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  1. New TV Show- Nurse Nation on MTV

    floridaRN38 replied to kingofthekicks20's topic in Travel

    If it is anything like the jersey shore it will be my favorite new reality

  2. Things to do to past the time...

    floridaRN38 replied to SweetMelissaRN's topic in Emergency

    Take a urine specimen cup. But we put a white/clearish soap in it. Told the charge nurse when we asked the old man of a "specimen" he gave us this!! So it looked like he jerked off and gave us seamen...

  3. New Grad in ED

    floridaRN38 replied to ED RN <3's topic in Emergency

    Emergency nursing incredibly easy. I used that my first Year I graduated and started in the

  4. Need Delray Medical Center Feedback ASAP!!!

    floridaRN38 replied to tinkchic2121's topic in Florida Nursing

    Hey. I don't know how it is now but six years ago i was a new grad and started there on a tele floor. My preceptor sucked and they only wanted to give me a six week Orientation back then. One day I...

  5. ED nursing tasks/responsibilities:

    floridaRN38 replied to ivyleaf's topic in Emergency

    Usually it scares them telling them u need to catch them and then "oh I can pee right now". Then once in a while u get a weirdo who prefers to be

  6. orientaton for experienced nurses

    floridaRN38 replied to Kidrn911's topic in Emergency

    No. I wouldn't be comfortable. I am at a 80 Bed ER Trauma center. We give experienced nurse 4 weeks But a lot of other ER only do two to three

  7. New Grad-Is Home Health a good idea?

    floridaRN38 replied to NCRN77's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Where do u live that they don't hire new grads in the

  8. Longest Break From Nursing??

    floridaRN38 replied to favoritemumsy's topic in Nursing Career

    I am reading these posts and think you should be happy !! Remember why u left the bedside !!!??? Please tell me....because I am tired of these demanding pts I get in my

  9. Question for ER nurses

    floridaRN38 replied to lynds80's topic in Emergency

    Go straight into if that's what u want to do. Don't wait and go to a floor first. You have to be a little crazy and have a sense of humor to work in that type of

  10. Propofol and NS

    floridaRN38 replied to ezgreazin's topic in Emergency

    Ask the pharmacy where you work. I wouldn't do it. I had a nurse if a pt a bolus if propo in a NS line and it crystallized. I had to change Out the tubing. But always ask

  11. Will ER nurses help me answer a few questions, please??

    floridaRN38 replied to mcao11's topic in Emergency

    I have been in the ER for 6 years. Started in a little ER when I was a new grad. Now I work in a level 1 trauma center. If I could do it over again I would go straight into a level 1 Truma center. You...

  12. To stay or Go?

    floridaRN38 replied to djones4033's topic in Emergency

    Stay. I've been in the ER for 6 years. And when my shift is over I still wonder about if I forgot something or I could of done something better. It is normal to think that way. But as time goes on...

  13. New grad position in S. Florida???

    floridaRN38 replied to jmi0886's topic in Florida Nursing

    Memorial regional BOCA

  14. Nurses week gifts from employer

    floridaRN38 posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi. I was just wondering what your ER management did for you for nurses week? Gifts,money, lunches!? Well my ER gave us a big fat NOTHING!! Management said "there is ER nurses week so we r not...

  15. getting out of bed side

    floridaRN38 replied to goalienrse's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I've been a ER nurse for 7 years!! I'm burnt out and only 30 yrs old. What I am really sick of is the management and 1% increase in salary a year. They management only cares about the pt satisfaction...

  16. Attention ER nurses and managers

    floridaRN38 replied to RNReadyManc's topic in Emergency

    In Florida they hire new grass in the ER. Especially south florida. They put them through a 4 week program at the community college and learn about er nursing. Then u go with a preceptor for 6

  17. Help! I hate my first nursing job!

    floridaRN38 replied to SusGob711's topic in General Nursing

    Try to stick it out for a year. Then move on. First year sucks. If u can get a new

  18. Different shifts in the ED

    floridaRN38 replied to C-lion's topic in Emergency

    11a-11p. Ur very busy the whole time and it goes by quickly. I also did the 3p-3a shift and liked it a lot too. The night shift diff was

  19. Charting Systems

    floridaRN38 replied to Vespertinas's topic in Agency Nurses

    Hahhaa!! I use epic where I work and its fine. I worked two shifts at an ER that used the meditech DOS system. I felt like it was something from the

  20. Interested in case mg from home

    floridaRN38 posted a topic in Case Management

    I received a call about a case management position working from home. For a health insurance company. Does anyone do this. And if so explain it to me? I know they said something about long term care...

  21. Interested in case mg from home

    floridaRN38 replied to floridaRN38's topic in Case Management

    Thank you. Sounds pretty

  22. A word of advice for a strange question?

    floridaRN38 replied to bebbercorn's topic in Emergency

    Wear the one you want!! And if one of those evil pts hurts u. Well...fight back!! Just make sure no cameras can see it

  23. Emergency Room Hunt!

    floridaRN38 replied to jeremy224's topic in Emergency

    It's actually called Bethsada west. Good luck. We got all kinds of interesting folks in the

  24. Emergency Room Hunt!

    floridaRN38 replied to jeremy224's topic in Emergency

    Delay beach just opened in January. It's in south

  25. Why do I...

    floridaRN38 replied to blackvans1234's topic in Emergency

    I knew when I went to an autopsy at the medical examiners office in Miami. I always wanted to do er before that. But didnt know if i could handle gross stuff If u can handle that smell of the bodies....