Indy

Indy LPN, LVN

ICU, telemetry, LTAC

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Indy has 5 years experience as a LPN, LVN and specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.


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  1. Passion for Nursing but have disfigured fingers

    What makes a glove sterile is not how it fits, but how it's sterilized. That lady is handing you some weird BS, in my opinion. My hands are tiny, and maybe some XS non-sterile gloves fit decently, but it would take a size 4 sterile to fit me. I pu...
  2. You could call them and ask, since they made the job offer, would another unit in the hospital consider hiring you? It's worth a shot.
  3. Cough Syrup - wow!

    I'm not too keen on the chloroform, but the rest of it sounds like it would do the trick. I'd wake up three days later, on earth or in heaven, and presto! Cough is gone!
  4. Theme song to your Nursing career?

    My favorite song to hear on the way to work: "The ****** is Back" by Elton John. And sometimes I mangle a Johnny Cash tune: "golightly on the ledge babe, golightly on the ground... I'm not the one you want babe, mag citrate's where it's found" Las...
  5. Dropping Magnet

    Ha! That's the first time I heard AIDET mentioned outside of my hospital! It's an entire program that basically means smile at people you pass in the hallway and talk nice about the oncoming shift. Seriously.
  6. Sketcher's Skinny leg scrub pants to sexy for work?

    Tell your coworkers to mind their own business, wear something that moves with you when you bend, squat, walk etc and does not ride up or fall down, and wear a top that comes down to about the hip line so that it camouflages it a bit. Whatever that ...
  7. Empty the foley they said...

    Also in the epic category: a 3 way foley to irrigation that just won't run clear, no matter how much you dump in there. It drives the tech crazy to hear "do NOT touch my foley tonight, I don't care what you see. I can't keep up with it if you do." ...
  8. Empty the foley they said...

    Hm. A Bard bag with a urometer will hold 4800 cc of urine. Granted, it will be completely round and the urometer will be sticking out and pointing up, but it will hold. Will the hanger-do thing stay on? No. I know this because I helped empty a co...
  9. The "Q" Word and Other Mysteries

    Once I was in home depot with my hubby and he said "it sure is quiet in here"... and I chastized him for it. "Shh! don't SAY that! I like it this way and now it won't be!!" He looked at me really funny and said, ok honey but we're in a STORE. I ...
  10. Love or hate your IV pumps?

    I have used Horizon, really old brown Baxters, the colleague- both the triple channel ones and the single channel ones, and now use the sigmas by Baxter. Horizons were ok, except the big "pillow" magnet thing in the middle of its lines would do an a...
  11. Husband and wife working together

    Having worked with a number of couples that worked together, I have yet to meet one that was functional. And by working together, I mean same shift, same unit, same days. There is always one that does a larger portion of the workload, it may or may...
  12. I Hate Being Bipolar. It's AWESOME!

    Marla, I have faith that you'll get through this okay.
  13. People are afraid to deal with mental issues because they aren't an easy fix, and out of fear, but also from denial. "That is not me, that is not my family, that is dangerous, etc." Then they get upset when it affects them or someone they love and ...
  14. Opioid induced hyperalgesia

    I am one of the nurses who tells people they are not supposed to be "pain free" at all times. I tell preops they are going to have pain, but we will try for taking the edge off. I tell postops it's supposed to hurt. I tell chronics you aren't supp...
  15. Nurses who go on breaks during report

    Tell them a written report will help you get your shift started sooner, and save them from having to interrupt you once you have gotten started?