. I love my
  10. Is it weird not to wear a scrub top?

    I wear scrub pants, a matching Tee shirt- in the winter a long sleeve turtle neck, and a jacket. I do not have tatoos to hide, but I do feel very comfortable wearing cotton. Most scrubs are...
  11. DTaP in ER?

    Sorry if I was ambiguous! We have been using DTaP instead of the older dT on patients who present with lacerations, or other complaints that need tetorifice boosters in the
  12. DTaP in ER?

    We are starting to give out DTaP shots to adults in our ER instead of the traditional dT shots. I am not sure how I feel about this. Yes, there are breakouts of Wooping cough, but should we be...
  13. Back-to-back 12 hour shifts

    I usually do three 12's in a row. I have done 5 in a row. I will refuse to do that anymore...it is
  14. No blood draw from IV starts?

    I will routinely draw blood off my Chest Pain patients who have big bore IV's, and have done this for years. The ER doc's know we do this. However, I will not draw from a 24g. in a toddler. I don't...
  15. Calling yourself a "nurse"

    My mom had quadruple bypass at Mt. Sinai in New York two years ago. I traveled from Montana where I live to New York To care for her. I am a BSN, RN who practices in a frontier hospital. The...