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  1. Nurse in Germany Convicted of Killing Patients

    floydnightingale replied to jeastridge's topic in Nursing News

    You'd think somebody would've noticed after the first 90 or so. I've been an ER nurse for 20 years, work as much as 80 hours a week, and I've lost exactly 4 patients and all were DNR. Dude was

  2. Getting into the Emergency department

    floydnightingale replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure you're smart enough to do it, but my experience suggests that ICU nurses don't do well in the ED and emergency nurses don't transition easily to critical care. I'll call report and they'll...

  3. Peritoneal Dialysis in the ED?

    floydnightingale replied to robrn1123's topic in Emergency

    We don't touch that, and it's not that common at my ED. We see many hemodialysis patients daily, but I don't think I personally see as many as one peritoneal dialysis pt in a year's time. If I'm...

  4. Thinking about buying an Accuvein 300...responses?

    floydnightingale replied to XY_RN's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    We bought three of these for our ED. Save your money. First off, if a patient's veins are so bad that you need this device it will likely only confirm that they have lousy veins. It's also a very poor...