RN_rescue_ninja

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  1. What is so difficult about this question?

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to 86toronado's topic in Emergency

    "What have you been diagnosed

  2. reported a nurse stealing narcs and not giving meds, shes friends with the DON :(

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to CynicallyVexed's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Right, right. I understand that. But someone who is so diligent at making sure they properly sign out the PRN meds...should be better at something so obvious as making sure they are giving the other...

  3. What "near drowning" looks like and a story

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to anon456's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    One of our twins almost drowned when he was a toddler. I still feel immense guilt and terror thinkng about it. My in laws have a pool, and they are Italian so naturally, lots of loud adults were over...

  4. reported a nurse stealing narcs and not giving meds, shes friends with the DON :(

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to CynicallyVexed's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If she's diverting the narcs, just wondering why she's failing to give the BP meds? What do the non-narc meds have to Do with it? I'm tired, lack of sleep at the moment; may e I'm missing

  5. How would you handle this?

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to MedFlightDreams's topic in Emergency

    Everyone is working under their own license. No one works "under" someone else's license. Now, you could get into trouble with your license if something bad happened to the pt because you are the one...

  6. Rasmussen Ocala

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to guest824145's topic in Florida Nursing

    Very expensive. You don't have to pay that much for an ADN Degree. I graduated last semester from CF (a few min. down the road from there), and there's many benefits to going to CF, or any 4 year...

  7. I never, ever went to ER when I was a kid

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    I wait until they make a comment about how long the wait is...then my reply is that it's an emergency room, and that there are emergencies that take priority over your child's

  8. I never, ever went to ER when I was a kid

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    I went one time, when I was a toddler and somehow managed to do some sort of flip off of the couch and get a butter knife stabbed in my eye. (Why I had a butter knife as a kid - who knows LOL) I...

  9. Nurses, do you exercise?

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to nurseling's topic in Health, Stress Management

    does your local gym or YMCA have a

  10. Nurses, do you exercise?

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to nurseling's topic in Health, Stress Management

    How do you go about exercise when you work

  11. New to Nigh Shift

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to RN_rescue_ninja's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm going to try this. Thank

  12. New to Nigh Shift

    RN_rescue_ninja posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    My body adjusted to working the night shift (7p-7a) quickly over the past 4 weeks that I started it. A little too well; on my nights off, I will be super tired at around 10pm and think, "oh, yay! I...

  13. 4th week at ED.. it's hell, we should be called gods of labor

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to tarotale's topic in Emergency

    Delegate to techs as much as possible within reason. Also, unless there's no other logical option, getting two trucks back to back like that is not cool. I'd be speaking to someone about

  14. triage process

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to turnforthenurse's topic in Emergency

    If we are full, we will have an RN in the waiting room who will be putting in orders for protocols and carrying them out, so that most of the work is done by the time they get to an actual room. Also,...

  15. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    RN_rescue_ninja replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Most ridiculous? Maybe the girl who came in because she hear her boyfriend was cheating on her, and she needed an STD screen, like, NOW. All she got was a referral to the county