HikingEDRN BSN, RN

HikingEDRN has 5 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Emergency Department; Neonatal ICU.

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   Thank you

   HikingEDRN replied to HikingEDRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

   Thanks, guys. He passed away peacefully - his vitals were fine at midnight or so and they found him later. I'm so glad it happened that
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   Thank you

   HikingEDRN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

   I am an ER nurse and have taken care of more long term care residents than I can count. However, until yesterday, I had never stepped foot in a long term care facility. I went to visit a long-time...
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   Bad Breath in traumatic brain injury

   HikingEDRN replied to jelisabethk's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

   Interesting. I have never heard of this and I have seen traumatically brain injured patients but only in the ED. I see you are in the neuro ICU so I assume this develops
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   Lidocaine (UroJect) for Male Foleys

   HikingEDRN replied to Music in My Heart's topic in General Nursing

   I've used it several times in the ED and, based on my personal experience, I think the patients with it seem to experience the same type of discomfort as the patients who don't get it (of course maybe...
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   Are you in a marathon today??

   HikingEDRN replied to firstinfamily's topic in General Nursing

   Good job :) It's very satisfying to see a good outcome knowing that you played a major part. At times, one frustrating thing about the ED is that I've stabilized someone who was very sick but then I...
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   Yesterday was weird

   HikingEDRN replied to MECO28's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   If you were not lucky, the pearls would go somewhere else than out of your pant leg. Then, you have to show up to the ER with the dreaded "foreign body" chief
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   Justify this nursing diagnosis

   HikingEDRN replied to malenurse69's topic in General Nursing

   Happy to hear this. At the risk of offending alternative practitioners (and I truly don't mean to offend), that nursing dx is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I was actually hoping the...
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   Getting cut short on orientation

   HikingEDRN replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

   If it makes you feel any better, when I started in the ED, I was not a new grad but was transitioning from neonatal ICU so it was all very new to me. I showed up one morning and my charge said,...
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   I miss work

   HikingEDRN replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

   I would at least wait until after the new
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    Cardiac Arrest

    HikingEDRN replied to starlane's topic in General Nursing

    You can certainly have cardiac arrest with MI but, as others have nicely described, they are definitely not the same thing. Hopefully, you can get to the patient soon enough if they are infarcting...
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    What to Do When the Doctor Throws the Nurse Under the Bus by Lying

    HikingEDRN replied to blackdiamond407's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Love this. And another time, perhaps in another thread so as not to derail this one, I would love to know the "punched by the cardiac surgeon" story OP, so sorry this happened to you. Document it...
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    Benzos

    HikingEDRN replied to HikingEDRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for your responses everyone. I completely agree that long term benzos are very over-prescribed. Sometimes I am appalled in the ED as a staff nurse how often I see it on the home med list as a...
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    Benzos

    HikingEDRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi everyone. As I've posted previously, I am an ACNP student currently rotating through the ICU. I was just wondering what others' (both RNs and NPs) experiences have been regarding benzos. It...
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    Felt pretty proud of myself!

    HikingEDRN replied to KG MSN RN CCRN CEN's topic in Emergency

    I have had that happen too but only on one of my posts (the rests of my posts correctly identify my credentials). It says I'm an EMT-P and I am not. I looked at my settings and it was not checked...
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    Feeling very inadequate

    HikingEDRN replied to HikingEDRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I do agree that it is stressful but I have learned a lot from it. All of the attending MDs I have worked with have been very professional and they teach as they question me (and the other medical...