NativeTexan

We are curious if any of you out there use lidocaine to start IV's in the ER? We don't, but often have pt's show up that really get hacked when we don't do that for them. Any thoughts?

Does your facility require you to wear a certain color scrubs for your unit, and if so, do they provide them, or give a clothing allowance? Our ER is talking about requiring nurses to wear one color, techs one color...etc. However, the rumor is, we...

Cherry, You go girl!!

My friend has a 2 year old that will be in a pelvic sling for the next 3 weeks. I would like to send her a package, and was wondering if any of you peds nurses have suggestions on what I could put in it?

Oh, and one of my favorites from 7 or 8 years ago was the guy who drank the Vicks for the vaporizer, instead of the Vicks cough syrup. That was a fun lavage. Everyone's nose was running, and that room smelled of menthol for a week.

People who won't treat a kid's temp because they want ME to see how high it really is..... "I lost my tampon"...... "I smoked marijuana all day and now I'm dizzy"......

On my last day (night) in the ER, I'm sticking every patients cell phone where the sun don't shine!

Kathy, I took effexor for about a year after having a miscarriage. It took me nearly a year to wean off it, because the withdrawal symptoms were so bad.I'd end up taking a dose to be able to work or drive. I had severe dizziness, and blurred vision....

Do any of you have to assist with D&C's in the ER? We have to at our hospital, and feel strongly that these should go to the OR. Your feedback would be appreciated.

Since a lot of us ER nurses would rather have anything but a pregnant, pushing patient, you may the one who loves the precipitous deliveries in the driveway.... :)

Well, I did a little research on the online edition of our newspaper. I remembered that one week ago today, a BUNCH of doctors got together and went up to the state capitol to address the issue of the malpractice rates dramatically increasing in our...

I do NOT want to be the person THAT jar is handed to!

My mom is 56 years old. She had one semester of college left and she would have had a Bachelor's Degree in teaching. But, my dad came home after 3 years in Vietnam, and she quit school, got married, and had 3 kids. She never went back to school. S...

Wow! 13 years in emergency nursing and THAT's the grossest thing I've ever heard of!!!! Whatever works!

Thanks ya'll,very helpful!

You guys are a hoot!! You'll be glad to know I was sooooooooo nice to my security guard pt last night. I tried to take the high road and subscribe to the "kill 'em with kindness" thing. :rotfl:

Of all things....I have one of our security guards right now as a pt!! Think I should dole out the demerol for his kidney stone in proportion to how much security he provides? hahahaha

I hear ya....many of us get off at 3 am...my thing on parking lot and garage safety is..."where do ya'll think all these nuts we get in the ER come from anyway?? They come in from out there!!" eeeeeekkk!

Sometimes we will do two or three in a week, and then it might be a month before we have to do another one. This week, we had a patient come in that had already had a d&c, but was still bleeding enough to splatter blood over the ER doctor's whit...

Believe me, no way could I carry a gun....I probably would use it! Our ER has no security.Our "officers" are scared of their own shadow. Like some of the rest of you, I have taken knives off people in triage, (thankfully, they were cooperative in han...

Hey, don't laugh at those "pistol packing nurses". You may be working with some. I know I have worked with a few in the past. They made me feel a heck of alot safer than our "security" (keystone kops).

We had a memo very similar to that not long ago. We do try to check on people in the waiting room but when you're so busy you're running them through triage like cattle, and have a rack full to be triaged, and hunting rooms down all at the same time...

I worked with a very jaded nurse who always charted a frequent flyer's complaints as: SSDD (same sh** different day). When I asked her how she was going to explain that one in court some day, she said she would say "same symptom, different day". An...

Another prayer answered! Glad to hear it, Tom. (and Mrs. Tom!) :)

My theory has always been to have them sign an AMA form along with the "consent to treat" form when they register. Then when they leave, it's already signed. -sigh-