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    ER deaths

    ReadyToListen replied to ToriAneal's topic in Emergency

    So sorry you had such a hard experience, OP....hugs. the only similar experience I've had is the night we got an ems radio report for a resp arrest and it was the husband of a Dept head. We all know...
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    How long did you stay at your first job?

    ReadyToListen replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    First healthcare job or first job period? First job less than 3 months. Hospital job, I hit my 1 year last month
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    Sleep Rooms

    ReadyToListen replied to AlleycatLady's topic in General Nursing

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! I flip so I get to compare
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    Sleep Rooms

    ReadyToListen replied to AlleycatLady's topic in General Nursing

    I have long thought that if management provided, say for argument's sake, a men's room and women's room each with 2 sets of 3 bunks that I'd gladly work part of the night shift after 2-3 hours...
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    How was your first code blue? What role did you have?

    ReadyToListen replied to journey2success's topic in General Nursing

    Pre nursing student, working CNA/ER clerk. First code I witnessed was, to be perfectly honest, a very blessed and peaceful event. Drive up patient, daughter notifies triage that pt is "passed out in...
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    Lavender?!

    ReadyToListen replied to huffmannurse's topic in School

    I enjoy using them for myself on occasion but I would never expect to see a nurse handing them out. (hospital
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    PSYCH RN to ER RN advice!!??

    ReadyToListen replied to Liz12345's topic in Emergency

    ER staff love it when former psych staff join the team!! As PPs have said, there is an abundance of psych holds even in a small ER and guess who gets to sit with them if they're out of control!!...
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    Psych in the ER

    ReadyToListen posted a topic in Emergency

    I know you guys are probably getting tired of psych posts in the ER category but it's a topic I know virtually nothing about so I want to know what the ER nurses think! (I am not a nurse.) Working...
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    Psych in the ER

    ReadyToListen replied to ReadyToListen's topic in Emergency

    Wow I wish my ER would do this!! It takes hours for us to get a psych assessor to our unit and we have held patients for 24 hours before for this
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    Psych in the ER

    ReadyToListen replied to ReadyToListen's topic in Emergency

    Excellent point and our patients do get seen quickly for whatever help we can provide. I am more referring to a full assessment with questions such as, "Why do you think these feelings are...
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    Nurse and MD relationships in the ED

    ReadyToListen replied to amzyRN's topic in Emergency

    Burnt-out, snobbish, energetic, and respectful show up in all departments that I've been in. I think the difference you've heard about in the ER is the fact that no matter how someone else of any...
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    The worst job you had before becoming a Nurse?

    ReadyToListen replied to Want2BeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    After high school I worked for an artistic fruit designs shop. Worst. Idea. Ever. Customers on the phone would fly into a rage because there was 2 silver balloons instead of 3. Seriously world, I...
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    allnuisances

    ReadyToListen replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    EVERY NURSE EVER that I have been really great friends with talks to
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    April fools is tomorrow!!! Need ideas for night shift! ;-)

    ReadyToListen replied to EmRN14's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was talking to a nurse about a former FF of ours (almost weekly until he passed) and told this story. One time he was certain he was supposed to have a script to take home so i called the unit...
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    What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    ReadyToListen replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    I actually had a dream yesterday while trying to sleep (night shifter!) that I arrived to work but I couldn't hear anyone talking to me because my ears were full of green wax!! Grossest weirdness...
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    Best MD note

    ReadyToListen replied to beckster_01's topic in Nursing Humor

    "Nov 6, '15 by nursecathi Must be new protocol at my hospital but all H&P's now include "pt not currently breast feeding" That's good to know when the patient is 70-80 years old!" And
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    Best MD note

    ReadyToListen replied to beckster_01's topic in Nursing Humor

    Read an awesome one with a surgeon on the ICU last week. Going through old progress notes trying to determine some history on a new patient since she is intubated and can't tell. ER note from...
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    Onward to Texas!

    ReadyToListen replied to coughdrop.2.go's topic in School

    Proud of my hill country!!! Welcome to the greatest
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    ED Ethics In Self Harm

    ReadyToListen replied to ReadyToListen's topic in Emergency

    Yeah for real! I have hx and I can still lie about it just
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    ED Ethics In Self Harm

    ReadyToListen posted a topic in Emergency

    I saw a very touchy situation the other day of a hypertensive female, early 20s (c/o headache, fatigue) who absolutely *refused* to answer in triage when asked if she "has ever had thoughts of harming...
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    Future ER nurse

    ReadyToListen replied to Nursechamp1's topic in Emergency

    I'm resource pool....ICU is NOTHING remotely similar to ER except that sick people die
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    ED Ethics In Self Harm

    ReadyToListen replied to ReadyToListen's topic in Emergency

    Ditto the uselessness of individual questions. Maybe one of the reasons this girl got to me a little is that I lie all the time about my issues as a teenager because it's not relevant now and the...
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    Concealed Carry for Caregivers

    ReadyToListen replied to ClaraRedheart's topic in General Nursing

    I very strongly believe that CC should be permitted in healthcare settings of all kinds except of course psych or something outrageous like that. Security can indeed take 10-15+ to show up and plenty...
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    Personal safety at work...question.

    ReadyToListen posted a topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I'm wondering what healthcare people think since I don't have the guts to ask my own coworkers :/. I get panic attacks that last from 3 minutes to 1 hour that result in crazy numbers like hr 130s, bp...
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    Looking up patients previously in your care

    ReadyToListen replied to Clovery's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Really glad I saw this thread because I have already done this as CNA and I now I understand it's a very bad idea. I was getting to be friends with a family in the ICU and I checked to see whether...