Erin 321

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  1. Mandatory float to ICU?

    Holy....that would definitely be enough to have me refusing the job. I think one of the most insulting things I ever heard a doctor say was "A nurse is a nurse", referring to this sort of situation....
  2. Informed Consent Dilema!

    Obtaining informed consent is the responsibility of the person performing the procedure (in this case, the surgeon). You truly are just witnessing a signature when you ask someone to sign a consent...
  3. who is responsible

    If you give a medication to a patient who has a documented allergy to that medication, you are the one responsible. No sense looking for the allergy information after the
  4. Dying Pts who are still full codes.

    If it actually came to a code, at this point, as others have said, the code would be handled as per usual and the doctor would decide how long to proceed for. The thing about these cases is you gotta...
  5. Scary baby near-code

    Thanks, everyone, for the support and great advice. As an update, I've notified my educator and supervisor of the situation. My educator says she will focus on some pediatric education and better...
  6. Scary baby near-code

    I work in a smallish (26 bed) community hospital ER that has the fortune/misfortune of being very close to a large specialty hospital. What this means is that trauma and peds go to the big hospital...
  7. MD/NP in triage?

    We use an MD at our triage, five days a week from 10 till 6. What happens is we complete our usual triage assessment (generally without interference from the MD) and then after the MD will review the...
  8. NPs and PAs

    Interesting. Okay, thanks everyone. That thread mentioned above is HUGE - I'll go read it now and that should take care of any more questions. Thanks for the
  9. NPs and PAs

    Hi! I work in Canada and while nurse practitioners are commonly seen in practice here, we don't yet use physician's assistants, although we're starting to hear about them more. I was wondering if...
  10. Medicine vs. ER

    Thanks for the good ideas, everyone. I particularly liked the thoughts about courteous transfer times, a flow nurse (that's a really interesting idea) and the stuff that Roy mentioned. That's very...
  11. Medicine vs. ER

    I have a meeting to go to in a couple of weeks and I'm hoping some of you can help. The meeting is to help facilitate a good relationship between the medicine units and our ER. Things have gotten a...
  12. Hypochondriac Patient? How to deal with the unknown?

    Until recently, I have always taken her complaints very seriously, as I feel one should when they are dealing with anyone in their care. I would be offended by my coworkers, who called her a...
  13. Running KCL without knowing the pt's baseline K

    I don't think this doctor's an idiot at all and it was never my intent to suggest otherwise. It's not that labs hadn't been ordered, just that they hadn't yet been drawn and so the bolus was ordered...
  14. Running KCL without knowing the pt's baseline K

    Ok, thanks, everyone. I agree, it's not that the pt was likely to be harmed, but it just seemed like sloppy practice. Anyway, I appreciate the info. Next time I'll be able to more confidently make my...
  15. What nursing skills do you use the most?

    I know what you're saying. Of course working in ICU, you'd have developed awesome assessment skills. The big difference between ICU and the ER is that ICU is a controlled environment and the ER is...