ERRN1028

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1. ER or PICU?

   ERRN1028 replied to JennB03's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   JennB03- I left the ER when I moved away from my home town to a big inner city ER, in Memphis TN. I started working at the chartiy hosp here. The ER was crowded with patients on crack, drugs,...

2. ER or PICU?

   ERRN1028 replied to JennB03's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   I worked ER for 3 years (absolutely loved it) I started out as a new grad there, wouldn't trade that exp for anything. About 40% of the patients are not truely ER patients-does get abused alot (I...

3. PICU - What are your patient staff ratios?

   ERRN1028 replied to wendyw2's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   I work in the US, tennessee PICU, and we all have 2 ventilated patients to 1 nurse, it is very rare that I come in and don't have 2 patients as my assignment. The only patients who are 1:1 are fresh...

4. PICU vs. MICU/SICU/TNICU

   ERRN1028 replied to CarVsTree's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   short answer.... I worked w/ Adults for 3 years......Now I do PICU...Kids are way more challenging smaller, everything KG based. ...a lot more rewarding, I would recommend it ...way easier to start...

5. Blatant Nursing "No-No's"........what's your worst???

   ERRN1028 replied to anndoodle's topic in General Nursing

   I have read all of these and I can't even imagine........ sometimes I joke and say that its a wonder we function as nurses, with the little bit of knowledge we walk away from nursing school with....

6. Adult ICU to PICU

   ERRN1028 replied to NurseLeah's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   I went from 3 years of Adult Emergency Room to PICU, the ICU setting will probably be somewhat the same atmosphere for you,(vents, ICP monitors, mixing drips, lots of Invasive lines)... but I can...

7. Hello - What state are you from?

   ERRN1028 replied to KimRN41514's topic in Rural

   North Mississippi, is 3 minutes away from memphis, TN I live on the STATE line, takes me less than 30 min to get to work. I love it !

8. SHAVING & WAXING

   ERRN1028 replied to barkley's topic in Ob/Gyn

   i didn't say I had stench.....you took it the wrong way. I shave for other reasons...husbands preference.....just meaning that posters with opinions don't need to be really rude about it

9. SHAVING & WAXING

   ERRN1028 replied to barkley's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have shaved for 10 years now, and its not as SICK as you think. I think having one more place to have needless hair and stench is GROSS........Do you shave your legs...armpits...enough said....

10. My name is Chim-Chim Apple Hiney

    ERRN1028 replied to kristylee's topic in Nursing Humor

    squeezit BubbleFace......

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

    ERRN1028 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    ~ My tongue itches........(hello do you think we have a miracle pill?) .....................................some

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

    ERRN1028 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    ~ My tongue itches........(hello do you think we have a miracle pill?) .....................................some

13. I need Ideas, for a project !

    ERRN1028 replied to ERRN1028's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Thank you for the idea, that is a great idea and gives me a lot of room to work with it. I will definately submit that project and start working on it thank you so much !! :)

14. Thinking of taking a phlebotomy class while waiting...

    ERRN1028 replied to SarasotaRN2b's topic in General Nursing

    I went to phlebotomy school while waiting for RN school, It gave me a job, really good practice with patients, sticking for blood, learned the hospital routine, got to know people and established my...

15. Funny Sign In Slips

    ERRN1028 replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    My favorite~ ":rotfl: I fought the wall and the wall won" (hit a wall~broken hand) I used to save the complaint part of the slip for fun, but then I thought I might go to hell for making