ernrs2b

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 ...

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 department...

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" ...

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 e...

"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 after...

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...

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 an...

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 gro...

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

I went in with a Surgeon once who was evaluating testicular necrosis, and when he pulled up the patients "netherregions" a foul smell emitted causing the surgeon to jump back and yell "good God"!! I asked him "R U OK?" HEHEHEHEHe!!

if the trauma center offers a preceptorship take it! that's my advice/I started off small in a level 3 and transferred later to a trauma center and was amazed at what the new grads that went through the program know, they will take in to consideratio...

I always say, family first/ job second....I work just enough to live comfortably and if the job begins to intrude on my family/home life, its time to move on...sounds like you, like me, have our priorities in order...and theres no reason to defend th...

Birkenstock's, they are not pretty, but my legs never hurt when I wear them

I broke my hand last year and had to wear a splint...I thought it would be fine considering it wasnt my dominant hand, but ran in to trouble when I had to glove up and worse yet, wash my hands...I wound up taking the time off work until it healed

I was fooled yesterday by a patient, trying to get a "get out of jail free card" by faking a seizure and urinating on herself......she disappeared as soon as a friend arrived to pick her up....and people wonder why ER nurses have a reputation of appe...

We already are paying for it, and OBTW, I LIVE in the real world and deal with real people who are forced to choose between eating and filling their blood pressure medicine, who are living paycheck to paycheck and one little illness sends them over t...

do you realize, that in France, if you have a baby they will pay you for a year out of work....we are so overworked...do you realize that most of the people that are uninsured are like you or I, middle class citizens, I do because they are forced to ...

I originally wanted to be a nun, I traded one hat for another...my grandmother was becoming an LPN when I was 5 that's when I knew this is what I wanted to do

In my experience, I don't think that you'll ever get over the "OMG, what am I doing here" and you'll never know it all, I have been in the ER for 8 years now, and am still learning and seeing new things, I'm not an expert, I consider myself as the ja...