Christy1019 ASN, RN

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    Largest U.S. emergency depts.

    Christy1019 replied to Christy1019's topic in Emergency

    i can't say that i know her, did she teach at hfcc nursing program or the hfhs one? does she work in the er? i don't know too many people outside of
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    Largest U.S. emergency depts.

    Christy1019 replied to Christy1019's topic in Emergency

    no i didnt try that yet, good idea though im gonna do it after i post this msg, i'll let u know if it works lol
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    I passed

    Christy1019 replied to rn2b2011's topic in Michigan Nursing

    congratulations from a recent HFCC grad, i don't want to seem like its not a big deal but its been about 4yrs since i took the net, did they happen to change the content to anything important yet? lol...
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    Rn New Grad Pay in Michigan?

    Christy1019 replied to PACIFICWHALES's topic in Michigan Nursing

    ok well u sound like the person i need to talk to then, because my dad keeps driving me nuts about setting up all these extra retirement account things like 403k, which im assuming is the same as...
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    Rn New Grad Pay in Michigan?

    Christy1019 replied to PACIFICWHALES's topic in Michigan Nursing

    thats what i had heard too before i started working there and i have the normal HAP, no frills w/it and although i dont have to pay very much for a lot of options on there, my copays and coverage...
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    Moving to Michigan - Which Hospitals Best

    Christy1019 replied to JoAnna McNurse's topic in Michigan Nursing

    well obviously i wasn't referring to charting about what tricks their dog knows, or what their favorite color is.. i'm talking about objective data/observations/pt statements. if ANY amount of...
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    HFCC GRADS, can you help me???

    Christy1019 replied to miMOMMYof3's topic in Michigan Nursing

    did those people go to HFCC and graduate this spring? because i can't possibly see how thats true, they sent out soooo many letters and drilled it in our heads over and over again that we HAD to be...
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    CNA vs Nurse Tech?

    Christy1019 replied to Annieee's topic in Michigan Nursing

    well i dont know what CNAs made, we dont have them in the ER, just the ER Techs, and the Nurse externs... no point in CNAs we don't do bedbaths or make beds lol w/the exception of throwing a sheet on...
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    HFCC GRADS, can you help me???

    Christy1019 replied to miMOMMYof3's topic in Michigan Nursing

    i graduated on may 3rd of this year and the review was the next week the 6-9th, im sorry if that messes up ur schedule, but it IS mandatory... boring and stupid... but still mandatory i can go on ur...
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    CNA vs Nurse Tech?

    Christy1019 replied to Annieee's topic in Michigan Nursing

    although they DO interchange the terms tech/cna/extern, they are/can be many diff things. on a lot of med/surg floors i did clinicals on they called them nurse techs but they were only CNAs but taught...
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    Rn New Grad Pay in Michigan?

    Christy1019 replied to PACIFICWHALES's topic in Michigan Nursing

    at henry ford this year i started at 24.81/hr plus benefits and wknd/shift differential, providence was about the same +/- 10cents, my friends that went to oakwood said it was 23 something/hr, and as...
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    Question about Henry Ford Hospital?

    Christy1019 replied to ThisIsntSybil's topic in Michigan Nursing

    Okay, your in luck, i just so happen to still have the number for the HR nursing recruiter, there was a problem a lil bit ago because the original one that i really liked left for some reason so they...
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    Moving to Michigan - Which Hospitals Best

    Christy1019 replied to JoAnna McNurse's topic in Michigan Nursing

    I also work at Henry ford, although i've done many clinicals at all of the area hospitals except for Beaumont. My sister however works @ beaumont, and she likes it for the radiology tech program, and...
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    Question/Concern about pt and Dilaudid IVP

    Christy1019 replied to Christy1019's topic in Emergency

    yes, i believe we've established this... i've already said that i didn't start the iv or hang the kcl, i was merely observing my preceptor and then asked for opinions on here. and yes i agree that it...
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    med reconciliation in the ED

    Christy1019 replied to ern91's topic in Emergency

    oh okay, was that person actually an employee or a volunteer? our guy is like late 70s, hes gotta be so tired walking around the ER all day but hes such a trooper and he seems to really love doing it,...
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    med reconciliation in the ED

    Christy1019 replied to ern91's topic in Emergency

    like i've said in previous posts, my ER recently had JCHAO come in a few weeks ago, and luckily their main problem w/us was med reconciliation, and instead of leaving unknown doses blank, they wanted...
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    Christy1019 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    today i had a mom bring her infant to the nasty dirty germ infested ER for get this... MILD diaper rash!!! i wanted to scream at her like "look lady, look at this huge rack of people waiting for...
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    Math help please!

    Christy1019 replied to I_LOVE_TRAUMA's topic in Emergency

    ok i got all the same answers as everyone but i use the ratio and proportion method, because im a very visual person and the fraction method screws me up, i can't do the math in my head lol , so i...
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    Question/Concern about pt and Dilaudid IVP

    Christy1019 replied to Christy1019's topic in Emergency

    ok well i really appreciate you guys helping me out, my primary preceptor had an unfortunate series of events including family deaths and such so for two weeks i had like 6 different preceptors and it...
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    New ED nurses who "know it all"

    Christy1019 replied to rnflie's topic in Emergency

    even though the floor nurses don't use emstat, the sheets we print off in the "handoff sheet" is a pretty good summarization of what actually WAS done in the er and thus reflects our emstat charting....
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    Question/Concern about pt and Dilaudid IVP

    Christy1019 replied to Christy1019's topic in Emergency

    Trust me i absolutely HATED the idea of her having to get it through her thumb vein, we had five diff. nurses work for 2 hours trying to get a vein on this woman, and the doc was just so blaise about...
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    New ED nurses who "know it all"

    Christy1019 replied to rnflie's topic in Emergency

    hand off sheets are our ERs sheet that we print off and ad to the pts ER chart which has their most updated vitals, meds given, etc. because we use a program called emstat for our charting in the er...
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    Links/Guidance of Great Nurses here willing to teach new grads a few of their tricks?

    Christy1019 posted a topic in Emergency

    Ok everyone, so quick background, i've been a new grad nurse ro a level 1 major trauma center (very hectic/busy) for one month, and was an extern for 6mo. before that.. the actual delegation/time...
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    Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    Christy1019 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    wow.. so many topics going on in this post i don't know where to start lol. to the original topic, i totally agree that a ton of aid is abused, and to all the people that come up w/all the legitimate...
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    New ED nurses who "know it all"

    Christy1019 replied to rnflie's topic in Emergency

    michigan nurse, i just wanted to check in and see how u guys fared after the oh so fun JCAHO week? lol they came on like the WORST possible day in the ER, i have no idea how our only issues were the...