LegzRN

LegzRN

CEN, CPEN, RN-BC

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  1. AEDs and SNFs

    LegzRN replied to badphish's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Agreed. I can't believe you don't have an AED or your AED is locked up and you're not allowed to use it. Unless the local EMS station is located in the SNF, not using an AED is delaying ALS care and...

  2. I need two people to respond to this question about nurses and attire.

    LegzRN replied to Spikey9001's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. I prefer hospital uniforms (navy blue scrubs for nurses, maroon for aides/techs, green for unit secretaries,

  3. Giving injections question....

    LegzRN replied to AprilRNurse's topic in General Nursing

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  4. In Surgical tech. program and not too happy.

    LegzRN replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    Obvious troll is

  5. Bill to Help Military Medics Become EMTs Passes House

    LegzRN replied to MedicLifelineRN's topic in General Nursing

    This confuses me because I was a medic in the USAF and we all took the NREMT-B. I'm not sure about army medics/navy corpsmen, but I know all USAF 4N0s are

  6. nurses attacking nurses

    LegzRN replied to bethgrace's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen this a lot, but it always seemed like the males were immune to it. I don't know if it's because we didn't feed into the machine or if women just didn't hate us,

  7. ER nurse to patient ratio

    LegzRN replied to MGHERRN's topic in Emergency

    In my old hospital we were 4:1... we were expanding our ER, adding something to the tune of 10 or so beds. Administration never mentioned anything about our ratios changing and we all assumed there...

  8. Large bore IV

    LegzRN replied to remf3's topic in Emergency

    I agree with you. Whenever a trauma comes in I'll look for a vein that can hold a 14 and if I can't find one I'll shoot for a 16. When I ran EMS we had 12s, but you can't find too many of those in...

  9. What can I do to build up my resume as a future RN?

    LegzRN replied to swtchariot's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure where you are from, but in the commonwealth of PA, one can take the CNA practical and exam after successful completion of the first semester of nursing school. I believe it's through the...

  10. Do I need a certification to access ports?

    LegzRN replied to ivdude's topic in General Nursing

    I access them in the ER all the time with MD