ScrappytheCoco

ScrappytheCoco

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  1. "Don't Work" Isn't An Answer

    ScrappytheCoco replied to mirandaaa's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I worked full time as a PCT in the OR/PACU while I was in nursing school. I worked evenings, so often if we didn't have a case I could study or do school work. It was awesome and I'm sure a rarity...

  2. IVP pain med safety

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Swellz's topic in Patient Medications

    This is interesting to me! Needing ACLS and monitoring to push pain medication? In the ED we will often top up a pt with IV pain medication just before d/c. Think kidney stone, ovarian cyst, ortho...

  3. From MS/Tele floor to ER nurse

    ScrappytheCoco replied to telenurse1963's topic in General Nursing

    I started in the ED as a new grad. I could barely get a line in a healthy young person with huge veins. Practice! Focused assessments with occasional extras depending on the ESI and vital signs are a...

  4. should I call in or not?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in General Nursing

    If you're concerned, you could always visit your primary care provider for an excuse. I definitely vote for calling

  5. 11am-11pm ER nurse help!

    ScrappytheCoco replied to george907's topic in Emergency

    I did that shift for 6 months in the ED and it was awful. Just my experience, but this is how it went for me. It is the busiest time of the day in most EDs, and the minute you walk in the door the...

  6. Labor and delivery-hypothermia

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Sammythecat's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Was it a core temp? Rectal or foley

  7. New Grad Hiring

    ScrappytheCoco replied to oldsockventriloquist's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well at the time I started I only had an ADN but I got hired into an ED as a new grad after only a month of searching. I know many of the nurses who came to the ED with experience had worked on the...

  8. New grad ER nurse in need for advice!

    ScrappytheCoco replied to jarielle22's topic in Emergency

    I started as a new grad in the ED two years ago. It was not my dream unit but I wanted to work to avoid becoming a old new grad...so I settled in for the ride. Though it wasn't my favorite unit, the...

  9. Every other weekend & holidays??

    ScrappytheCoco replied to LuciaRN2b's topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever worked 12s? Have you ever worked noc or weekend program? My advice is don't knock it till you try it...especially if you're looking for better than average

  10. What type of role do you take as a preceptor with non GN nurses?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Codeblue1982's topic in MICU, SICU

    Uhh, working with critical pts is the definition of "put on the spot and stressful."

  11. That nagging feeling...

    ScrappytheCoco replied to dudette10's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    EMS brought in an elderly lady who reeked of ETOH and had fallen at home. MD said to give her a couple of bags of fluids and d/c from the ED. She denied injury but I just had a "feeling" and asked...

  12. what's wrong with me

    ScrappytheCoco replied to kittykitty49's topic in General Nursing

    Constant anxiety is a no. I'd quietly start looking for a safer gig. Two day orientation for a new grad?

  13. I Love Night Shift

    ScrappytheCoco replied to NurseOnAMotorcycle's topic in General Nursing

    I love the looks I get when I roll out of the hospital at 7am wearing my amber goggles. Ain't no melatonin suppression happening

  14. Emergency (NPs)

    ScrappytheCoco replied to MR-RN15's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I have worked in 3 EDs and all employed NPs. In my experience, they take fast track or the lowest acuity patients, mostly ESI 4's and 5's, occasionally a soft level 3. They don't do traumas, chest...

  15. Exhausted Med-Surg Nurse

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Soliloquy's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I wouldn't go to L&D if you don't like chaos. Maybe GI lab or

  16. patient complaints

    ScrappytheCoco replied to psmithlove's topic in General Nursing

    Let it roll off your back. You will bend over backwards for people and they will tell you what a wonderful nurse you are and complain about you to the charge nurse before you can turn around. If you...

  17. Taking care of DNR patients. The point?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to cholmes1223's topic in General Nursing

    Well OP, I had a scathing reply ready for you but as I read through the replies I see that you are willing to admit the error of your previous view and make appropriate changes from the feedback you...

  18. Solutions for Tired, Achy Feet

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Lynda Lampert, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Brooks...the only thing I wear to work. These shoes have changed my life! No more achy feet and my chronic hip pain is greatly

  19. cell phones at work

    ScrappytheCoco replied to tuxedopenguino's topic in General Nursing

    In the ED we used to carry walkie talkies...I loved it. Now I'm on a mother/baby floor and we have the cell phones connected to the call lights, they make me nuts! It hardly works and then the...

  20. RNs!!!! Did you fail Any classes???

    ScrappytheCoco replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    Never failed a class. You could only fail two and you were out of the program and supposedly unable to enter any other nursing program in the state for five years after. I failed one Midcurricular...

  21. Comfortable shoes?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Chickie77's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have crazy high arches and chronic hip pain...I discovered Brooks running shoes a few months into nursing and now I won't wear anything else! I have four pairs that I rotate. My feet literally...

  22. 4 Point Restraints in the ER. Is that Abuse?

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Vickymay's topic in Emergency

    Have you ever been physically assaulted by an intoxicated patient in the ED? I have. That's what is abusive...not restraining a violent patient according to

  23. Any advice would be Appreciated

    ScrappytheCoco replied to ShannonIsMe's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    Care for the patient as usual and chart like your life depends on

  24. Want to be a nurse, just no butt wiping or other yucky stuff please

    ScrappytheCoco replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    In the ED we call that

  25. Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    ScrappytheCoco replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Rhab-do-my-alosis