harry Krishna

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1. Buying a Condo & travelling

   harry Krishna replied to Eppirn's topic in Travel

   I had the same problem, only with buying a car. I had to shop around for a lender. Try a credit union. Few people(banks and creditors) understand the concept of traveling nursing. To them it looks like you change jobs every 3-6 months. With suc...

2. 10 ICU patients; 9 ICU monitors.

   harry Krishna replied to shgrbkr's topic in Safety

   This is a chronic problem in alot of ERs. Especially during the winter season. It is very dangerous but it is a daily occurance that you are holding tele-ICU patients, plus a large influx of your regular ER patients requiring monitors and not enough...

3. Lingo

   harry Krishna replied to JACALA_CL's topic in Emergency

   UFO (unidentified frozen object = dead homeless person w/ no ID in the winter) FOS( found on street--relates to above term) TSS (toxic sock syndrome) SHPOS (sub-human piece of s***) HTTA ( a section of an ER I worked in meant "hot tots and twats ar...

4. Lingo

   harry Krishna replied to JACALA_CL's topic in Emergency

   once or twice a month????????????????? try once or twice a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. Personalities of an ER Nurse

   harry Krishna replied to harry Krishna's topic in Emergency

   Of course you would be (especially since JAACHO has banned fake finger tips, now you don't have to worry about breaking a fingernail so no more barbie doll lol)

6. Personalities of an ER Nurse

   harry Krishna replied to harry Krishna's topic in Emergency

   oh so true, and they usually throw in "I work at THE level 1 trauma center" too. Like taking care of one trauma patient is the same as taking care of 9 plain old ER fruitcake patients.......

7. Personalities of an ER Nurse

   harry Krishna posted a topic in Emergency

   I've come to the conclusion that regardless what part of the country you work or how big or small your ER may be, there are basically eleven different personalities of the nurses that work in an ER. Below I will give a brief synopsis of each....... ...

8. It hasn't even been a week yet and my husband is already starting

   harry Krishna replied to sagelola's topic in General Students

   My heart goes out to those struggling here, but I have to wonder how many of these problems many are having were all ready in existence? But now they are just coming to fruitation? You have to start training them even before you are married!!! O...

9. just another burning question......

   harry Krishna replied to MAGIK GIRL's topic in Emergency

   cracking chests is overrated anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! call me critical care or not I really don't care. ER is its own specialty. Not to sound like we are better than other nurses, but we have to know so much more (considering the overall picture) fr...

10. STR8 vs Gay Male RN

    harry Krishna replied to Ah life!'s topic in General Nursing

    What's the big deal? Don't you have more important things to worry about? And lastly, not sure if you are a man or woman, but PLEASE, PLEASE, stop using the term "male nurse". We're all nurses regardless of gender.....

11. why do we baby our pts

    harry Krishna replied to MAGIK GIRL's topic in Emergency

    my favorite quote to these unsatisfied patients was " if you are unhappy with our services there are 20 other Ers in this city you can go visit" of course with the advent of patient satisfaction I no longer use it.

12. The ER has become a restaurant.....

    harry Krishna replied to harry Krishna's topic in Emergency

    If that is the case, then we will ALWAYS have free beer and pizza. When is the last time you can remember having a staff meeting that lasted less than 29 minutes?????? I think we have better attendance at our "morning after a hard nightshift" at the ...

13. Things Med students/residents have taught me

    harry Krishna replied to harry Krishna's topic in General Nursing

    also learned these tid bits from residents on hospital personal relationships: 1) If you are going to sleep with a nurses aide then don't let your wife find out or she may come into the hospital and attack that aide. 2) If you are going to carry on m...

14. Things Med students/residents have taught me

    harry Krishna replied to harry Krishna's topic in General Nursing

    try this it works like a charm. tap fast but lightly on the RA lead. It looks like VFib on the scope. Better yet, do it w/ a portable tele and tap as you walk around, ask the resident to help find the pt. in VFIB.

15. The ER has become a restaurant.....

    harry Krishna replied to harry Krishna's topic in Emergency

    Yes indeed, two travel assignments in the great city of Milwaukee has inbedded that term forever in my mind.... Also after 3 years in Maine I am still "opening and closing" the lights (instead of turning on and off)