Mini2544 ASN, RN

Mini2544 has 1 years experience as a ASN, RN.

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1. Nurses Promoting COVID Misinformation

   Mini2544 replied to Tigerlily8's topic in COVID

   1) Pfizer 100% took operation warp speed money for production. They may not have needed it for development but they also took advantage of the expedited FDA process, Which is the main point of Warp Speed. Not just the funding. It’s so funny you focu...

2. Tobacco free environment and testing for nicotine. Lawful? Thoughts?

   Mini2544 replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

   Both hospital systems I’ve worked for required a negative tobacco test.. if it comes back positive you will not be hired. It is what it is. Prior to my healthcare experience, my prior jobs would ask when I signed up for benefits and it was 600$ cheap...

3. Nurses Promoting COVID Misinformation

   Mini2544 replied to Tigerlily8's topic in COVID

   Mistakes were made in 2020 and mistakes are still being made today. IF it wasn’t for the administration in charge prior, we wouldn’t have a vaccine. End of story. You can try to argue semantics but this current one can’t even get the story straight o...

4. Nurses Promoting COVID Misinformation

   Mini2544 replied to Tigerlily8's topic in COVID

   Same thing. Point is, he has openly questioned both of those current guidelines. well, while we are limiting care to those who are partially responsible.. why should we stop with those not vaccinated for Covid? Maybe overweight people who have ma...

5. Nurses Promoting COVID Misinformation

   Mini2544 replied to Tigerlily8's topic in COVID

   While I agree no one should be spreading misinformation, although even our former FDA chief, Scott Gottlieb, has said our current social distancing guidelines and masking aren’t really based in sound science.. IF I was going to report anyone to the B...

6. How does your unit determine who floats?

   Mini2544 replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in General Nursing

   My former unit really had no rhyme or reason for who floated but it was disorganized and awful. I was pool and actually our hospital guidelines were that pool employees were cancelled first (if the census was low) so we weren’t supposed to float sinc...

7. Short Staffed: An Epidemic

   Mini2544 replied to KellyM RN's topic in General Nursing

   Oh boy are you correct. I used to work hospital outpatient surgery and while the “ratios” were 2-1 pre op and pacu… it’s different because on top of that the hospital is supposed to be following ASPAN staffing standards and they never did. When you h...

8. Short Staffed: An Epidemic

   Mini2544 replied to KellyM RN's topic in General Nursing

   Agree 1000000%. I love the idea of training on two different units, specific pool float nurses etc, but without those mandatory radios.. it’s all useless. I also think hospitals should pretty much double their tech count as well. Especially for med s...

9. Work Schedule

   Mini2544 replied to SarahRN0325's topic in General Nursing

   This sounds very much like a job I used to have. The hours varied each shift so there was no consistency. Also if you ended up staying over 10 hours one day, they would flex you the next day so you basically work all these weird late hours and end up...

10. Are nurses required to read preop H&P

    Mini2544 replied to Twm2021's topic in General Nursing

    Also, I have had patients (while working in post op) hours after GA go to the restroom by themselves. I am always right by the door but I try to give them privacy since its an outpatient setting and these folks are rather healthy. I don't know the ...

11. Are nurses required to read preop H&P

    Mini2544 replied to Twm2021's topic in General Nursing

    Hello! Pre op nurse here... To be honest, I skim the H&P to make sure the plan for the surgery is in there, the date is within 30 days and the review of systems is complete. Those are the areas we are required to check before the pat...

12. Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    Mini2544 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    This is the best way to get rid of lobbyist. High level I agree with all of this, maybe just differ a bit on the judges etc. There has to be more accountability

13. Nurses make me sick

    Mini2544 replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in General Nursing

    AMEN. My gosh if I see another virtue signaling nurse complaining and saying they don’t want to treat covid patients if they don’t wear their mask.. I’m going to scream. Can you imagine if we said we didn’t want to give Narcan to OD victims because i...

14. Pre-op nurse alone

    Mini2544 replied to RN_1978's topic in General Nursing

    Do you ever have more than 2 patients at 1 time? Also does your facility use ASPAN guidelines? Do you medicate patients with versed and fentanyl before the procedure? Also I assume there is a post op nurse somewhere in the near area?

15. Clinical ladder change

    Mini2544 replied to Mini2544's topic in General Nursing

    If your facility is a trauma 1 center in Disney world.. than it’s prob the same place LOL