IndySkies

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1. Co-vid reality

   IndySkies posted a topic in COVID

   First, some background, I used to lurk on this site, years ago, posted later, mostly topics about how management treated nurses, jokes, and psycho babble. Came back back years after that, just to look how professional nurses felt about the pandemic....

2. Where do you go when you don't trust official data sources?

   IndySkies replied to 10GaugeNeedles's topic in COVID

   Survey Kansas City Star. You’re a dialysis nurse? Do you mask and glove when you access a Hickman? I know I did. Can’t remember if I did accessing fistulas, at least gloved. Do you draw blood cultures? Mask for those. Assist with Central Line Place...

3. Where do you go when you don't trust official data sources?

   IndySkies replied to 10GaugeNeedles's topic in COVID

   Masks aren’t helpful? Better than nothing. Counties in the state of Kansas with Mask Mandates. Co-Vid cases go down. Counties that don’t have Mandates. Co-Vid cases go up. Don’t do the jab, your choice. Wear the mask for your fellow Americans wh...

4. Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

   IndySkies replied to jive turkey's topic in COVID

   Glad it’s not Ebola, Small Pox, Polio, Bubonic Plague, You don’t want take the vaccine, OK, (I’ll grant you that ‘freedom’ although I think you’re an idiot). There have been ‘some’ adverse reactions, always will be. 40,000-45,000 deaths reported is a...

5. Saline Lock Question???

   IndySkies replied to RenaissancemaN's topic in General Nursing

   Whoops..I made a mistake it's the diameter on the plunger, not the exit port of the syringe that makes the difference

6. Saline Lock Question???

   IndySkies replied to RenaissancemaN's topic in General Nursing

   I like your response to the question and the trouble shooting suggestions you mention. However, not to get to pedantic about it, I think you mean the smaller the diameter the greater the pressure, that is why a 3cc syringe will flush sometimes when a...

7. "She's a FLOOR nurse..."

   IndySkies replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in General Nursing

   Floor Nursing is the 'Boot-Camp', 'Trial by Fire', (LTC is the 'Hell-Hole), that other specialities could only wish they had the fortitude, skills, and intelligence, to be able to master, much less survive. I have always said that the standard unifor...

8. Ahhhhhhhhhh Cancelled AGAIN!!!!

   IndySkies replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

   When ya wanta be cancelled yer not....When ya don't wanna be yer are...:flmngmd:

9. Mistakes

   IndySkies replied to emilysmom,RN's topic in General Nursing

   NO HARM! NO FOUL!

10. Just a little night shift venting about day shift...

    IndySkies replied to iLovemyJackRT's topic in General Nursing

    These problems seem to me to be the result of weak managers. You need to vent professionally in staf meetings, (I know, they are never scheduled at a time that is convient for you). Or need to vent to the manager, again and again

11. Paramedics and nurses in the ER?

    IndySkies replied to C. Howe's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked in rural EDs that have paramedics/emts on staff, working along side with RNs, taking assignments, etc., no problems here

12. Is it time to get rid of 12 hour shifts?

    IndySkies replied to country mom's topic in General Nursing

    When I was first a nurse, (in the mid to late 70s), the Evening shift was the shift that the 'newbies' and the young nurses had, (i.e., those in their 20s). It was okay if you were a partier, you could hit the bars and/or parties after work, go home ...

13. Manager problems :(

    IndySkies replied to ExaltedNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Even if you like everything other thing about the unit you work except this behavior of your manager it is better to leave now rather than later. The problem is if she has some problem with you and you never can be sure what it is, how you can correc...

14. Do you take the MAR into the patient's room with you?

    IndySkies replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    Taking the MAR into the room, opening each unit dose in front of the patient is a JACHO ( I may have the initials ou of order),rule I think

15. a question - when nurses can't get your blood - is this common?

    IndySkies replied to Sand Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Here is the problem as I see it. Sometimes you cannot get blood for love nor money, for labs, IV start, etc. Now it could be against policy, (and ivory tower nursing ideals). To have a patient draw their own labs, start IVs. However, how you gonna ge...