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  1. How many male nurses work on your floor/unit?

    errn7 replied to Thunderwolf's topic in General Nursing

    There are three other males in the ER besides myself. One that works the same shift as myself 11/11p and the other works nights on the other rotation and the third is the head nurse. We have one RN...

  2. Any tips for starting IVs?

    errn7 replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

    Every one has their own technique...after years of practice. Starting out, ALWAYS, prepare everything first......Nothing worse than having the cannula in the vein and nothing to hook to it. No tape...

  3. If you could do it all over again.....

    errn7 replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    Before I became a RN I was working in Engineering for a mining equipment company. After being laid off I had a career decision to make. I didnt want to go back into engineering but didnt know what I...

  4. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    errn7 replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Dont come to the ER to get a script for percocet filled that was stolen from another ER 30 miles away. Dont use cold cream jars to hide your money in and then place them in your female "special place"...

  5. Badly needing to vent right now.

    errn7 replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    My first question in thinking of your situation is....what type of hospital mixes those types of pts together. A cancer/chemo pt and for that matter fresh post-op knee should never be on a floor where...

  6. Depressed about working ER

    errn7 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Emergency

    I work in a local community hospital where we have a 13 bed ER with 3 of those used for urgent care pts from 11a/11p in this hospital we draw from at least 5 counties and three states. We have our...

  7. What does your spouse do?

    errn7 replied to vaughanmk's topic in General Nursing

    Mine is a LPN that I met during my lapse of sanity when I thought I wanted to work in a psych hospital......Best thing I found out besides how much I missed the ERRRRRR was someone to share with and...

  8. stupid er tricks

    errn7 replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

    There are enough "stupid tricks" to fill a vault. But 2 of my favorites are: A couple years back at about this time a guy was putting up his Christmas lights on his house. He was putting them up in...

  9. how to be er?

    errn7 replied to whiteri's topic in Emergency

    With the shortage of nurses the past days of years of hospital exp. before moving into speciality areas. Now all these areas are begging for nurses. That leaves the door open for nurses who dont have...