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I thank you, I have alot of friends on EMTCity and I value each and everyones friendship. Ronnie

You say show some respect for the dead... well I say we should have show them respect when they were alive! All the respect in the wourld wont help them now. ITALY GET A GRIP [-X

vivibonita you got it! "it's good to see people enjoy life"

No... no signs, but I did get the med unit up on two wheels going around a sharp turn (just kidding) you need to pay attention on your backing if need get out and look behind your apprentice. If you clipped it going forward you need to learn to drive all over again. Treat your equipment like it is your own!

We need to send Barbara Gerber a link to this forum, she might find some of our reply’s to the mystery sicko interesting. And if she shows up at my ED I will apologize for the missed sticks! Barbara Gerber President Devon Hill Associates San Diego, CA. E-mail: Barbara@devonhillassociates.com.

IreneRN_ED There on the floor beacuse they can't cut it in the ED.

YOU MIGHT WORK IN THE ER IF… You believe every patient needs TLC - Thorazine, Lorazepam, and Compazine. Your sense of humor seems to get more warped each year. You believe the definition of stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet. You believe that if warm wine enemas were routinely ordered, patient complaints would greatly decrease. You hope there’s a special place in Hell for the inventor of the call light. You see stress as a normal way of life. You have tendency to laugh at your patient’s BIG problems. You know the phone numbers of every late night food delivery place in town by heart. You believe the problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. You’ve ever thought, “Patients, God love ‘em because today, I sure don’t!” Everything only happens all at once. You’ve ever been telling work stories in a restaurant and had someone at another table throw up. You believe experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. You notice that you use more four-letter words now than before you became a nurse. You have a patient in four point leathers that asks if you are a nurse you reply ‘Yes”, and walk away. You believe all bleeding stops…eventually. You don’t get excited about blood loss unless it’s your own. You believe if you can keep your head among all this confusion, you obviously don’t understand the situation. You’ve ever said, “Why am I here?” When you get a call telling you the name of your next admit and you can do the assessment before the patient gets to the ER room. When called for orders, the MD says, “Write them yourself you know the patient better than I do. You’ve ever had to contend with someone who thinks constipation for 4 hours is an emergency. You refer to motorcyclists as organ donors. You can eat a candy bar with one hand while performing digital stimulation on your patient with the other hand and it doesn’t bother you. You believe Tylenol, Advil and Excedrin provide a large part of your daily caloric intake requirements. You’ve ever held a 14-gauge needle over someone’s vein and said; “Now you’re going to feel a little stick. You’ve ever had a patient with a nose ring, a brow ring and twelve earrings say “I’m afraid of shots.” You’ve ever thought, “As long as he’s got a pulse, I don’t care about the rhythm. You automatically multiply by three the number of drinks a patient claims to have daily. You can keep a straight face when a patient responds “Just 2 beers.” You believe the pain will go away when it stops hurting. You believe in the aerial spraying of Prozac. You have encouraged obnoxious patients to sign out AMA. You believe the government should require a permit to reproduce. Your most common assessment question at 2 a.m. is “Why is this an emergency now?” You firmly believe that “too stupid to live” should be a diagnosis. You have to leave the patient before you begin to laugh uncontrollably. You believe a book entitled “Suicide Getting it Right the First Time” will be your next project. You believe a good tape job will fix anything. You’ve ever had a patient look you dead in the eye and say ‘I don’t know how that got stuck in there. You have special shrine in your home to the inventor of Haldol. You believe unspeakable evil will befall you if anyone utters, “Wow, It is quiet in here.” You believe a good time is a full arrest at shift change. Narcan and Ativan are your friends. You believe every ER waiting room should be supplied with a Valium salt lick.

I work in the ED. I have found if I hit a valve I can use a pre-filled flush (0.9% Sodium Chloride) to flush the catheter past the valve. Some times it works.

Just a simple question regarding patches and pins. We've all seen them. Badges, collar brass, name plates, sparkly disco-patches, certification pins, and those other pins that people keep trying to sell on ebay...like "CPR Save", and those blue and pink stork pins. Some folks are REALLY into their pins and patches. What do you wear? What do you like or don't like? Do you wish you'd become a long distance mailman or a ambassador to Elsalvador when you see your co-workers looking like General Patton? Bonus question, how many patches have you ever seen on a single shirt?

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Knock on the door to the patient ED room enter and say "Hi my name is Ronnie I am the tech for this room, how are you doing?” :roll: Pause for a few seconds smile and say “maybe that is not the question I should ask a person laying here in the emergency department.” That usually gets a smile. I will do what I came into the room to do and right before I go I will attach the call bell or button on the side rail of the bed and say “If you should need anything push the button and I will be here quicker than two shakes of a lambs tail” and smile. That breaks the ice for the patient and me. Whether we enter a med unit or ED room we all should remember is that there will be a hurting human being lying in front of you, not just a hunk of beef.

I am not bragging but I am a bit older than most of the CNA.s and my knowledge and work ethics are considerably higher. The nursing supervisors knows that. (i.e. I stock the rooms, don’t hide when the med units call in and report there is a SOB two min out, and I do what is ask of me.) I don’t think I will have any worries about being replaced. But thanks for being concerned.

Then I remind them how they would run there asses of if it would not be for the tech's!

I am an NREMT-B with my ACLS and PALS. I also work in an ER here in Florida. I am allowed limited patient care, along with taking vital signs, draw labs, run ECG, transport patients, clean wounds, splint ortho injuries and clean rooms. My shift is from 19:00 to 07:00. I am tight with the doc’s and they have me assist on a lot of the interesting procedures. I love it!

In the ED and in the back of the box we use the Lifepack 12s with pads.