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My hospital has blocked me from accessing blogspot at work! I can understand facebook but blocking my ability to vent about how ridiculous the new policies and administrations decisions are in just going too far! I am sure this is a violation of some right I have. I'm sure I have a legitimate grievance here I can file with the union.... hmmm now if only I could remember which union I work for....

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After almost 6 months of turmoil in our ER and 75+ hour work weeks , I am finally back to writing!In the last 6 months my ER has gone thru major changes both physically and personnel wise that has not always been for the benefit of the employees or the patients, but great for the hospital's bottom line. A few of those changes including firing the ER MD group and hiring a mega group from out of

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We all know that the economy has gone to sh**, sadly those of us in healthcare have gotten a front row seat in the impact this has had on our communities.In the last couple months our SI\SA (suicide ideation,suicide attempts) have drastically increased. Before we would get people "attempting" suicide more for attention getting behavior than from depression. Now on average I deal with 2-3 true

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Back in October I was wondering aloud about how effective this years Influenza Vaccination was going to be and B*tching about the CDC pushing for all healthcare workers and children under 18 to be vaccinated. I held the opinion that until they perfected the makeup of the vaccine and not making it an educational guess I would not get the vaccine for me or my children.Well according to their

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YEAH I am back... After being sentenced to practically the last 2 months non-stop in the ER I finally have been paroled.As those in the medical field the holidays are a bad time for us..we are swamped. For some reason people forget about taking their meds or not consistent with them..people start hitting the bottle pretty hard or over doing it with the high fat and salty foods, decide that

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Dear ER Patients,I know that for many of you our ER feels like home as you spend more time here than in your own home I am sure -but there are still rules you must follow. So here is a quick list of absolute "NOs" while you are here in case you have forgotten them in the last 2 days since your last visit.1. No you may NOT eat Cheetos and drink Pepsi when you are here for Abdominal pain and

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Veteran's Day 2008

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I am once again working too many shifts... I am tired, cranky and in desperate need of a vacation.. or even a couple days off....The last 2 weeks we have seen some heartbreaking cases...A 14 month old brought in by mom after drinking lamp oil.. inital oxygen sat 30% heartrate 280.. not responding to pain stimuli.... Ped trauma activated, attempts at IV placement successfull then quickly blow..

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I work tonight... Let the fun begin!!

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Once again ER Nurse is working way too many shifts.. we have been crazy busy and flu season hasn't even begun yet...Here is a snippet of some events that has ER Nurse proposing routine tasing just to make me feel better.23yo M in for asthma crying on his gurney because his O2 probe was "Too Tight".19yo M with Fx ankle from skateboarding who reports not wearing a helmet because the "Type" of

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We are overflowing with patients both in the ER and on the floors. This weekend we have lived on DIVERT.. average patients time in the waiting room 6+ hours. We had patients in the ER for 15+ hours. And now because of this we are Boarding patients that need to go to PCU.I hate boarding patients and this shift I have 3. I medicate based on a MAR and if I want to give more medication than the DR

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ER nurse has worked 131.25 hours in the last 2 weeks....ER nurse needs a vacation.

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HAPPY EMERGENCY NURSE WEEK

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SHE IS BAAAAAAAAACK!!The drunk chic from the last 2 nights is back again for the 5 time, after getting drunk and passing out at----- Hold your horses..Yep Mc D's bathroom again !OMG... again BAL 0.387, this time enough is enough we are sending her to involuntary secure detox. If not for her own good then for my sanity... though I am half tempted to get her a Burger King gift card and a one way

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Two recent LOL (Little ole lady) stories...Medics bring in 74yo after being found down at home by granddaughter with a blood sugar 38.Granddaughter guilt ridden that she went out with friends and was not there for Granny...ER nurse explained to distraught granddaughter that it was not her fault... It was Grandma mixing Glyburide and her 1 1/2 pint to a 1/5 of whiskey a day habit.Mother and

