Skylar86

Skylar86 specializes in Emergency.

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1. forced to work when sick?

   Skylar86 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey everyone, I work in a busy emergency department. Over the past few months we've been short staffed and over capacity (almost daily). Anyways, I felt unwell with niggling abdominal pain when I woke...

2. invasive procedures during comfort cares?

   Skylar86 replied to Skylar86's topic in General Nursing

   I suppose I should have used a different title for this thread. Unnecessary is more the word I was looking for rather than invasive. I realise nothing is going to be distressing for someone who...

3. invasive procedures during comfort cares?

   Skylar86 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey team, I'm a fairly new nurse who works in a busy adult emerg dept. A few days ago i was working in the acute area (ratio of 1:6). During my shift I had a patient (80F, multiple comorbidities) be...

4. NCLEX content- blood values

   Skylar86 posted a topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   I am a New Zealand trained RN and have been working in emerg for 3 years. I am currently going through the NNAS process to be eligible to write the NCLEX and have been using Uworld as my study guide....

5. Giving O2 without an order??

   Skylar86 replied to strawberryfields's topic in General Nursing

   im not sure what your policy includes but in the emergency department that i work at we have ''standing orders''. We can give paracetamol (tylenol), oxygen and normal saline without it being...

6. Scrubs in the Emergency Department

   Skylar86 replied to Krystall's topic in Emergency

   wow... skirts/stockings? i cant imagine!!! all of the nurses wear light colored blue scrubs and the doctors wear navy blue scrubs. We have our own change room and are actually not allowed to wear our...

7. You Know You're A Nurse If...

   Skylar86 replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

   on days off when someone asks you what time it is and instead of looking at your wrist you look at your chest/hip for your fob

8. Why drug someone who does'nt want to be drugged?

   Skylar86 replied to rgroyer1RNBSN's topic in Emergency

   you realize that as a patient you have the right to refuse right? why didnt you refuse the

9. Have been in the ER for 3 hrs now....

   Skylar86 replied to MadpeysRN's topic in Emergency

   if the OP is a student.....that explains

10. Great moments in bad judgement

    Skylar86 replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    13y/o boy placed 30 little magnetic balls into his urethra. he was able to pee ("shoot") the first one out and thought that by putting in more he could make his member into a machine gun? Ended up...

11. jehovahs witness- refusing to..

    Skylar86 posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi everyone. On my last shift I came across an interesting situation. I had a 67y/o man come in with chest pain who spoke very little English (I can't remember exactly where he was from). Long story...

12. What do you hate seeing the MOST in the ER!?

    Skylar86 replied to CrashED's topic in Emergency

    oh forgot to mention! I work in a university/student town.... the amount of students we get during exam week is really ridiculous. They come in the morning before their exam with ''abdo pain'' and...

13. What do you hate seeing the MOST in the ER!?

    Skylar86 replied to CrashED's topic in Emergency

    the patients that come in because they forgot to fill their prescription at their GP and its now the weekend... the patients that have had a cough/leg pain/sore whatever for MONTHS and decide that...

14. Panic setting in as start date nears.....

    Skylar86 replied to ketonesRN's topic in Emergency

    I am a new grad (also graduated december 2011) and got a job right away in the ER. If we didn't have enough in common.... i only had 6 weeks orientation as well! I was nervous at first.. i thought...

15. did I do the right thing?

    Skylar86 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a newgrad nurse. I've been working in a busy ED for two months now and absolutely love it and I couldn't be happier. Unfortunately this morning I came across a ''situation'' and am not sure if I...