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 going to be a nurse. When I explained to the doctor...
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 doing everything in my power at this time to return t...
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 because their loved one wants to be cremated if he...
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 co-pay like the clinics do.
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 clinics.
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 ever talked down to me or flat out ignored me, ev...