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ER Nurse rarely refuses to care for a patient.. but tonight I have had enough it is someone else's turn to care for the 33yo alcoholic that keeps getting drunk and finding her way to the local McD and passing out in their bathroom.Normally this would be an easy pt to care for .. but this would have been the 4th time in 36 hours I personally have taken care of her for a BAL >0.377 after sobering

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Dear Nursing Home Nurses,It is NEVER EVER acceptable to send your patients to the ER via ambulance for the sole purpose of peripheral IV placement!Love,Your Very PO'd ER Nurse

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Husband calls 911 after waking in the night and finding that wife is not her usually cuddly self and a little on the cold side.. Medics find her asystole.. On a side note...Medics bring her back and we admit to CCU...

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Attention ER nurses : New cure found for abdominal pain!!!Peanut M&Ms!!It is amazing that my patient who was crying in triage and rocking back and forth with pain was found munching on M&Ms on her gurney under a blanket and when reminded she was NPO and in the "worst pain" of her life she explained "but these really help I have to finish them or the pain will come back." That is why I love this

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Man shoots himself in arm after being denied sexStory Updated: Oct 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM PDTBy Associated PressFORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say a Fort Myers man shot himself in the arm after his girlfriend refused to have sex with him. The Lee County Sheriff's Office reported that a 29-year-old man and his girlfriend returned home from a bar early Wednesday morning.The girlfriend told

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Yeah got my re-cert this week... Now I can officially save your life!

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It's that time of year again..Time to start making bets on what percentage of Influenza Viruses will be covered by this year's scientifically guessed vaccine. Last year it covered about 40% and it made the CDC look real bad so I think they learned their lesson and went to Vegas and let some professional guessers decide the concoction. My guess is 53%---- anyone else care to guess?PS My idea of a

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Very few cases split the staff at the ER. Usually there is a very clear right and wrong to what our patients have done that has caused their need to be there.Police bring in a 20's female after an accident car VS pedestrian. Female was the driver and during triage she admitted to having been drinking earlier along with smoking chronic and being non complaint with her IDDM so her blood sugars

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Seen recently on an ornery little old man's POLST form DNR- ( Can zap me once if that doesn't work stop)Artificial Feeding-Yes (don't want to starve to death)Antibiotics- Yes (but not the ones that give me diarrhea)This form is a check off list- so to see this shaky handwriting on it made my night.. That LOM was a hoot! **Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a “portable”

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I never know who is going to walk thru our ER doors and sometimes I am very surprised by which of my patients I enjoyed and wished could have stuck around longer to chat.I have taken care of all levels of celebrities from local stars to national sport players to world famous singers.. and I treat them the same as everyone else. I never bring up who they are or ohh and ahh asking for autographs.So

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Sorry have not posted any good stories in awhile..in the middle of working 18 12 hour shifts in a row and at the tail end and barely functioning... why do we nurses do this to ourselves?? Hope to post something later....

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Man claims penis amputated without consentBy BRETT BARROUQUERE, Associated Press WriterLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky man who claims his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to be a circumcision has sued the doctor who performed the surgery.Phillip Seaton, 61, and his wife are seeking unspecified compensation from Dr. John M. Patterson and the medical practice that

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Not bad--- been working in the new ER about 2 months and they voted me Employee of the Month.. I guess that means they accepted me as part of the team... I even get a pretty cool star for my badge.. Ok so I am a little proud of my star!!

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Mr Jones who goes by "Lucky" was at the casino tonight when he blew thru his mortgage payment..called 911 from the casino for chest pain and shortness of breath and brought in by medics...While I was getting his EKG and IV started he asked if I would call his wife and tell her he was there and we were concerned he was having a heart attack. No I told him but he sure could when I got done with

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Dammit he struck again---http://prpnurse.blogspot.com/2008/05/say-what.htmlAdmission order "Warm Milk or Tea and back massage at bedtime for insomnia" I swear one of these days I am going to choke him...maybe I need to send him a nurse's job description from the State Nurse Commission since he seems to be getting medical floor and massage parlor confused!

