JessicRN

JessicRN

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  1. Stacked Duo nebs any info

    JessicRN posted a topic in Emergency

    I am trying to find out information on giving duonebs x 3 to patients mostly peds. I read that atrovent is to be given max 4 times in 24 hrs. We given 3 doses in 30 minutes?? Is this safe? I am also...

  2. Choosing a PCP

    JessicRN posted a topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Hi I am new to the area and trying to find a PCP and have noticed that each PCP is associated with a different hospital which I believe you have to go to for minor procedures. I live in the north...

  3. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JessicRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Can't tell you how many people we have had come in for mosquito bites, the fact that they ate spinach. No symtoms just want to be

  4. Boston

    JessicRN replied to smille33's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Are you looking around medford area or are you interested in going in to the boston

  5. I really don't like Boston

    JessicRN replied to bbpp's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    If you have a BSN the sky is the limit as far as hospitals in the boston area. If you do not a few hospitals will refuse you. What kind of nursing do you do. There is a hospital in everett looking for...

  6. Are you afraid to go to the ER?

    JessicRN replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    I lived in an area where the only hospital that accepted my insurance was the ER I worked in. UGH I had to go for 2 missed abortions. The staff was great I have to say. My own obstetrician came to the...

  7. I love night shift!!!!!

    JessicRN replied to tinderbox's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a night nurse for many years and still love it. The only thing now at 46 I am noticing I need more sleep. I used to work a 12 hour shift go to the gym and work out for an hour come home...

  8. Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    JessicRN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    Question for people out of interest....would you have slightly more respect for a drug seeker if they just came out and honestly said that they were in withdrawal and needed something to help them...

  9. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JessicRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I can't think how many times I would try to educate patients and was reported for being mean. The other day a woman came up sreaming her child needed to be seen there were 3 people ahead of her. I...

  10. Tips on how NOT to appear like a Drug seeker

    JessicRN replied to WillowBrook's topic in Emergency

    I have to admit it but I feel for the people with mental illnesses coming in with pain. They automatically are deemed either neurotic or drug seeking. 10 years ago I was misdiagnosed with a mental...

  11. The War with the Floors

    JessicRN replied to zima60's topic in Emergency

    We tried to get three pt's up to the floor and was told to wait so the nurse could finish her meds. Iwas strange since all three pts had different nurses but we still can only send up one pt every 45...

  12. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JessicRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    we had a patient who arrived by ambulance asking for detox for the 12th time (really a drunk who wants to sleep over real detox people know to come at 0900 in the AM and show up at the psych dept.)...

  13. Unit Clerks are Useless!

    JessicRN replied to HUCtoRNBScN's topic in General Nursing

    Been in a lot of hospitals only one unit coordinator I can honestly say was a waste. She was friends with the charge nurse so between her socail chats and her many trips to the break room(30 minutes...

  14. Pseudo-seizures: can you share your experience and insight?

    JessicRN replied to Morgan314's topic in Psychiatric

    We do the slap face test all the time but not on a pt who is activly seizing but the one who is "post ictal" only we hold our hand over the face to catch the hand that hits the

  15. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JessicRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Pt comes in at 6pm left without being seen at 800. Returns at 0100 reason PT: "My son has a sore throat he saw the doctor and they did a strep test it was negative but I thought I should be checked"...

  16. SO Exhausted

    JessicRN replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Emergency

    At my ED I am the lowman on the totem pole with 2.5 yrs seniority with the company and 8 months in this facility, thus I get the short end of the stick. For the past month I work 3 on one off 4 on 4-5...

  17. Ketamine for conscious sedation in peds in the ED

    JessicRN replied to nanb's topic in Emergency

    I agree with passgasser in my state and hospital ,ketamine falls under the same category as Propofol. It is a general anesthetic and only an anethetist or md can give it. Any nurse pushing it is...

  18. med reconciliation in the ED

    JessicRN replied to ern91's topic in Emergency

    ackkk don't know what most of your pt are like but right now our patients have to write there name address and date of birth on a sheet of paper. more then half have to have the triage nurse stand...

  19. payment before care of nonemergent pts

    JessicRN replied to ern91's topic in Emergency

    great in theory: pay before you treat but where I work we would have no patients:scrying: doing that would drive everyone to us. We are a public health hospital we treat indigent,illegal and mass...

  20. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JessicRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I tried not feeding these people except when they come have been here many hours and it is meal times but I am usually circumveted by a fellow nurse or a doctor. One nurse not only feeds them but she...

  21. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    JessicRN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    We have 5-6 patients that come to the ED by ambulance every single day anywhere from 0nce to 6 times in a day always "overserved" One of them averaged 5 times a day for 7 days straight when she comes...

  22. The War with the Floors

    JessicRN replied to zima60's topic in Emergency

    We were having faxed reports and then our patients were to go up "within 30 minutes" One floor decided within means no sooner than 30 minutes. The last three shifts we have been on divert call to the...

  23. ER: Are you happy there?

    JessicRN replied to HRM672's topic in Emergency

    Been an ED nurse 15 years been hit, spit on,urinated on, vomitted on and screamed at and I would never change my specialty.Love what I do have good days and bad days in the ED, good patients and bad...

  24. What was the WORST thing a patient has been brought to ER for?

    JessicRN replied to SteveNNP's topic in Emergency

    Had many but the one that I will remember the most I was a new orientee in a trauma one ER. The patientwas a 15 year old girl. She was one of 5 who came in to the ER from the same accident, a head on...

  25. Rules for the ER (long)

    JessicRN replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    A few more for the laymen. please when you come to my triage desk and are nauseous please let me know immediately and not vomit all over my desk and floor (happened tonight with an adult no less)...