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1. Bkat

   orange-rn posted a topic in Emergency

   Has anyone taken this exam? I have been an ER nurse for 3 years and recently changed jobs. I had to take the BKAT test and did not pass! I felt so stupid, but a lot of the questions were what would...

2. Ben Taub Hospital Emergency Room

   orange-rn replied to HappyNursey07's topic in Emergency

   Ben Taub is not just an ER it's a level 1 ER. Very busy place to work! I actually work in the sister hopital of Ben Taub. It seems a lot of RN's like it there. You have to be able to work fast and...

3. PDA software??

   orange-rn replied to onmywaytoRN's topic in Emergency

   Try www.pepid.com . I use this program called RN suite it's

4. Christmas Songs For The Psychiatrically Challenged

   orange-rn replied to lozza81's topic in Emergency

   HAHAHAHA! I LOVE

5. Highest BP you have ever seen on a pt

   orange-rn replied to nckayaker's topic in Emergency

   Last night in our shock room had a pt with a BP of 278/177, hr 111. Pt went from icu status to being discharge home! Renal functions messed up. Had h/o HTN out of meds for a few weeks. He was...

6. Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

   orange-rn replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

   Over a span of 4 days we had 3 foriegn bodies. 1st one was a pt. with an apple up his rear, yes he fell on it. The 2nd was a pt. who for some odd reason pt his member into a gatorade bottle and...

7. Latex Allergy

   orange-rn replied to orange-rn's topic in Emergency

   Thank you for the replies. I'm pretty miserable. I have swollen fingers that have split open in several spots, swollen lip that swells and my eyes are swollen and itch like crazy! The solumedrol...

8. Latex Allergy

   orange-rn posted a topic in Emergency

   I may be allergic to latex! I have tried non-latex powder free gloves and it's not working. I had a full blood work up at the allergist yesterday. I have also been put on solumedrol pack, allegra,...

9. Want to move to Spring, TX, please help

   orange-rn replied to Born2Nurse's topic in Texas Nursing

   The traffic is awful! If you work night shift you will miss the traffic. Starting salary 24.00-26.00 $ per hr. Spring is a nice area to live in. Area hospitals: Houston Northwest Medical center and...

10. What do your ER patients families say or do that irks you?

    orange-rn replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    "I'm hungry" as soon as they get there. We tell patients that we don't feed people in the ER unless it's medically necessary. This drives me crazy! The ones with abd. pain 10/10 eating chips and...

11. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

    orange-rn replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

    Why don't we put Tom boy in a lock down unit PICU and see how he feels about chemical

12. mandatory scrubs?

    orange-rn replied to NativeTexan's topic in Emergency

    Wearing White! Yuck! We Wear Royal Blue Or Black Or A Combo Of The 2. Love The All

13. Shands jacksonville-Er

    orange-rn replied to orange-rn's topic in Florida Nursing

    Thanks for the info! I already work in a very busy ED. I work in a county hospital level 3. We have er holding-obs and I love it! Still curios what nurse to pt. ratio is. I don't think HR could...

14. Shands jacksonville-Er

    orange-rn posted a topic in Florida Nursing

    Has anyone worked at Shands ER? I currently live in Houston, thinking of moving to Jax to be close to family. What is the pay rate and pt. ratio in the ED? Thanks for your

15. I'm entering your world!

    orange-rn replied to Aneroo's topic in Emergency

    ask questions, and lots of them! take acls and tncc asap! go with your gut even if others nurses ignore the s/s. laugh a lot a good sense of humor even if its twisted is needed to work th ed! you...