gere7404

gere7404 BSN, RN

Emergency Room, CEN, TCRN

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  1. COVID Update 2020 vs 2021

    gere7404 replied to Leinurse's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This years surge is way worse in my area. our entire ICU, IMCU and gen med floor are hot zones. Cancelled most surgeries. Haven’t seen many deaths but delta has made a lot of people sick....

  2. Want to work in ER

    gere7404 replied to JackThunder's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Float pool is also a potential path to the ED at my hospital — you get trained for all the specialty floors so you can handle pretty much most of what we see besides traumas. we frequently use the...

  3. Want to work in ER

    gere7404 replied to JackThunder's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My ER typically only hires new grads that did their capstone clinicals in the department. We hire experienced ER and critical care Nurses, very rarely do they hire floor nurses. I worked a cardiac...

  4. Oregon License by Endorsement

    gere7404 replied to Vanessa Benning's topic in General Nursing

    Couple weeks, but that was before covid. I took my NCLEX July 3rd and got my license before my start date of august 8. I updated my mailing address and car registration with the oregon DMV back...

  5. Oregon License by Endorsement

    gere7404 replied to Vanessa Benning's topic in General Nursing

    I finished in 75 in about a half hour and my test took forever for pearsonvue to verify I didn’t cheat. Will pearsonvue let you pay the $8 or whatever to see if you passed? If it doesn’t you might...

  6. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    gere7404 replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What’s reality, though? The few cases severe enough to end up in the ICU of the majority of cases that never need to seek medical care? Are both reality? Or are they mutually exclusive...

  7. Longest Shift You've Worked

    gere7404 replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    baghdad (dora/karada) 05-06, MND-N (kirkuk, tal afar, mosul) 08, 09 as an infantryman (3rd ID, 81st BCT, 155th BCT (1/10 do not recommend)). Op-tempo was way slow later part of 2009, we would rotate...

  8. Longest Shift You've Worked

    gere7404 replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    We had tons of downtime, especially in the later years of OIF. Red air was awesomeness because all operations stopped until casevac could fly. longest I worked in the hospital was 16 hours....

  9. Paramedic Experience beneficial?

    gere7404 replied to Michael Cook's topic in General Nursing

    Beneficial if you did an paramedic to RN bridge program. Some skills transfer over to the ER but paramedicine and in pt nursing have very different priorities and

  10. Thoughts On Eliminating Nurse Report

    gere7404 replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    We’ve got an admission handoff flow sheet we do in epic but I’m pretty sure the floor nurses can’t even see it. we only have to call report to critical care, which they hate, because we...

  11. New Grad Starting In Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital

    gere7404 replied to n0rse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It took four months for me to get on boarded as a unlicensed nursing assistant…. People with certifications and licenses can take several months longer because the VA is the

  12. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    gere7404 replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I had a five year old covid pt the last day I worked. She was fine except she was dehydrated. gave her a baby Bolus, a popsicle and some kids apap and went her home. that’s the first peds pt...

  13. New Grad Starting In Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital

    gere7404 replied to n0rse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The onboarding process takes forever. also, new grads in my area make way less at the VA than private health care systems. The step system at the VA is kind of wonky. If you start there it takes...

  14. How does your unit determine who floats?

    gere7404 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in General Nursing

    We don’t float out of the ER. floors keep track of the dates of when everyone floated last and float whoever has the longest time since they last floated. Certain nurses with long enough...

  15. Covid-19 Bonus

    gere7404 replied to NursePelican's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We got a $20/hr bonus to pick up extra shifts during covid surges but no lump bonus totally worth it, only caught two strains of covid and made tons of bank

  16. Whats next after the pandemic?

    gere7404 replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    We’re always full, it’s how we stay in business. We were full before covid, we actually had a big hit on our census for a while because people were too scared to come to the hospital (even though...

  17. Compassionate Combat

    gere7404 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It’s almost like warfare is the worst thing that humanity does almost seems silly comparing the last year to that doesn’t

  18. Compassionate Combat

    gere7404 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I cope just fine, I just can’t stand the self aggrandizing of nurses making the comparison that covid is anything like combat. It’s not. Nothing I described were war crimes, they are just every...

  19. Compassionate Combat

    gere7404 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The 30 months I served in Iraq as an infantryman was nothing compared to what nurses went through the last year with Covid, in retrospect. I thought knowing how driving over the body parts of a crowd...

  20. Compassionate Combat

    gere7404 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Compassionate Combat? it’s insulting to actual combat veterans and the local nationals who suffered through living in an actual war zone to compare the last year to a

  21. Cardiology Nursing

    gere7404 replied to Sweese22's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What kind of cardiology is it? A telemetry med/surg? A cardiac step down? A CVICU? if it’s med/surg you’ll see a lot of stable afib, chf, nstemi’s, post-cath, and post open heart surgery...

  22. Your Help Needed: Give A Tip To A New Grad Nurse

    gere7404 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    10. Don’t correct your preceptor and say, “well in nursing school, we learned it this

  23. Not Sure What Direction To Go From Here...

    gere7404 replied to Aliceozwalker's topic in General Nursing

    Our gen med unit has the reputation of being one of the hardest units to work... maybe a different department might be a better fit? Infusion services and wound care also seems like pretty chill

  24. Covid and Hospitals: How are things now?

    gere7404 replied to CrunchRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They closed down an entire unit? Like, you guys have empty beds just sitting there?? So jealous. We had to put our ER on divert the last night I worked because we had so many boarders. We had...

  25. MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    gere7404 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    To be honest, realistically if someone was at the front door shouting they were cops I would not be able to hear them from my bedroom. I’d respond exactly the same as Taylor’s boyfriend, with a...