TraumaNurseRN replied to z's playa's topic in Emergency
you are not a frequent flyer/drug seeker.....where i am from a frq. flyer is someone who has an addiction to narcotics, their primary physician has refused to prescribe the narcotics so they frequent my er and every er they can as often as they can t...
TraumaNurseRN replied to ashleyjean3's topic in MICU
worth the read ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ guest editorial acep news september 2006 by david f. baehren, m.d. for a generation or two, we have lamented the loss of role models in society. as parents and individuals, we naturally seek out oth...
TraumaNurseRN replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency
worth reposting...... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ guest editorial acep news september 2006 by david f. baehren, m.d. for a generation or two, we have lamented the loss of role models in society. as parents and individuals, we naturally seek ...
We are the beasty girls and boys aren't we? We get talked about, yelled to, nasty talk, complained about,kicked, spit on, peed on, pooped, trash talked all through a course of any given day. Even when you are trying to be professional when a nonER nu...
TraumaNurseRN replied to ashleyjean3's topic in MICU
Yes, I see your point....please see mine. I do not like leaving my 3 ESI/2 patient(s) to transport a now stable patient to ICU, but it's part of our protocol and we do it. It can get quite scarey sometimes....Luckily you speak of only one patient whe...
TraumaNurseRN replied to ashleyjean3's topic in MICU
I was invited to check out the responses to "ED admissions" by nrsang97 who recently visited the ER nursing site and voiced her opinion about a new policy her hospital instituted..... (having the ICU nurses come to get their patient from the ED). I m...
TraumaNurseRN replied to rjflyn's topic in Emergency
I think a criminal is a criminal, and the police have learned through experience what works and what doesn't and the philosophy of safety to self first applies to them just as it does to the drug seeker in the ER angry and abusive towards staff when ...
TraumaNurseRN replied to vegnurse21's topic in Emergency
It can be a dirty, exhausting job but ya know, I wouldn't go anywhere else. We complain and whine but my co-workers love what we do....and do it well I might add....we have an awesome crew.....even the newbies... Has anyone mentioned the digital diss...
TraumaNurseRN replied to rjflyn's topic in Emergency
I think it depends on what has occured. In general, I have never seen excessive force used but rather force used to handle the current situation. Just the other day I had a patient who was verbally agressive towards me, when the doctor came in he bec...