sierranurse

Contribute your craziest baby delivery stories from the Del room, ER, emergency services!

Tell us your most outrageous emergency medical responses within the correctional facility where you work.

I am very interested in any input from those California RN's who bridged from LVN & achieved their degree through a distance learning program such as Excelsior. Any info, suggestions, comments you care to share is greatly appreciated. For example...

My exact sentiments! )

Karen, what bridge course did you take, please? Thanks.

We've all had those experiences of the delivery that is anything from the morm. It's the one, two, or multiples that just stick in your mind. Contribute the craziest stories from the Del Room, ER,, Emergency services here.

I worked the ER for many years. You could anticipate some type of physical altercation every shift, particularly on graveyard. I've had guns, knives drawn on me as well as physical combat. These events were not related to the way a patient was approa...

**** signing a waiver would mean nothing when it is related to a workplace injury. particularly, in a court of law when it comes to osha mandates. i believe you would be prudent to require the mandate be followed & persue it as a personnel issue...

I am an LVN with multiple years of experience in many areas. My base is in emergency & surgical medicine & I've also worked in corrections. For the past 12 years I have worked as an OHN for a major international manufacturing company. This wa...

Okay, I'll do that Tiona. Where are you located & what County are you working in? )

thank you.

Are any of you aware of an online LVN to RN distance learning program that IS accepted by California? Thanks in advancs for any help. )

I did work for them at one point in time. )

Placer County.

Yep Nurse T, been there done that. Many times in fact and at County jail here. We dealt with them all as it was also clearing house too for the bad boys 7 girls in transport from Folsom, Pelican Bay, San Quentin, etc. Expect more of it as it 's the...

Please share with us the most outrageous call or event, in which, you as EMS/ER personnel have ever been involved. This can be humorous, tragic, or uplifting. You make the call as to the event. And, be specific in your description for most will under...

Yep, we as medical personnel have encountereds them. That's what I'm looking for those events you've experienced in ER that were related to cooking: Example: The burn victim I had transported into our ER one afternoon when he pulled the "Start the B...

As experienced medical personnel in the Emergency Room we all have favorite stories to relate. If you care to, please share your most favorite with all of us, whether funny or tragic. Be elaborate and detailed. For you may also educate others who hav...

Yep, read it. Many stories have been experienced by others in different regions. A lot of familiarity in this field. I am even thinking about publishing stories that emergency personnel have experinced,too. I have found that as society & culture...

Duck ! Three-fourty Saturday morning was always a bewitiching hour in this metropolitan emergency room. The bars had closed over an hour previous and those who made the attempt to proceed elsewhere than where they should have after a night of d...

Hello all! I am a new member to allnurses.com and an LVN in northern California. My base taining was in emergency & surgical medicine. For the past 10 years I've been employed as an Occ-Health nurse to a major manufacturing company. I have a ques...

Thanks for the info, Christy. Did the Board give any date for reconsideration? Or, is it indefinite? ~Sierranurse~

Thanks for the input, Gail. I appreciate it. Now I just need to see what the California boards decision was yesterday on continuing to recognize Excelsior. Pretty typical of the California state of affair's these days. Politics are terrible. And, wit...

Thanks for the info, Christy! I hope it blows over, too. I'm calling & emailing my congressional representative's right to voice my displeasure. Here's waving crossed 2nd & 3rd digits at ya! ~SierraNurse~

Hmmmm.... Yes, I am in California currently. I recently heard something about the California Board considering some type of determination on this subject. In this day & age of a nursing shortage that just makes a lot of sense doen't it? Typical ...