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RN_in_SC

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  1. Why do you like Emergency Department Nursing?

    RN_in_SC posted a topic in Emergency

    I start my job later this month. After an orientation and residency I will be permanentaly placed in the ED. What do you emergency services nurses like best about your jobs? (esp. compared to other...

  2. 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...

  3. add your funny TRIAGE complaints from pts

    RN_in_SC replied to er nursing's topic in Emergency

    "balls

  4. 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)...

  5. 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"...

  6. 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...

  7. 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

  8. 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...

  9. 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

  10. 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?

  11. 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"...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. A comic going to the ER

    RN_in_SC replied to loricatus's topic in Emergency

    We actually have valet parking.

  15. 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...

  16. 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

  17. Most common non-emergency visits

    RN_in_SC posted a topic in Emergency

    I found out that a number of women come into the ED complaining of nausea and vomiting. Really what they want is a pregnancy test. It would have never occurred to me to go to the ED to get a pregnancy...

  18. Most common non-emergency visits

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, our hospital is in the middle of several projects and after some of the hos are out tricking for the night they may wind out many miles from "home", so they call EMS to bring them to our...

  19. Most common non-emergency visits

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    We had a young lady come in the other night by EMS because when she got up during the night to use the bathroom, she stubbed her

  20. Male RN-assist with pelvic exams?

    RN_in_SC replied to walnuttree91's topic in Emergency

    I am female and in our ER a female must be with the doctor during a pelvic. Both male and female nurses insert urinary catheters on both male and female

  21. Question for ER moms

    RN_in_SC posted a topic in Emergency

    If a nurse working in the ER discovers she is pregnant, how soon should she tell her boss? You all know the various risks of ER nursing and also the desire to keep some things in lives private (at...

  22. Question for ER moms

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    Please forgive me for not wanting to be exposed to 15 X-rays a night while I am pregnant.

  23. Question for ER moms

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    that is just

  24. Question for ER moms

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    Well, personally I feel like I deal with a lot more risk than floor nurses. I guess it depends on where you

  25. Question for ER moms

    RN_in_SC replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    Well, I told my educator (I am in orientation) and he said he had to tell my boss. I have to wear a special thing because we do X-rays all over the place (well, the X-ray techs do) and we don't always...