ednurse17

ednurse17 BSN, MSN, RN, NP

ER, PEDS, CASE MANAGEMENT

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  1. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    ednurse17 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    OMG! You are soooo right about that

  2. Pubic hair

    ednurse17 replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

    I MIGHT consider trimming some excess with scissors but I doubt I'd shave it. Theres too much risk of infection if you accidently nicked the patient. Same for trimming toenails. Leave it to the...

  3. nurse stole over 60,000.00 in goods

    ednurse17 replied to barefootlady's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    You can check out the story at http://courier-tribune.com. Go to archives, search for story posted on

  4. Pubic hair

    ednurse17 replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

    Yikes was an

  5. Nursing with a Southern Accent

    ednurse17 replied to natron20's topic in General Nursing

    Don't let your accent stand in your way. Wherever you're from, you've got one. The northerners have one, far south, indian, polish, spanish.... if I don't understand something, I ask for a repeat....

  6. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    ednurse17 replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    I worked a busy med/surg/peds floor for 7 yrs before transferring down to ER full time 5 yrs ago. For years, we didn't even have a CNA working with us. We turned, cleaned, disimpacted, changed...

  7. What Gets to You??

    ednurse17 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    The smell of C-diff and rotavirus. I can't eat guacamole to this day. Worked on peds unit for 7 years, up to my eyeballs in rotavirus at times. GI bleeds are awful

  8. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    ednurse17 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

  9. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    ednurse17 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I certainly would hope that your surgeon/nurses wouldn't withhold pain medication or that the surgeon would do a half a** job on your surgery. In our facility, doctors do the same for a ruptured...

  10. What Gets to You??

    ednurse17 replied to mshooha's topic in Emergency

    I absolutely cannot stand anyone spitting on the floor, the bed, the walls.... drives me nuts. We have drunks who come in and hack up a huge one and then you hear it go splat on the floor. They get...

  11. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    ednurse17 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    Your level of triage would definitely be a level 2, most urgent. I would take you before all the others if you were sitting in my triage area. Unless we're really busy we don't have people sign in,...

  12. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    ednurse17 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    another good one, happened just this morning. A girl came into the ER for a pimple that just wouldn't surrender to her constant squeezing and tugging. One side of her face was swollen, a script for...

  13. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    ednurse17 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    fortunately, our town is blessed with a 24 hr pharmacy, it was the doctor's decision, not mine, that the patient not receive the inhaler. As far as the pregnancy test is concerned, well, that's a...

  14. Need help with Emergency Triage

    ednurse17 replied to TDGEMTIV's topic in Emergency

    His name is Bo. Funny guy!!! Classes were excellent!!!!! Go to

  15. Need help with Emergency Triage

    ednurse17 replied to TDGEMTIV's topic in Emergency

    We used to use the 3 level system. Found out that the 5 level works out much better. There is a consultant who is a nurse that holds "triage first" meetings nationwide. For the life of me, I can't...

  16. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    ednurse17 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    hmm... gosh there are soooo many, one that sticks out in my mind... an 8 ball in the a**hole.... the guy actually brought another ball just like the one he had inserted inside so we'd know what it...

  17. Need help with Emergency Triage

    ednurse17 replied to TDGEMTIV's topic in Emergency

    I work in an 18-bed ER in North Carolina. We use the 5 level triage system. Resuscitative to Non Urgent. Basically, classifications goes like this, non emergent is for anything that doesn't require an...

  18. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    ednurse17 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    I think Medicaid/Medicare is wonderful for the people who really need it. I too get tired of how patients abuse the system. The ones that come in at 0200 in the morning, wanting a pregnancy test,...

  19. ER Pet Peeves

    ednurse17 replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    its so nice to know that I'm not the only one who gets peeved off about these patients!!! For the life of me, I have yet to figure out WHY no one can buy Motrin/Tylenol or better yet, you ask them...