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I just recently applied to a prison as an R.N. to hopefully get job security, better benefits, and better pay. I have always worked in acute care areas like I.C.U. and E.R. and am reluctant to leave the hospital and stop my learning. Managemen...

And...I could kiss you for that response! :hug:It's nice to hear someone who "gets it"!

I would guess that day surgery might be a good place to avoid vomit. The patients get their I.V.'s and presurgery checklist done but I don't think they would vomit much until after surgery. I don't know first hand because I've never worked in that ...

I have been on the receiving end of the E.R.'s patient admission highway. I remember feeling inconvenienced by the occasional messy patient who arrives to my unit. We would all work as a team to reorganize the patient who was either tangled in a me...

I think that you did the right thing by getting a male nurse to take over. I always trade work with my male coworkers so that they will take care of the foley caths on my young male patients and I will do all the EKGs and caths on the young females ...