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  1. 17 Medicare Facts:

    ernurse2244 replied to kitkat24's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    When I graduated from nursing in 1975, Medicare was a gravy train. One of my first patients stayed in the hospital for three months with a fairly uncomplicated CVA. Medicare paid for all three...

  2. So what WAS nursing like in the "good old days"?

    ernurse2244 replied to findingmywayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Just 'cause they asked me to...and I had the

  3. So what WAS nursing like in the "good old days"?

    ernurse2244 replied to findingmywayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Graduate 1975 here. Let's see...mercury BP's and thermometers. Played with the mercury if either broke. Counted drops for IV's. Started a new IV site each day with a butterfly needle every...

  4. Nursing Shortage-what are YOUR opinions?

    ernurse2244 replied to Diuretic Junkie's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I agree that nurse/doctor relations is a big downer for nurses. I don't know how many outside the field realizes that is going on, especially prospective nursing students. Maybe the ones who have...

  5. New overtime bill

    ernurse2244 replied to PHM's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Does anyone know when this goes into effect? No discussion of dropping overtime at my hospital, but we are so short staffed I'm not they would have to courage to drop overtime pay right now. Maybe...

  6. Too few nurses could very well mean too many deaths

    ernurse2244 replied to pickledpepperRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The public rarely sees the true picture of what is going on. If a nurse doesn't come promptly they get mad. It isn't professional to say to them that you are carrying a much heavier patient load...

  7. Which doc in charge of ER holding patients?

    ernurse2244 posted a topic in Emergency

    Do you treat your holding patients as ER or inpatients? Do you continue charting on your chart or a med/surg or ICU chart? When you need additional orders do you call attending or the ER

  8. What are your basic procedures post-mortum?

    ernurse2244 replied to EyesForward's topic in General Nursing

    How we treat the patient depends on whether there is to be an autopsy or not. If autopsy, very little is done...lines, tubes, etc are left inplace. Otherwise, they are bathed, dressed in a clean...

  9. Ghostly experiences??

    ernurse2244 replied to Erin RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have had several ghostly experiences as a nurse, but the most precious one involves my mother and father. Mother died a year before Daddy did. After her death, he told us every morning that he had...

  10. Your last day in the ER

    ernurse2244 replied to teeituptom's topic in Emergency

    When my least liked frequent flyer comes in with a sore throat that is a 10/10 on the pain scale, I would put his thumb on the overbed table, hit it as hard as I can with a hammer, then say: That was...

  11. Treatment for true drug seeker

    ernurse2244 posted a topic in Pain Management

    Are we facilitating the drug seekers by saying "its not my place to judge"? If, for whatever reason, you have defined a person as a drug seeker, what do you do when they present to the clinic/er?...

  12. How much OT do you do?

    ernurse2244 replied to ChristineG's topic in General Nursing

    OT at our hospital is after 40 hours irregardless of how many hours you were originally scheduled. I am parttime...24 hours a week but about once a month end up into overtime, more often at 36 hours....

  13. Treatment for true drug seeker

    ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Pain Management

    Please go back to my original post. Don't think he is addicted because can go several days without his shots. I do think he is a drug seeker since every bit of pain he has is 10/10 and requires...

  14. Survey: Has your facility implemented nurse to patient ratios?

    ernurse2244 replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I primarily work ER and it's up to me to call when I need help (solo nurse here). We have 5 beds, I take care of all five, plus triage whoever is in the waiting room based on my own opinion of...

  15. Treatment for true drug seeker

    ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Pain Management

    For the most part I agree with you. I don't give the orders, just follow them. The particular patient that I was thinking about when I started this thread makes us all crazy, though. He uses the ER...

  16. For PDAing RN's

    ernurse2244 replied to 1 Leg Lance's topic in General Nursing

    Although I am a computer fanatic, I have never used a PDA. Could you please tell me more how they work? Charting is a major problem for me, especially on busy days. I end up with paper towels,...

  17. Relationships with Docs

    ernurse2244 replied to shirleyTX's topic in MICU, SICU

    My best experience is with docs in ER. Since we literally work side-by-side for 12 hours, they learn to trust you more so that the multiple docs who have patients in other places in the hospital....

  18. RV travel????

    ernurse2244 replied to chuckntammy's topic in Travel

    I LOVE traveling in an RV. My sister and I bought our first one last year. Since we didn't know how we were going to like it, we bought a very old used one that didn't cost alot. When you are on...

  19. I'm sooooo tired!

    ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Emergency

    Thanks for the "atta girl" from you guys. I went back in tonight to work the first 4 hours on the 7P shift on med/surg because they are so short handed. Lots of day shift nurses pulled me aside to...

  20. I'm sooooo tired!

    ernurse2244 posted a topic in Emergency

    Can I vent? Just finished a 12 hour shift that took 15 hours to complete. Arrived this am with doa in bed 2...45 yo diagnosed monday with flu. respiratory arrest at home, cardiac arrest by the time...

  21. Mad cows, orange alert...scared?

    ernurse2244 posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How are things different in your area because of the latest rise to Orange alert? Are you getting patients in the ER's because of concern over beef? How are you personally dealing with the Orange...

  22. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    ernurse2244 replied to NurseHardee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Barb, thanks for telling your father's story. He would be about the same era as my father. They were young adults during the depression and had a different attitude than is in the world today. I'm...

  23. Mad cows, orange alert...scared?

    ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I started this thread to see if I was out of the mainstream...meaning I am not making any special plans for the next 911. I am not afraid of the mad cows...but I do sympathize with them. As I said...

  24. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    ernurse2244 replied to NurseHardee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Quote: I started reading the post and it just felt like hell fire and brimstone. How do you think the cows feel? What was your father's

  25. Slaughterhouses, Mad Cows, and Public Health

    ernurse2244 replied to NurseHardee's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Good post, Hardee. Another discussion board (another site entirely) is really coming up with alot of info on things we really do NOT want to know about the process of putting meat on American tables....