ERnewbieRN

ERnewbieRN BSN, RN

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  1. night shift workers how much sleep do you really get?

    ERnewbieRN replied to blondnursey's topic in General Nursing

    i can't sleep worth crap... i'm up at 4am right now and went to sleep around midnight. i am trying hard to get off night shift! i am pretty desperate! night shift just is not for me, i've been doing...

  2. Stress/Panic Before Going to Work

    ERnewbieRN replied to rn-n- 2005's topic in Emergency

    I could have written your post! I have basically been anxious since I started nursing... I have been doing ER nursing for 2 years now and I still feel anxious before I go in to work, not because I...

  3. Would you do it all over again?

    ERnewbieRN replied to ohcomeon's topic in General Nursing

    Heck

  4. Crappy Nurses Day

    ERnewbieRN replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in General Nursing

    Haha, my hospital gave some crappy snacks and sodas to day shift, and absolutely nothing to night shift.... happy nurses' day indeed! Ah

  5. Looking to move to NH or ME

    ERnewbieRN replied to MassED's topic in General Nursing

    Hello from an ex-NH ER nurse! I used to live right on the MA/NH border and worked in the southern part of the state away from the mountains... however I've heard great things about Dartmouth-Hitchcock...

  6. Are there really RN Jobs in Southern California?

    ERnewbieRN replied to onesmartgirl's topic in California Nursing

    I live in LA county... as far as I know there are nursing jobs in the area, but I'm really not sure about new grad programs. I'd check with large teaching facilities such as LAC-USC or Harbor UCLA....

  7. discharged a patient wearing telemetry

    ERnewbieRN replied to vashtee's topic in General Nursing

    One time I had a patient who eloped from the ER with all his telemetry leads on. It got me to thinking how many thousands of dollars we lose in "missing" tele equipment! In response to your post...

  8. Dilaudid shortage - anyone else seeing it?

    ERnewbieRN replied to roosmom's topic in General Nursing

    yup, we're out of 1mg syringes, according to pharmacy they're on backorder... so now we have to use the 2mg ones and then waste a milligram a time. what a waste, so to speak!

  9. New MICN

    ERnewbieRN replied to ERnewbieRN's topic in Emergency

    I agree with what Jodi said, for the most part.. it's just a little different for me since I'm in a more "rural" area (which really isn't that rural but compared to the rest of Los Angeles county, we...

  10. New MICN

    ERnewbieRN replied to ERnewbieRN's topic in Emergency

    awkwarddddd.... ok, anyway guys, thanks for the input! i'm originally from an area that doesn't utilize MICNs either, so this was a new thing to me when i moved out here. the EMS system works...

  11. Completely and totally disgusted.

    ERnewbieRN replied to flightnurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh, stuff like this totally disgusts me. People who work hard their whole lives (and might I add, especially people who work their butts off taking care of other people!) get no help whatsoever, and...

  12. California Board of Nursing

    ERnewbieRN replied to Mary Madrid's topic in General Nursing

    I moved from New Hampshire to California in August of 2008. I was an RN in NH for about a year prior to moving... so I'm not sure if this affects the amount of time it took for me to get my CA...

  13. OK ED nurses, fill me in on the real story.

    ERnewbieRN replied to eriksoln's topic in Emergency

    I definitely have never held onto a patient in the ER for a few reasons. First and foremost, it negatively affects patient care. No one wants to be laying on a hard ER stretcher in the noisy chaotic...

  14. New Grad Advice on ED

    ERnewbieRN replied to ezkabar0037's topic in Emergency

    Agree with the above posters. I started out as a new grad in the ED in May 2007. I feel that it was basically a crash course in "a little bit of everything." At first I was scared out of my mind,...

  15. How to add insulin to an IV Fluid Container

    ERnewbieRN replied to HoShKyLo's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto this... and in my facility, we don't have pharmacy on weekends, so I guess DKA's can't come in on Saturday or Sunday Silly hospital! But anyway, that's also what I do, since most of the time we...

  16. Fires in California

    ERnewbieRN replied to oramar's topic in General Nursing

    I work at a hospital fairly close to these fires and all night we were preparing to receive patients from Olive View... I'm not sure if we ever did or if they all went to Holy Cross. I know they have...

  17. 130 miles/2 hours 15 minutes each way to work?

    ERnewbieRN replied to HappyPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    Are you talking about living in MA and working in NH? If you still live in MA you will have to pay income tax regardless... It stinks, I know. I used to live and work in NH and took what I thought...

  18. Blood draw from IVs?

    ERnewbieRN replied to alkaleidi's topic in Emergency

    I don't know what the policy is for blood draws from IV's at the hospital where I just started working... but at my old hospital we always drew bloods off the initial IV stick. We started having...

  19. Survey for my Sociology Paper!

    ERnewbieRN replied to EMT_to_RN's topic in General Nursing

    1. How long (years) have you been a nurse? 1 2. What is your annual gross income? 60-70K 3. Do you have an Associate or Bachelors degree? Bachelor's 4. How long have you worked for your present...

  20. Which state would be ideal for me??

    ERnewbieRN replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sweetooth, I am also from NH... I'm still here for a few more days but I'm moving to California on August 10th! I made the decision to move there basically because I've always wanted to live there,...

  21. Anyone else call 'em johnnies?

    ERnewbieRN replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is funny... I never realized they weren't referred to as "johnnies" outside of New England! I'm from New Hampshire and went to school in Connecticut, so people in both those places call them...

  22. CDiff Smell?

    ERnewbieRN replied to student456's topic in General Nursing

    Cdiff smells almost... fishy, there is a slight undertone of fishiness to it. It's hard to describe otherwise. One of my other least favorite smells is multivitamins... you know, when you're mixing...

  23. Sunglasses in the ER

    ERnewbieRN replied to rescuern's topic in Emergency

    Haha! I came into work one day a couple weeks ago with my sunglasses on top of my head, totally forgetting them, and the charge nurse said to me, "Ok miss Malibu Barbie, time to take off the...

  24. average age of a new nurse?

    ERnewbieRN replied to clemmm78's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated with my BSN last May (2007) at age

  25. Can I put my hands in your hair?

    ERnewbieRN replied to catlynLPN's topic in General Nursing

    people ask me this all the time because i have long, curly reddish brown hair and for some reason they want to always touch it. um, only if i know you... i hate when people who barely know me ask me!...