Carotid

our emergency departments are the last departments in most hospitals to see renovation despite tremendous "seasonal" increases in wait times and those who "leave prior to treatment" because emergency departments across the nation (get this) don't mak...

100% of america's ers would be 50% as busy if 75% of patients would try the home pregnancy test. 75% of patients presenting to ers don't need emergent treatment; 20% of patients do need emergent treatment; 5% of patients should have listened to the n...

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of all the departments and nursing floors in any given hospital in america, the er remains the only unit that never runs out of beds and can always accomodate any and every direct admit. 100% of patients presenting to the er because their private doc...

saw a worm squirming in fecal material collected from an 8 year-old girl.....yack, yuck, gross, eeeyyyywwww carotid supplying oxygen-rich blood to billions of brains globally

doesn't sound good for the home team. our er staff began training for meditech charting this week. why did you go from one click options to ten clicks since your inservice training? carotid supplying oxygen-rich blood to billions of brains globall...

1. pts referred to the ed to be seen by a physician other than the ed docs. "well our doctor told us to come directly here and the surgeon would be waiting on us, and you're telling me you have a 6 hour wait?" reply, "why yes, this is utopia hospital...

here in columbia, sc our ed calls our observation unit the clinical decision unit (cdu). in short, this "wing" of our ed admits patients who are not "discharge home" material, nor necessitating hospital admission. we admit those with low probability ...

does the law protect your patient's confidentiality from other staff rns in the emergency department? i was under the impression that the only staff that are privy to my patient's information (i.e. chief complaint, pmh, etc.) are me, clinical coordin...

i have a B.S. in Exercise Physiology, and worked in cardiac, pulmonary, and vascular rehab for 5 years before getting my RN. what's your story?

no shopping incidents at present; i'll keep you posted if they do.

hope everyone has a wonderful day, where ever you are. happy thanksgiving. i'll keep you posted on what's coming in today: i'm in triage.

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(pt brought in by ems in full spinals) "neck and back pain." how did this occur? "i was trying to get the last portable dvd player and this other lady rammed me with her shopping cart."

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, relief's here. . . . going home. nite everyone.

(yaaaaaaaaaaaak, hockin up a loooooooogie) "i can't breathe!" you can't breathe, or is it hard to breathe? "i can't breathe!" how long's this been going on? "for a week. here's what i been coughing up, see?"

"wrist pain for 3 weeks." what made you come in tonight on thanksgiving? "my daughter here."

so i'm triaging this bipolar girl with a sore throat and onstar called me in the triage office with a patient coming in r/o anaphylaxsis. so listen for me on the onstar radio commercials. i'm a superstar!!!! and i'm thankful.

it's the L-TRYPTOPHAN. . . . man

i tried to offer him p-nuts, but he refused. i charted it. . . .

(while triaging a sicker patient, i'm rudely interrupted with. . . .) "hey man! you know when the vending machine man is coming? this is the second soda that i've gotten that's frozen." just put it under your armpit and it'll thaw after a while.

"hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, i jammed my finger yesterday. it's bruised and i can't move it very much. hahahahahahahahahahahaha." how would you grade your pain on a 0-10 scale; 0=no pain, 10=life-threatening pain? "8, hahahahahahahahahahaha."

thanks, jaimealmostRN. i'm trying to exercise some civility with these, ahem, patients.

"just been vomiting and having diarrhea since sunday and want to know if it's contagious."

"i'm about to have a seizure!" (tremors noted) (family) "he gets like this when he's about to have a seizure." do you take medicine for seizures? "yeah, dilantin. my doctor told me to take it only in emergency situations." (tremors continue) "i was j...