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you must work for the same company that I work for!! where do you live in Colorado? I live in Colorado too, in our area you would still be considered a "new grad" but the hospitals are stepping up and providing great training opportunities to help ne...

What are your opinions, nurses? Is Fibromyalgia a justified condition or just a basket term ? I am interested in your feedback. It seems like we see a large number of patients (usually women) with "fibromyalgia" and the numbers are getting larger and...

I work in a county jail and we NEVER pass meds unattended. It is our jail policy for our pod deputies to actually observe the inmates taking the meds... do you carry a duress alarm or radio?

yep. I have been spit at, hit, kicked, punched, pinched, you name it. Finally the ENA is lobbying for stronger laws regarding assaulting medical staff members.

I think you have been given some excellent advice already. One of the things I see new nurses freak out over, is the order in which to give RSI meds. You do not want your patient to be paralyzed and NOT sedated!!! Talk to the doc, find out what meds ...

I have noticed that in many many threads at least one person, and usually more are being called "cynical" or "jaded". This one is for the experienced RN's out there, those of us who have been around the block a few times.... are we cynical? I call it...

In our hospital we have a policy that no one goes from inpatient status to outpatient status. The solution to this problem would have been to transfer this patient out to a facility who could care for him.

I work night shift and all of our CTs are read by Rads in Australia, but they usually get the readings to us fairly quickly. In my opinion, 90 minutes for a head CT is preposterous! Especially if the pt has a head bleed! Are there not enough rad tec...

Never heard of this. We use SOB or dyspnea.

Our Rad Techs Bring over the PO contrast, but it usually only takes them a few minutes after the order is entered into the computer. Do you have a 90 minute wait on all patients? We have rapid CTs on traumas and those suspected of having a AAA.

This topic has probably already been discussed, and for those of you who have been members here for a long time, I apologize for repeating the topic. I am wondering though, how many of you are allowed to practice using protocols in the ED? I am talki...

great call! Your hospital is lucky to have you! Give yourself a pat on the back, and be proud that you made a difference to that mans life. I know several triage nurses who would not be able to identify that he was unstable.

Its funny you should mention this, I have worked in Emergency Rooms in several different states and CEN was never required or even given a consideration....I always wondered why.

Ha! you beat me to the post, I was just about to say the same thing.

Valium has been removed from the list of drugs to give down the tube...

learn the acronyms for example: when I first took ACLS about 6 times ago, we had acronyms for lots of the stuff... symptomatic Bradycardia=a trip down every Isle. (atropine, transcutaneous pacing, dopamine, epinephrine, Isoproteronal) meds down the t...

LMAO Tom... It does sound like you had a pretty awful day. This profession of ours is not glamorous at all, is it? I work in a 24 bed ER, we see between 150-200 people per day, usually holding anywhere from 6-12 patients per day. We do get a lunch ...

we have both kinds. Usually those patients with IV's get the gowns with snaps.

I have only used it once in 11 yrs. It made no difference with the progress of the pt, she was only 55 yrs old too. Sad situation.

I was just about to mention the ENA 5 level triage system. No matter what triage system you use, though, a fb in the eye is an urgent situation. He should have been triaged above non urgents. Now, as a bit of a disclaimer, I have seen ER's where the ...

this is what i am begging to have happen in our ed. we get no help.i believe that nurses from the perspective departments should come in and take care of these patients. the problem is not lack of staff, it is lack of space... we hold patients every ...

ahhhh the old "team nursing" approach. Our ED just abandoned this approach after using it for several years. This structure of care does not allow for any kind of accountability. The strong nurses end up doing most of the work and the weak/lazy nurse...

If this pt had an inferior wall MI I can see why he didnt want a nitro gtt. On the other hand, The sublinqual nitro is much more potent than IV nitro, just because she went hypotensive with S-L nitro does not mean she cant handle an IV gtt. of Nitro...

I am also a SANE nurse, member of IAFN and working towards a SANE-A certification. There are many avenues available for nurses in the world of forensic nursing you just have to find your niche. Unfortunately, the jobs are not as plentiful as the numb...

Go, ERNurse, Go!!