RN_in_SC

RN_in_SC specializes in Neuroscience, ED.

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1. add your funny TRIAGE complaints from pts

   RN_in_SC replied to er nursing's topic in Emergency

   "balls

2. morphine IV

   RN_in_SC replied to breaking_dawn's topic in Emergency

   You can dilute it with saline and push it slowly - VERY slowly on an elderly patient. Make sure you have them hooked up to a sat and pulse monitor and have 02 ready (cannula and non-breather mask)...

3. Eat Before You Get Here!

   RN_in_SC replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency

   I work in an ER. Yes, it does get VERY annoying having to explain to patients (who have only been back in a room less than an hour) that we do NOT have hot meal service like "the rest of the floors"...

4. A Useful Bedside Test

   RN_in_SC replied to ACRN06's topic in Emergency

   I think it is hysterical when a patient freaks out about getting an IV and asks to be injected with "something to numb the area" before inserting the IV. So you are afraid of needles and you want to...

5. vent--angry patients--your input

   RN_in_SC replied to RN4911's topic in Emergency

   We would not treat a pt who is verbally or physically abusive (unless they are AMS) I would call security and have them escorted out, esp a repeat

6. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

   RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

   My co-worker said the other other night - more than three complaints - and the chief complaint becomes "weakness" It is so funny how people think when they come in for some problem they might as well...

7. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

   RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

   I want to know how you make the

8. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

   RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

   While shaving my elderly STEMI pts very hairy chest, his wife asked, “I don’t mean to bother you, but can you get his back too?” Is that funny?

9. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

   RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

   Well, this was supposed to be a funny, venting thread. But some people are way too serious! Lighten up - take what you need and leave the rest. As for the medication issue - we are actually "allowed"...

10. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    Bringing luggage to the ER! It amazes me when people bring a suitcase to the ER when they come in for a cold or minor belly pain. They are only in the treatment room 5 minutes and haven't seen a...

11. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

    RN_in_SC posted a topic in Emergency

    1. Don't tell me you have abdominal pain as you eat Doritos in my triage booth. 2. If you come to the ER by ambulance, the first thing I will ask you is how you are getting home. No, we don't have...

12. A comic going to the ER

    RN_in_SC replied to loricatus's topic in Emergency

    We actually have valet parking.

13. How do you deal with.....?

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    It is no the way my co-workers treat patients that I find unprofessional. I think they all do well with the patients. It is more they way they treat each other, like we are back in High School. Thanks...

14. How do you deal with.....?

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    Thank you all for your responses, I really appreciate them

15. How do you deal with.....?

    RN_in_SC posted a topic in Emergency

    I have been working in the Emergency Department of a downtown hospital for 7 months. Normally things balance out with patients and I feel ok about my work, but lately things seemed to have gotten...