AZQuik

AZQuik

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  1. Discouraged 1st year ER/ ED nurse

    AZQuik replied to pthelper777's topic in Emergency

    I usually find a few docs I can bounce things off as well. Many people enjoy showing of their knowledge. Docs are no different. I also study cases that stumped us. Humans are dynamic creatures which...

  2. Inadequacy and Incompetence

    AZQuik replied to vampirella's topic in Emergency

    We do finger sticks on anyone who is AMS even if EMS did one. Any suspicion of stroke we also do a finger stick even if they aren't altered. Tuck this one away for future

  3. Random: best lotion for dry nursing hands!

    AZQuik replied to stacylethani's topic in General Nursing

    Aveno Eczema. A little greasy for a minute or two then goes away. Three days and my cracked bleeding hands are good

  4. Of course, it's always the nurse's fault.

    AZQuik replied to vbarger28's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Which is why you redraw. Maybe everything else was off but looked normal due to the hemolized sample. If things are clotted or hemolized, we

  5. Prednisone

    AZQuik replied to OwlieO.O's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    A flush would have pushed more dec in. And yes it should have been flushed. Given dec thousands of times and haven't had a pt tell me this was their experience. Maybe I pushed it slow enough (most...

  6. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    AZQuik replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, rarely does anyone ever ask me where I went to school, and nobody has ever asked me what kind of grades I got. Most coworkers want to know if I'm going to show up when scheduled, and if I can hold...

  7. "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    AZQuik replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    Work hard, be humble, work hard to fit in with the team, don't be arrogant and show people up. Continue to learn, and don't act like you know more than somebody else. Nobody wants to be around...

  8. Why can't nurses intubate?

    AZQuik replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

    Awesome perspective in this post! Thanks! Enjoy the rocking chair. Here's hoping my retirement allows me to use all the fly rods I'll have collected while working. Maybe teaching a future grandkid...

  9. Advice for a OR nurse wanting to make move to the ED

    AZQuik replied to optimistic92's topic in Emergency

    Just to prepare you, you don't spend most of your time in the ED feeling like you're," making a difference and saving lives" It does happen, but this is probably not how you will feel most of the...

  10. ER wait times

    AZQuik replied to kp1987's topic in Emergency

    I use the the word unstable over sickest. When walkie talkies tell me they are unstable while I am running through the hall trying to find enough epi to make an epi drip on a guy we are coding at 4 am...

  11. About to start in ED

    AZQuik replied to russianbear's topic in Emergency

    The ESI book is free

  12. About to start in ED

    AZQuik replied to russianbear's topic in Emergency

    Don't worry too much about ESI out of the gate. Get the free book and become familiar with it. To really be able to use it you kinda need to know what work ups will be done with what presenting chief...

  13. Hand washing lesson

    AZQuik replied to farmgoat's topic in School

    Not really. Not if your audience is healthcare workers. 40 min is very long for second graders and their families. Better include lots of bubbles

  14. Valuable life lessons from an ER nurse....

    AZQuik replied to Momma1RN's topic in Emergency

    You're doing great! Hold

  15. Valuable life lessons from an ER nurse....

    AZQuik replied to Momma1RN's topic in Emergency

    Can you use a

  16. Help, Pls! New to the ED

    AZQuik replied to hwngrl's topic in Emergency

    Yes. That is

  17. Future ER nurse

    AZQuik replied to Nursechamp1's topic in Emergency

    Yes but a lot of flight programs value ICU experience. Some don't. Kinda depends on their specialty. I know several flight programs around here that drool at RN's that have

  18. How long to be really comfortable?

    AZQuik replied to dannygirl315's topic in Emergency

    Everyone is different. Schedule is horrible though. If you are going to work overnights it really needs to be: you decide when (as in you work days but pick up a night here and there) or a dedicated...

  19. Antibiotics and allergies

    AZQuik replied to Matt8700's topic in Emergency

    Pharmacy. We have a couple great PharmD's on through the daytime and into the night. When it's late and they go home we call Central Pharmacy. We have some great ones there as well. This kind of...

  20. Do you hold drunks against their will?

    AZQuik replied to OldNurseNewRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yup. We have many regulars who have ended up tubed, in the ICU with dt, or after they arrived we found out there was spice/cocaine/heroin/bath salts involved and it was another adventure all together....

  21. Do you hold drunks against their will?

    AZQuik replied to OldNurseNewRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah. We try to shoot for their "sober" or baseline. Usually around a etoh level of 100. Then po challenge, road test, and let them go to medicate their own dt's. When we overshoot that mark they...

  22. Do you hold drunks against their will?

    AZQuik replied to OldNurseNewRN's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing. We get them all the time. Mtf or metabolize to

  23. New ER Nurse - Feel Like Quitting Job

    AZQuik replied to xxMichelleJxx's topic in Emergency

    I disagree. Plenty of hospitals orient on one shift and then someone spends the last few weeks on their soon to be primary shift. I was oriented for 6 months. 5 were on nights. Maybe it's not your...

  24. Spice Spice Baby

    AZQuik replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in Emergency

    Unresponsive and bradycardic has been a common presentation here. Particularly after an initial episode of hallucinations and violent towards ems/ER staff. Also etco2 drops into the low

  25. Med/Surg to ER: General work flow in ER at night

    AZQuik replied to ArrowRN's topic in Emergency

    38. No problems with the