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Thanks again everyone for the replies. So, another incident happened yesterday involving the same type of thing! But, I had learned from my previous experience, and this one ended up so much better :) The pt in this case left a happy customer, and...

Hello all, Hope everyone made it though this Monday relatively unscathed! I've been working in the ER for the past 3 years, mostly in our fast track area. For the amount of people that I've seen over the years, why is it that one particular patien...

yup, I've seen that to be true. I'm glad they have a "patient complaint" committee, but no "Back up our nurses" committee:mad:

I think that if this patient had been in the main ed, around everyone, they would have either a)called security to remove her from the ed, or b)ended up giving her b52 after they told her she needed to watch her mouth or leave. :) Unfortunately, alth...

Thanks for your reply!!! Your advice is spot on..although in our ER there is no "losing rapport" to change patients :) My charge nurse is great, but she was extremely busy and couldn't really take over the patient for me, nor did I really want her to...

To answer the first questions, yes, yes, and yes!!!! I notified the charge nurse after the second round of screaming, and the doc was onboard the entire time. And, the problem is that I do waste my breath! I'm working on not letting people treat m...

Hey everyone, It's interesting to see your roles in Ophthalmology! I've been working in an ER the past few years, and am ready for a change. I have an interview for a RN position in Ophthalmology..I guess it's a clinic/outpatient setting but the job...

Ugh, I almost WISH I had the problem of being a "know it all" I just started working in the ER, and I am a fairly new nurse, (less than two years of experience with 3 different jobs thanks to hurricane katrina). I've been on orientation 3 d...

Hey everyone! Well, I finally did it, I put in my 2 weeks notice at my current job, and I start my new home health job this Thursday!! I'm terribly excited and nervous, but I don't think it can be any worse than my job now!!!!! Anyway, just wanted t...

Wow, I really need to check back here more often! I missed out on 2 whole pages of messages!! So, I've been doing homehealth for about 2-3 months now, and I am liking it so far. I can tell the company I work for does have some problems, but as far a...

Hey! How was the ride along? The new job is going pretty well; I'm definitely liking it a lot better than my old hospital job! I'm still figuring out all the paper work mess, but it is getting easier. The only "Bad" thing is that another company th...

wow, $84k sounds nice!!! i'm actually taking a pay cut as of now....i'm getting paid hourly until i am able to take on a "full load" of pts, then i will be paid per pt. my company's health insurance is way to expensive for my whole family, so i am h...

Good luck!!!!!!!!!!! So far I've just been doing paperwork, although Friday they sent me to this community center to do blood pressures on some folk after their morning bingo. It was actually so much fun!!!!!! This week I'll be traveling to their m...

I really started HATING my job. I always felt that I was putting my license on the line, considering that our staffing was HORRIBLE. I was always the only RN on a mixed peds/surg/ortho floor, and while I loved the lpn that I worked with, it was jus...

Hey, thanks! It will be visits, largely a geriatric population but some acute post op bandage changes, etc, from what I've gathered :) I'll be paid per visit, which I'm hoping will work out because I'm used to a regular pay check!!! I really hope I ...

Great post, y'all!! I just wanted to throw in a little noted concerning "non-medical" inductions. At my 40 week appointment, my dr. said, ok, so when do you want to come in? I'm like, um, what? She gave me 2 dates that I could come in for an inducti...

Hello everyone! So Monday I officially start my career as an RN, again! I graduated from nursing school in Dec. 2004, worked until Hurricane Katrina (Aug. 05), relocated, recovered, then got pregnant! The small town I now live in evidently didn't wan...

Congrats on getting this far, and good luck in your future endeavors!!

Hey everyone. Sorta a random question, and I don't have my lab test book, and internet searches haven't really turned up anything, soooooooo I thought I would ask all you lovely smart people! Have you ever seen a patient with RREEALLLLY high amylase ...

Ok everyone, I got my lab data (double checked), and my amylase was 33,000 and lipase was 11,000, on admit, using the "normal" standards of measurement (U/L) Now, I have read that pregnancy can raise levels slightly, and as i was only 2 days post p...

Thanks for the info...I wasn't sure if amylase itself could cause damage.....the whole thing was pretty crazy; I was pregnant, and evidently it's pretty common for pregnant woman to get gall stones (due to all the estrogen) well, I got gall stones, a...

Thanks for responding... I do know that pancreatitis will send the enzyme levels up, I was just curious on the actual numbers that people have seen.... I'm really asking because I, the nurse, was a patient recently, and my amylase levels were 47,000 ...

Hey Everyone! First let me extend a good job out to all those pregnant nurses who are still bustin' their butts and not using pregnancy as "an excuse" not to work! And, just to add another side to the story, try being a pregnant RN looking for a job!...

Hey all! I graduated from nursing school last december and had worked on an oncology/med surg floor until August when Hurricane Katrina came and destroyed my hospital (and my home, town, etc...) I've finally found permanent residence and am applying ...

Hey everyone, I've posted here before and have gotten such positive feedback, and now I need some more help! I graduated nursing school last December (wow, has it been that long!?!) and was working at a New Orleans hospital when Katrina hit. I lost...