AirborneMedic

AirborneMedic has 8 years experience and specializes in Emergency.

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1. Moving to Texas

   AirborneMedic replied to runnerdoug87's topic in Texas Nursing

   Yes. Definitely sounds like Austin. The cost of living is kinda high because of UT, but there are plenty of outdoor things to do for you non-gamers. Do you like hunting? San Antonio has a much lower...

2. Moving to Texas

   AirborneMedic replied to runnerdoug87's topic in Texas Nursing

   I worked for Baptist and Methodist hospitals in San Antonio off and on for about 4 years. Those are two of the biggest hospitals in the area. Each has about 5 hospitals in the city, not including...

3. What are your pet peeves?

   AirborneMedic replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

   Yeah I've been overseas for a while. Thanks for the

4. What are your pet peeves?

   AirborneMedic replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

   No coffee in the ER? That's just downright Communist and that hospital should be shut down. Nothing gets done until I've had my coffee. Hell I won't do CPR until there is caffeine running through my...

5. OMG the cell phone is out

   AirborneMedic replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

   Assuming the waiting area is busy, I don't even ask them to hang up. I stop charting, stand up, open the door to the waiting room and tell them I have to call them back in a while. I call the next...

6. What are your pet peeves?

   AirborneMedic replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

   I did. And I threw him back out to the dreaded waiting

7. What are your pet peeves?

   AirborneMedic replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

   Patients who feel they need to call everybody on their contacts list to let them know they are going to the ER. As soon as I get them into triage and begin their assessment everybody on their contact...

8. What are your pet peeves?

   AirborneMedic replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

   Me: Sir on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most pain you've ever experienced, how bad is your abdominal pain? Pt: It's a 10. (As he's texting away.) Me: So if I took that cell phone and smashed it into...

9. What are your pet peeves?

   AirborneMedic replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

   Patients with 10/10 migraine, chest or abdominal pain who move like pond water when I call them into triage or try to get them into a gown, but suddenly find the strength to jump out of their skin in...

10. What are your pet peeves?

    AirborneMedic replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

    Complains of being short of breath, but won't stop talking on the phone while I'm trying to do an

11. What are your pet peeves?

    AirborneMedic replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

    When the police or other drunk friends bring in their semiconscious drunk friend to the ER. I'm in my 40's. I bartended for 15 years and spent some time in the Army. I was drunk throughout my 20's....

12. ER RN must haves

    AirborneMedic replied to Momma1RN's topic in Emergency

    Trauma shears, pen light, sharpie, dry erase marker, stethoscope, hemostats (stack 2 different types of tape on the hemostats and clamp them to the lower edge of your scrubs top, let them dangle),...