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  1. What types of questions to ask during an Interview?

    You'll want to know how they work the staffing, how many nurses there are. What happens when a camper has to be taken to the ER or for a doctor appt. Who takes them and in what vehicle. When is your time off? Who orders the supplies? Do you have...
  2. RN might be working as a summer camp RN....

    I am a former ER nurse who has worked for several years at a summer camp. I've worked with many different nurses and frankly feel that the ER prepares you the best for camp nursing. If you get a camp job, you have nothing to worry about. You will ...
  3. Would you recommend nursing to your daughter?

    In my 24 years as a nurse I have worked overseas, I've worked in the hospital setting (ER, med surg and CCU) it was great when my kids were little and I could work nights or pm's, as a school nurse, been a camp nurse (where I got to take my kids for ...
  4. ER-101...Route/Meds/Terms

    You don't have to know everything before you get to an ER...you just have to be willing to learn. I worked in an ER for ten years and it changed my life. You become much more confident, develop great decision-making skills and don't mind being voca...
  5. Highest BP you have ever seen on a pt

    Loved the earlier poster who remembered the date and the bp...1982! Now we should have a thread with the highest blood alcohol levels of ER patients. We used to take bets when one would come in, especially if it was one of our regulars who we knew...
  6. What is the major reason nurses leave?

    Very thoughtful post. I think that's a great place to start---what are units who are keeping their nurses doing? I will bet dollars to doughnuts that it has to do with two things. Their coworkers and management. Do they all get along? Are they s...
  7. Hospital nursing, like many labor-intensive jobs, is a young nurse's job in my opinion. And nursing is one career that offers so many opportunities for the different stages in a nurse's life that a person would be a fool not to take advantage of the...
  8. Is it true that a BSN will be mandatory soon?

    This is a perfect example of nursing eating it's young. The eggheads in the ivory tower have been torturing themselves for YEARS with the thoughts of all the incompetent ADN's running around, endangering lives. Too bad. I think they should just ge...
  9. What is the major reason nurses leave?

    There are probably a million reasons why nurses leave hospital nursing. The reasons I left were: increasing acuity of patients and decreasing number of nurses. I never worked so hard, with such complicated patients, in my life. The stress is never...
  10. What do I do? (long)

    You have to decide what kind of person you are. Then you know what is right for you to do.
  11. ER-101...Route/Meds/Terms

    How about the term "train wreck". Does any other ER nurse use this term? Very technical.
  12. "Just" a 2-year degree

    I think rude is rude is rude and some people would be rude no matter. If it wasn't your degree, it would be your choice of car or where you live or the color of your hair. By the way, I got my two year degree 28 years ago and have worked overseas, ...
  13. Views on New Grads Entering the ER.

    In the ER, you will learn about all different adult injuries and illnesses, especially if your employer wants you to take advantage of workshops and seminars out there. Your veteran nurses will be able to mentor you as well. In my experience the ar...
  14. Do we HAVE to address docs by "Dr.--"

    If I have to call a doctor "Dr. so-and-so", then he must call me Nurse so-and-so. Nursing has very long and deeply-entrenched tradition of being the doctor's handmaiden and all that. It's a female-dominated field, and females still often think the...
  15. Nursing job that doesn't have to deal with docs?

    What a great question. I also hated working with "I say jump--you say how high" docs. I found a great job, but the pay isn't so hot. It's school nursing. I worked at different schools and am my own boss. It was my favorite job after ER nursing, ...
  16. Most commom camp issues and tips...

    Something I learned at camp last year...many docs do not give Pepto Bismol to kids due to it containing aspirin. I guess it's the virus connection. I do not give it any longer, either. Also, I think the best preparation for camp nursing is ER nur...
  17. 10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    To my co-workers,"Another one bites the dust..." Gallows humor, I guess.
  18. Advice for RNs who are still wet behind the ears

    My only advice to new grads would be to listen and observe. Think like a detective. Watch your patients, listen and don't talk too much. Same goes for staff....listen to the people you feel are smart...like nurses, doctors and aides. You can lear...
  19. I agree with everyone else. There is NO excuse for the care that was not taken to treat your uncle's body with respect. I would raise the roof on this one. You have every right. Someone (or three) should apologize to your family.
  20. Views on New Grads Entering the ER.

    I know that a lot of the top trauma centers prefer new grads so they can teach them from square one....and don't have to "unlearn" them. I personally think that it's great to have certain experience---like peds or esp. newborns or L and D--areas tha...
  21. Questions about trauma I witnessed. (LONG)

    Sometimes we can witness things that we don't understand, and possibly won't for years, until you have more experience and knowledge. Maybe if you write it all down and put it away for awhile, looking at it months or even years from now. Not that y...
  22. Lice at camp

    We just had this problem at my camp. We found three girls with lice on incoming camper day. One girl was not too bad, but the other two were sisters and were absolutely loaded. All three girls said their moms had treated them and thought they were...
  23. Any advice on dealing with homesickness?

    I would not let the kids call home---you're right---it never works, it only makes it worse. The only thing I know of that works is keeping them busy and happy. And with the littler kids, when one is homesick, they all start crying...it's like domin...
  24. This must be a fairly common problem; I see it everywhere. At my camp, except for incoming camper days, I have no control over the forms that are filled out or not filled out. The directors know some families very well, but if they don't have conse...
  25. FDA approves infant vaccine for diarrhea virus

    My two older kids had the illness (chicken pox), so for them it was a moot point. But my youngest, who is now 9, didn't. It was a dilemma and I held out in kindergarten even though it's required, but I caved in 1st grade and he got the shot. I wis...