indish

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1. What are the pranks you played with your co-workers and how did you handle it?

   indish replied to NurseEnvision's topic in Humor

   When doctors wrote orders on paper we would copy the ones we couldn't read and post it as "mystery order of the day" and make guesses. It was fun till the docs made us quit. Put a DNR order on an ice machine that broke.

2. Nursing: Then and Now

   indish replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

   Oh hey I've used live leeches, and not that long ago!

3. Nursing: Then and Now

   indish replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

   We placed patients according to smoking or non smoking besides sex Light therapy for decubes to dry them out I guess, just remember placing patients on their sides taping their crack open and shining a light on it pre op prepping the night before day...

4. Could I be sued for neglect or lose my license over this?

   indish replied to Ccinct's topic in Geriatric

   And if you had called 911 they would say you were insubordinate and call you in the office for that. I would think if you are practicing within your scope of practice and followed all policies you have nothing to worry about. It doesn't seem your f...

5. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

   indish replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

   I posted the original question and it's interesting to see where this topic has gone. Firstly "just a nurse" refers to any staff nurse in any specialty unit, including not limited to med surg. ive never had aspirations of management, always preferred...

6. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

   indish replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

   You are right, in just a nurse I meant not going on for a masters NP or management. I meant staff nurse. And I didn't even mean med surg, I meant every bedside nurse in every specialty area, I have worked in many different areas besides med surg, b...

7. How long did it take....

   indish replied to Nurse3242's topic in New Nurse

   I always said one year to get comfortable and five years to be an asset to the hospital, where you are pretty confident and proficient at what you are doing. One day at a time, you live through it and have one more day of experience and then go on t...

8. can I go back to the floor yet?

   indish replied to simbaman's topic in General Nursing

   I started on medsurg, moved on to ICU, then to cardiac intervention, then back to medsurg, now in PACU. That is the beauty of nursing, many jobs within the job. I would say though that it took me a good year to get used to ICU then worked about ten...

9. Job change

   indish replied to LagoRN13's topic in General Nursing

   Having worked several years on nights with young kids I'd never do it again if given a choice. Always sleep deprived, always tired which made me short on patience and tolerance for things that didn't bother me on normal shifts. And its not easy to j...

10. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    indish replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    Crunch RN. Right, that's why I asked the question, so what happened to nursing that people don't want to do it? I often felt "just leave us alone and let us do what we know how to do without adding all this other crap". I think a lot of good points ...

11. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    indish replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    Emmy 27. I would argue patient ratios have gone down over thirty years, where on medsurg I had six on evening shift and ten on nights, the last med sure unit I was on was four on days/evenings and max six nights. Acuity also has gone up in that you c...

12. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    indish replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    I don't meet too many that like it. All they do is complain about the pay. Very sad (truly nurse)

13. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    indish replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    Not to mention every yearly review "what are your career goals" question or professional contributions. (RNperdiem)

14. Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    indish replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    You make a good point that I had not considered. I spent 29 years at the bedside from med surg to ICU and now have been in the PACU the past year and a half and plan to retire from there. In line with your thoughts is also the fact that all the small...

15. Regret becoming a nurse....

    indish replied to cocoa_puff's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think there are too many nurses if honest didn't feel the same way the first few years out of school on their own. I know I did and after five years thought I'd go to business school, but got married and had kids along the way and 32 years l...