Jon E Soskis

Jon E Soskis has 50 years experience and specializes in Emergency R.N. / Snakebite expert / Author.

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1. Critical Thinking Meets the Aspiration Debate

   Jon E Soskis replied to Jon E Soskis's topic in Safety

   We surely can be fooled by what we believe to be common sense. The scientific method serves well when applied to worthy questions. I guess the question, when considering how to evaluate the worthiness of aspirating before administering an IM inj...

2. Critical Thinking Meets the Aspiration Debate

   Jon E Soskis replied to Jon E Soskis's topic in Safety

   Over the years we will have experiences that color our assessment of the need to change a standard, like no longer aspirating no matter the nature of the intramuscular injection. When one aspirates blood that becomes proof that we may wish to rethink...

3. Critical Thinking Meets the Aspiration Debate

   Jon E Soskis replied to Jon E Soskis's topic in Safety

   Hello...Thank you for clarifying that these two subjects are not related. :)

4. Critical Thinking Meets the Aspiration Debate

   Jon E Soskis replied to Jon E Soskis's topic in Safety

   That's a really good question. Outside of the hospital I guess that risk will remain. Inside the hospital I could be wrong but I would guess that the difference between the cost of the Epipen and a 1 ml ampoule of 1:1000 epi would rule out Epipens. A...

5. Critical Thinking Meets the Aspiration Debate

   Jon E Soskis replied to Jon E Soskis's topic in Safety

   Thanks for that. I actually aspirated blood twice. It's just not that difficult to provide the patient our best. :)

6. Critical Thinking Meets the Aspiration Debate

   Jon E Soskis replied to Jon E Soskis's topic in Safety

   Hi...I was taught aspiration, and Z-track but only as it pertains to IM Vistaril. What we are taught surely does matter, doesn't it? Jon Soskis

7. Critical Thinking Meets the Aspiration Debate

   Jon E Soskis posted a topic in Safety

   I love evaluating things in life through the lens of "risk vs benefit". In health care, decision-making...comparing risk to benefit... takes on special meaning since there is no room for error in an environment where way too many errors are known to ...

8. Guns at the Bedside

   Jon E Soskis replied to rnrazzil's topic in Safety

   Where there are no guns there is no gun violence. No guns should ever be allowed inside any hospital ever, open carry insanity or not. This really should include law enforcement, who should be required to secure their weapon(s) in a locked box outsid...

9. Most hilarious/creative/inventive names you've been called...

   Jon E Soskis replied to Raven Sierra's topic in Emergency

   It's an honor to be sharing with such esteemed colleagues. My story: I entered the patient's room in our Tallahassee Memorial E.R. and found him sitting up on the edge of the bed looking pretty healthy. He was maybe thirty years old and offered an im...