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I could not have explained this better than Esme12. KimRN, I am so incredibly sorry you had to go through that. You were definitely there for him, fighting for him. Often our training flies out the window when it comes to caring for our loved ones bu...

If I don't think you're going to be admitted or if I think you might need contrast, I'm sticking a 20 in your AC. Aint nobody got time to look for veins!!!!!!! -ER nurse

Thank you, OP. Gave me the warm n fuzzies :)

Just reading this makes my stomach turn a little bit. Did you run a troponin? I'm pretty sure we're all in "bad codes" at some point. I'm a brand new nurse and I've already been in a couple. The other day I infused LIFE SAVING drugs into an iv that w...

Meh...if it's just one person that has a problem, I wouldn't pay any attention to her. She sounds like she's kind of hateful. I work in a busy ER and I'm pretty sure I'm the ONLY soft-spoken nurse there. What I've learned is 1. Patients appreciate it...

No. I refuse to believe the nurse came back with socks. that makes me very sad inside

Definitely ask if ORTHO can come down to teach you. They are the most scrupulous when you send a patient to them for follow-up and they will not hesitate to call and find out who did the splinting if it's all jacked up.

I was wrapping an ace bandage around my bf's wrist yesterday. He said "make it tighter". I quit wrapping and said "Do you want to do this then?!?! Gawd, you sound like one of my patients!" Just be confident. You're the boss. You know how to start th...

I like to mess with my favorite clerks by calling out from an empty patient room saying "I can't breeeeath" or "I think I'm having a heart attack" in my best little old lady voice. Sometimes it's funny but more often it's disturbing when they do noth...

Fill a urine cup with apple juice, "trip" and spill it on your co-worker and watch the shock/horror ensue! Hahaha

When my dad passed away, I talked to one of our Chaplains at work about it. I just stopped by his office and asked if he had a few minutes and then scheduled a time to come back and chat with him later. Chaplains are generally easy to talk to whether...

New grad ER nurse here. So after only a couple weeks, they're letting me see the "clinic" type stuff on my own which is all good and I think I'm managing OK so far but I'm having trouble deciding what's going to need a bit of a workup and what's not....

Wow I never even thought about that. NOW I know why it's so hard to start a line in frequent fliers! I just never put two and two together. Heh. Invaluable stuff here...(sorry new grad excitement...it's the little things) :)

Oh yeah. Good point and thanks for all the input. Will listen to doc's differential dx. Also, I didn't know that about narcs for migraines causing rebound headaches. So far I've had mostly orders for morphine/dilaudid (+benandryl and antiemetic). Hm....

Aaah yeah, gotcha. Thanks!

No no, definitely not dismissing migraines as nothing. The lay in bed, no sound, no light and sensation of someone stepping on your head while simultaneously stabbing it. Yup. I used to get them often. There's way too many details that would prove my...

Great question. I just had my first threatened abortion patient the other day. When I came to dc her, I went over the instructions and she was shocked by the diagnosis (mainly because the doc never told her what it was) but also because she was very ...

SAME EXACT THING happened to me. 75 questions, took it on a Thursday and it said "results on hold" until Tuesday when quick results were finally available. I think Pearson is on to the "PVT". It's like a ploy to get people to just pay for quick resul...

Don't be hard on yourself. I have no idea where that pass rate percentage comes from. So far from my graduating class (this past May), I personally know 4 people that have failed and they told us our school has a 98% pass rate?!?! Also, I work in an ...

First of all, I want to say that YOU CAN DO IT! THINK POSITIVE!!!!!! If you weren't already a "minimum competency nurse" then you wouldn't have made it this far. Believe in yourself and just "get more right than wrong...not trying to make 100" Secon...

Man, you were RIGHT there!!! Well, that's the good news. I'd just study the content that you were below the mark on and take it again. You're gonna pass it 2nd time around. My school filled our heads with all this stuff about having a "98% pass rate"...

Omg. I took my NCLEX this afternoon and did the "trick". It says my results are "on hold". After some research, I think I might be guilty of "brain dumping" which is a Pearson Vue rule that states candidates may not write on their whiteboard until AF...

Finally was able to pay for the quick results yesterday on pearson and I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT it still hasn't updated on the board of nursing which is kinda slightly bothering me but I've waited this long so I'll jus...

Thanks for putting this out there, OP. I had 75 questions 7 SATA, 1 EKG, 2 math calculations, and I think 2 alternate format type q's. I hope that I passed...I made good grades in school and my HESI exit score was high so we'll see. But I've read tha...

Hm. Okay. Hopefully we're just the random "hold" people and nothing more. Still freaking out. I called the board yesterday and left a message. I don't expect to hear back.