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  1. Advice for First Night on the Floor?

    Displaced replied to EDis4me's topic in Emergency

    Do ask questions!

  2. Works Bomb???

    Displaced replied to GGT1's topic in Emergency

    We have had a couple, with serious injuries, in the last couple

  3. 12 Lead ECG in CEN

    Displaced replied to gs1976's topic in Emergency

    Wikipedia has some nice basic information. Scroll down to the clinical lead groups section. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiogram You could also look in your hospital library for a book...

  4. The ER is turning into "Swine Flu Damage Control Center"?

    Displaced replied to Andy S.'s topic in Disaster Preparation

    I love the look patients get when we tell them we have stopped testing for swine flu. I also love the doc offices who send them to us for swine flu testing after we have told them we no longer do

  5. Paramedic triage

    Displaced replied to klerrn's topic in Emergency

    I have flown to many hospitals around my area that use medics for the RN role. I always saw them in the more rural areas, never in more populated places. Even in Aeromedical you have RN and Medic...

  6. Paramedic triage

    Displaced replied to klerrn's topic in Emergency

    No. Nurses also follow protocols/rules/policies. You say tomato, I say tomato. Yes, nurses can address a wider spectrum of care, but in triage, deciding if the patient is going to die now, later or...

  7. Swine Flu and Emergency Nursing

    Displaced replied to nghtfltguy's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Up until a couple days ago managers were asking who wanted to go home early, but now that we are very busy and we actually do want to go home, they have stopped

  8. pediatric vital signs

    Displaced replied to dan_dfc's topic in Emergency

    Recently, I had to get a BP on a small kid because of an amphetamine ingestion. That was a pain in the ass. Most of the time we don't bother, unless requested by the

  9. you CANNOT eat me!

    Displaced replied to lulu rn's topic in Emergency

    I hate to say it, but you might be better off not saying anything at all, or just thanking the person after your question is answered. You could also just be clear with your preceptor from the...

  10. Rantings of a young new ER nurse.

    Displaced replied to DaretoDreamRN's topic in Emergency

    When I worked as a tech, I told new nurses to stop asking me if I had enough time to do something, and just tell me to do it. I am also the same person that would defend them from the ICU nurse...

  11. need help-revamping my ER system and need guidance

    Displaced replied to jinglebellz's topic in Emergency

    When a patient is put in a room, a carbon copy of the triage note is placed in a rack and the actual chart is placed on a counter near the patient's room. Our rack is labeled with two big stickers...

  12. EKGs in triage

    Displaced replied to quickcath's topic in Emergency

    Bombard the physicians. This is what they have trained and studied for. I would hate to have some one waiting in triage who goes into an arrhythmia because their ECG looked like sinus but actually...

  13. My new "Urgent Care" job is like ER lite--anyone with the same experience?

    Displaced replied to pennyg1's topic in Emergency

    i guess it depends on where you go. our urgent care centers have the same protocols as our

  14. your hospitals triage system

    Displaced replied to TeresaEDRN06's topic in Emergency

    Our triage area has 2 Nurses and 1 Tech. We have two methods depending on how many patients decide to walk in at the same time. The first and more relaxed method has the patient go to the...

  15. My new "Urgent Care" job is like ER lite--anyone with the same experience?

    Displaced replied to pennyg1's topic in Emergency

    We recently coded a patient on the ground in our entrance. We transfer 10+ to the main hospital ER daily, it is only 5 min away. We have a public education campaign that both advertises the urgent...

  16. So I have a clinical in the ER

    Displaced replied to IlliniGuy's topic in Emergency

    Jump in with both feet, ask to do anything and everything you

  17. Paramedic triage

    Displaced replied to klerrn's topic in Emergency

    I want to start off by saying that you should feel a little uncomfortable about this since it is going to be something your ER has not tried yet. But, I believe based on what I have seen first hand...

  18. How to thank an ED RN?

    Displaced replied to Heceasib's topic in Emergency

    Unless you want to thank the Charge RN also, don't bother, sending letters to everyone else you listed should work just fine. Thank you letters are awesome, it is a nice reminder as to why we do this...

  19. Freaky Things

    Displaced replied to ThrowEdNurse's topic in Emergency

    The place I use to work at had doors slam shut and the sound of footsteps when no one was around, but the freakiest of all was the sound of children laughing over the intercom

  20. ER nursing and pregnancy...

    Displaced replied to ND76's topic in Emergency

    We usually have several nurses pregnant at the same time, I think some kind of pregnancy rotation has been set up. As other have said, most of them work till their due date if they are physically...

  21. Come backs...

    Displaced replied to ER Tigger Girl's topic in Emergency

    1. Pt. talking on the phone while I am trying to triage, assess, or discharge. I tell them they can either get off the phone or they can wait till I am done with the next patient or anything else that...

  22. Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    Displaced replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    Patient had a huge plastic bag that he liked to put his entire body into, attach it to a vacuum, lie on his bed face down and insert his manhood into a hole in the mattress. EMS called him in as a...

  23. Do you wear your seatbelt

    Displaced replied to Iam46yearsold's topic in Emergency

    "I have never had to unbuckle a fatality, but every wreck where the occupant was ejected was a fatality." Officer from the Major Accidents

  24. Drawing Labs without an order

    Displaced replied to umnurs's topic in Emergency

    The best thing I have ever heard from one of our docs when ordering something out of protocol is, "Be prepared to explain why." She was helping one of the new nurses who had questions about what to...