SweetMelissaRN

^^^bahahaha.... Pt's pay for their ER services... Now THAT'S funny!

^^^^you do realize this is a website that is supposed to let us vent, correct? No need for the lectures lol

Oh man... I get this all the time lol... I actually had one who had the nerve to ask me "are you sure you don't need me to tell you what these meds do? I'm sure you've forgotten a lot since nursing school"..... Right, bc I don't actually use any nursing knowledge on a day to day basis in the ER working as an RN? Lol jeez..

When I start my shift I grab a blank piece of paper and put a pt sticker for each of the occupied rooms. Next to their name I write the CC and anything that still needs to be done. After those initial pt's, I just continue with the stickers and CC mostly so I can remember names when I walk in the room or if I need a way to scan for meds. That's about all I use for a brain sheet, if you can even call it that lol

Ummm... I got mine for strep bc I'm allergic to penicillin but could get rocephin without any problems lol

I can say personal experience it is most definitely LESS painful. I've had both and I request the lidocaine with it... We keep a few bottles of lido out specifically to mix rocephin with so we don't need an order. Don't know scientifically if it was truly the lidocaine or the injector that made it hurt less, but my injection site when numb shortly after injection!

More and more hospitals seem to be going to EPIC... We use meditech at my hospital... VERY outdated..

Ok, this is slightly off topic but I think it kind of fits here.... So when I was in my 3rd semester of nursing school, I was doing clinicals on a general med-surg floor. Well, at this hospital they have a ton of medical students all over the place. One day, this particularly arrogant medical student noticed that I had his patients chart and came to ask me a question, well right as he's about to speak he squinted at my nursing student badge and said "ugh, can you tell me where the REAL nurses are?" I just looked at him questioningly and said "I don't know, probably with the REAL doctors." Well the attending that was over-seeing that patient overheard the exchange and later patted me on the back for being so quick-witted! Lol good times...

Dude.... When you put it like that, how can you argue with that logic? I mean really? But at least they gave a logical well thought answer, I'm frustrated with people who come in because "I don't have to for the ER it's free!" Or, "if I bought Tylenol OTC I'd have to pay for it"....

Omg, I'm totally going to do the foley trick!

I don't think bwhiddon74 was trying to lecture you or directing the "can see your doctor for this" comment to you, but was maybe generalizing. Everyone knows chest pain unrelieved by 3 nitro with a prior history of MI should immediately go to the emergency room. Those caregivers were out of line. Plain and simple.

For an NG we use a 14-16fr, if its an OG we use an 18fr. All of our foleys are 16fr. Commonly seen things: SOB, abd pain/N/V/D, UTI's, fever/flu-like symptoms, extremity pain, AMS, suicidal/psych issues, lady partsl bleeding/discomfort, tooth pain, overdose/ingestion, rash, earaches, weakness, syncope, dizziness... I would say the biggest things we see are chest pain, sob, and GI problems. I'm guaranteed to have all 3 of those in 1 shift, every shift lol

Oh that's awesome... We had a situation kind of like that on a MS floor and the ER doc got so frustrated that he told the charge nurse, "get these nurses out of her and find someone who knows what they're doing!!" It was kind of mean but funny at the same time.. 3 of us from the ER worked the code while the other nurses watched lol..