Floyd Nightingale

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1. NYT Article: Men don't want to be nurses, and their wives agree

   Floyd Nightingale replied to Neuronurse1114's topic in Men

   Yes, men would rather be unemployed than embarrass themselves by working in health care and their wives don't want any girly-men at home. It's all in the nation's paper of record. Men Don’t Want to Be Nurses. Their Wives Agree. - The New York Time...

2. ER rushing patients to the floor

   Floyd Nightingale replied to freckles23's topic in General Nursing

   "I had the ER drop off an actively dying patient to me at the IMCU where I used to work. Pt died 6 hours later." Mmmmmkay. Better to hold that pt in the ED and watch them die down there? Like the ED staff has nothing better to do?

3. HIPAA Violation-Jane Doe

   Floyd Nightingale replied to rescugirl's topic in General Nursing

   This is a big problem with electronic charting. It's all too easy to mistakenly click open the wrong chart, or to forget to log out and have someone follow you and chart under your log-in. It happens every day and the antiquated system we use has ano...

4. Patients should ALL be swabbed tested for HIV

   Floyd Nightingale replied to Cathylady's topic in General Nursing

   While we always inform each other of a pt's positive HIV status in report I don't do anything special beyond that. HIV is not that easy to catch, nothing near hepatitis and, honestly, I take more precautions when I encounter conjunctivitis, scabies o...

5. When will they change the name???

   Floyd Nightingale replied to hand2cut's topic in Men

   I hate when people call me a "male nurse", and I reply that I am a registered nurse. Some people have trouble getting their heads around it and I have to admit that before I got into health care I might have had a problem with it too, but I've found ...

6. Alaris pumps

   Floyd Nightingale replied to deanpicu's topic in PICU

   The system I work for recently went to the Alaris pumps after ditching the ones made by Baxter. If you've used the Baxters you know what a problem they were but as bad as they were, I want them back. The air in line thing is incredibly frustrating. ...