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Yes, you're probably right. My experiences aren't important, OP, I am very sorry to have hijacked your post & if I have made it more difficult for you to get the answers you were looking for. When I shared, I was thinking it might help if you k...

very true - most people wouldn't dream of assaulting a flight attendant (whose job IS to bring you things to eat/drink and keep you comfortable) or swearing at a TSA for fear of being charged with a federal crime. Everyone knows the consequences are...

I have no idea what you're talking about. I haven't lectured anyone or asked anyone to make anything about me. I didn't comment on a post you wrote or were participating in and yell at you for anything you wrote or felt, I don't even know you. I r...

Oh, I don't doubt that at all! My neighbor is a cardiac nurse. She works LONG hours and the stories she tells me are eye openers sometimes! When I said I was shocked about what I read on here, it wasn't mean in a judgmental way, I meant it as in "...

Because the "walls" and "doors" in the ER are curtains? Everyone can hear everything, there is no privacy at all and when you're lying in bed for 17 hours waiting for an IV to finish, you hear a lot of things. I am having a conversation on here wit...

I agree - it's not my PCP, it's my nephrologist that does this. She only sees patients once a week because she is with a teaching facility which is also the same place as the ER where she sends me. They know I have a lot of kidney stones that are s...

....Oh, just venting in general... Even though I'm just starting this journey (and later in life at that), I feel that I've learned a lot just being a patient. I've gotten a unique view of what is going on in a hospital because I am usually there ...

This is my reason for reading the posts on here, though I don't post much since I don't have any real nursing experience. I want to get a feel for what I'll be doing before I invest a lot of time/money into schooling for it. I want to make sure I h...

My doctor does call the ED and does have a pain management plan in place. It's all in my chart and she always calls in advance, tells them why she is sending me in, what she would like done, etc. And they are waiting for me when I arrive. This par...

I just wanted you to know that I do understand. I have huge kidney stones too, but they don't know how to treat them because I have PKD. So sometimes the pain from the stones flares up and it's seriously the worst pain ever. Or if a cyst starts bl...

Hello all-I found your site while doing a search for standard of care in the ER. I'm going to be the first to say, the only nursing experience I have is as a patient as I have just been accepted to a program. I will introduce myself more later, but...

I have a friend who is a nurse in that ER. She was at a wedding last weekend. She was not there. What is so odd about that? I also have a friend who is an ER doctor. She does not work at the ER. What is so strange about that? Why would I even ...

There was nothing mysterious about it. The shift changed at 9pm and that was when this nurse came on duty. From what I could understand, the shifts were 4 or 12 hours, I could be wrong. The nurse that was supposed to be taking care of me said she ...

Thank you very much for saying this. My biggest concern was that it was something I did or didn't do that caused this to happen. I understand that ER's are busy, crazy places and that it must be very frustrating to have people come in who should h...

I can't respond to all of the questions about every little detail. You can believe me or not, at this point it doesn't even matter. My only reason for posting here was that I arrived at this site from a google search about was this normal care. I ...

That's all pretty accurate. Except I was not oozing, it was squirting out with each heart beat unless I kept pressure on it. Had it only been oozing, I would have waited and gone to my regular PCP or something the next morning. The five hours part...

Names and times are not ever included in any records routinely given to pts, such as discharge papers. They would be included in whatever parts of the chart that were requested by the pt. However those requests are made through medical records and ...

yes, exactly - I've learned my lesson for sure :) I was always taught to hand the knife by the blade, handle towards the person so they're not grabbing the blade either but it didn't work out so well this time. And it was a new knife. The timeline ...

Ok - confused here,,,,,where did I bash anyone other than being REALLY upset with the nurse assigned to me and the others that I could see/hear before the shift changed who weren't working? I know I wasn't the only patient there but I also wasn't th...

ok - fair enough...I made a mistake by saying I was typing it one handed, which was how I had started out until one of my sons told me that I could just use voice to text and it would be easier. So it's a mixture of the two, sometimes voice to text ...

Wow. You are a lovely human being. I'm glad you are able to have so much fun with my suffering.

Thank you Ohio Nurse - I feel pretty crappy right now but at least the finger is starting to heal a little. They checked my iron and creatinine levels yesterday so we'll see how much stress all of this caused healthwise not including the finger. I ...

Sorry if it sounded dramatic....it just was what it was. I don't go looking for drama. I was at home making dinner for my family on a nice Sunday afternoon, looking forward to relaxing. One slip of a knife and I get to live the "drama". But inste...

Really? Do you mean walk out of that one, when I've been bleeding for hours and I'm so dizzy I can barely stand?

Well, I've never heard of such poor care and never want to experience it again. Luckily, my husband had the sense to take photos of my hand, the BP monitor, etc once he realized they weren't doing the right thing. The administrators were very inter...