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Hi All, I'm going to be taking the NR661 post predictor exam in Chamberlain next week. I'm s cared to death because I would need roughly at 70% to pass the course. Are the questions in the predictor the same as the QBank ones? I've been doing okay in...

I work at a Level 1 Trauma Center's ED for the past 3 years going on 4. But for the past 8 months I've noticed I've been getting more irritated with the physicians whining and acting like divas/being more verbally abusive to me in general whenever I'...

Thanks, tomorrow is going to be my first day. What should I be doing to get my E-Logs and Case Presentations ready weekly?

So I'm starting Clinicals (hopefully) I'm having issues with the preceptor already on week 1. I'm going under the assumption I'll be able to start this week. Getting a preceptor was difficult, took me 8 months so I wasn't in class for a long time. N...

I work in a Level 1 Trauma Center in a growing urban area. Our nurses can be separated into two groups: Newer nurses (Less than 3 years of ER/Nursing Experience) and Experienced Nurses. Our manager has this belief that that newer nurses should be e...

When I was doing my TNCC it was taught to us that it was encouraged to give the family the option to be present during resuscitation attempts. And in my practice we always gave the family the option. Families that took that opportunity were very grat...

Hi everyone, Back again so it's been like 7 Months working at the Level 1 Trauma Center and basically now I've been an ER Nurse for nearly 14 months now. I like working in the higher acuity areas as part of the reason I transferred to the ER (besides...

Oh man I'm almost the complete opposite of this, but I still chose to work in an ED of a level 1 trauma center. I'm pretty much reserved, don't mind sitting around to an extent,and the opposite of an adrenaline junkie. Though I have the sarcastic wit...

Go the next best thing, Valium Gas in the ambulance bays and psych holding areas. It worked in Moscow, though a bit too effectively.

Vent alarm (you may wish to silence due to high pressure): I went from a small community hospital ER after 8 months to a level 1 Trauma center since it was a closer commute and allowed for greater career growth. My coworkers at the smaller hospital a...

Thanks for the encouragement everyone, there was a slight ray of hope the other week. I happen to work in the same hospital as my mother does but she's in a different department. I took care of a patient that ended up going to the OR during his stay ...

I'm going to tough it out for now. But damn I get so nervous when I go there.

A friend and myself moved to a new hospital in the emergency dept. He came from a large university hospital ER and I came from a very small community hospital ER both of us had less than a year of ER experience before moving to this hospital. This ho...

Pediatrics and Obstetrics. I'm a guy so it feels weird for me. Yet OB was the class I had the best grades in during my nursing school days.

I sometimes feel how you do OP but I try to be as professional as possible. If the patient is asking for pain medication, I will relay their concerns to the primary and nothing more. If both the primary and me both know the patient is a pain seeker, ...

I'm starting at a level 1 Trauma center as an ER nurse next week, I'm somewhat excited but most of all very nervous. I'm coming from a small community hospital's ER after only like 6-7 months, I've only participated three codes in my whole career as ...

I think of it as the same as how floor nurses hate ER nurses, because as ER nurses we are giving them patients. In this regard medics give us patients therefore we have to work. That's just me though.

I agree with this. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated; a jackass is a jackass.

I'm moving from a small community hospital (like less than 100 inpatient beds) to a level 1 Trauma center/University Hospital. I'm wondering what kind of differences will I see and expect. I've only been an ED nurse for about 6 months and before that...

I don't see a single abdominal pain patient at all! This is must be some kind of fantasy land.

I just do the best I can for the patient and that's all. I've only been annoyed to the point where I said: "Go ahead and leave! Your insurance won't pay if you leave. It's a free market, so go ahead."

I transferred from Tele 9 months ago to emergency almost 10 months ago and the department has been great to me however the place is far away. I applied to local hospitals with no real conviction. However the one hospital I wanted to work for actually...

I don't want to burn my bridges, the place has been really good to me. I'm going back to work tomorrow so it's gonna be rough. How do I tell my other coworkers that I took the position or do I act like nothing happened?

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I work at a small ER and we a have a few NP's that take primarily fast track patients and the occasional patient where the ESI is 3, I don't think they ever take the critical patients. I talked to an admissions person at one of the schools and told...