Christy1019 ASN, RN

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    ED t-shirts Hilarious

    Christy1019 replied to ecat81's topic in Emergency

    i love these, i think im gonna get the dark one that says ER MIDNIGHT SHIFT WE MAKE THE BEAT GO ON or somethin like that lol, but i don't get the one that says "SCREW EMTALA" what does that
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    Worst doctors orders ever received

    Christy1019 replied to jenfromjersey's topic in Emergency

    wow vito, u sure are a party pooper!!!! we're sharing these stories because we DID do the right things to resolve them, we're just looking back now at how stupid they were that they are now funny....
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    Tell us about your ED ?? =)

    Christy1019 replied to shannonFNP's topic in Emergency

    I'm working at a level I trauma center in detroit, we're also a stroke and cardiac center (lots of NSTEMIs, CVA/TPA yadda yadda). we have two resus room, a fairly large triaging area where we have at...
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    Henry Ford Emergency Room

    Christy1019 replied to amylburk's topic in Michigan Nursing

    hey there, i currently do work in the ER at henry ford on main campus and I graduated last may. i was an extern before that though from january until i graduated, and i just finished my orientation...
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    Fever Kits

    Christy1019 replied to boztc's topic in Emergency

    Amen to that, i work in a Detroit ER where its common to have parents bring their 12mo. olds in for "diaper rash" and immediately want a snack pack..
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    Level 1

    Christy1019 replied to nursequeenie's topic in Emergency

    I'm sitting here at work in a level 1 trauma center in detroit, mi and since im a new grad i thought it might've just been something i didn't know, but none of the nurses here that i've asked know...
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    HFCC Pre-Nursing student

    Christy1019 replied to esunabella's topic in Michigan Nursing

    https://my.hfcc.edu/site_manager/catalog_manager/programs/view_program1.asp?id=3379&view=s&__utma=1.1392920518362313700.1220056969.1220056969.1220056969.1&__utmb=1.2.10.1220056969&__utm...
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    HFCC GRADS, can you help me???

    Christy1019 replied to miMOMMYof3's topic in Michigan Nursing

    ya know one thing you COULD do... kinda sneaky but i'm a sneaky kinda girl... lol if it absolutely comes down to it... (i don't know how strict Dean Howe is gonna be by then, my last year of nsg...
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    HFCC Pre-Nursing student

    Christy1019 replied to esunabella's topic in Michigan Nursing

    my first semester there the counselor set me up with 15 or 16 credit hours also, mon-friday 9-5, it was terrible, but i was fresh out of highschool and didnt know any better. i didnt have to take any...
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    Is this Common?

    Christy1019 replied to tinybabynurse's topic in Emergency

    yep we do the venous doppler studies too, we see a lot of r/o
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    Admitting Patients from the ED

    Christy1019 replied to TexNurse's topic in Emergency

    wow, sure glad I don't work at your hospital... our ED's process is pretty short and sweet, at least on my end of things, the doc decides he wants someone admitted and puts the bed request order for...
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    What Should I Do???

    Christy1019 replied to jabraham99's topic in Michigan Nursing

    i say pick nursing, i'm bias though, i can't stand trach secretions lol i graduated from hfcc and i don't remember exactly what the net tests passing score was but i was like two points above it and...
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    Highest BP you have ever seen on a pt

    Christy1019 replied to nckayaker's topic in Emergency

    a week ago i was in resus and prelim brought back a lady who walked in then passed out and coded, dialysis pt, don't know the total history but after we stablized her and she went to cat 1 she went up...
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    Perscription Drug Abuse

    Christy1019 replied to Toquay's topic in Emergency

    :(sorry in advance, i know im kind of all over the place on this blog but this is one that i have a lot if issues i have regarding the patients/the healthcare system itself/physicians. i hate that...
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    Perscription Drug Abuse

    Christy1019 replied to Toquay's topic in Emergency

    sounds to me like its time to get a new dr! especially for rheumatoid pain, vicodin? that won't do anything anymore, i mean you build up tolerances to every medication, the doctor should be smart...
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    Perscription Drug Abuse

    Christy1019 replied to Toquay's topic in Emergency

    originally posted by bsn75 i work in a physicians office and it seems that half the new patients we see are drug seekers. it's sometimes very hard to weed out the pts who truly have pain from the...
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    Joke..You know you are truly an ER nurse if...

    Christy1019 replied to HanaRN's topic in Emergency

    haha i would SO use that but i have "educated crackheads" in my ER lol they come through triage and say "HEY NURSE I NEED 4MG IV PUSH DILAUDID STAT!" lol i don't think i can slip that one past em, but...
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    Joke..You know you are truly an ER nurse if...

    Christy1019 replied to HanaRN's topic in Emergency

    .. if you've ever had to give more than five "coochie cocktails" in one shift
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    CNA vs Nurse Tech?

    Christy1019 replied to Annieee's topic in Michigan Nursing

    thats where i work! the detroit campus?? hmm... i didn't know people were allowed to shadow, but then again i never asked. who was ur friend? just wondering if its a tech i know or
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    Joke..You know you are truly an ER nurse if...

    Christy1019 replied to HanaRN's topic in Emergency

    you know ur an er nurse when theres five of you trying to hold down a highly confused/post ictal/slightly crazy old guy from jumping up and peeing on everyone until you can get the restraints on, then...
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    Question for Henry Ford employees...

    Christy1019 replied to RN1982's topic in Michigan Nursing

    hey, i don't know how it works for the rest of the unit nurses but they're always stealing our ER staff to work there coz their shorthanded, so we have lots of people that do contingent there and full...
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    CNA vs Nurse Tech?

    Christy1019 replied to Annieee's topic in Michigan Nursing

    what ER were u at if u don't mind my asking, i'm just wondering if u were at mine. yes, the techs most often DO train the externs because techs are there as techs as long as their still working there,...
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    Rn New Grad Pay in Michigan?

    Christy1019 replied to PACIFICWHALES's topic in Michigan Nursing

    ok so going to HR is unavoidable lol. yeah i do have the retirement plan, it'll be like a hundred years before i see any of it
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    Largest U.S. emergency depts.

    Christy1019 posted a topic in Emergency

    hey, this isn't anything super important but more of a curiosity.. i work ER at henry ford hospital in downtown Detroit, MI and today I was talking to one of my charge nurses and asked him how large...
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    Largest U.S. emergency depts.

    Christy1019 replied to Christy1019's topic in Emergency

    yeah that didn't help me it listed the amount of beds for the entire hosp. and how many were peds/psych etc, oh well i'll keep trying.. i'm on a mission