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  1. propofol

    Jen2 replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

    We just reccently had a huge debate about this in my facility. Docs wanted ED RN's to push for CS and we didn't want to. So our pharmacist, The ED director, and the director of nursing got together...

  2. ED Nurse Needing Advice Regarding PROM

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Thanks canoehead! We do have a state of the art NICU at my hospital which is probably why they accept at 20 weeks to at least try. If those babies were comming I would rather have them come upstairs...

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

    Jen2 replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

    To the CHF'er that decided to eat yet another ham dinner after Sunday services! Please do not eat anymore Ham and then tell me that you are swollen and can't breath. To the person who has back pain...

  4. RN intubation in ED?

    Jen2 replied to Firemedic7's topic in Emergency

    In my ED all RN's must have ACLS, PALS, ENPC, CATN11, and BTLS within the first year of being hired. The RN's are not allowed to perform intubation unless they have gone to the OR and perfomed 30 of...

  5. ER the most physically demanding?

    Jen2 replied to dm22's topic in Emergency

    I agree with TraumaRUs! The lifting in the ED usually consist of lifting them from the stretcher to the ED bed, then from the ED bed to the CT table, then back to the ED bed and then to the admit...

  6. things that drive me nuts...care to add??

    Jen2 replied to tampabaylpn2rn's topic in General Nursing

    I hate when ED patients order take out from their cell phones while they are in a treatment room. Not joking last night I was in triage and the pizza guy shows up, I was like none of us ordered...

  7. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    Jen2 posted a topic in Emergency

    I Have several questions to ask everyone who's been around a lot longer than myself. I just started my nursing career in a level 1 trauma center in a large teaching hospital and as an ER nurse I find...

  8. What Gets to You??

    Jen2 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    "what is a degloving injury. .sorry i might be dumb but am interested to know" Your not dumb at all. I just found out what they were myself a few weeks ago. lpnadm got it right. It's where all the...

  9. What Gets to You??

    Jen2 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    Dentures and degloving injuries, I hate them more than

  10. Things a student can do to prepare for ED employment

    Jen2 replied to JPine's topic in Emergency

    I graduated from nursing school in May and started my first RN job in the ED at a Level 1 trauma center. I am doing fine there as a new grad. I first however was a medical asistant, a phlebotomist,...

  11. Do You Work For A "Magnet" Hospital?

    Jen2 posted a topic in General Nursing

    If so, what does that mean to you? My hospital has just recently been certified and I am just wondering how important or unimportant this means to other nurses out there. We are not getting a raise...

  12. "Nurses are like waitresses"

    Jen2 replied to ICRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    I am an ER nurse in a large level 1 trauma center that is a teaching hospital and I educate the doctors all the time. I always stand my ground and will not let them intimidate me. I am very...

  13. That Good Housekeeping article

    Jen2 replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    By having people lie to the triage nurse, how in the world is she supposed to know who is really worse?!?!? Exactly! I asked them in my letter to them if they would appreciate their childs appendix...

  14. That Good Housekeeping article

    Jen2 replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    I will be writing them also. It's bad enough that half of our drug seekers figured out that if they say they have chest pain that they will be brought right back and recieve morphine right away,...

  15. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    It has been awhile since I replied to this thread (computer problems). The day I posted this thread was a bad day and there has been many good ones since. I still believe the problem stems from...

  16. Has Anyone Ever Taken The ATI NCLEX Predictor?

    Jen2 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    My school had us take the ATI NCLEX predictor test through http://www.ATItesting.com. I scored a 72.2% on this exam and according to this, I have a 96% chance of passing NCLEX the first time. If any...

  17. Regarding paramedics in ER..why are they paid so terribly ?

    Jen2 replied to carachel2's topic in Emergency

    TRUE! I as an RN can obviously go and get a vomiting patient 4mg of Zofran IVP. However, if I don't have a doctors order for that med I am operating out of my scope of practice. I have standing...

  18. Are you at work?

    Jen2 replied to Nathalie's topic in General Nursing

    NEVER! Besides, I don't even have time to check my work e-mail when I am there. My hospital also "randomly" monitors the employees passwords to see what they have been surfing. If it's not work...

  19. We need a Nursing TV show

    Jen2 replied to jbeck817's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder why that is? Government? Do they not want the public to know? They didn't mind doing an episode on one of those prime time shows not too long ago about how a women who happened to be a...

  20. Last names on ID badges and retaliation by patients

    Jen2 replied to ICRN2008's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work in the ER and we all have our full first and last names on our badges. I am against it. The patient has a right to privacy and I believe the nurse does to. I have my last name whited out....

  21. We need a Nursing TV show

    Jen2 replied to jbeck817's topic in General Nursing

    Let's not forget to do an episode about how that person giving your 92-year-old grandmother in a nursing home her Digoxin isn't even a nurse. Let the public really see what is going on with...

  22. Regarding paramedics in ER..why are they paid so terribly ?

    Jen2 replied to carachel2's topic in Emergency

    My hospital does not hire medics or EMT's in the ED. We have RN's, LPN's (just started hiring LPN's last year), and

  23. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    Well said Angio O'Plasty. These are real issues facing nursing that stems from a lack of understanding and in some cases respect for each other as nurses. I now don't see it as poor me, they are...

  24. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    In our hospital, the ER doc puts a consult in for lets say Orthopedics. Ortho needs to come down and see the patient which may take an hour or two for them to get there. After ortho sees the patient...

  25. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    Jen2 replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    Especially when the patient is a five year old setting right next to a raging alcoholic swearing and swinging at everyone. Can't understand why I would want either of these patients going upstairs...