Kaitef0716

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1. How long you push emergency drugs during codes

   Kaitef0716 posted a topic in Emergency

   Was just wondering how long you push emergency drugs for during codes. Etomidate, sux, ketamine, amiodarone, bicarbonate, calcium, Epi,vasopressin? Any other main ones I'm missing. Thanks

2. Options after RN

   Kaitef0716 posted a topic in General Nursing

   So I have my BSN and have been wanting to go back to school. I work in the ER right now and love it. I was planning to go for my NP but then decided I didn't want to do that anymore. I also have no desire to be a manager, CNL, or do research. Was jus...

3. ER rushing patients to the floor

   Kaitef0716 replied to freckles23's topic in General Nursing

   Speaking as an ER nurse the rush comes from our throughput times. Like someone else had mentioned we get audited like no other on how fast or slow so many different things happen in the ER. Especially this time of the year with having to board patien...

4. IV help

   Kaitef0716 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I feel like I am on a serious rut with IV starts. Each time I start an IV I'm getting in no problem but then after advancing it like halfway I am ALWAYS getting stuck on a valve or something. Have tried pulling back and pushing it again or trying the...

5. ED advice

   Kaitef0716 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Been a medsurg nurse for a few years but moving down to the ED in a month. Any advice from ED nurses? Anything I should brush up on or review? Thanks.

6. mrsa testing

   Kaitef0716 posted a topic in General Nursing

   just wondering if someone can clarify something in regards to mrsa testing. so in the unit we mrsa swab everyone right when they're admitted. a lot of the times in the ED they have already been on antibiotics before they are sent to us or have been o...