Happy-ER-RN

Happy-ER-RN RN

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  1. Living in fear of code blue

    Happy-ER-RN replied to cjblu's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You actually do mouth to mouth on your pts! :barf01: No freakin' way would I do mouth to mouth in a hopital where an ambu bag is within a moments notice. Pts vomit when they code all the time and...

  2. Both my patients died the other night...my first ones

    Happy-ER-RN replied to LilRedRN1973's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am with you. I am a fairly new nurse--I have witnessed a few codes but no pts I really knew. This week 2 of my patients died, one of whom I had spent 3 hours with while he was alive and well (I...

  3. Funnies/scariest thing to ever happen to you in the ED??

    Happy-ER-RN replied to mom23RN's topic in Emergency

    I give phenergan IV probably 10 times a week, our Docs always order it. We only give a small dose 12.5 mg and I always dilute it in 10 ml of saline (although this is not common practice at out...

  4. insulin med error

    Happy-ER-RN replied to flyladynurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    We don't have to co sign for heparin or insulin at our facility either but I always have another nurse check. I asked a nurse to double check my heparin drip the other day and she rolled her eyes at...

  5. pregnancy

    Happy-ER-RN replied to cmoleary1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I also would choose to do it now as a student nurse, either that or wait until about 6 months after you start nursing. I know if I had had been pregnant during my first few months as a nurse I would...

  6. Feeling Overwhelmed!

    Happy-ER-RN replied to studentnurse74's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am assuming you are going to an ICU. Yes, orientation was the most overwhelming time of my entire life--nursing school was nothing compared to my first two months as an ER nurse. We didn't learn...

  7. Scenario:What would you do?

    Happy-ER-RN replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all of you for your replies. If I were dying I would want to be given morphone non-stop until I died. Maybe if the family hadn't been so hostile I would have felt more comfortable with the...

  8. Scenario:What would you do?

    Happy-ER-RN replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! I am really really surprised how many of you would have just given the 5 mg and left it. Here's what I did. I paced around and thought about it for a little while and came to this...

  9. Evil People

    Happy-ER-RN replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, getting the manager in this case would not have been very helpful. Our hospital is HUGE on customer service. If someone in triage complains enough and asks for the nurse manager they are often...

  10. Evil People

    Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in Emergency

    Hello. I am sure those of you who worked new years eve last night are as exhuasted as I am...anyway my thoughts keep wandering back to satan's reincarnate, whom I met last night in the ED. She was a...

  11. i need help

    Happy-ER-RN replied to belmomma's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmmm....that is really stupid. They must be trying to use creative teaching methods, they make you do a lot of concept maps don't they. :) I would be forced to consider watching some kind of...

  12. New Years nightmare?

    Happy-ER-RN replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

    New Years Eve was insane in our ED. Luckily there weren't a lot of traumas, but we had cops and security swarming in the halls all night, stabbings and drunks and OD's (oh my!). I had 7 pts to...

  13. Evil People

    Happy-ER-RN replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

    Oh no, she WANTED the police called, she demanded it. She wanted everyone in the world to come see her and her huge overdramatic situation and what a good mom she is for bringing her drunk child to...

  14. NGT placement

    Happy-ER-RN replied to SHALIMAR's topic in Emergency

    :rotfl: :chuckle Eh HEE HEE HEE!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

  15. Foul Speaking Nurse..............

    Happy-ER-RN replied to hbncns35's topic in General Nursing

    I also cuss like a sailor, I always have, and probably always will. I enjoy it, it makes me feel better. Those of you who don't should try it, really, next time you are angry just let out a few "f"...

  16. "You know you are an ER Nurse when..."

    Happy-ER-RN replied to Divern808's topic in Emergency

    You can guess the patients diagnosis with 98% accuracy just by eyeballing them as they pass the nurses station on the way back from

  17. Question about working nights

    Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello, I knew I would have to work nights as a new grad. I am hoping soon I will have put my "time" in and be able to move to days. I absolutely hate working nights and have gotten to where I rarely...

  18. Discharge orders you'd LIKE to write!!!

    Happy-ER-RN replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in Emergency

    Dx: Viral syndrome 1. A cold does not constitute an emegency at 4am. 2. Children get sick, throwing up one time is not an emergency. Dx: Pneumonia The reason your child has pneumonia is because you...

  19. PACU--a day in the life

    Happy-ER-RN replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in PACU

    Thank you all so much for your

  20. Anyone else frustrated with being a new nurse?

    Happy-ER-RN replied to asilmk's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have been in the ED for almost 6 months. I hated it the first three months but now I love my job. I love the people I work with, I love what I do, I just have fun and I don't mind going to work....

  21. ER bashing...where is the love??

    Happy-ER-RN replied to LeahJet's topic in Emergency

    I have a problem with being insulted EVERY time I call report to an ICU. There is always some snide remark about something I did or didn't do or something the Dr. did or didn't do. I had a cardiac...

  22. IVS and inserting Catheters

    Happy-ER-RN replied to nursewannabee's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was so nervous about those at first too. Then I realized that nursing school was making everything too complicated--like catheters and NG's. For the most part you just lube it up and stick it in,...

  23. Overwhelming

    Happy-ER-RN replied to Vlynn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm not trying to scare you, but for me, nursing school was NOTHING compared to my first 2-3 months in the ER as a new grad. I have never been so stressed out or scared in my entire life. I...

  24. A Hard Lesson Learned

    Happy-ER-RN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    I had a surprisingly similar situation just the other night involving an extremely confused (dementia) massive lower GI bleed. I spent the entire night trying to keep him in bed and scrubbing him...

  25. New ER Tech

    Happy-ER-RN replied to FirefighterDoug's topic in Emergency

    You don't seem like the kind of person who would do this, but, make sure that you don't act like you are overqualified for your job, even though you are. There is an ER tech I work with who is in...