ernurse2244

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1. Do you ever have patients that you know?

   ernurse2244 replied to Lurksalot's topic in Emergency

   I am a solo ER nurse in a small rural hospital. I have cared for friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members and never really gave it a thought. I have never gotten any negative feedback and...

2. SO Exhausted

   ernurse2244 replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Emergency

   I am trying to recover from 3 12's + in a row. Our county population tripled over the past 10 days due to a local fair that has a big draw. No extra staffing this weekend. At 61 I am too old for...

3. Depressed about working ER

   ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Emergency

   God bless you! can you afford to look into other avenues like ambulatory care? or is the emergency room your kind of thing? Hi, ambulatory care isn't really an option for me. I hate doing home...

4. Depressed about working ER

   ernurse2244 posted a topic in Emergency

   This is the situation...I work in a small hospital in a rural community. Hospital has 30 beds, ER has 5 beds, usual visits/day about 15. This time of year it is more. We have a 110 bed nursing home...

5. Please help with paranoid family member

   ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks for all the answers and questions. I have worked 24 of the last 36 hours so haven't gotten back to you before now. I didn't give you alot of details about my DIL to keep my post short. As...

6. Family in room during a resusitation?

   ernurse2244 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

   My experience with families in the code situation is when it happens without warning and they are already at the bedside. No time to waste a member of a rather small code team to usher them out. I...

7. Foreign Objects in Body Cavities

   ernurse2244 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

   guy came in two nights ago...admitted up front to having a foreign body in rectum. even brought a duplicate of the glass cylinder bottle, rounded at presenting end, capped at the other end. he was...

8. Please help with paranoid family member

   ernurse2244 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   I need help. I was having alot of trouble with my daughter-in-law and just couldn't figure out what was going on. Our relationship had deteriorated over several years from warm, close to hostile and...

9. Department of Labor OT pay for nurses Please read all the article.

   ernurse2244 replied to tizmonster's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   New overtime rules are murky Fine print sure to stir flurry of lawsuits By MARILYN GEEWAX The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/24/04 WASHINGTON-This week, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will...

10. Department of Labor OT pay for nurses Please read all the article.

    ernurse2244 replied to tizmonster's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    New overtime rules are murky Fine print sure to stir flurry of lawsuits By MARILYN GEEWAX The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/24/04 WASHINGTON-This week, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will...

11. What would your EMS have done??

    ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Emergency

    I agree with what you are saying about the family, but what is the criteria? Rigor mortis had set in. I am ok that we went out and said "we did all we could do". But I am really asking,...

12. What would your EMS have done??

    ernurse2244 posted a topic in Emergency

    Local EMS calls in last night, code 3, cardiac arrest coming to an ER near me...well to me. Lady arrives, intubated, no IV access. Asystole on the monitor...all they got too. Family hasn't seen...

13. Millions going to fund Universal Health Care in Iraq!

    ernurse2244 replied to fiestynurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have re-read the article twice now and don't see any criticism of bush providing universal health insurance in Iraq...I only see praise for his doing that. It is only critical of his inaction on...

14. Non-pharmacological Interventions for Pain

    ernurse2244 replied to gwenith's topic in Pain Management

    Hands on care works best for me. I try to make it a back rub, but a foot rub works well if turning would only increase the pain or is contraindicated. Soft, geniune verbal sympathy is needed too....

15. policy for days in a row work

    ernurse2244 replied to ensense's topic in Emergency

    When I was younger, I worked nights, 7 on 7 off with one 8 hour shift in the middle. I must admit to being grouchy when I first woke up each afternoon, but I felt alert by the time I got to work....