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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 there isn't a cardiologist in the department right...

Towel = OK. Pouring water over said towel = not OK...

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

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

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

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

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

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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 from an ED nurse's perspective and what they coul...

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H/H: 0.98/3.9 (alive but looking like death) BAL: 0.8xx (alive--Indian off the reservation and he probably lives at 0.5xx)

I'd be a carpenter...

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 long afternoon nap in a hammock under the trees i...

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 University of Tennessee/Knoxville--aka the Body Farm...

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 waiting room like everyone else with a non-urgent compl...

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 imagine...

Getting a critical patient out of my ED and to the ICU alive-ish...

Also, if you're not a nurse, please change your username--misrepresentation of educational preparation or licensure here is prohibited.

ENA Local ENA chapter NRA my local tobacconist's cigar club The Scotch Whisky Society Sons of the American Revolution (family legend has it that my ancestor got to ruin Christmas for a bunch of Hessians in 1776--pure awesomesauce that is...)

Cons: Dealing w/1st year Residents Pros: Getting to teach those same 1st years--they have a far-more-advanced academic preparation but that doesn't mean their learning has stopped...

Can't help with info re: a particular program but if you aren't a licensed nurse right now, please change your username since it violates the site's Terms of Service to represent yourself as one.

We've had quite a few folks lately suffering from the terrible affects of hypodilaudism...

Is this homework? If so, folks around here are generally willing to help but we won't spoon-feed you answers...

Best way to read textbooks? With your eyes in a well-lit room...