srbaggett

$1.50/hr with time and one half with one hour minimum pay, midwest. We've tried for years to raise this, but no luck.

ER burnout is a difficult thing. I have been a nurse for 32 years. Much of that time has been spent in the operating room, but because we are a small hospital, I have also worked the Emergency Room. Like any nurse who works in the ER, you crave the adrenalin rush from a code or a major trauma, but we all know that it is the clinical patients who occupy most of our time. I see the drug abusers, the dirty children, or the yelling drunk and wonder why am I here. But, I know the reason I am there. It is to care for these same people. I try to maintain a positive attitude and be kind to all patients. It is not easy. Keep your chin up and remember the reasons you became a nurse. You can survive the daily grind of the ER. Still working after all these years and proud of it!

Perhaps you were never taught the reason you inflate a balloon before insertion. If you have worked in the OR for very long, you surely have been involved with doing a cystoscopy to retrieve a catheter that would not deflate. This happens. And that is the reason you inflate a balloon before inserting the catheter. I also question your technique...why would you have to test the balloon and change into other gloves. This is all done after doning sterile gloves only once. Critical thinking or just shortcuts that could harm the patient. You be the judge.