Medic946RN

Medic946RN

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  1. medications: take home packs

    Medic946RN replied to MAGIK GIRL's topic in Emergency

    Oh yeah! The clerk could just ask, do you want meds or do you really need to see a physician? And then she could point to the candydish with the percocet, vicodin, work notes etc. Yep folks I think...

  2. The tortoise or the hare? How do your docs rate?

    Medic946RN replied to SouthernERNurse's topic in Emergency

    Yeah I work with both kinds too. We have this one doc who works midnights, he the tortoise kind, but what's nice about it is if you"re getting slammed, everything comes to a screeching halt @ 2400hrs...

  3. migraine faker at the ED!

    Medic946RN replied to z's playa's topic in Emergency

    Yeah when we refused to send her home via cab or ambo she signed back in claiming Sucidal Ideation. You gotta love it. Of course it was a record breaking census day

  4. medications: take home packs

    Medic946RN replied to MAGIK GIRL's topic in Emergency

    I've often thought that if we had a big honking candydish, like my grandma used to have on her coffee table filled with percocet tabs on the clerks desk we could cut our through times to nil. :chuckle...

  5. Why can't people just be sick at home!? (RANT!)

    Medic946RN replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

    It's not the people who don't have a doctor coming in for healthcare that bother. Those people have nowhere else to access healthcare, and if we have and alternative, say free clinic or something you...

  6. cardiology scopes.. where can i get one online

    Medic946RN replied to LuvbabiesRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've dealth with Redding Medical in MD, their prices are reasonable and their delivery time is short. I've had my orders in as little as one day. You can find them @ http://www.reddingmedical.com. I...

  7. Men in Nursing

    Medic946RN replied to BNS_Rob's topic in Nursing Humor

    I am a male nurse and I have no probelm with cathing females, assisting with bedpans etc, however even in this enlightened age of the 21st Century many female patients ask for a female nurse for...

  8. Welcome to the ER. Please observe the following rules. (mild rant)

    Medic946RN replied to V. Nightingale's topic in Emergency

    "I don"t know nuthin' 'bout birthin' no babies, Miss

  9. Paramedic Nurses?

    Medic946RN replied to MarcusKspn's topic in Emergency

    I have been a Paramedic for nearly 25 yrs now and I went into nursing to have a broader range of choices. Though I keep a part-time medic job because it's a fun change and really nothing compares to...

  10. What's your craziest story of the ER

    Medic946RN replied to debo_lpnER's topic in Emergency

    When I was a full time street medic I had a case of pure elder neglect. A grown brother and two grown sisters just left mom (in her late 60's to early 70's) naked on a couch in their den with papers...

  11. switching techniques

    Medic946RN replied to mbess02's topic in Emergency

    In our facilitiy for blood draws we use butterfly needles even on adults, but if you're talkng about the stright needles that attach to the vacutainer hub I've found that you can feel the pop just...

  12. Lingo

    Medic946RN replied to JACALA_CL's topic in Emergency

    I saw a doc put OTD&DDR on a chart meaing roughly the same: Out The Door and Down The

  13. Lingo

    Medic946RN replied to JACALA_CL's topic in Emergency

    LOLFDGB: Little Old Lady, Fall Down, Go Boom. This I believe is an official nursing daignosis, or it should

  14. patient lingo...

    Medic946RN replied to athomas91's topic in Emergency

    I had a seizure pt tell me he takes peanut butter balls: ie: phenobarbital. And then theres the family who told me the sad story of one of their neices who was diagnosed with the "smilin' eyes of...

  15. Finally a complaint I can relate to!

    Medic946RN posted a topic in Emergency

    Before I became a nurse I was paramedic and I picked up my share of females with abdominal complaints on the ambulance. Many of them when as to describe the pain would often say: "It's like the first...

  16. If ONE more person tells me......

    Medic946RN replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Emergency

    Shucks Ma'am. Twern't nothin'

  17. If ONE more person tells me......

    Medic946RN replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Emergency

    I've been a paramedic for the last 24 years and nurse for only the last two. I can tell you that I work with nurses who have never seen the inside of ambulance and can run circles around me. I am so...

  18. etomidate

    Medic946RN replied to TinyNurse's topic in Emergency

    In the prehospital or transport arena I use it for rapid sequence intubation but in the ED it seems relegated to conscious sedation. If we're going to tube most docs prefer sux or nurcuron(sp?) along...

  19. My doctor's office staff sent me out....

    Medic946RN replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

    My wife had a minor cough, irritating, but not troubling. My wife puts up with things I wouldn't. I would see a doc or one of the PA's I work with if my cough lasted more than few days. My wife...

  20. Welcome to the ER. Please observe the following rules. (mild rant)

    Medic946RN replied to V. Nightingale's topic in Emergency

    I'd like to add one: Please don't expect sympathy if you've done something really stupid, like do-it-yourself dental work, but we will refrain from laughing at you and hold the snide remarks down to a...