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My hero tonight is my co-worker who came to work while passing a kidney stone, refusing Toradol or checking in to be seen, dipped his own urine 3+ Blood and when pain got worse checked in as outpatient for quick CT KUB... 7mm with hydro but continued seeing his patients with just an occasional moment bracing himself against the counter.Meanwhile 34yo male GOMER in room 12 writhing in pain and

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Patient came in tonight with complaints of a foreign body in her ear. Walks out with DX of psychosis... would love to have heard the dictation on that chart.

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One of the most frustrating things we ER nurses deal with, are parents who bring their children to the ER for temps slightly above normal for fear they MIGHT have a seizure... and I wonder who put that idea in their head..Now I know... as I was at my pediatrician's office I could overhear the triage nurse on the phone with a child's parent telling them that if the child's fever does not come

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Police bring in a schizophrenic for mental eval... guy is obviously off his meds and violent..Before we can clear him for a mental eval we need a Utox and a BAL (blood alcohol level) . The techs typically do the blood draw as most are big guys and are protective over us nurses.. as one of the techs is drawing his blood the patient has his head bent down and is cooperating with all commands when

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When nights get really stressful the ER staff finds ways to break the tension and laugh a little some times it is playing pranks on each other from clipping hemostats to the back of each others scrubs to putting KY on the grip of water bottles..My favorite is BAB..otherwise known as Blood Alcohol Betting ---A patient comes in usually by medics after consuming some large quantity of alcohol and

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This weekend we got slammed night after night... and just when I thought we had gotten thru it a code is brought in 90 minutes before the end of shift of a 6 night string.. and who should decide to show up at the same time... Dept of Health.. are you kidding me-- nothing like diverting staff to go room to room looking for open medication bottles or undated juice in the fridge. Thanks guys!! They

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54 year old female seen in our ER 2 weeks ago for small stroke that left her with residual word finding problems but physically fine, discharged home the end of last week with prescription for Nicotine patch for long history of smoking.. after a day patient quits wearing because it made her "Nauseated" and smoking helped her feel better...Tonight after having a headache all day and her cigarettes

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Dear Patients...We are not a drive thru ER. Showing up in my ER and the first thing that you say to me is " Can we make this quick..I am kinda in a hurry" I guarantee you will tack on at least 2 hours to your visit due to "lost" lab and Xray reports..So next time if your problem is not a life threatening/ending situation go back to bed and see your Dr/Clinic in the morning , but if you HAVE to

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Homicidal and suicidal patient with special alert for potential for staff assault is in a locked room having her vital signs taken by the tech who leaves the door ajar..Tech is 5ft maybe 105lbs..Pt is 5-7 180lbs, pushes past the tech and takes off running, I hear the yelling from another room and see her bolting for the doors in her paper scrubs.. while tech yells for security... I take off

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This story is courtesy of my favorite and the best EMT in our county...Man comes into the ER after a drinking party with the guys 3 days earlier... What it is about guys/alcohol/and testosterone mixing I don't know but it always seems to lead to dares and proving manhood... his dare... placing a carrot up his rectum.. problem-after 3 days was still unable to pass it, and the ER Dr while able to

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Obese woman comes in with complaints of shortness of breath, lab test shows elevated DDimer..( test for blood clots). She needs a CT scan of her chest to find out if she has any in her lungs... Small problem our CT scanner can only fit someone LESS than 350#. By looking at her I figured she was pushing that limit but just to be sure I pulled out the scale and asked her to step on it... Quite

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Hard to believe that with a holiday weekend how slow we have been..no great trauma but a few interesting cases...#1 --5 yr old boy sitting on the counter watching mom cook when he slipped off the counter landing on the back of his head... come walking into the ER for complaints of headache unrelieved by Tylenol and Motrin.. CT Head report--- C1 unstable fracture.. Off to major trauma center for

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Just when I thought I had seen it all... Woman comes to the ER after her husband is brought in by medics for suicide. He is being kept alive (he arrived brain dead due to trauma) for possible organ donation and until she can be located. She comes running into the ER hysterical.... with boyfriend in tow!!

