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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    Emergent replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    At work today I asked a police officer, who was accompanying an arrested person to the emergency room, what he thought of this case. He said that he felt that both parties were wrong. He felt that...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    Emergent replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    If there is a criminal in my ER, I prefer a police officer to be standing by, thank you very much. I don't judge a whole profession by the actions of a
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    Emergent replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the update. This policy wouldn't work in my hospital. The police routinely bring pts in for medical clearance before jail, or when there's been an accident, or to obtain a legal draw. We...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    Emergent replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    What I find very telling is that this accident happened back at the end of July. I'm sure the police department of Salt Lake City has been aware of this fiasco for quite some time. I'm sure the...
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    Leaving nursing job after 2 months

    Emergent replied to swimmingfever00's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I remember great great great great granddad plowing the field with the mule. If you don't believe me I will call you a bully. He was an inspiration to me. He taught me that work ethic that I...
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    Video RN screaming, dragged into police car d/t refused blood draw on unconscious patient!

    Emergent replied to SummitRN's topic in General Nursing

    Has anyone heard how the injured trucker is doing? I haven't seen any mention of it in subsequent reports. The accident looked pretty
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    If not nursing what other career would you have done?

    Emergent replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in General Nursing

    I think I would be a great landscape
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    Leaving nursing job after 2 months

    Emergent replied to swimmingfever00's topic in General Nursing

    And I hate nurses who hate nurses who have opinions different from the person whom they hate, even if the nurse who hates the other nurse agrees with
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    The Union Is Coming

    Emergent replied to CV_RN_ICU's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a unionized facility. They don't do anything about the staffing ratios. They negotiate a contract. We have good wages, but my whole region does generally. I work for another hospital with...
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    Help, I got a tough choice to make

    Emergent replied to morganm_0819's topic in General Nursing

    If you prefer to start with a lower acuity at first, I would personally choose choice three. MedSurg with the telemetry and some cardiac. There's nothing wrong with staying in your comfort level, and...
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    Pain is a pain

    Emergent replied to ladedah1's topic in General Nursing

    The 10 out of 10 pain scale is really pretty useless. That's all I have to
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    Leaving nursing job after 2 months

    Emergent replied to swimmingfever00's topic in General Nursing

    Can you be A little more trite and blandly positively affirming? Maybe we can come up with some happy, encouraging affirmations to put on your refrigerator. How about a 365 day a year encouraging...
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    Adopting a dog before school?

    Emergent replied to ColorMeUp's topic in General Students

    I don't think it's natural for a dog to be left alone for hours and hours on end. I solve that by having more than one dog. If you live in an apartment you really need to find a dog sitting service....
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    Communication process at your work?

    Emergent posted a topic in General Nursing

    How does your manager communicate new policies, open shifts, problems Etc? I have two jobs and at my main job, where I'm going back full time shortly, we get all important memos via personal email....
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    Time to remove the "nurse" in APN?

    Emergent replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'd like to ask those who are OK with a brand new BSN going directly into an online nurse practitioner program how they would feel about a medical doctor doing online classes and skipping the four...
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    Time to remove the "nurse" in APN?

    Emergent replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    How about if, instead of that, Advanced practice nurses be required to work as hospital nurses for a certain period of time? That's what I would propose. I know some will disagree with me, but I...
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    Flouride Programs

    Emergent replied to amanda1387's topic in School

    Fluoride actually aggressively competes with the receptor sites in the thyroid with iodine. The flouride and chlorine in the water system is contributing to the epidemic of hypothyroidism in the...
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    Why do We eat our young?

    Emergent replied to nellie272003's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When people include a sweetheart or honey in their retort, it is so designed to be condescending. Peace and
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    Why do We eat our young?

    Emergent replied to nellie272003's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I always find it highly ironic when someone comes on a thread, where people are commenting in a way they don't like, and scolds everybody that they should ignore a thread that they think ridiculous....
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    Why do We eat our young?

    Emergent replied to nellie272003's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Was that a bullying sigh, accompanied by a NETY eye
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    Why do We eat our young?

    Emergent replied to nellie272003's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've seen young nurse cliques form and I've seen older nurses form cliques. As far is new nurses feeling bullied, these days I sometimes see young new nurses who aren't willing to wait their turn...
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    Worried about friend

    Emergent posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm worried about a good friend of mine who is a retired nurse. For most of our friendship she was a sober, recovering alcoholic she told me. She had gone to AA years ago, and didn't drink it all....
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    Sabotage? Failed by 0.1%

    Emergent replied to gpnbe1a6's topic in General Students

    If you're having trouble with passing the tests comfortably, you will also have trouble on the NCLEX and will be posting " Help me, I'm on my fifth try and I'm FREAKING OUT!". I vote for retaking the...
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    Mom suing nurse after suffocation accident

    Emergent replied to MunoRN's topic in Nursing News

    I doubt if guidelines and say that we must keep patients "pain free". That's what got us into the opiate crisis. Overall as a culture, I think we need to encourage a little more toughness in our...
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    Your FAVORITE job

    Emergent replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    I love the job I have now in the emergency room. It's entertaining, I have a pretty good crew that I work with, the patients are varied, our working conditions are decent, and is just about as good as...