harry Krishna

I think of all my training and schooling that I have attended, of all the skills that I've acquired, I am now realizing that I use my waitering skills more than anything else.... So from now on the ER is my restaurant... Triage nurse is now the Maitr...

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....... ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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)

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.......

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...

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...

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.....

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.

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 ...

By popular demand, after the ever so successful "things patinets have taught me not to do.." comes this: Things med students/residents have taught me not to do>>> Med student taught me that it is not wise to put a tourniquet around a patien...

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...

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.

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)

How could I forget.... curb side pick up, just ring the bell and staff will come pick you up right at your car. Then we can provide valet service so the visitors don't have to walk. HK

Check out the thread "My Er is a restaurant" on the Emergency Nurses section. It is so similiar to all these complaints.

Another funny thing about the phones... I always laugh when I ask another nurse "how do you dial out on the phone?? And the patient says "Oh just push 8-0 then dial the number" They could also probab;y tell me the extension to CT scan and the hospi...

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! good one girl. Only er nurses have such warped humor

Better than the alternative.............Drug users make poor organ donors..... perhaps the medics were reluctant to give it as they don't like to clean vomit from the back of their bus?????

True story (honest to God). I was working in a very busy ER (50 beds). I answered the phone(always a bad move) below is the transcription: caller: "I want to speak with Pookey" me: "Who is Pookey" Caller: "My girlfriend" Me: what's Pookey's las...

this is all stuff that the poor housekeepers have to pick up off the floors after the patients leave. this is the typical out of touch move that management does. Magik girl was correct in her post. You could give people all they could ever want, ...