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    I HATE THE ER

    Emergent replied to EDNURSE20's topic in General Nursing

    If you ER isn't your thing, cut ties, if you have a possibility, before a year. Some ERs are worse about the Hot Shot personality syndrome people. It can be VERY
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    Quit While in Orientation (New grad)

    Emergent replied to SillyFever's topic in General Nursing

    Both are correct. Oriented is more an Americanism, orientated used in Great
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    Quit While in Orientation (New grad)

    Emergent replied to SillyFever's topic in General Nursing

    I think level 1 Trauma Centers are quite overrated as being the hot shot place where a new grad, or anyone else, should have on their resume. It may sound prestigious to name drop, but the reality is...
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    Forced to Return to the Floor

    Emergent replied to harumi22's topic in General Nursing

    They will have weekly meetings to study that proposal. Hopefully the catered food will be adequate. They'll get back to you in 6 months with a decision. Thanks so much for
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    Bad signs? New department

    Emergent replied to ApplePineApple's topic in General Nursing

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    Bad signs? New department

    Emergent replied to ApplePineApple's topic in General Nursing

    Wait, someone butchered the sedation narrator? This sounds very
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    Bad signs? New department

    Emergent replied to ApplePineApple's topic in General Nursing

    Whoa, just walk away from the computer and relax. How are the people at your new job? That's more important than the many details of the EMR. My head is still spinning from your opening
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    Old patients unsuccessfully clinging to independent living

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    To those of you harshly judging my opening comments, the patient in question is a woman who is most likely headed to a nursing home, being cared for by a husband who is barely clinging to his...
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    Needlestick While Pregnant

    Emergent replied to Kelly25287's topic in General Nursing

    There should be a law that, if a person consents to bloodwork or any other procedure that might expose a health care worker to blood, the patient is required to be tested in the event of accidental...
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    Nurses, How do you score on big 5 personality

    Emergent replied to Flowerwater's topic in General Nursing

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    Probation for one year

    Emergent replied to heartnursing's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like a slap in the face to me. 3 months is standard everywhere I've
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    Should I mention this in an interview?

    Emergent replied to AnaBanana.RN's topic in General Nursing

    Amen to above advice, nothing more to
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    Old patients unsuccessfully clinging to independent living

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    OK, so nurses should not try to guide and influence patients towards healthier choices of living, but just "let them die on their own terms". Message
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    Critical Access Hospitals

    Emergent posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone work at a critical access hospital? I've worked in 3 of them. My new job is really interesting and dynamic. It is really providing an enormous service to a rural part of my state. Of all...
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    Mask refusal

    Emergent replied to Sherrie Smith's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Interesting. Anxious for a vaccine, but couldn't be bothered with a mask.
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    No Scott Toilet Paper?

    Emergent posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Why is my favorite TP no longer available? What is happening with our distribution network? Why no Scott? What other shortages are you all
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    Eureka, CA - safe place?

    Emergent replied to rsubi-NP's topic in Advanced Practice

    LOL, urban America = you'd better have street smarts. Small town America = you are one of the fortunate
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    I can't get a job!!

    Emergent replied to ThatBLURN's topic in General Nursing

    The job market in WA is getting desperate. At the locale I mentioned they are offering a $250 incentive pay to pick up night shifts. I'm still on orientation, so am
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    I can't get a job!!

    Emergent replied to ThatBLURN's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting, I sent the OP a private message about a sure job in a different part of WA that she might consider. No courtesy of a reply. I think she started this thread just to whine and
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    My post-polio patient

    Emergent posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a delightful patient the other day with post-polio syndrome. She has vivid memories a being in an iron lung. She got polio when she was 1 1/2 years old, and was in an iron lung for 2 years. She...
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    My post-polio patient

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It's actually now believed in many quarters that FDR suffered Guillain-Barre, not
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    My post-polio patient

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a libertarian about vaccines, but I think those who buy into the conspiracy theories about them are woefully ignorant about the diseases they have virtually eliminated. McDonald's, Burger King,...
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    My post-polio patient

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm here on this earth because of polio. My birth mother graduated from UC Berkeley. Her Aunt Connie, who was age wise more of a cousin, contracted polio. My mother went to upstate New York to care...
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    No Scott Toilet Paper?

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The secret, while camping, to avoiding paper plates? Eat out of the pan you cook on. Yum! Butter
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    This will be a huge transition from traditional education

    Emergent posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    I foresee one positive from this covid will be the downfall of a corrupt educational system. Public, private educational systems have drained an enormous amount of our economy in the last 20 years....