LegzRN

LegzRN

CEN, CPEN, RN-BC

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  1. ED Admissions Right At Shift Change

    LegzRN replied to chordringer's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Jason, In my hospital it has become policy for the primary nurse to call report, and then physically bring the patient to the floor to give a mini bedside report when being admitted to the "unit"...

  2. Why do night shift nurses get paid more when day shift clearly does MORE work?

    LegzRN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow... I wish you were only joking. I saw there that you mentioned you "only" got a 15 min lunch. Hmm... lunch.. I seem to have forgotten what that

  3. Care plans are stupid.

    LegzRN replied to maestrotee's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed... although haven't done one since nursing school. We don't do them in our ED. I remember during orientation when they were showing us the hospital's computer system that counter's the ED's...

  4. triage question

    LegzRN replied to RNkalima's topic in Emergency

    That's crazy they wanted to send that pt home seeing as that condition has a >75% mortality rate when sepsis is already present. Also interesting is that as of 2007, only 750 cases of Fournier's...

  5. Your Dream Emergency Department...

    LegzRN posted a topic in Emergency

    What kind of things would you have in your Dream Emergency Department? I'll start. My dream ED would... -never have admit holds because the hospital would always have open rooms and adequate...

  6. Your Dream Emergency Department...

    LegzRN replied to LegzRN's topic in Emergency

    Easy, Friend... this thread was made for fun, not

  7. What to do first if a choking child becomes unconscious

    LegzRN replied to nurseglitter's topic in General Nursing

    AIRWAYYY

  8. IV Gauge for CT

    LegzRN replied to EDrunnerRN's topic in Emergency

    I've worked in 2 EDs and both only required 20g

  9. Passed CEN!

    LegzRN replied to LegzRN's topic in Emergency

    As far as the celebration went... Test at 1330, found out my score at 1500, home and nap from 1730-2100 and work from 2300 to 0700 today. So pretty much my celebration consisted of 2 STEMI's, one...

  10. Who has done the military route?!

    LegzRN replied to TYoungRNBSN's topic in Government, Military

    I'm enlisted air force reserve and I just finished my commissioning packet... I remember some stipulation about having 6 months experience, but maybe that's just reserve

  11. Passed CEN!

    LegzRN replied to LegzRN's topic in Emergency

    I was seriously considering taking the CPEN exam, but my ED has a dedicated peds ED, and although I love children, I hate taking care of them and I feel like they'll want to put me over there more...

  12. Excited to be precepting a male nurse to PP

    LegzRN replied to pearljammer's topic in Ob/Gyn

    L&D/PP are hot jobs from what I understand. From my experience, it always seemed like those were the jobs the nurses wanted, so I'm thinking he must have actually wanted to work in L&D/PP...

  13. No handwashing equals fines?

    LegzRN replied to sara42105's topic in General Nursing

    hmm interesting... I used to work in South Western PA. What hospital system is doing

  14. A question about Adenosine

    LegzRN replied to Aerin's topic in Emergency

    Haha, the machine would need a pneumatic tube attached straight from pharmacy to refill the constant supply shortage of vicodin, percocet, and

  15. A question about Adenosine

    LegzRN replied to Aerin's topic in Emergency

    That would be a glorious

  16. lost meds help?

    LegzRN replied to kenpochic's topic in General Nursing

    How did you lose the pills? And why wasn't your instructor there? When I was doing my clinical rotation, the instructor was always there during a med pass, which is smart considering we were working...

  17. What is up with these Sickle Cell Patients?!

    LegzRN replied to BrandNewbieNurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've had many patients in SCC, but I've never known one to mess with their IV line. I'm guessing your patients have a central due to no/poor peripheral access. I had one patient who was in sickle...

  18. Is there a law protecting a nurse doing something they are uncomfortable with?

    LegzRN replied to usernam's topic in Emergency

    Nurses are good at what they do and paramedics are good at what they do. Working together they back each other up. Although it is a little shady that they just threw that into the policy overnight,...

  19. A question about Adenosine

    LegzRN replied to Aerin's topic in Emergency

    I hope you gave it as 6mg + 12mg instead of 18mg all at once. If so, I've never heard of

  20. what do you want to be when you grow up?

    LegzRN replied to Mrs. Sparkle Pants's topic in General Nursing

    Public Health Analyst... I guess that's why im in school for an

  21. IUPUI second degree BSN program w/military medical experience

    LegzRN replied to ahaze's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, good to see another Air Force member. I'm currently a med tech in the af (4n0x1). I did that before I went to college. Sorry to say, nothing transferred, but a lot of the info I learned in...

  22. Starting Nursing salaries by State?

    LegzRN replied to ncaru01's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in Pittsburgh, as a new RN I started out at 21/hr Relocated to the Philly area for grad school and full time offered ~30/hr. Granted I work perdiem and make more than that per hour, yet...

  23. What's your most creative solution to a problem at work, clinical and otherwise?

    LegzRN replied to Popwhizbangz's topic in General Nursing

    Once, in the ED, a pt lost control of their vehicle and ended up smashing their driver side window out and sustaining facial lacs. She was cleaned, sutured, and ready to go when she realized it was...

  24. Annoyed by what I saw in the dining room...vent

    LegzRN replied to mom2cka's topic in General Nursing

    Who

  25. Favoritism in assignments

    LegzRN replied to wildlaurel's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I first started out in the ED a few years ago, I worked mostly 7a-7p with a few random variations, but never starting later than 3pm and never leaving later than 3am. I saw the formed clicks and...