getoverit

getoverit BSN, RN, EMT-P

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  1. What was the WORST thing a patient has been brought to ER for?

    getoverit replied to SteveNNP's topic in Emergency

    a moped rider on the interstate was hit from behind by a dually trailing a boat. the poor guy got cycled through the trailer frame and was subsequently decapitated, but the strange thing was that it...

  2. Seeking employment with VA hospital

    getoverit replied to gratefulnurse's topic in General Nursing

    The VA has varying levels of RN that begin with diploma/ADN and continue on through Ph.D, this affects your pay grade and various positions for which you may be eligible. and it doesn't change state...

  3. RRT nurse

    getoverit replied to wino73's topic in MICU, SICU

    RRT is usually the charge nurse who (hopefully) doesn't have a patient assignment. Most days whoever carries the pager has at least one patient and everyone covers their patients if the pager goes...

  4. NIGHTMARE JOB!! Please help!!!!

    getoverit replied to SDNEWGIRL's topic in General Nursing

    hey....sorry this is happening to you. one potential good thing is that other cna's are coming up to you and informing you about what's going on. a guy i used to work with always said "if they're...

  5. Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    getoverit replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    I forgot.....a young college student presented to the ER by EMS for a lower GI bleed, with blood smeared all over his face. Upon exam he was found to have inserted a dental pick into his rectum. I...

  6. Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    getoverit replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    a woman had wrecked her car into a tree. when we arrived the police and firefighters had formed a cordon around the victim, who was on the side of the road, ambulatory and completely naked. She kept...

  7. er visitors...a funny

    getoverit replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    scarymary, that GOMER scale was one of the funniest things I've ever read!! I always knew what a GOMER was but had no idea how to score them! That's great!! I don't have a cool nickname for this, but...

  8. Parkland Formula Help

    getoverit replied to Dr.Nurse2b's topic in Critical Care

    you have an 80kg patient with 40% bsa involved. That's a total of 12.8L (4x80x40). you're going to give 6.4L in the 1st 8 hours and 6.4L over the last 16 (which translates to exactly 1/2 the flow...

  9. What do you do to de-stress?

    getoverit replied to arynberg's topic in General Nursing

    That's great, I'm the same way!! hard rock is total mood music! also like to exercise, play guitar, work on and ride my motorcycle. play with my kids, etc. but yeah, work is less stressful than home...

  10. If you could have a different profession...

    getoverit replied to anurseuk's topic in General Nursing

    Great responses!! I"d like to be a best-selling author (not too late for that, I guess). If I could pay the bills by sitting around and playing guitar all day, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I originally...

  11. RN to Paramedic Bridge Course

    getoverit replied to ironjohn929's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    I agree that more emphasis needs to be placed on training new employees and there are people i would feel uncomfortable with regardless of their length of training. However, there are people out there...

  12. What's the dumbest thing you ever got called on the carpet for?

    getoverit replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I used to be responsible for ordering all non-pharmacy supplies. My manager called me in and accused me of allowing our stock to run out of endotracheal tubes, and actually said he was going to have...

  13. RN to Paramedic Bridge Course

    getoverit replied to ironjohn929's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    yeah, but just going to a bridge course and getting a paramedic certificate doesn't make you a paramedic. i'd say that you need to spend several years running 911 calls to become really good in the...

  14. Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    getoverit replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    I"ve seen this one too, the poor guy died from complications. we had to put him in the hyperbaric chamber 2hours/day for several weeks before he finally passed. these are all interesting cases. i had...

  15. In your experience, the hardest part of being an RN

    getoverit replied to Absolutely13's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! good answer....i was going to say that doing the paperwork was the hardest thing! you've made me think

  16. Do your nursing supervisors do anything?

    getoverit replied to tirednursedude's topic in General Nursing

    we are so fortunate, our nurse manager (MSN, CCRN, etc) is the BEST!! He rarely ever passes up an occasion to turn things into a learning opportunity. there are times he comes up and says "i noticed...

  17. Do nurses actually measure liver span during physical assessment?

    getoverit replied to student456's topic in General Nursing

    i used the barbara bates book myself....anyway, you're point is a good one. What if you're asked in court about something you learned in school? #1. you probably aren't going to create a mistake that...

  18. Do nurses actually measure liver span during physical assessment?

    getoverit replied to student456's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure some of you all have seen this or include it in your own assessment, but when we have a liver patient (or suspected) I auscult the borders of the liver. You can place your stethoscope on the...

  19. Family calls to the unit.

    getoverit replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    Occasionally it gets on my nerves when a family calls over and over again, but I keep in mind that it's their loved one who is in critical condition and their concern for him/her is beyond ours....

  20. Miss pronounciations of medications and medical terms!Way to Funny!!!!!!!!

    getoverit replied to rgroyer1RNBSN's topic in Emergency

    good luck man, I hope everything goes great for you. The best high-risk OB at our hospital used to always tell the patient "I'm Dr. ____, at your cervix." Most people didn't pick up on what he'd...

  21. Miss pronounciations of medications and medical terms!Way to Funny!!!!!!!!

    getoverit replied to rgroyer1RNBSN's topic in Emergency

    I had a young guy present to triage with a c/c of "ran out of peanut-butter balls". after finishing the triage sheet I asked him again, because i wasn't about ready to tell the MD what he'd said. He...

  22. ICU personal reading

    getoverit replied to autumn_raine's topic in MICU, SICU

    It might be hard to find a textbook that doesn't have technical reading. Mosby's Critical Care Nursing text is one that we have in here. Also there's The ICU Nurse (not sure who published it). You...

  23. I Dislocated My Kidney I Can't Poop

    getoverit replied to SDS_RN's topic in General Nursing

    that is sad. i can't stand it when people abuse their partners, children, animals, parents, etc. it's a form of mental illness, in my opinion. we were called to a scene response to fly a man with a...

  24. ER Experience

    getoverit replied to curlilockz's topic in Emergency

    As a new grad, I don't think getting ICU experience would be a good transition for you to get into the ER. How much longer in school do you have? Starting off on a telemetry/stepdown unit would be...

  25. Nurses Defibrillating???

    getoverit replied to rgroyer1RNBSN's topic in MICU, SICU

    sorry, I wasn't trying to discredit you or anything, just didn't understand where the question came from. My mom's been an RN for 44 years and she had a hard time when MDs stopped putting in IVs! I...