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Quickest way to bring an ER to a standstill and tons of firefighters come running with bunker gear on at 1:32 am.... Burnt Toast. Poor nurse she was so embarrassed.... and the firefighters.. weren't too amused either....

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W hen I started this blog I meant it as a way to vent and meet other healthcare workers feeling the same frustrations... never did I imagine that people from around the world would find this let alone read this... amazing and humbling..here are where some of my readers are from out of the last 100 visitors... Australia, Iceland , Russia , United KingdomGerman, Indonesia, Pakistan, MalaysiaPoland

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In our ER using the term "Frequent Flyer" to describe patients that practically live here is a big no no and grounds for a write up for being judgmental and derogatory... so I use the term "Gold Card Member". Typically GCMs are drug seekers with a list of allergies to all non narcotic and OTC pain relievers.One such patient came in this week while I was working Fast Track (the area of the ER

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Illegal Mexican family brings their daughter to the ER for hives with unknown cause. Dr orders chewable benadryl.. we don't carry tablets only IM shots,IV dosing, capsules and benadryl elixir with 14% alcohol. These are all unacceptable dosing as this is a very minor minor allergic reaction. Here is my discharge conversation with the parents..Er Nurse- Hi Mr &Mrs "Lopez"...Do either of you speak

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In order for people to see me at work they generally have to be having a bad day... and then there are some who's day has turned into a full nightmare...here are 3 recentMiddle age woman at a friend's summer party has a bit to drink and falls thru their 2nd story windows.. Fracturing her left hip and femur2nd Middle age woman falls 5 ft from a ladder, landing her chest on a fence post, piercing

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Dear Drug Seeker,Thank You for complimenting me on my youthful appearance, despite the fact that I look in my mid 20's I am not. While I may appear to look like a new grad I have been doing this for 10 years so that compliment you gave me to distract me from your seeking behavior did not work and instead just irritated me.For future reference when coming to the ER looking for drugs there are a

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Another head shaking weekend in the ER. Here are some stories of our DNA donors...**Teenage couple 15 & 16 come in for STD testing, after he has burning and "gross stuff" dripping out. She admits to not being a virgin when she slept with him, he was shocked, Me? Not so much.** A guy threatens suicide when he is arrested for drugs thinking he is going to come to the ER and we will protect him from

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New nurse shows up for first day orientation, is shown around the unit and then disappears. No joke. We have not seen her since, and that was 3 days ago. Now I know that nursing can be hard but come on.. only lasting 20 minutes on a unit? That has got to be a record!!!

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What a difference these EDs are from the little magoo ER I use to work at. Here was ONE of my 12 hour nights this last week....*Arrived to a packed house... parking lots jammed, people sitting/ laying all over waiting room with average wait time for "GOMERS" 4+hours. *Broke hospital record with most ambulance arrivals =15 in 40 minutes. And all really sick and crazy.*3 walk -in MIs (heart attacks

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Dear EMS & Law Enforcement,Yes I know that I am new to these ERs, but I am not new to your games... please show me some friggin respect and quit with the over used come on lines and leaning on the counter under the guise of introducing yourself, just to get a look down my scrub top. Grow up guys.. you give your badges a bad name.And Dr "Rico Sauve", your reputation precedes you. I heard about you

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Been crazy busy bouncing back and forth between the two ERs. I don't know what the hell I was thinking... I can barely see straight I am so friggin busy and tired..I will write more later about the recent cases I have seen on my shifts..here is a sample.a young female comes in with rectal pain after "experimenting" with young stud boyfriend.Motorcycle crash at 120mphC1-2 fracture after fall. HIV

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I spent 9 hours today in class at Big ER learning how to verbally de-escalate an aggressive patient and how to physically fight off an attacking one..Rural ED could have cared less about my physical safety.. despite being attacked there several times by patients including one time warranting police to come and arrest my patient and charges filed, rural hospital never thought I or my co-workers

