lyraesullivan

lyraesullivan has 14 years experience and specializes in ER, ICU.

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1. Docs and their dirty sharps...

   lyraesullivan replied to neneRN's topic in Emergency

   Any of you that work in hospitals that don't require Doc's to do this may want to remind risk management of OSHA. The hospital I work at is pretty good but there were a couple bad apples. One ER...

2. Press Gainey AARRGGHH

   lyraesullivan replied to susi_q's topic in Emergency

   Can you say UNION? That will stop that

3. ER newbie here, please give me some tips to meet my co-workers expectation

   lyraesullivan replied to mtreyes's topic in Emergency

   Welcome to the ER. Things I always tell my preceptees. 1. Give yourself a full year to adjust and feel comfortable. 2. Ask questions please, there is nothing more dangerous than trying to figure it...

4. Pt demanded a stronger pain med

   lyraesullivan replied to AstrosFan's topic in Emergency

   The thing about Press-Ganey is they only call a very small percentage of the patients so the odds are not really good if one or two of them were drug seekers that didn't get what they were looking...

5. Emergency Nurses, what is it about ER that you love?

   lyraesullivan replied to Razorbacks's topic in Emergency

   Nowhere else do you have the variety. The staff is usually a pretty close knit team (not unlike combat troops!) We have a lot of autonomy and our docs are always right there. I made a foray to the...

6. Funny Sign In Slips

   lyraesullivan replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

   "my toa is mest up" (Broken

7. ED admitting orders

   lyraesullivan replied to bill4745's topic in Emergency

   HAHA! Most of the docs I know haven't even mastered the

8. The War with the Floors

   lyraesullivan replied to zima60's topic in Emergency

   I don't hold on to patients til the end of the shift just to annoy the floors, but I think we have already covered the myriad reasons why that happens. what gets me is the floor refusing to take a...

9. ER Tips

   lyraesullivan posted a topic in Emergency

   The most interesting thing, have never encountered and now have had it happen twice in recent events. What? Trying to cath a little old post-menopausal woman and not being able to find the urethra...

10. ER disclaimer

    lyraesullivan replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    I've always felt that if you need to go to the BR more than once and it requires my interventions then foley it

11. When pts lie about rides Part Deaux

    lyraesullivan replied to TazziRN's topic in Emergency

    funny you should bring this up, recently we had a patient that drove 45 miles and passed up three closer hospitals to come and see us, red flag # 1 right there and despite being told several times no...

12. Funny Sign In Slips

    lyraesullivan replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    How about "staff infeksion" caused no doubt by the local killer