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 nurs...

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 mo...

Best thing ever thought of tonight: Prank call your sister hospital with inappropriate health related questions! Literally almost peed my pants from laughing so hard!

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 ...

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 VERY outdated..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. ...

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 Tyleno...

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 eme...

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, vaginal bleeding/discomfort, tooth pain, overd...

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...

Oh how I love Nurse Jackie! She's my idol minus the drug abuse and everything!

Don't feel bad, I never thought about it that way either!

Fully agree with you on this! To the OP: sorry for your experience I hope your husband is doing ok and eventually got whatever medical attention he needed either there or elsewhers

I've only been in the ER a year, I absolutely love my job, but frequently I have to catch myself from openly laughing at patients complaints/requests. I don't hide my sarcasm/cynicism when they ask something barbaric like, "I need a warm blanket and ...

Butter on the ear phone... Genius.. Our secretary is going to hate us tonight haha

Although you may feel like being told "it will come with time" is a blow off answer, but it's the truth... With that said, there are certain chief complaints which will just about ALWAYS get a work up: chest pain, nausea/vomiting (in adults), ams, s...

Haha right? I had one of those tonight actually lol