FiremedicMike RN, EMT-P

edited, I was wrong

You said it yourself, some of us want to be in the provider role. It's not about the money for me.

I'd say that's regional, in our state it is within the scope of practice and no additional training or approval is necessary. I am aware of some departments in the state where it is only carried on supervisor/coordinator vehicles, but I believe it i...

The switch from physical to chemical restraint in the field started about 10 years ago. You must not work in an emergency department, it's fairly common. As for why ketamine/versed instead of a B52, I can't answer that, you'd have to ask the medic...

I'll take that one step further - an immediate overhaul to our profit driven healthcare system would likely cause our economy to implode.

I don't have family members who are physicians, but my job role at the FD puts me in direct contact with physicians outside of their typical hospital duties. They are strong and dedicated, generally available 24/7, and never have an off switch. Thi...

Dress it up however you like, you are excusing discriminatory behavior based on the behavior of the overwhelming minority and a fictitious culture that excuses rape. I'm done with this conversation.

If you truly have no fear of ever being accused of inappropriate behavior as a male with female patients, then you are ignoring society.

1. Do you know that Turner's sentencing was because of his "promising future" because you have inside information on the trial? Legal experience? Direct expert understanding of sentencing guidelines? Or are you just basing that statement on how i...

So then I'm curious - have you experienced the same fear and double standard as the rest of us, but you're okay with it because you feel it's our own fault? Honestly, excusing a double standard is never okay, I'm not sure how you've addressed th...

All 3 of those examples are men who were literally convicted of their sexual crimes. Not good examples based on your own definition, as those rapes weren't tolerated or excused and the rape victims were not punished.

I'd be curious to know how you define or show examples of a "rape tolerant culture", but either way, do you feel that this "rape tolerant culture" is the fault of men? You are quick to dismiss the experiences of male nurses posting here who hav...

So this entire situation is our fault because of the actions of a few? Interesting..

My residency was 12 months and there was no rotating shifts. That would be a non starter for me.

For whatever reason, waveform capnography still isn't the gold standard in the hospital, even though we learned this in EMS years ago. You can fool colormetric devices.. you can mishear lung sounds.. you can't fool waveform capnography.

My worst overall experiences are people who come in to the ED for random complaints only to find out they have widespread advanced cancer. Of all the years in EMS and all the things I've seen, those cases are the ones that hit me the hardest. T...

They apparently have phlebotomists that run around and do them all..

Sure I suppose that's accurate, but I'd also say those are common sense protocols that shouldn't need to exist. I'm guessing based on how that incident went at the OP's hospital, those common sense protocols not only aren't in play, but there is no ...

It's just that sort of thing that makes the OP's nursing job a crappy job. In the ED I work in, we self-initiate and write in orders all the time. This includes IV's, labs, fluids, EKGs, etc. I just realized the other day that I can add orders...

I don't know that the union has anything to do with it, probably just hospital policies. There's a hospital next door to me (not in new york and not a union shop) where the nurses don't do lab draws, not sure about caths and EKGs..

Can we please stop pretending that anyone is engaging on class discussion board posts? We are all literally just scrolling through to find a a post few words that we can string together to make a coherent thought. No one is discussing anything, no ...

The class I just finished was by far the worst when it came to tedious DB post requirements, unfortunately I can't access the course material anymore, but each week you generally had 5-6 bullet points you needed to address, at least 2-3 "scholarly re...

The topics are always chosen for us and the instructions/rubric are tedious. These have become nothing more than an exercise in ensuring the boxes are checked.

Based on my unofficial polling of fellow students plus my own experience through my first bachelors, ADN, and now ADN to BSN course, there aren't a whole lot of people who get a lot out of discussion board posts. Glad you were able to glean som...

Take your own advice.