LMPhilbric

LMPhilbric

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  1. phone calls no outsider would believe

    LMPhilbric replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    I love the Bunny Suicide books. They are hilarious. We use it as a test to find out whether people will make it in the ER or not. If you fail to see humour in the Bunny Suicides, you will not make...

  2. Pet Un-Peeves, or what I like about Emergency Nursing

    LMPhilbric replied to ERbunny's topic in Emergency

    I love being an ED nurse and would never go back to the floor. So why do I love it? I love having to figure out what is the matter with the patient. Pt's on the floor come pre-diagnosed. Ours...

  3. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    LMPhilbric replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Ah, NHDD (Nursing Home Dump Day). There's nothing quite like it to make your already busy Friday even

  4. er visitors...a funny

    LMPhilbric replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    OK, I have the all-time best one ever. This guy comes in mooing and sobbing because he's in so much pain w/ N/V. He tells us that he has terminal liver CA (7 tumours in his liver) and has come here...

  5. er visitors...a funny

    LMPhilbric replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    Every time a cop comes in the ER, I tell them I did it (whatever "it" was) and they should take me away. Still haven't gotten one of them to take me up on it. One jokingly put the cuffs on me and I...

  6. er visitors...a funny

    LMPhilbric replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    i actually had a "voluntary baker act" (baker act is the involuntary 72 hold for danger to self or others in florida). i had a guy who wanted to go to the county mental health facility for detox, but...

  7. Rules for the ER (long)

    LMPhilbric replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    I'm also going to post a rule...it takes 24 hours to die of dehydration and 14 days to die of starvation. You have not been waiting nearly that long, therefore you are not starving nor dying of...

  8. er visitors...a funny

    LMPhilbric replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    We had to explain to our new doc that a pt "sinkholed" out in the waiting room. He jumped up ready to save the world and said "Someone syncoped in the waiting room?" I looked at him and said...

  9. Rules for the ER (long)

    LMPhilbric replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    I'd be willing to settle for a blowgun or a tranquilizer gun from Fish and Game. I'm not picky. I think it would be really cute to watch someone run around the ER for a couple of minutes, like the...

  10. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

    LMPhilbric replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    How could we possibly forgot Vitamin D and Vitamin P (Dilaudid and Phenergan)? Does anyone else worry about getting a phone call from the DEA wanting to discuss how many gallons of Dilaudid you've...

  11. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

    LMPhilbric replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    Absolutely! And on the rare occasion when someone actually makes it up to the ICU, the ICU nurses used to give us holy-what-for for being so morbid and uncaring, blah, blah, blah. We used to give it...

  12. Stupidest reason to go to ER

    LMPhilbric replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

    I'd rather have that than the live rattlesnake that just bit the

  13. phone calls no outsider would believe

    LMPhilbric replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    Many years ago, when I worked in general surgery in a hospital in Canada, we had a homeless guy who burned himself at the soup kitchen. He was a very happy wanderer, so we pinned a note to his robe...

  14. Stupidest reason to go to ER

    LMPhilbric replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

    The tampon stuck in the lady parts...one time, and mind you, this is probably the only time this will ever happen, we had a young lady who was a virgin and managed to tear her hymen with the tampon....

  15. er visitors...a funny

    LMPhilbric replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    We refer to the DoorGawkers as "Buzzards" because they circle the nurses' station. I politely (but very firmly) tell them that they have to stay in the room because it violates patient...

  16. Rules for the ER (long)

    LMPhilbric replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    We have found tremendous success with the "therapeutic foley". I have all but risen the dead with

  17. Best approach to patients and relatives complaining about "long wait."

    LMPhilbric replied to uniquenurse's topic in Emergency

    One of my friends (very Southern) walks out to the waiting room when it is full and announces "Listen up, people! You get in the order that you're dyin' and I decide who's dyin', so don't bother...

  18. 8:1 ratio in the ED?

    LMPhilbric replied to TamrRN07's topic in Emergency

    I wouldn't do 8:1 on a med-surg floor to say nothing of the ER. We are 2-3:1 on the trauma side and 3-4:1 on the medical side. In season (the winter), when all of the snowbirds come down, you...

  19. hi...anyone from lethbridge

    LMPhilbric replied to WYZQ07's topic in International Nursing

    Well, I left there 15 years ago because the job market went south, but it is still a nice city. I think the housing is pretty reasonable compared to Calgary or Naples, FL where I'm from. It's easy...

  20. Stethescope

    LMPhilbric replied to Caralee's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a Master Cardiology from Littman and absolutely love it. I'm also allergic to it (never had a problem with the cheap scope, but anyway), so I have a lion stethoscope cover from pediapals.com...

  21. Press Gainey AARRGGHH

    LMPhilbric replied to susi_q's topic in Emergency

    We were supposed to say that too and I could never actually make myself say it. All that came out was a funny choking

  22. ER nurses...what shoes??

    LMPhilbric replied to RN2MSNasap's topic in Emergency

    I wear Nike runners that I had to buy in the children's section because my feet are so small. For me, it's not so much the shoes as the socks. I wear Hanes cushion socks when I work and my back and...

  23. Rules for the ER (long)

    LMPhilbric replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    One night, we had all hell breaking loose in the ER. We had 2 simultaneous acute MIs, an acute CVA that needed TPA, and only 2 docs on. The one doc was with the CVA, and the other was going back and...

  24. ER Tips

    LMPhilbric replied to lyraesullivan's topic in Emergency

    The other thing that works really well is to turn her on her side and have her pull her upper leg up to the chest as best as she can. Approach the pt from her butt side. This shifts things around...

  25. What would you do?????

    LMPhilbric replied to banbulance's topic in Emergency

    You also need to remember that symptomatic bradycardia is defined as bradycardia that causes hypotension, chest pain or other symptoms. It's possible that the chest pain is caused by the bradycardia,...