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we do lying supine, sitting with feet dangling and standing if able.

I worked 3pm-3am like this- (week 1)-mon, tues, thurs, (week 2)-mon, tues, thurs, (week 3)- mon, saturday, sunday (week 4)- mon, tues. the only hard part was working the 4 12's in a row. i had a deal with another worker and switched to work my sat, a...

is lithium still the drug of choice for bipolar? i didnt like how lithium worked for me, so now im on 5mg of zyprexa and 225 of effexor XR. seems to be a pretty good combination as my rapid-cycling is not so severe. although i do still think of suici...

I've been recently diagnosed with type I bipolar disorder and I seem to work just fine when controlled with meds. I dont know what I would do if i stopped taking them.

I'm good friends with a nurse who has epilepsy. She does just fine at work. Sometimes she will just sense a seizure might come on and has had to go home because of that. and i've witnessed one of many seizures. just as there are other nurses who have...

I work in the ER and when I work a day shift i usually get a lunch break, when i work evenings i sometimes get a dinner break, and when i work nights, i rarely get a dinner break. and when i do, i usually scarf something down at the nurses station. b...

I worked this last fourth of july and helped the PA suture 16 people's lacerations and I was only there for 8 hours!

All these stories just remind me of an experience I had last week. This sweet woman in her 60's came in with difficulty breathing. She was more comfortable in her wheelchair than the cot and hard to get up, so we let her sit in the wheelchair. When s...

it just depends on what doc is on. usually sux and versed. i've seen etomidate and vecuronium and rocuronium though. never seen ketamine.

While i was working as a tech in a busy ER, one of the nurses asked me to see what her patient was yelling about. I went into the room of a 63- year old woman who spoke very little english. She was there for possible GI bleed and I had a hard time un...

I agree with 3pm-3am... most of the time I just ran and ran and ran. But that all depends on everything. never can tell in the ER except you just know its going to be bad with certain docs, certain events and, of course, the moon.

When I hear stories like this I always think to myself, "Who are these nurses and where did they come from?" Most ER docs that I've worked with are so good about letting the nurses give pain meds (and not necc. narcs if seeker is a frequent abuser) u...

I work in a Level I trauma center that does hire graduate nurses. In my experience I've worked there for 3 years as an EMT/tech position when I graduate from nursing school like many of the nurses now did. They also put you through ACLS, PALS, TNCC, ...

I'm sorry you had a sucky shift- I did too! Had a 20-year old girl hit by a car at 40-mph. Definately DOA but they worked her anyway. It was terrible. Family was worse. I hope tomorrow goes better. Hope your resident is okay too. Hang in there.

i use first names more when im working in the ER (except for 40+) then i do when im on the floor. thats probably because there are younger people there, more my age. But always the older adult should be addressed by his/her preference. as stated in a...

12 hour shifts were my favorites (i do 8's now that i dropped down to PT). It looked like this- week 1: mon, wed, thurs week 2: mon, wed, thurs week 3: mon, fri, sat, sun week 4: mon, wed, thurs it was great i only had to do one weekend a month, but...

that is the one thing im terrified of. i know when i graduate i will be desperate for any place that will hire me. im already "in" with the department i work for, but there usually arent too many openings in our ER for nurses. they do hire new grads ...

Usually we have a nurse A, a nurse B, a medic/tech/CP1, and a recorder. then the residents, drs, etc. we dont always get a nurse B for Red traumas, and usually never for Yellow traumas, but we are supposed to. we are usually too busy to pull another ...

I'm about 10 months away from graduating from nursing school, and ive worked in an emergency room for a couple of years, so i know a thing or two. I dont make mistakes, I dont have room to make mistakes. So last night one of the RN's asked one of our...

thank you all for your encouraging, even empowering, words and advice. I know that I will make an excellent nurse when that day comes. I know Im entitled to my fair share of mistakes, and I know that I will make them. How else am I going to learn! Th...

just maggots in ulcers...

just maggots in ulcers...

we just put tv's in our rooms, and at first i thought it was a really bad idea- but it has really worked to our favor. if we need to go in and talk to the pt. or when the dr. goes in, its easy to just turn the tv off. but sometimes the wait is really...

In Nursing school I schedule time to work out. i work nights and go to school full time... its the only thing that works.