TraumaInTheSlot replied to SLPorterRN's topic in Emergency
teach the people who answer the phone "all the nurses are treating patients with emergencies right now, none have time to come to the phone. feel free to come down and we will take a look at it" i...
Some ER's have patients who walk in to triage fill out a triage slip with name and chief complaint. they are always interesting due to misspellings and funny things that people write. care to share...
TraumaInTheSlot replied to Mom23's topic in Emergency
regarding the cutting of the supp, the supp is supposed to be cut lengthwise, from the point of "the bullet" down. if you cut them in half, the medicine isnt even. i hope this makes
TraumaInTheSlot replied to Dixielee's topic in Emergency
i feel this way too sometimes. nursing requires too much thinking and sometimes i wish for a job that doesnt require me to use my brain. i want to be the guy who screws the toothpaste cap on the...
TraumaInTheSlot replied to gotaluvtheER's topic in Emergency
we are lucky to not hold many patients. our patients get dispo'd and discharged fast, and get upstairs when admitted. you just make room. we have our own personal ct scanner(15 feet away) and we have...
TraumaInTheSlot replied to Vanfnp's topic in Emergency
ABCDEFGHI thats all you have to know..lol (youll understand that after u take the class) try and take it at some teaching trauma center hospital that has a good reputation as a teaching facility....
TraumaInTheSlot replied to Mom23's topic in Emergency
Children tend to show signs of decompensating hypovolemic shock later than adults, when they go "off the deep end". Pals teaches you to prevent the arrest. it doesnt hurt to give the child a bolus...
TraumaInTheSlot replied to gotaluvtheER's topic in Emergency
we see anywhere from 100k to 125k per year. we have 9 big rooms that hold 2 stretchers each and 4 isolation rooms(which can hold 2 pts each when not isolated), and an asthma room that has about 10...
TraumaInTheSlot replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency
Addiction is NOT a disease, IMHO. This line is the biggest crock of "shirt" i have ever seen. STOP DOING DRUGS..THERES HELP OUT THERE...GET SOME This is another example of the BS that they teach...
TraumaInTheSlot replied to FZ1Tom's topic in Emergency
sometimes, i dont understand why family members have to spend every single second with their ill family member, and sit there for days. GO THE F&*K HOME and lay down there if you dont like the...