ERERER

ERERER

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  1. Is Your Last Name On Your Badge?

    ERERER replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    NO NO NO I am a professional, an ER nurse, and entitled to my privacy and safety. Also, have been the victim of a stalker, and have worked inner city ER's where violence is the norm. NO LAST NAMES....

  2. Bizarre!!

    ERERER replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    soooo many..... will have to think a bit. but these came to mind: a confused elderly man in ICU standing in the hall holding his Nitro drip bottle up high "stand back or I'll blow you all to kingdom...

  3. PALS meds

    ERERER posted a topic in Emergency

    trying to set up our cart to make it easier during pediatric codes: 1. do you further dilute meds like epi, atropine, before giving? or do you use a 1cc syringe for those little doses??? 2. do you...

  4. PALS meds

    ERERER replied to ERERER's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    thanks for the info, really appreciate it. the ER where i am working now doesn't see many sick sick kids (no peds unit in the hospital), but the worst case scenerio is the ones that arrive by private...

  5. PALS meds

    ERERER replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    thanks so much for your info...... the link to cheat sheets was just what we need. printed them up at work, but like everything ... have to get admin approval to put it out. you are right about...

  6. What Gets to You??

    ERERER replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    OLD ER NURSE TRICK>>>>> for those funky smells I keep a jar of Vicks in my backpack. rub some up each of your nostrils and you can walk into any room smiling!!! p.s. Febreeze works...

  7. What Gets to You??

    ERERER replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    fingernails....... that come off, yuck and metal chips, etc in eyeballs that need to be removed. the feeling an NG tube makes as it scrapes up through the nasopharynx all else, no

  8. Good Housekeeping Artice?

    ERERER replied to Aneroo's topic in General Nursing

    do you mean the one that tells readers to LIE to the triage nurse when going to the ER to get faster service???? Nov issue, on page 60 something. I sent GH a nasty email on that

  9. Initial care

    ERERER posted a topic in Burn

    Need to hear from the "pros"...... what do you expect to have completed when you receive a pt from an ER??? We recently had a serious burn patient come in. Got him intubated, IV lines,...

  10. NURSES! NURSES! Stop eating your young!!!

    ERERER replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    trying to be good, so...... just how many calories are in a new nurse? alot of carbs? or is it mainly protein? need to lose a few

  11. Initial care

    ERERER replied to ERERER's topic in Burn

    thanks for your help, I will look at all that info. You bring up an interesting point about small hospitals....something I have been meaning to address. Yes, I work in a very small hospital. We do...

  12. babies in the ER

    ERERER posted a topic in Emergency

    question: we took care of a critically ill newborn (6 days old). passed an NG tube (size verified by Broselow tape) to decompress abdomen. Our "esteemed" ER doc says never pass an "NG" tube, you...

  13. babies in the ER

    ERERER replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    Thanks for all the info..... as far as I know, the baby is doing well, some kind of GI thing going on (NEC?). anyway, the doc involved was one of those "rent a docs" that doesn't work very often, so...

  14. I freeze up when the big traumas/CPRs come in

    ERERER replied to vampireslayer's topic in Emergency

    A few ideas: ---don't underestimate the learning tool of being the scribe. It gets you in the swing of things.....you learn everything that was done and the order in which it is done (usually all at...

  15. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    ERERER replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    this is a problem everywhere (i was a traveller for quite a while). Speaking as an ER nurse, one of the main reasons for shift change admissions: our ER docs. They hate turning over a pending...

  16. closing floors during summer slow down

    ERERER replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

    I know what you mean about holding patients in the ER. we are in the same boat...... LOTS of empty beds upstairs, nurses sent home. I have been an ER nurse for almost 20 years. Long ago I lost the...