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I went today to have my TB test placed and I swear the Employee Health nurse stuck me with a 14g needle! With all the bleeding I did I was wondering if maybe I should have my H&H checked!!Next I went and did my pee test* ...Such a sad statement that it is required, but in actuality as I have talked about before there is a disturbing percentage of healthcare workers who "self medicate"---On a sad

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ER nurse has finally left rural ER and now is working at the 2 biggest ERs in the county. I was going to just work at the biggest one, but as those in medicine know we are a small world and #2 in the county found out I was looking for a change and offered me a job as well. And as any good ER nurse I am a glutton for punishment and now scheduling myself for both jobs orientations, new hire

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Rural ER has finally decided to listen to their staffs' concerns over safety and hired a security firm at night... that is great progress BUT they won't be armed, can't put a patient in restraints but hey at least they are trained in verbal de-escalation.Great in other words it is up to the nurses still to physically deal with meth'd out, drunk, violent, psychotic patients... They just don't get

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I saw this link on another blog and laughed so hard I was crying...http://failblog.org/

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Patient comes in tonight with an insulin pump infusing thru the skin on his abdomen. A new nurse had never seen this before and this patient was more than willing to explain it to the nurse.Patient very seriously explains how the machine works, how it transfuses into the skin and that he changes the site every 3 days. He then explains how he decides how much extra insulin to give himself based on

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Grandma brought by family after having Mental Status change... Grandma has been falling, slurred speech, confusion and lethargy for 2-3 days.Grandma has chronic pain issues and recent fall which exacerbated chronic pain.. Good intentioned PCP prescribed Fentanyl patches (25mcg dosage) to get her off oral narcotics and try and give continuous pain control.Grandma did not understand directions of

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A trucker from the southern US passing thru our town was brought in after drinking too much and passing out at a bar while on stage...(medics informed me of his musical preference) His BAL was 0.456 almost 6x the legal limit so he was less than alert and orientated.. Every time he would arouse to stimuli and see me he would say " You sure are purty" and then promptly pass out again. This line

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Eyebrow bit off during fight.

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4th of a July this year was horrible in the ER... We were way understaffed for such a major holiday that fell on a Friday night and there was great weather for.. the combination was perfect for all those that murk up the gene pool. We saw so many burns and firework injuries that we actually ended up turning the back half of the ER into a burn unit and called in an additional MD to run it (but

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This weekend has been crazy.. the firework injuries, drinking, stupidity, MVAs, short staffed , I think my last weekend here has been just about my worst ever... gotta run to another shift will blog all about the last 48 soon...

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PS I work tonight... I am praying for rain.

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The ER gives out the TB tests to the night shift workers so they don't have to come during the day..it is a convenience thing. It only takes a minute so we don't mind this mundane task, but the other night was a first...A new housekeeper comes in and asks me if I can give him his new employee shots (Hep B series) No I explain but I can give him his TB test. And this is how the rest of the

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A nurse is a nurse is a nurse.....hmmm not quiteWe have had several nurses out for various reasons and been struggling to find coverage for them... This is not a problem isolated to us, this is a national problem and will only get worse as more nurses reach retirement..Because we are small rural ER it seems harder to get agency nurses for coverage than the bigger hospitals so the nurse supervisor

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I had a nightmare night... Airlifted a teen out with a c-1 fracture after a high speed MVA, told a 42 yo man that came in with chief complaint of feeling tired and lack of appetite that he had metastatic lung cancer and had a mother come running into the ER throwing her baby into my arms that was blue and limp... I went and had a few drinks after work-- so it was 6:30 am.. I earned them Side

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Dear ER Dr,I am an ER nurse. I am NOT a social worker aka "Miracle Worker". Our patients did not become homeless, unemployed, alcoholic, drug addicts or the result of a murky gene pool in the time they spent in our ER. If I cannot fix their problem by placing some pill, tube, fluid, needle, or any other of my fun tools into one of their orifices or creating one of my own I am not going to fix it.

