bartender514 replied to sabbady's topic in Emergency
I love when ER's get picky about who they hire. Sure, I get that you don't want some moron working in your ER but 3 years experience is a year or two more than some people have in the ED I work at. We're also so short staffed that anybody with a puls...
bartender514 replied to A&OxNone's topic in Emergency
I work in a level 1 trauma center as well. To touch upon the ICU nurse thing. We used to have a position for what we called a TEDI nurse. We no longer have this but this is how it worked....out trauma bay has 7 rooms. 2 designated trauma rooms and th...
bartender514 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency
A woman that was having abd pain came in and while she was there two of here family members asked me if the doctor could order her some anti-anxiety meds....eluding to valium, ativan etc... the reasoning being that her brother had died the day before...
bartender514 replied to inteRN's topic in Emergency
we have multiple "regulars" who visit us d/t sickle cell "crisis." Several of them have their own specific protocols. Most of them hospital hop. They are by far some of the most annoying pts to frequent the ED. Most get Dilaudid. Some have ports beca...
I've known a few nurses to migrate out of ED to OR or cath lab strictly due to better hours. I guess it would also depend on whether or not you got to choose what service you were with. Trauma, ortho, cardiac etc...
bartender514 replied to DaughteroftheKing's topic in General Nursing
Not only do you have to factor in dosage you also have to consider duration of time given. I'm sure it's standard in most facilities to give 10mEq of IV K through a peripheral line over 1.5 hrs. Giving a pt 50mEq of K over multiple hours wouldn't be ...