drivesbarefoot

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1. How is your inpatient acute dialysis unit run and staffed?

   drivesbarefoot posted a topic in Urology

   Our unit is unlike any other inpatient acute unit I’ve worked at in the past mainly because we continue to run newly started ESRD and AKI patients as outpatients who have been discharged. (Our unit is part of the hospital, we hospital staff and not ...

2. Yes, I'm Vaxxed But...

   drivesbarefoot replied to grammieRN's topic in COVID

   I had the covid vaccine and am not anti-vax. But the healthcare staff I know of who have chosen, at this time, not to get the vaccination have made their choice based mostly on the fact the manufacturing drug companies of the vaccine and the hospita...

3. Gross Me Out ? Contest | Nurses Week

   drivesbarefoot replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   Many years ago I had an elderly gentleman and reminded him he must save his bowel movements and explained about the “hat” we had placed in the toilet and to call when he did. The shift was almost over and he hadn’t called about it. He was a little...

4. Staffing

   drivesbarefoot replied to VickiSunderland's topic in Urology

   I'm a traveler and my last two assignments were great! But these were NOT the big two, that changes everything it seems. My first assignment I had up to 10 patients and 3 techs. I was responsible for doing pre and post assessments, double checking ma...

5. Practical scrub color in Dialysis...

   drivesbarefoot replied to jodhime's topic in Urology

   As an RN in dialysis, there have been times I need to do bleach, and yes you do get spattered with bleach at times. For me it usually ends up at the bottom of my pant legs. It always seemed to happen when I was wearing new scrubs too! Since bleach...

6. What Baffles You?

   drivesbarefoot replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

   Something that is so irritating... when you ask a patient how they are doing and they say "well, you tell me, you're the nurse." Ugh!

7. How to get out of dialysis nursing?

   drivesbarefoot replied to Marisette's topic in Urology

   It's the same for me, I kind of pigeon-holed myself into the dialysis specialty and have applied for other jobs but no luck. I work in acutes and I do love it, never get bored with it because you don't have the same day twice. Stressful... Yes! Wha...

8. Acute nurses covering multiple hospitals, what is the radius you must travel?

   drivesbarefoot posted a topic in Urology

   I'm curious about acute nurses who are contracted to cover multiple hospitals. What is the farthest distance you could end up driving to go to work, and what is your call response time for the distant ones? Also, does you company pay you travel tim...

9. Davita people

   drivesbarefoot replied to schnookimz's topic in Urology

   They run big, the pants are too short for me but I'm tall and have to wear size tall with any scrubs.

10. Any older travelers out there?

    drivesbarefoot replied to drivesbarefoot's topic in Travel

    Good point, NedRN! I hadn't thought about how it wouldn't cost extra for the facility. I know some fellow nurses my age tried to switch jobs or specialties but despite all their experience and excellent employment history, were not hired - most lik...

11. Any older travelers out there?

    drivesbarefoot posted a topic in Travel

    Hi all, I'm considering travel nursing as it's something I always wanted to do. My field is dialysis doing acutes and I used to work at a place where we had lots of travelers filling in and I always loved hearing about the places they had worked beca...

12. Can't think, need help.

    drivesbarefoot replied to Hinno's topic in General Nursing

    Concentrate on finishing school, don't look for another job right now. Stress is not worth it. You want to be there for your family and you want to finish school with your full attention geared toward that right now. Adding a job to the mix, and e...

13. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    drivesbarefoot replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    This was so touching I have tears running down my face. Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience.

14. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    drivesbarefoot replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    This isn't really a ghost story but something that happened that's a bit supernatural. I had a patient in the hospital that had a liver transplant with lots of complications but things were turning around in her favor. She had an elderly mother in ...

15. Highest temp you've seen?

    drivesbarefoot replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in MICU

    This was a number of years ago so I can't remember exactly what this patient had going on, but I do remember he was a DNR and had cancer. He was afebrile at the beginning of my shift and had been afebrile previously. Judging by respirations he was ...