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So a lady calls the ER tonight in a panic crying telling me that she is in horrible pain and I need to call her primary Dr at home to get an order for her medicine.."the only one that works!"I inform her of course that I will do no such thing.. We would be more than happy (Ok so I lied) to see her in the ER eval her and our Dr will decide what med to give, but I am not calling a PCP especially

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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. - African proverbSorry have not posted in awhile... ER nurse is in the middle of switching Er jobs. ER nurse has decided to move on to the BIG county Er in the area. It is the ER where all the area trauma goes.Why move on? Well for starters I am always looking to expand my knowledge base. We are a small Er so we don't get to see real trauma unless it

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To Mr. Er Nurse... Thank you for my babies... the greatest gifts you ever gave me.

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This weekend could not be anymore opposite from last weekend..We have been slammed.. It has truly been ugly..And my patients general consensus is that I am "inhumane" and a "bitch"... aka the nurse who won't hand out the Dilaudid like Tic Tacs....Oh you poor poor patients... you better hurry and report me to the state for substandard care cause I won't gork you out of your minds! Just remember

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We don't have an IV team at our hospital. When a nurse on the floor can't get their IV in, they call the ER for one of us to do it. Most of the time I don't mind, but lately it is becoming more and more often . I have actually turned it into a game to see if I can get the IV in, flushed, dressed, clean up my mess and charted in less time then it took them to walk to the ER to ask for help (they

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This last weekend was ho-hum.. nothing exciting.. just the routine: Failed ODs/ Successful ODs/ Drunks in Fights/ Falling Grandmas/Short of Breath Grandpas/Babies with Fevers/Babies Without/Kids with Colds/Kidney Stones/Burning PeePees/Dripping Privates/Chest PainsI actually missed my Meth friend from last weekend...

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A patient is brought in by family after having a seizure non responsive. Patient has a long history of seizures ...As I am trying to assess the patient and call her name to look for a response the family informs me I would have better luck using her nickname.. Sure no problem what is her nickname.... Shaky! Come on that is mean! But damn funny!!

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THE FIVE RIGHTS 1. Right Patient2. Right Time3. Right Medication4. Right Dose5. Right RouteTHE FIVE WRONGS1. Falling asleep before taking bedtime Insulin dose2. Waking up and panicking3. Deciding to take insulin while not fully awake.4. Not reading label of Insulin vial before drawing up medication5.Injecting self with 80 units of Humalog thinking it was 80 Lantus! (Oh Sh*t!)(Humalog is short

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Last nights nightmare was a 40 yo female hyped up on Cocaine/Meth/Narcs and Amphetamines running around a nearby town buck naked. The police came across her in the middle of the road having sex with some guy she had just met, when they turned their lights and sirens on she still continued riding her new cowboy.Upon pulling her off she became belligerent/yelling/fighting with the police and

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I deal with a lot of patients that we call"Frequent-Flyers". We see them almost weekly for every little thing, real or imagined wrong or so they can try and scam narcotics. They remember me from all their visits and even know my name without me saying it..It gets really old, fast!But then there are patients that I take care of once but because of something crazy -they stick in my mind forever and

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My night sucked....Way too many drunks, way too many people getting their butt kicked, and too many who couldn't hold their own...ER nurse got thrown up on TWICE last night..well almost three but the OD lady missed me.The 1st was a good looking Marine...(If only I was 20 again!!) I forgave him... he lost it after I unwrapped his lacerated finger and he saw all the blood.. oh and he also fainted!

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I kid you not this is what a Dr wrote as an admission order---"Treatment for Insomnia-warm herbal tea or milk, white noise at low level (tv or radio) and BACK RUB at HS (hour of sleep)" . I am not sure what the Dr was smoking or the patient either for that matter, but that order is not going to happen... there aren't enough nurses as it is to take care of all the patients' "APPROPRIATE" orders...

