Ayrman

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  1. Yuma seasonal position (next winter)

    Ayrman replied to military spouse's topic in Arizona Nursing

    I'm also interested in hearing more about working conditions there in Yuma. I've talked with 2 nurses who have worked there - one a traveler who worked there last year, another who was a regular...

  2. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Ayrman replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Not nursing but an EMS horror story for lack of a better description off the top of my head. I worked a couple of years for a small hospital-based service in Keokuk County, Iowa back in the mid-later...

  3. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Ayrman replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    It takes all kinds to make up this world of ours, and nursing is anything but exempt in that regard. Speaking only for myself I have personally witnessed nurses who are drug addicts - something I...

  4. Any Thoughts On Yuma?

    Ayrman replied to Ayrman's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Have I ever been there? A few times, nothing lengthy. August any worse in Yuma than in Mohave County? I doubt it. I've seen 130's here and the mid-120's pretty much run mid-June to mid-August....

  5. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Ayrman replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Here then is the story of the ghostly apparition at Gettysburg as it was related to me during a tour there some years ago. During the Civil War Gettysburg College was known as Pennsylvania College....

  6. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Ayrman replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    When I'm not zonked after a night shift I'll have to pass along a true story from Gettysburg, PA with a medical bent. That town is truly haunted, and has more than it's share of medical apparitions....

  7. Disaster/Pandemic preparedness

    Ayrman replied to LMonty911's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Do yourselves a favor and check out Expedition Home: Journey To Safety From Pandemic Influenza. The author is Skip Hofstrand, M.D. Published by Singing River Publications, Ely, MN. Just finishing up...

  8. "Funny Codes"?

    Ayrman replied to burn out's topic in General Nursing

    Two codes stick in my mind after the several hundred - literally - I ran during my EMS career, both in-hospital as part of the ER/Code response team and in the field. One took place in a pool hall in...

  9. Hospital Reputations for Ft. Mojave/Kingman/Havasu?

    Ayrman posted a topic in Arizona Nursing

    Anyone have anything to say good/bad/indifferent about the hospitals in Fort Mohave, Kingman or Lake Havasu? How are patient to nurse ratios, pay scales, administrative support for the staff, etc?...

  10. Hospital Reputations for Ft. Mojave/Kingman/Havasu?

    Ayrman replied to Ayrman's topic in Arizona Nursing

    As med-surg typically carries the heaviest patient load per nurse how about those areas?

  11. Colors used to identify IV sets usage?

    Ayrman replied to jorogume's topic in General Nursing

    In my former life as a Paramedic I did numerous critical care transfers that might involve as many as 5 IV lines for one patient, especially when we were running tPA. We could carry a maximum of 2...

  12. Disaster/Pandemic preparedness

    Ayrman replied to LMonty911's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I had the opportunity to talk to the IC nurse the other day - a rare occurance since I work nocs. She almost laughed, after first giving me the look when I asked about bird flu plans. Her reply, in...

  13. Any Croatian Nurses Here?

    Ayrman replied to Ayrman's topic in International Nursing

    Hello Sanja, I was wondering what the differences are between US and Croatian nurses as far as duties, training, pay scales, etc. I meant to stop by the hospital in Dubrovnik to ask but time did not...

  14. What would your ER do?

    Ayrman replied to charebec65's topic in General Nursing

    The BP alone is reason enough to send them straight back. The rest merely adds to the urgency as they indicate the possibility of more than only acute hypertension as the chief complaint.

  15. Oxygen... Comfort or Life Saving?

    Ayrman replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    DNR is very widely misunderstood as an order/concept. It simply means that once respirations and/or the pulse ceases that no efforts to restore them should be made. IOW no heroics. Oxygen can/will...

  16. Oxygen... Comfort or Life Saving?

    Ayrman replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    Oxygen can fall under either catagory. As a comfort measure it can relieve the feeling of suffocation. If the patient's organs are failing all the oxygen in the world won't save them, but it can bring...

  17. Disaster/Pandemic Community Involvement and Coping

    Ayrman replied to Florida1's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps because self-reliant behavior is often confused with abberant. I dunno about anyone else here but I don't live in a log cabin in the mountains with a machinegun turret on the roof. Not that I...

  18. Disaster/Pandemic Community Involvement and Coping

    Ayrman replied to Florida1's topic in General Nursing

    Though one might expect that the PTB that run the hospitals, etc we work for would factor in pandemics, disasters, etc into their thinking as possible (likely) scenarios the reality is that they...

  19. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Ayrman replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    A few weeks ago we had a river liver (homeless person who lives along the river bank, something you can do year-round here in western AZ) who had some "issues. Not the least was her apparent lack of...

  20. Your Favorite one liner used with patients

    Ayrman replied to scaredofshots's topic in Nursing Humor

    Being a male nurse I am often asked by the older patients if I am a doctor. I just tell them "Not in this country." Occasionally they'll ask where I am/was a doctor then, if not here. Then I have to...

  21. Pandemic News/Awareness.

    Ayrman replied to indigo girl's topic in General Nursing

    I was priviliged to be able to read a blog written by a doc from the Prince of Wales Hospital (some such name) in Singapore (I believe) started to document their trials during the SARS epidemic. They...

  22. Disaster/Pandemic preparedness

    Ayrman replied to LMonty911's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You might find this book of interest insofar as austere or disaster medicine is concerned. Survival and Austere Medicine: An Introduction www.cafepress.com/austeremed

  23. How to donate medical supplies?

    Ayrman replied to Laught3r's topic in General Nursing

    Apparently most people are unaware of what the term "expired" actually means. Medications have a maximum expiration dating of 5 years from date of manufacture as set by federal law. The manufacturer...

  24. Who attends/attended Indian Hills Communtity College

    Ayrman replied to S.N. Visit's topic in Indiana Nursing

    I took my 2nd year there (1st year was many years past, with no nursing practice in between), graduated in "04. There was both good and bad to the program. One bad aspect were the inconsistancies as...

  25. needing some advice

    Ayrman replied to mikeLPN2RN's topic in Travel

    Speaking as a (former, still credentialed) Paramedic and now RN you are correct. Iowa has a nurse exception rule, which allows RN's to function as an Intermediate, Paramedic or Paramedic-Specialist...