Shadelyn

Has anyone here ever seen a person who had ceased to breath continue to move. I ask because there was a lady who did just that in the ED where I work about a month ago. No heart beat, not breathing, nothing, but her feet and legs as well as her fin...

All I can think is what about the Dr. that didn't CT her belly? The article rips the nursing staff, but of couse nothing of the Dr. Articles like this make me cringe and I hope to avoid being triage at all costs in my career. She had been there th...

I started out with no nursing assistant experience and did just fine. Apply online and if they don't call you talk to someone at the school and get the recruiters name and phone number and leave them a message. It seems forward, but it worked for m...

I started out in the part time program and recently withdrew so that I can join the class of 2008 graduating in December. The E/W program meets two evenings a week and Saturdays for about the first two years. I think it increases after that. I work ...

We all have or will deal with the hospitalzation or death of a loved one during our careers. For me this is the first time in my adult life that I will face the looming death of a loved one. I haven't worked or had clinical since I found out, and I...

$15,500 tuition not including books and uniforms. However after signing away 2 years of my life it's free.

I don't know how much your Tech's make, but I know some of ours make upwards of $13/hr. Here that's only $5 below starting RN pay. I don't think there's enough money in the world to make people work if they aren't the right person for the job. I t...

At our place it isn't so much a lack of understanding, but a laziness and "It's not my job mentality" that plagues us. Be they old or young people at least half my coworkers fall into this category. There really isn't anyone watching over the "Aide...

I work as a Nursing Assistant in an ED. I started with no previous medical experience just before I started nursing school. Some of my coworkers have their EMT, some have been Nursing Assistant on the floors and some have no experience and are not ...

I understand why he would be upset, especially in so much pain. People in pain do not react rationally. I work in an ED that is almost always full to the gills and somehow I always end up being the one to go out and explain why someone can't come b...

I dunno. Loosing control of bodily fluids and expelling trapped air are one thing that I completely understand. However sitting up is a process usually involving conscious movement of skeletal muscles that seems to complicated to happen in the body...

You already seem convindced that you need to leave the field, and that's ok because you are the only one that can make you happy. My only advice is to make sure that you are sure and that emotion isn't getting the best of you. You don't want to loo...

Thanks for the replies. It was definately a unique sight. I didn't believe it until I saw it myself. It makes sence that her muscles and neurons were still firing. To my knowledge she didn't have any sort of sitmulation devices. I have heard the...

Yesterday must have been "Dementia Day". I have never seen so many confused people in the ED at one time.

At my hospital the nursing assistants and patient care techs do most of the post mortem care. I work in an ER so I probably do at least one a month. It doesn't really bother me, but I guess I'm the exception and not the norm. It always surprises ...

In my diploma program Micro was my first class. Now I am finishing the 100's and Micro is still my best grade yet. Micro was fun and interesting. I loved growing cultures and examining stuff with the microscope. Don't dread micro it can be fun and...

We once sent a girl to x-ray after a negative Hcg, lo and behold she was about 8 1/2 months pregnant. The x-ray was beautiful although we were all quite worried. She was a bigger girl and had no idea she was about to have a baby. Neither did we. ...

Is this a new regulation? All of the sudden we are not allowed to have beds in the hallway of our busy ED. Before we were allowed to have six as long as they were sheeted and on one side of the hallway. Our halls are pretty wide so it is still eas...

I have a 5 minute oral presentation on Harriet Tubman and her contributions to Nursing due on Wednesday. While there is a wealth of information about her and what an instrumental figure she was in freeing over 300 slaves the most that I can find abo...

In my ED the main focus is shorter wait times for everything. Patients are expected to be in the waiting room for under 15 minutes. Radiology must take our patient in under an hour. And once there is an admission/discharge order they want that pat...

Thank you! It's more than I had before. Hopefully it'll be enough. :wink2:

I am in the tuition forgivness program. It is not selective and like others mentioned you just need to stay above a C. Even if you aren't in the tuition program you really have to do that anyway because D's are failing and 2 grades below C and you'...

Nights in the ER are much like days, but here goes. Transport patients to radiology and back. Meet medics in the rooms and settle patients. Take vitals when asked Stock fresh linen and pull dirty linen bags from rooms Answer call lights Help patient...

you dream of a night shift utopia where stores and malls are open 24 hours and nothing noisy happens before noon. saying good morning and good night are confusing.

From an ER Nursing Assistant who loves her ER Nurses: There are no magic words that will get you taken to xray, CT, discharged or up to your room any sooner. No matter how many times you ask or how you phrase it my answer will be the same. It's not u...