nolaEDrn

nolaEDrn has 6 years experience and specializes in Emergency Dept.

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1. student nurse precepting in ED...advice?

   nolaEDrn replied to RunnerRN2015's topic in Emergency

   If I could like this twice I would! You need to know what should be done and why, and ALWAYS be ready for what will come next.

2. Tech to RN trandfer in ED

   nolaEDrn replied to uds16's topic in Emergency

   If you are bored in the ED you will be bored in every field of nursing. Every field eventually turns into doing the same tasks repeatedly at some point or another. The ED at least has a wider array of tasks you will do: neonates to peds to adults to ...

3. Nurse!!! Nuuuurrrrsssse!!!!

   nolaEDrn replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Emergency

   Oh the one word every ED nurse dreads!!! That is most definitely my biggest pet peeve!!!!!! And I am def guilty of the poor "inside voice" (you can hear me whisper from at least 30 ft away, inside a pt room, with the door shut)

4. new RN, first job, having tough time, need advice

   nolaEDrn replied to BrooklynRN11201's topic in Emergency

   Maybe try a different department? Having to change the scene does not make you a bad nurse, not everyone is meant to be in the ED. You need to be both stern and empathetic at the same time. If you can't find more meaning in the help you provide to t...