NO50FRANNY

NO50FRANNY

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  1. What's the inside scoop?

    NO50FRANNY replied to RNhaygirl's topic in Emergency

    The part where you said the ER crew is like a family living together is possibly the BEST description I have read for the dynamics / culture / teamwork in an emergency department. So, so important to...

  2. street drugs vs. prescribed drugs

    NO50FRANNY replied to ERRN92's topic in Emergency

    A couple of our more senior Docs will give propofol if we are chasing our tails with midazolam / benzos just seems to interrupt whatever is going on just long enough for the other stuff to settle and...

  3. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    NO50FRANNY replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    Me: "Hi there, what brings you to Emergency this evening?". Pt: (17 yold male) "I must talk with doctor" (english is pt's second language). Me: "What's been happening mate?". Pt: "When I wake up,...

  4. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

    NO50FRANNY replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    SO. FUNNY. Is it wrong but my immediate thought here was.... Hmmm how great would it be if some of our patients tried taking TNT for their trivial complaints prior to coming to

  5. Best/Worst list of Emergency Nursing

    NO50FRANNY replied to hardworkinmama's topic in Emergency

    From a professional perspective, here is the BEST 1.5 hours of my nursing career. Triage nurse hits the trauma bell, and hurries into Resus to tell us that a "very sick trauma patient is on the way,...

  6. Seriously?!?!

    NO50FRANNY replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    Fortunately I wasn't the triage nurse on this particular day.... My mother had presented to her local ER because she was experiencing severe vertigo, something she hadn't experienced before and in a...

  7. Am I a Good Candidate to Work in the ER?

    NO50FRANNY replied to westieluv's topic in Emergency

    Hi there, you sound like a perfect candidate for the position. I am a fellow type A and when I started working in Emergency my experience was largely in Bone marrow transplant, clinical haematology...

  8. Favourite Doctor Moments

    NO50FRANNY posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sometimes the doctors I work with make me want to cry because they are so damn good. I know we all have our fair share of complaints but what are some of my fellow AN favourite doctor moments? Here's...

  9. Silly first year drug question. Help?

    NO50FRANNY replied to Mangomonkey56's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    In ED, we will generally give adrenaline, the 1:1000 1ml vial injectable solution, in 1-5ml doses as nebuliser for anaphylaxis, severe allergic reactions with respiratory symptoms and respiratory...

  10. Favourite Doctor Moments

    NO50FRANNY replied to NO50FRANNY's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thankyou for some new responses on this thread, I love reading the stories and am really glad I started it. I have a couple more to add because I work with fantastic physicians. I was airway and team...

  11. how to ask patient for pain scale score correctly?

    NO50FRANNY replied to 7feetunder's topic in Emergency

    I go with the analogy- "If 10/10 pain is being burned alive and 1/10 is a mild headache what number are you at right

  12. What's in your pocket - ER Style

    NO50FRANNY replied to Frizbeeboy's topic in Emergency

    Night duty as acute team leader last night- two dect phones, arrest pager, 1 sleeve valium, 1 sleeve panadeine forte, zyprexa wafers, 1 sleeve ibuprofen, lockup drug keys, micropore and about 20...

  13. How's your dating life?

    NO50FRANNY replied to Joe V's topic in General Students

    I couldn't help but post this, not sure whether it is more appropriate in this thread or the one I started about being a nurse for too long. I just went on my first date in about 4 years. I met the...

  14. Steroid treatment for spinal cord injuries

    NO50FRANNY replied to WRNCEN's topic in Emergency

    In my city in OZ, the major spinal referral centre flat out don't give

  15. New Nurse/Old Attitude

    NO50FRANNY replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    QUOTE from Creamsoda "How did that first nurse not get fired?". I am very glad you asked. By telling lies, crying, and blaming her employer for not educating her properly. The way most sociopaths...

  16. How do you handle the drug seekers?

    NO50FRANNY replied to itsnowornever's topic in Emergency

  17. ER VS ICU NURSING

    NO50FRANNY replied to Johnny1414's topic in Emergency

    Join date July 18th, 1 post- feed the

  18. ER Nurse (Me) calls Report to Ortho/Neuro floor

    NO50FRANNY replied to libran1984's topic in Emergency

    about 3 sentences in, the hairs were standing up on the back of my neck. it's got suspect written all over it.... my first thought was seeker. that was a wicked handover though, you knew everything...

  19. How do you handle the drug seekers?

    NO50FRANNY replied to itsnowornever's topic in Emergency

    That EXACT sentence, the sentence that includes how many hours they have been waiting and the villification "you haven't done anything and she is in pain!" comes out of the mouths of 95% of the...

  20. New Nurse/Old Attitude

    NO50FRANNY replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    All to do with that word, attitude. Rotten shift unfolding in acute, ED. Acute team leader asks me if I have seen the (new grad) nurse looking after 5 bedded bay #4. I say I haven't for a while but...

  21. Fainting... so dramatic

    NO50FRANNY replied to Double-Helix's topic in General Nursing

    The triage doors that lead inside, the gates to heaven, the doors I must get through and then, yes then, I will see a doctor. How will I get through those doors quickly, I am prepared to do...

  22. Head Injury and Hyperventilation

    NO50FRANNY replied to NO50FRANNY's topic in Critical Care

    just generally smaller

  23. Head Injury and Hyperventilation

    NO50FRANNY posted a topic in Critical Care

    Hi all, Just wanted to see if this is a common theme across facilities. I have noticed there is a tendency both pre-hospital and in Emergency to hyperventilate / hyperoxygenate patients with...

  24. Wanted: cool name for a team

    NO50FRANNY replied to suhlir's topic in Emergency

    I don't think anyone can top

  25. Wanted: cool name for a team

    NO50FRANNY replied to suhlir's topic in Emergency

    The foreign bodies?, ventricular fibrillators (fast), the paralysers, the electricians, the casual T's (that's good for a brit team), crash junkies, the chaos demons, the full moon party, the...