MAGIK GIRL

MAGIK GIRL

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  1. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    well, when you see the same patients days in a row, it is kind of a clue. when you give them take home packs and scripts for narcs and they come in hours later or the very day and say that they lost...
  2. Come backs...

    don't ya just love havin' the "power"
  3. Come backs...

  4. Come backs...

    my favorite when pt's and or thier visitors (and alot of time the visitors are the worst) get.... well you know. "and you went to what medical school?"
  5. What's your craziest story of the ER

    don't you guys realize that for a lot of low socio-economic classes this is thier form of entertainment? (some can't afford tvs) haven't you ever seen the "er-you watch it , we live it"? well, now...
  6. Question for my fellow RNs of the OB world..

    harry, have you gotten an answer to your question yet?
  7. pain in the ed

    erin, you are wise! what is up with the docs anyway? there was one thread post where someone worked with a doc who treated the seekers with more meds than the appy's or the obstructions! i am glad...
  8. Things I've learned from my ER patients...

    by all means don't medicated the fever, remember, we in the er are supposed to see the child sick. heaven forbid they bring a child to be seen who has been medicated for the fever and feels alittle...
  9. Things I've learned from my ER patients...

    that cracks me up:roll i like it too when you have gloves on, a urine cup in one hand and blood in the other and some mousy wife comes up to you and says "he wants to know if he can eat". you say...
  10. New Grads in the ED (?)

    i agree. there is an old saying that says that "the only dumb question is the one not asked. " and i agree. sometimes those old sayings make alot of sense. i can say that for 12 years the...
  11. pain in the ed

    signing contracts or getting nothing in a government setting would be called extortion. in a better world, we would have time to educate these patients and the patients (the ones actually responsible...
  12. I saved a life today! hehe

    :roll i like
  13. Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

    and now the saga continues on "as the er turns" we last left clint as he walked up to the triage rn: " ah hi, i had a tick stuck in my side and i want it checked out." triage rn " i don't see a...
  14. Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

    now now children, let's play nice! 12years later and i do agree. i have seen it all i think! however, my bread and butter depents on all of the nuts! (i wonder, nuts..., bread and butter,///\\\\\...
  15. medications: take home packs

    yeah! don't for get the work
  16. pain in the ed

    WOW!!
  17. pain in the ed

    i think that the "visit history" with the reason for the visit only is ok. the good old seeker files are unfortunatly a thing of the past. it surely is a hippa violation to lable any one (not to...
  18. Question for my fellow RNs of the OB world..

    do you work in a small county side hospital? we do fetal heart all of the time. i have also worked in several other er's and in every one of them we did our own fetal hearts. i could not imagine...
  19. Question for my fellow RNs of the OB world..

    i read your previous post, and correct me if i am wrong, but didn't the er nurse call and say the pt had PIH? i think the responsibility falls on the ob rn who made the decision to only send a tech...
  20. Question for my fellow RNs of the OB world..

    walk a mile in my
  21. New Grads in the ED (?)

    veetach- duely ntoed! thank you for your reply. i am a good er nurse too. i am also proud or that. i can only applaud all of us. we all do good jobs, no matter what we post. no blood no
  22. New Grads in the ED (?)

    gee! i thought that the whole point of it all is that we are all a team! i am glad to work with people who will not let me sink! i am also glad to be there so that others will not sink. veetach,...
  23. New Grads in the ED (?)

    :) again, i must say that all most everything depends on the individual. like i said in my previous post, i have seen ccu rn's (just an example, not pointing fingers) come to the er and then after a...
  24. medications: take home packs

    CAB VOUCHERS! you must not forget the cab vouchers!
  25. New Grads in the ED (?)

    athomas91 you were very lucky to have had such a well rounded nursing school experience! i agree with what you are saying. here is my experience. i went to an adn program. the instructors never...