Has anyone ever done any travel nursing or might be thinking about it? I'm thinking of relocating and would like to hear from anyone else with similar...
Debbie,<br>My advice is don't rush it. It will come. Watch and participate in as much as you can. the most important thing is to never be afraid to ask ...
I just left a position as the manager of a twenty bed ICU due to health problems. It was a constant battle trying to staff. We even offered double time and ...
Greetings everyone. just joined the club, I work FT in an level 2 trauma center- in the ER of course. I am on line in the wee hours of the AM. will be checking...
greetings and welcome! i work permanent e shift. we are having a mild and gentle winter, cuts down on our mva traumas! but we had a bad frostbite guy on ...
I see your from canada wow, thats great. the Er I work is usually very busy- we all kid about wearing foley leg bags because its hard to even go to the ...
Hi, everybody. Earlist message said, "once ER nurse, forever ER nurse." That's really true. It took one year to get used to that disorganized organization in...
Hi, everybody. Earlist message said, "once ER nurse, forever ER nurse." That's really true. It took one year to get used to that disorganized organization in...
greetings praireriver, our whole Er is used like a clinic, My first question to most of the pts is.. did you call/see your Dr? I am surprized the number of...
question for all of you- in our ER when we give Td shots we remove the label from the barrel of the Im injector, that shows the exp date, lot # etc--- and...
I teach ACLS and am looking for interesting "code" stories... to share in my teaching stations... if you have anything let me know. also fyi on the next ACLS...
nk, you're right about that humour.... we have a Department (ERs are called EDs... Emergency Departments here in NSW, Australia) humour book in which we write ...
When I work nights, the first 2 questions to a non-urgent eg'I've had this pain in my little finger for the past three weeks' are "is there anything different ...
showing my Aussie ignorance here.... what is Td???<br>*blushing*<br>All our IM injections are checked by 2 nurses, expiry date and drug name and no. being what...
Bretylium hasn't been used in Aus (to my knowledge) for years... we use amiodarone as an IV infusion. Use it fairly frequently, in fact, it seems to be the ...
we only check certain iv meds, heparin, insulin w another nurse, no paperwork on our td shots, just give the pt a little card w the date and drug on it. any ...
Well nice to see that things down under are no different than our Military Emergency room here at Tripler Army Medical Center. We too, cannot turn anybody...
You know why? Those are the only ones who can speak. Sick ones are too sick to talk most of the time. <br>I work sometime in this small ER, 8 beds with one doc...
thanks for the clarification... we call it tet-tox or ADT down here ... had an idea it might be something along those lines :)<br>No special way to record the...
It never ceases to amaze me how the wonderful world of ED (ER, A&E, Casualty..etc :) can be so similar under different medical systems and in different ...
Aloha! I wish we had regular clinics to triage them to but alas! All this spending on the olympics means that our clinics are no more :(<br>Oh well....<br>I...
Frequent use of ER for non urgent clinic-type problems happens all the time here and seems to be growing. One of the problems is doctors offices are frequently...
There are times when it really gets me down to take care of that whiney, sniffely, should've went to the doctor 2 weeks ago junk. But they are numbers to a...
we have medi-clinics or minor emergencies, usually run w a family doc practice. i don't hesitate to triage pts there or to the other 2 hospital er's for care,...
