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  1. Medical Assisting

    Jen2 replied to ddianneepooh's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I myself was also a MA for quite a few years before I became an RN. I now like to refer to my MA days as, "When I was young and didn't know any better." Not because I was stupid, but because I truly...

  2. Scheduling Issues, What Do You Do?

    Jen2 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone, All of us at work decided to put together a scheduling committee to set guidelines for our dept. I was just wondering what does everyone else do as far as rotating weekends, how many can...

  3. Scheduling Issues, What Do You Do?

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks GingerSue for that idea. We want to eventually go to self scheduling. We just need to get together and get guidelines set first, see how they work and then maybe we will be able to do

  4. Discharge orders you'd LIKE to write!!!

    Jen2 replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

    You aint kiddin sista! When the attending physician wrote for 1mg of morphine I told him he was out of his mind and if it was a scrotum I'll bet he'd write for a dilaudid PCA. He then smiled and...

  5. Discharge orders you'd LIKE to write!!!

    Jen2 replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

    I can understand what you are saying and why you take offense to such comments. I noticed from your public profile that you are still a student. It has not been long ago myself when I was a student...

  6. YAY!! I'm a new ER RN!!! Need suggestions!!!

    Jen2 replied to RJAngel_RN's topic in Emergency

    I agree with joining ENA. I also have subcriptions to AJN, RN, Nursing 2006, and nursing made incedibly easy. I don't always get to read them all from cover to cover, but it is nice to have them as...

  7. Meds you hate to give....

    Jen2 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    In the ED where I work, we will not give Phenergan IV to anyone 50 years old or

  8. Evil People

    Jen2 replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

    I feel for you. I had an experience once where a patient actually made me cry, because he was so ignorant to me, and I had never felt as low as he made me feel in my life. This guy was Islamic...

  9. helps for charting.

    Jen2 replied to jackel's topic in Emergency

    I do this also but I add an ABC + Neuro assessment + focus assessment I usually start out with my focus assessment, then move on to neuro and ABC's. 1300: Pt brought to room 15 cc: midsternal chest...

  10. propofol

    Jen2 replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

    Had a doc do this to me once with versed as he was sewing up a head lac and it was me the lowly RN that told him, "If you want to give more than this you need to go to the OR." The OR was phoned and...

  11. How do you know if you've got what it takes to be an ER nurse?

    Jen2 replied to Beth_audrey's topic in Emergency

    I once had a patient yell at the top of her lungs in the ED that I could not come near her because I fu#$@d her husband. I then had to go in the room across from her and administer antibiotics to a 4...

  12. "You know you are an ER Nurse when..."

    Jen2 replied to Divern808's topic in Emergency

    TNNURSE That one was great. You really hit the nail on the head with that

  13. propofol

    Jen2 replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

    1) We're not talking about ventilated patients in the ICU.2) Neuro patients in my OR get pentothal. 3) Trauma patients, particularly unstable ones, NEVER get propofol. They get etomidate, possible...

  14. How do you know if you've got what it takes to be an ER nurse?

    Jen2 replied to Beth_audrey's topic in Emergency

    I went to the ER as a new grad and I love every minute of it. I externed in med/surg and ER while in nursing school and have about 10 years of experience in the medical field doing other things so I...

  15. Standard Times for Vital Signs

    Jen2 replied to MajorDomo's topic in Emergency

    We are supposed to do q 1 hour vitals on all patients and use our discretion for critical patients which I follow the q 5 x's 2, then q 15x's 2, then q 30 x's 2 and so on. It is unrealistic I think...

  16. OPINION PLEASE-er triage situation-overwhelmed!

    Jen2 replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    I think this is a common problem in many ER's across the country. Just last week we had patients waiting to be seen for 6 hours. One of our regular dilaudid/phenergan cocktail craving junkies was in...

  17. Hospital Love Stories ! ! !

    Jen2 replied to Esmeraldad1203's topic in General Nursing

    Your welcome. I love him so much and I think that we are proof that it can happen naturally and two can be professional about it. When we met. I was just getting out of a five year relationship with...

  18. propofol

    Jen2 replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

    Hmmm, we don't generally have the neurosurgeons setting standards for the anesthesia department. No but you stated that it was inappropriate to use Propfol for head bleeds and traumas, when in fact...

  19. Hospital Love Stories ! ! !

    Jen2 replied to Esmeraldad1203's topic in General Nursing

    Here's mine: At the most miserable point in my life I decided to go to nursing school. I had been datingthe same jerk for 4 years. He was a teacher and as about as childish as his students. When he...

  20. propofol

    Jen2 replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

    Wrong on several levels. Propofol should be reserved for anesthesia providers. Head bleeds and trauma? Gimme a break. Yet another example of propofol being used by the wrong people. I am not so sure...

  21. Singing the praises of AWESOME doctors!!! =)

    Jen2 replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    I work with three amazing women Docs in the ED. Two are attendings and one is a resident. All three were nurses before going to med school. They do everything for the patient including taking out...

  22. Meds you hate to give....

    Jen2 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I hate giving Adenosine. I am too afraid the heart won't start again. I hate Dilantin just because I had a patient have anaphylaxis (SP?) from it before. I hate Nipride. It's just something about a...

  23. ED Nurse Needing Advice Regarding PROM

    Jen2 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hello fellow nurses! I am an ED nurse in a very busy Level 1 Trauma Center. It is hospital policy that if a pregnant patient comes in through triage and is less than 20 weeks pregnant, she must be...

  24. propofol

    Jen2 replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

    Our ED docs intubate constantly in the Level 1 where I work. When I work a twelve hour shift we usually end up with at least 4 intubations. I would never push the drug in an office setting where I...

  25. "You know you are an ER Nurse when..."

    Jen2 replied to Divern808's topic in Emergency

    You understand that some people may be quite sick according to some standards and may very well be admitted with that pneumonia, but your idea of sick is just after a chest is cracked you get to use...