CEP10492

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1. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

   CEP10492 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   I wanted to be a DVM when I grew up. It wasn't until I was working as a CNA at the hospital and a doctor had asked me how a pt was doing and how the pt had done during the night that I decided I was...

2. Personality traits suited for ER??

   CEP10492 replied to LilRedRN1973's topic in Emergency

   I absolutely loved the ER when I worked there, which was 2 1/2 years, before and during nursing school. Upon getting my LPN (during 2nd semester) I had to leave the ER and return to Med-Surg. I am...

3. What Is Your Biggest Weakness?

   CEP10492 replied to RN2B07's topic in General Nursing

   Not with the system we are using, but all of the print is legible. I still end up charting the same thing in 3-4 different

4. What Is Your Biggest Weakness?

   CEP10492 replied to RN2B07's topic in General Nursing

   Stopping in the middle of chaos- taking care of other nurses emergencies, trying to get 3 pt's ready for surgery, trying to locate CNA's who have disappeared from the floor, distraught family members...

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

   CEP10492 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   no the ER can not refuse to see any person who presents to them regardless of emergent or non emergent. I have discovered, in my town at least, that people come to the ER because the ER requires no...

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

   CEP10492 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   No, the ER is not allowed to turn anyone way regardless of emergent or non-emergent. The ER I work in has been termed the after hours clinic. People come to it because no co-pay is required like the...

7. Why do unit nurses have bad reps?

   CEP10492 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in MICU, SICU

   In the facility where I work it's not necessarily the unit one comes from that gives them an alternate ego, it's generally just the person. The ICU in my facility has 6 nurses, of those 6 only one has...