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  1. med errors

    zaleah posted a topic in Emergency

    Very interesting thread going in the general discussion, a med error caused a death and the nurse that hung the med is looking for support or others... she/he states that 7,000 med errors occur every...

  2. ER Nurses. Read This!

    zaleah replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    Very old letter, should be poster size, laminated and in everyone's waiting

  3. charge nurse role

    zaleah posted a topic in General Nursing

    Our institution has brought in this new 'rotating role' to our department the CCL. Essentially the clinical care leader is the charge nurse. One is expected to be a leader, mentor, educator and...

  4. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    zaleah replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Final grade of high school with no idea what I wanted to do other then being a Vet, but I failed physics and they would not take me...... My best friend was filling out an app for nursing school at a...

  5. ER must haves

    zaleah replied to kathy_bear's topic in Emergency

    Pen behind my ear, stethescope looped in my ties for my scrubs, hemostats on my thigh with tape and a tourniquit, and my trauma shears tuck int he waist band of my scrubs on the left side. (I can't...

  6. clinical care leading

    zaleah posted a topic in Emergency

    Our institution has brought in this new 'role' to our department. Essentially the clinical care leader is the charge nurse. One is expected to be a leader, mentor, educator and problem solver. The...

  7. Question for night shifters

    zaleah replied to moongirl's topic in General Nursing

    I too have always been a night owl....worked nights for 22 odd years now, as a waitress in a bar--not getting home til 3, then onto nursing, where I only work nights. On my days off I do try to...

  8. 7000 fatal med errors last year-where are theses nurses?

    zaleah replied to supportneeded's topic in General Nursing

    I too have made errors. In 15 years I have made 2 significant (sp) errors that were potentially deadly. The first actually ended up benifitting the patient. I work ED and was fighting with the...

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

    zaleah replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    My favorite.... "I just want to get checked out". Checked out for what? This is ussually stated post minor MVC, fall, child falling off couch onto carpet, tumbling off a bike, doing new drugs,...

  10. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    zaleah replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    just read back in the thread and realized this had been answered, I gotta stop just trying to jump in at the end of the thread...LOL I am really liking this thread....it is amazing how smart you...

  11. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    zaleah replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    3-5 p in my house is the "witching hours"---I hate them!!! the kids get nuts, dinner needs to be made, you have to get someone somewhere by some time...the kids are hungry but you can't let them snack...

  12. Read the article about calling 911 to get seen faster???

    zaleah replied to missboo622's topic in Emergency

    Oh yeah... My favourite thing to do is get them off the EMS stretcher and inot the main waiting room...good pr for the folk in the waiting room, and makes the medics happy.....(sometimes they bring...

  13. Read the article about calling 911 to get seen faster???

    zaleah replied to missboo622's topic in Emergency

    when people get antsy/bitchy about the average 7.5-8 hours wait time that we have in our antiquated far too small department with 7 speciality programs that draw from way outside our catchment...

  14. care errors

    zaleah posted a topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone read the recent Time magazine article that basically concludes that 'care errors', all errors, including meds, vitals, food, allergies, dressings, x-rays, etc. are actually the 'norm' in...

  15. When Docs Cover Up Surgical Errors

    zaleah replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in General Nursing

    at one of our sister hospitals a pt did not pursue litigation even thought the doc replaced the wrong knee. The doc went to the pt and apologized, the pt agreed the doc was remorseful--he was really...

  16. Ekg's

    zaleah posted a topic in Emergency

    Wondering what other departments do to get EKG's done at triage when they are packed...... with a gigillion to come in.....and a line at triage......and all beds in use, no one is...

  17. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    zaleah replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    You can give it IV, but..... 1 in 10,000 will have an adverse reaction where their BP goes through the roof, and their head can literally explode--huge ICB. Ussually they get tachy, and fell flushed...

  18. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    zaleah replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    Some one reply to the epi question....I am itching to tell about the 1 in 10,000 response that we

  19. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    zaleah replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    Just read the whole thread, and not just the last page--did not realize you meant shearing regarding a nipride gtt, which thank god was answered because I have never heard of that.......LOL.....and I...

  20. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    zaleah replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    reply to er julie Shearing is just what it sounds like. A single structure ripped apart ie. a spleen or a brain, shearing from the lining....(very bad as they it ussually just results in little tiny...

  21. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    zaleah replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    Exciting learning on night shift.... Why should you not give 1:1000 Epi IV for an allergic rx? (0.3 ml's slow

  22. What exactly do you do as an ER nurse?

    zaleah replied to vegnurse21's topic in Emergency

    I agree with the above, but remember we also wash stretchers, push patients on stretchers, empty linen bags, and empty garbage bags. Emergency nursing means moving people through, no matter what there...

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

    zaleah replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I had a healthy male, about 30 call an ambulance for his chapped lips. Yes, they were chapped,and ugly. He had never heard of vaseline or any other remedy available

  24. 12 hour schedule

    zaleah posted a topic in Emergency

    I am on a retention committee within our department and we are looking at our schedule. I am wondering if anyone has a master schedule with full timers working every 3rd

  25. 12 hour schedule

    zaleah replied to zaleah's topic in Emergency

    We have what we call 'traditional' M,T off W, Th etc, and we are working to find a 4 12's on 5 off master that our union will accept. Super Rn--would it be possible for me to get a copy of your...