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I started as a new grad in the ER and I dont suggest it. I wish I had had some ICU experience prior. It took a few years to feel truely comfortably with those patients and I now feel I'm a "jack of all trades and master of none" I'm now a supervisor in the ER and we look/prefer to hire nurses with floor experience, because of their time management skills amongst other qualities. good luck with your decision!

we are considering this since we are trying to get our times cut in half. I am really frustrated that it seems the ER nurse always gets more dumped on them to accommodate other departments. Why are we always the flexible ones and the other departments usual response is "it can't be done"

we are getting ready to trial "immediate bedding". We have an initial nurse do a quick screening to see whether the patient can go to urgent care and assign a bed to the main ER or urgent care. the patient arrives in the room, a "mobile triage team" which include a provider (MD,PA,NP), triage nurse and tech will do the triage and initial orders/assessment. when the beds are full, this team returns to triage and evaluates/discharges from the waiting room. We are hoping this helps our wait times. I agree, you can't predict what will roll in the door at any time. If there's a code, you find a bed. No different than any other day in the ER. We live in a drive thru kinda world, we have to cater to that unfortunately!

You will lose weight initially just from the increase in activity, however your body does get used to that activity and eventually will gain the weight back. If you pay attention to the nurses that are skinny they either eat nothing all day or they eat several times throughout their shift (smaller portions, of course), usually the overweight nurse starves all day and eats a large meal once or twice daily. I, also, did Weight Watchers and lost 30lbs and ate every few hours throughout the day. Of course, preplanned snacks and meals

"they can't follow you home." "illness is 80% mental/ 20% physical"--ME

I agree with Virgo,RN....I'd just show up and see what they have to say, remain professional and don't back down on something that may cost you your liscense in the end...then address the false documenting at a later time..good luck

with the agency that I work for :they offer, full time salaried/fulltime hourly/parttime hourly/ and pay per visit....I chose Pay per visit, because I can't obligate myself to a full 8hrs

I, also, am an ER nurse and started HH 2months ago...I still work in the ER 3 days a week and get paid per visit with HH...I love it! I drop my daughter off at school in the morning, go and see patients throughout the day and pick her up in the afternoon...I'm considering giving up the ER fulltime and switching to HH fulltime and doing ER prn...good luck!

I live and work in St. Louis, moved here a year ago and found that Barnes was the highest paying at the time, however if you work in the city you have to pay city taxes if money is the ultimate issue, SSM offers a weekend program which pays the same as if you were agency..

In the ER, we don't have time to wait for pharmacy, so we mix our own and to answer your question...I draw it up in an insulin syringe to check with another nurse and then "squirt" it in to another syringe to inject in to the bag

I wouldn't stress too much about it, I personally didn't get any training in school and learned on the job, really nervous my first time/twice as nervous on the first child I stuck, but you get over it after a few times, the key is to be confident and not let the patient see you sweat....

Kate, from Jon and Kate plus 8...dialysis nurse then L&D nurse

I love ER! I've heard that they have practicing nurses and md's on their staff to advise on making "it look real"///I love looking at all the new technology they have

I think you're right as far as brushing up on meds and treatments, however I wouldn't be too nervous about returning, you will have an orientation for atleast a few weeks if not longer to reacclimate, by then you should know if you're back in the groove or not. Good Luck!

ultrascope, can hear through pt's clothing, got rid of my Littman