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  1. BURNT OUT!!

    you r welcome! *lease contact me via PM for anything
  2. BURNT OUT!!

    For whomever it applies (Knowing very well) that this "of the Lords" congregation, You, (if choosen - from our Lord), pleases him, we/you are doing rightousness.. Pleases to continue continue until...
  3. BURNT OUT!!

    This must be looked at from another angle. Tis True! You will never make it (nowadays) if you do not see otherwise! You truly need to understand the title you have taken. It is above all else......
  4. I want to be an ER specialist Nurse

    Too bad that the only way to become a specialist in any area is experience. (Time and self education, or putting self through timely Education) Plus, The Emergency Specialist requires experience of...
  5. New Years Eve Blue Moon

    Blue Moon huh... This is one day that I refuse to work. I have worked this Holiday one time before, and let me tell you, in the ED, this is an excellent day to experience what it may be like for you...
  6. Do you like ER or ICU better?

    Wow! I did not see that coming! I am truly kind of shocked that you are an Emergency Nurse. Hmm... I don't get it? Was it your intention to sound derogatory for a reason? You know many Emergency...
  7. Do you like ER or ICU better?

    Curiosity has gotten the better of me. Would you be willing to tell us something? Is it The University of Wisconsin Hospital, or is it Froedtert Hospital that you are employed? The only other Level 1...
  8. This morning I sat with a patient as he died

    Soo touching that I wanted to share mine too After celebrating my Fathers birthday with cake and cards that our aunts picked out for us (this was one and one-half week after them all getting here from...
  9. Baby Deaths

    How do you deal with it (cope)? Seen Three now. What takes place for you during the first 24 hours
  10. Time to Triage

    Sacraficial
  11. Baby Deaths

    Jesus! OR NOt! Right? This all has to make sense somehow, right? Once all is said and done... Right? Jesus! Christ!!! Oh! My! God! Children die? I never signed up for this.... I want 2 B A...
  12. New ER Nurse

    Thats it, right there! Ask! You are going to need to do that a lot, for many years... Confidence
  13. Time to Triage

    I have not read any of this thread yet, but can tell you that every ED should probably have a point triage RN + a comprehensive (Or Two) triage RN's. I am at a facility that has tried out both ways,...
  14. Baby Deaths

    Thanks That
  15. Is it the hospitals responsibility to educate the public!!

    So far, 5 of my pts have definetively had H1N1 with paperwork in hand as comformation when I got to them. All of them were mildly sick. It did not look nothing like the normal yearly flu at all... It...
  16. Wanted to add, your benefits should probably have in them a source/allowance for psychiatric help. I think most places have a hospital appointed psych specialist for us to go and discuss things with,...
  17. Stuck on an unsafe floor (Vent, long)

    WoW! If you're asking? Get out of that place fast! That place sounds very very unsafe, and all wrong! I don't work the floor, so somebody else please tell me the situation described above is not...
  18. Medical Screening Exam at triage by RN

    It obviously depends on where one works. The triage protocols are very extensive where I work. I have ordered several CAT scans on patients from triage. One example, would be the patient who had a...
  19. Peritoneal Lavage

    I have seen this procedure done once too. The surgeon thought he saw something on the US. Then, he immediately turned around and asked us for the DPL tray. I don't know the exact reasoning for the...
  20. Time Management in the ED HELP!!!!!!

    I like the preceptors comment about re-directing them during your assessments! Hopefully, You will be able to develop a system that works for you over time. One that balances that "one-on-one" care,...
  21. last week then on my own! so scared

    I agree with it being normal. However, make sure that you have the support around you that you will undoubtly need during this transition. Even then, ask for 2 more weeks if you really feel it is...
  22. Psych patients

    Yes, psych pt's are on the rise in our ED as well. Lots and lots of them are showing up lately. Three years ago, I did not even really know what IVC (involuntary commit - danger to self or others)...
  23. How did this happen! Help I don't want to be this kind of nurse!!

    OP, This is a good post, thanks... I have not been a member here for very long. Although, I am sure that from my posts, I'd seem like an uncompassionate person... (that couldn't be further from the...
  24. This is 4 Reel

    OK So, as I am... I want a long-going thread about this This being the word EMERGENCY What does that mean? I mean, not where I work! Emergency MUST absolutely mean something else to the public!...
  25. This is 4 Reel

    Sorry, Just