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 ...
We use Volunteers in our ER: Young and Old they help out in Triage, bring pts to their assigned Er bed- make beds, restock linens/supplies pretty much anything...
we have 1 special volunteer, an older lady who is the greatest. she feeds patients, brings them to stretchers, transports, brings the charts or pts down from ...
Oh OK, I have to admit we all look forward to the goodies the ladies bring in and from the wives of our male volunteers. Not that that's the only reason we...
I have the opportunity to apply for a 12 mth contract to work for Providence Health Care Hospitals (in ER hopefully)in Vancouver. Can my Canadian colleagues...
We have case managers in house, and if we identify 'frequent fliers' then they are involved as soon as possible. They bring in the patients GP or find them one...
Had to share this... funny in an "omigosh!!!" way.<br>Elderly male pt, chronic CAL, wants to go outside for a cigarette (don't they all!). Is on O2 via nasal...
I am a L.V.N., going on to a R.N. in a E.R., I LVN's that are smarter that some of the R.N.'s and believe they are more useful than EMT's who can limited...
I was an LVN in California before I became an RN<br>I worked both ICU and CCU had the CCu certification that required 1 semester wednesday nites 3 hours for 18...
Yep, it happened again!! Although not in our dept this time, thank goodness. One of our frequent fliers with end stage CAL (keeps coming in as he partakes in ...
I live in IL where Illinois Dept of Public Health requires ER nurses to have a state regulated license to care for state defined trauma patients. This...
I also work in an ER in Illinois. Your hospital may require TNS which I agree is very intensive my hospital requires only TNCC which is good nationwide. TNS is...
New to the club. Work in a rural hospital ER in IL. Got my TNS a few years ago. Stressful but worht it. I just found this site today. Looks like a good...
anyone take the canadian nurses emergency certification exam? you have to have 2 years recent er experience, then you study and write an exam in march to be ...
November 13, 2000<br><br>Mi Amigos,<br> For those of you who have access to the<br>World Wide Web……<br> Please let me direct you to two websites that...