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Fall Assessments on Everyone!!!!At our staff meeting today the Boss revealed one more thing for us to assess while in triage. Starting immediately every single person that comes thru triage has to be given a fall potential score and we must then figure out how to prevent it from happening while in the ER .Why now..because some family brought in Grandpa for agitation and while in the ER THEY were

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Working in the ER I get a lot of interactions with the police.. almost as much as when I am driving (Er nurse has a little bit of a lead foot!!). For the most part our interaction with the police consist of them dropping off their "gift" of a (mental, injured, drunk, tweaking, screaming, spitting, fighting or any combination of) patient for us to deal with or they just need a quick "okey dokey

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If someone were to offer me a million dollars right now I would walk away from nursing and never look back.Actually I would settle for 250k, OK how about 100k...still no offers? Come on people.. work with me.. My night was so bad I am tempted to call off dead the rest of the week.Alright since no one is willing to help me out I am off to bed I will blog later all about my nightmare night....

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I will never understand my patients lying to me... Do you think I am new at this, stupid, gullible, not paying attention, that you are the first to try these stunts or that I actually give a care what you do for recreation?I actually don't care for the most part if my patients get high... it is your brain cells you are cooking not mine. What I do care about is if I ask tell me the truth. But time

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You know it is going to be a bad night when......There is no one at home to make you a lunch, your latte girl is on vacation and the new girl has no idea your drink and you have to explain 10 million times and she still screws it up.. there is no parking when you get to work so you have to hike Mt Everest to get there, there is standing room only in the waiting room and they look like vultures at

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Foster Mother’s Pain Patch Is Responsible in 6-Year-Old Girl’s DeathNY TimesBy AL BAKERPublished: May 20, 2008A foster mother in Harlem has been arrested and accused of accidentally killing a 6-year-old girl in her care by placing a powerful medicinal patch on the child’s neck as treatment for pain, the authorities said on Monday. The girl, Taylor Webster, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai

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Old man Jacobs the sweet, lonely slightly kookie neighbor we all have in our neighborhood was brought in by medics last night after neighbors noticed that he was a little "Kookier" than usual.Upon his arrival I asked him all the neuro questions I ask everyone..and the only question he had problems with was time... Old man Jacobs must have had a good 1943 because he was hell bent that was the

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Good News!!!! Rumor is the Boss giving ER Nurse such a headache is on his way out!!Hopefully he takes those new ugly blue scrubs with him!

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I am always the first to say that any monkey can pass the nursing boards when people express their awe that I am an ER nurse.But truth be told, in actuality it is tough to get into a nursing program in our state. For most of the programs there is a 18-24 month wait list. It takes more than good grades to get in. You have to also be interviewed, have a good work history, go thru extensive

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Last night I was suppose to be off, after working 5 nights straight and one hell of a weekend..I was looking forward to curling up in my bed with a good TV show and nodding off for a good nights sleep... It was not to be.At 11:30pm my phone rang and it was the ER saying they were slammed and I needed to come in and help. The big hospital ER in the county got slammed and went on DIVERT, so the

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Man Uses Knife for Self-TracheotomyAPPosted: 2008-05-09 15:30:50Filed Under: Health News, Nation NewsOMAHA, Neb. (May 9) - An Omaha man struggling to breathe used a steak knife to perform an at-home tracheotomy. Steve Wilder said he thought he was going to die when he awoke one night last week and couldn't breathe.Wilder said he didn't call 911 because he didn't think help would arrive in time.

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Happy National Nurse Week!!

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Grandma and Grandpa went to the tavern this weekend for a nightcap...witnesses later called 911 after seeing them falling down while walking home.... Grandma had 'just a wine" and Grandpa "2 Gin and Tonics"...Our State's Blood Alcohol Legal Limit 0.08Grandma's Blood Alcohol 0.307Grandpa's Blood Alcohol 0.431One glass of wine and 2 Gins....? Righhhhhhhht!!

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"The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind."E. M. Forster quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1879-1970)My ER beds have been filled the last several weeks with lost and desperate souls. We have never seen so many genuine attempts at suicide, that if not been found by someone would have been successful. Working in the ER we get alot of

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