ernurseok

When rigor has set in, they are DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GET OUT ASAP, STAT, KEEP YOUR LICENSE

We once had a patient come into the ER I work out that said she woke up and her toe was gone. Her big toe was a bloody, mangled stump. She was a diabetic and had neuropathy. She was also taking tons of medicines for her pain. After our doc examined her, he called her surgeon that she had seen in the past. When the surgeon got on the phone and we explained that she had no idea what had happened and just woke up to find her toe gone, he laughed, and said, oh no her dog chewed her other toe off. One more......We once had a lady with delusions come in. I went in with the physician for the exam. We found her with her prothsetic eye in her hand. She licked it and put it back in the socket. The doctor turned to me and gave me this look. We both had to excuse ourselves to go and laugh in another room.

I drool everytime that hot paramedic comes around. But a patient NO @#$%^&* WAY.

I am an ER nurse. I became TNCC, ENPC, and ACLS certified all within 1 year of getting my RN license. I got ACLS last. I think it is a must for anyone in the ICU. It makes working codes much easier. It poses different scenerios and solutions. Working in the ICU, it is often the nurses that run the code until the doctors arrive from the ER. It will help you greatly. Good luck.

Is it possible that a nurse gave her baby a medicine intended for another baby? What a horrible situation.....hope it all works out.

Well that is crazy. She should've learned all of that in nursing school. I was putting in and taking out foleys my 1st semester. In the state I live in their is a web site where you can verify nursing licensure if you know the first and last name. Maybe you should check into that and see if it is the same for your state.