our triage has no pt assignment, fills the next shift if short or sick call. we get about $1 pr hr charge pay. what kind of set up do you have for chairs ...
I used work in the Level 1 trauma center with about 25 beds. We had EMT-P but worked as a ED tech. I guess that pay is better working as tech than working as...
It depends on the size of department, I think. The 25 bed trauma center I worked was like everybody discribed. No assigned patients. More of liason and the ...
Just a question about the scope of practice of lvns in the er. I work in a 7 bed soon to be a 14 bed er construction to end in Nov in Calif. We do not have a...
Sorry, sgowing my Aussie ignorance again here ... basic nursing care BUT not give drugs, play with IVs, complex dressings etc or supposedly work in critical...
hi i have recently started to work in the ER aggain, although I have been primarly a ICU nurse. <br>Recently I have applied for a Nurse consultant position in ...
Dad always said that "God and the Police are the only people supposed to up all night." I guess Dad forgot about nurses!<br><br>I specialize in Trauma/ES, with...
Cutbacks (due to the Olympics and all the spending on this important area) as well as staff shortages and expecially a shortage in experienced A&E nurses......
How does your area deal with people exhibiting drug seeking behaviours?? We used to flag the files, and also flag the triage if it was a person's first ...
<EOM>can you imagine the chances of some one in this club meeting another club member . I was at work and cassy this very nice and excellent agency was...
well, it is trauma season here, lots of it and especially kids, always harder to take. and the usual summer vacation staffing pinch, no one wants to work and...
Not to long ago, it was a typical day in our ER. while I was busy working I overheard on the loud speaker we were getting a level 3 trauma alert..someone stuck...
thats a good one! did he get the keys back too? we have to man the poison control line in our er and a lot of our funny stories come from there, we have ...
Hi I am a UK nurse having removed myself from ER/A+E for a short while to deal with a branch of nursing new to me.. Telephone queries in poison information....
g'day and welcome to all the new members. We keep all our funny incidents in 'The Humour Book'. One of my colleagues organised an interpreter for an elderly...
LOL! that's a good one. welcome new memebers! we get a lot of mushroom eating calls on the poison line, often people are unable to describe it because it was...
Hi,<br>New member. About those funny incidents. We had a young 20 female come in for vaginal problems. The doc wrote her a prescription. She came back a few...
I'm not a nurse. I'm an ER volunteer (no formal medical training) and have been one for 5+ years.<br><br>I'm wondering how many ER's use volunteers and what ...
Hi luv2bugya,<br>We use volunteers in our ER. It's great to have some one help us out. They run lab specimens to the lab for us. They take pts. to xray in wc ...
