I will be applying for an Emergency full time position in Jun/Jul next year. I was thinkng of the yale group. Anybody work for them or have any suggesstions on if it if a good place to work? I know...
Cali Nurse replied to KatieBell's topic in Emergency
I just passed in June this year. I studied here and there for maybe 3 months. The best book I used was "CEN Review Manual", it's actually put out by the ENA. You can get it on the ENA website, it's...
I work in a rural hospital and there's tons of downtime! I'm on here every night because I'm the only nurse on in my dept and have no other nurses to talk to. So it's nice to be able to see what...
Cali Nurse replied to samaritan's topic in Emergency
Did anyone else read the article addressing mod sedation in the Sept ENA newsletter? Very interesting and includes a list of agents that the ENA/ACEP support for use in procedural sedation. Includes...
I wouldn't say there is a specific person who says "now is the time the pt can go to the floor". It's more like a process. The ER doc is ready for them to go as soon as the consulting physician says...
Cali Nurse replied to samaritan's topic in Emergency
I'm sorry. It seemed like the EDinNC post was saying that if we can push parayltics for an RSI, and then monitor/sedate the pt once vented, that giving ketamine, a drug which is used commonly in CS...
I'm sorry if that came off as attitude, but you had just gone off on how ER nurses dump on you and I was trying to point out why it may seem that way. Like I said, I worked on a floor for 2 years and...
Cali Nurse replied to samaritan's topic in Emergency
If you would re-read the post you were commenting on, the person was talking about RSI and vented pts. I think any competent RN knows that paralytics are not used in
OK, you obviously have some misconceptions about how the ER works. First of all, we do not sit on pts and ship them all up to the floor at once just to piss off the floor. We cannot send the pts up...
Cali Nurse replied to LilRedRN1973's topic in Emergency
Well, I never thought I would end up in the ER. I was pretty reserved, started out on med-surg. When I transferred down to the ER 3 years ago I was amazed at how much more aggressive I could be and...
Cali Nurse replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency
Christmas Day 2 years ago, I was working triage, my first Christmas in the ER. I started out the day thinking "people will only come in if it's a real emergency today". Ha! --5 day old baby with...
I have been in the Navy for 5 years now. I did not go to OIS, I did ROTC, so I can't give you any advice on that. But at my first duty station, Naval Hosp San Diego, I was on the fleet hospital...