Cohiba

Cohiba specializes in Nasty sammiches and Dilaudid.

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1. What type of pacer from a 12-lead?

   Cohiba posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   For background, I'm a RN in the ED of a level 1 trauma center (CEN/CCRN/TCRN plus some other stuff that doesn't make it on my signature block) but have a question that none of our docs can answer and...

2. Is it illegal to place a towel over a patient's face?

   Cohiba replied to poolnurse's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Towel = OK. Pouring water over said towel = not

3. Is it true all nurses get MRSA or C-DIFF?

   Cohiba replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

   Yep, all nurses, every...single...one... will get MRSA and C. Diff so run now while you

4. What type of website or app would you make for nursing?

   Cohiba replied to GraysonGitchell's topic in General Nursing

   If there was an app that could direct the user towards the nearest source of coffee or beverage alcohol, I'd be ALL OVER

5. Name one of your favorite things about being a male nurse.

   Cohiba replied to DatMurse's topic in Men in Nursing

   My favorite thing about being a (male) nurse? Every other

6. Having trouble interpreting this ECG

   Cohiba replied to JuliusSeizure's topic in Study Tips for Students's Share Tips

   I'm going a sliiiightly different route and voting for multifocal atrial tachycardia since the P-waves I see aren't consistent between QRS

7. Best advice to give a new nurse

   Cohiba replied to amandaslagel's topic in General Nursing

   Never pass up a chance to: 1) Eat 2) Sit down 3) Drink water 3.5) Pee (see what I did there?

8. Do RNs get extra pay for working with students?

   Cohiba replied to johndough's topic in General Nursing

   https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/why-are-the-1004415.html

9. ER NURSE PEEVES

   Cohiba replied to wojoRN's topic in Emergency

   https://allnurses.com/emergency-nursing/what-was-the-70657.html

10. What to teach in EMS class?

    Cohiba posted a topic in Emergency

    A couple nights ago I was talking with a friend who's one of the instructors in the local college's EMS education program and they said it would be nice if I was to speak in class as a guest about EMS...

11. Finally ACCEPTED!!!!!!! Now what?!

    Cohiba replied to frenchtoastwaffles's topic in General Students

    Get drunk, sleep until whenever you wake up vs being tied to an alarm clock, turn 5 y/o again (eg have sugary and nutrition-free cereal for breakfast, then go to McD's for lunch), climb a tree, take a...

12. ER Books for summer reading?

    Cohiba replied to Jon_Styles's topic in Emergency

    Not ER-specific, but anything by Dr Atul Gawande is marvelous to read, as is Mary Roach's book "Stiff", and anything nonfiction by Bill Bass (founder of the Anthropological Research Facility at the...

13. Waiting in the ER & Heard This

    Cohiba replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Emergency

    A couple of the EMS agencies serving the ED where I work will say "this patient is triage appropriate" when calling report over the radio and almost universally that patient will be taken to the...

14. Best one sentence handoff report

    Cohiba replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    I was on the receiving end of: "600 lbs, immobile, constipated, loaded with Colyte just before transfer". It was every single bit as horrible as you can

15. What is your nursing "joy?"

    Cohiba replied to jamisaurus's topic in Nurses Rock

    Getting a critical patient out of my ED and to the ICU