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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, magets, uncompliant seizure patients, gunshot wounds af...

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 worked community and charity hosps in the ED) Now I w...

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 from surgery post-op heart surgeries or a child wh...

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 off in peds than go from adults to peds.... just my...

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. but my god, I pray for my safety one day when I...

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 tell you that from experience, children are a very di...

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 ! :)

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 !

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. Please don't try and offend people ...all you have to s...

squeezit BubbleFace...... :chuckle

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

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

I have 2 choices 1. I need an idea for a Pediatric ICU project to improve the unit, for employees or patients. such as (paint the ceiling tiles~ for patients to look at -already taken) 2. A safety project or fun thing (i.e.~ toy box for kids to pic ...

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 !! :) :)

I live in mississippi, and have seen them in new orleans !!! haha:chuckle

Twin boys, Oranjello, and Lemonjello pronounced oron- jello/ le-mon-jello .....seriously, downtown new orleans Did mamma crave jello during pregnancy????:chuckle

I just got off work in the PICU, My patient is a 12 year old boy who came in with N/V rapidly progressed to liver failure. I have been taking care of him for 3 nights and tonight he went encephalopathic on me, confused and combative, such a waste f...

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 self in the hosp. system. I HIGHLY recommend it ,be...

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 fun...haha

too funny, thanks for sharing, its fun to laugh at the similarities we all have.:)

I live in Memphis, TN ~ RN pay $20.00-22.00/hour with experience new Grad $19.50 exact quote What part of TN are you in? Just curious:)

Yeah!! I almost forgot. Happy ER nurses Day !!:)

My thoughts are with you... my cousin is a great nurse it took her 4 times to pass. Please don't give up.....here for your support! Good luck on 2nd try!

Sorry, for the confusion ~forgive me The morning I wrote the thread the transplant team was looking for a perfect match (B Pos.) some of our nurses including me, I am O pos were willing to be donors and we were turned down. The morning I left this ...

I have 2 choices 1. I need an idea for a Pediatric ICU project to improve the unit, for employees or patients. such as (paint the ceiling tiles~ for patients to look at -already taken) 2. A safety project or fun thing (i.e.~ toy box for kids to pic ...