I'm a ER Nurse and I done seen almost everything that came to the ER from gunshot, lacerations etc. I also respond to trauma alerts when we have one. But I never in my life seen or heard of leech therapy. I was visiting my a friend on the Trauma/Surg...
What was it like your first day as a nurse. I was blank it was like I forgot how to administer medication, start IV, draw blood etc. I was like "WHAT IF" somebody stop breathing what or how I'm going to respond to my first code blue
I worked at this hospital where this male nurse who was cool, spoke to everybody, but he was stealing the patients meds. I had been asking where is that nice icu nurse & the nurses was like you didn't hear what happen I was like no, the nurses wa...
Sometimes I have to be the charge nurse in the ER & sometimes its a headache. How do some of y'all feel about being the Charge Nurse on y'all unit. Sometimes a charge nurse is a extra dollar and a extra headache.
Is it just me, But don't you hate when your trying to give report on shift change & you have that one nurse that have to do everything before they receive report. I get highly upset I be wanting to say why you didn't do all that before you got on...
I am a ER nurse and im love every minute of it, it's something always going on at work you never know what to expect. But sometimes I think about switching to the ICU but I want to know what all do ICU nurses do differently from ER nurses, floor nurs...
The ER was so busy so I called lab to draw blood from my patient. So I've been paying attention to one of the lab techs drawing blood from the patients IV. Is that in they job description because when I was a phlebotomist we couldn't do that. So what...
Why is it so hard for psyc nurses to transfer to another department such as ER, ICU & Med/Surg etc. I hear a lot of psyc nurses say they want to transfer to another department but they always say psyc nurses are not experience enough.
Caleb_RN225 replied to LisaNICUrn's topic in Psychiatric
Well before I became a RN I I was a mental health tech on a acute psych and psych nurses they don't do anything but pass meds and give PRN they make techs do all the work all they do is tell the patients to get away from the nurses station I'm trying...