TraumaInTheSlot

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  1. Funny Sign In Slips

    TraumaInTheSlot posted a topic in Emergency

    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...

  2. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    TraumaInTheSlot posted a topic in Emergency

    Heres an idea. once you learn something new regarding ER medicine, post it here. it will become a nice discussion and we can all learn something. post something that you think most ER rns wont...

  3. so Im fat, i cant be a flight nurse?

    TraumaInTheSlot posted a topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Im 6 foot 290 lbs. i have almost 4 years er experience. i am interested in treating prehospital patients in a helicopter. it has always been a dream of mine. i guess i better start eating less...

  4. so Im fat, i cant be a flight nurse?

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    ive just lost 20lbs in 6 weeks thanks to tiger schulmann's karate! thanks for your

  5. Telephone Advice

    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...

  6. Funny Sign In Slips

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    "SORE CHROAT" needless to say, he was from

  7. Looking for online RN - BSN with no clinical componet.

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to txspadequeenRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    whats the tuition rates for these

  8. Phenergan Supp given to toddler; child dies

    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

  9. What's your craziest story of the ER

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to debo_lpnER's topic in Emergency

    just this weekend, we had a guy try and burn his way out of restraints by lighting them on fire. stupid lazy aides didnt search

  10. Using Amelior computer system in the ED?

    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...

  11. Drug Seeker Stories

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    How "angelic" of you to be chastising your peers on this message

  12. Ambulance pts in waiting room

    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...

  13. Tncc

    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....

  14. Phenergan Supp given to toddler; child dies

    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...

  15. Ambulance pts in waiting room

    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...

  16. Drug Seeker Stories

    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...

  17. Not exactly the Motel 6, but....

    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...

  18. Ambulance pts in waiting room

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to gotaluvtheER's topic in Emergency

    In our adult ER, there is no such thing as a waiting room. Once triaged, the patients get brought in to the ER immediately, no matter how they come in. (and urgent care, respectively). at night, we...

  19. Shock Trauma hiring?

    TraumaInTheSlot posted a topic in Maryland Nursing

    if anyone works there or knows a lot about this hospital, please email me or IM me

  20. Male RN-assist with pelvic exams?

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to walnuttree91's topic in Emergency

    i avoid them like the plague, i like to keep my libido and that stuff destroys it.

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

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    A free ride to the shelter next door to our

  22. 8:1 ratios in the ER???

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in Emergency

    You MOVE YOUR ***. MULTITASK..PRIORITIZE run run and run, never sit down. U work as a team and get things done. quick assessments. you develop the ability to just glance at a person and know whats...

  23. RSI meds

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to thanatos's topic in Emergency

    they recently took away out roc and replaced it with vec. i like them both. ketamine

  24. English Nurse would like to visit a US Emergency Room

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to Cazz's topic in Emergency

    Bellevue, New York City, we terrorize a few travel nurses every summer. you will see just about everything there! get me on AIM as FishkillerChris and we will

  25. What's your craziest story of the ER

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to debo_lpnER's topic in Emergency

    sounds like they used some plastic tarp device or maybe even a bag to protect the stretcher from your fesces or bloody vomit. getting seen by the er staff, then the critical care doctors come down to...