NetSteff

My BEST guesses are these.... the snaps are metal and you tend to do a lot of xrays on ER patients. Also, I imagine they cost a lot less--ER's are usually money pits for facilities so they don't "always" get a lot of money thrown in for "extras"

OK.... I just recently found this out and thought I'd share. Question: When performing a bladder scan on a female patient, is there ever an instance in which you would choose the "male" option? Why?

Wow.... at our facility you have to be 1) an ER RN(no float, no agency) who has worked at our facility for at least a year and 2)have gone through a precepted triage orientation before you can work in triage. Even with ACLS,PALS,TNCC, etc..... it's still the hot seat of the ER.---Good luck

I would have to agree with Anne- I am also a preceptor in the ER and I'm more nervous about the new nurse that doesn't ask questions than the one who asks a million. Although an orientation to the ER as a new grad should be at least 3 months, you NEVER stop learning in this environment. Technology changes, drugs come and go, and sometimes even "best practice" changes as we learn more about different conditions-a good ER nurse stays on top of it with the realization that he or she doesn't know it all.

You know... I had a strange occurance like this also. I'm an ER nurse from Georgia, and had gone with my unit director to Boston for business. While there, a member of our group started complaining of calf pain (and had a hx of DVT). We took her to a local ER, and waited while they ran the standard tests. While she was in US, we decided to sneak outside and be naughty. We were in "normal" clothes, smoking (I know I know), laughing and joking around when this disheveled guy with jaundiced scleras comes up to us and asks,"You guys wouldn't happen to be nurses would you?" We stopped.... looked at each other kind of stunned and replied,"Well... as a matter of fact yes we are." He then asked,"What does it mean when your eyes are yellow?" Needless to say he was using, and we got him to go and check in with the triage nurse. But to this day we wonder what it was that "marked" us as nurses. We were outside...... normal clothes.... no tote bags or jewelry that had anything to do with nursing. He had just been dropped off so he hadn't heard any of our previous conversations---We must "look" like nurses. ????