IndySkies

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  1. Co-vid reality

    IndySkies posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    First, some background, I used to lurk on this site, years ago, posted later, mostly topics about how management treated nurses, jokes, and psycho babble. Came back back years after that, just to...

  2. Where do you go when you don't trust official data sources?

    IndySkies replied to 10GaugeNeedles's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Survey Kansas City Star. You’re a dialysis nurse? Do you mask and glove when you access a Hickman? I know I did. Can’t remember if I did accessing fistulas, at least gloved. Do you draw blood...

  3. Where do you go when you don't trust official data sources?

    IndySkies replied to 10GaugeNeedles's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Masks aren’t helpful? Better than nothing. Counties in the state of Kansas with Mask Mandates. Co-Vid cases go down. Counties that don’t have Mandates. Co-Vid cases go up. Don’t do the jab,...

  4. Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    IndySkies replied to jive turkey's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Glad it’s not Ebola, Small Pox, Polio, Bubonic Plague, You don’t want take the vaccine, OK, (I’ll grant you that ‘freedom’ although I think you’re an idiot). There have been ‘some’...

  5. Saline Lock Question???

    IndySkies replied to RenaissancemaN's topic in General Nursing

    Whoops..I made a mistake it's the diameter on the plunger, not the exit port of the syringe that makes the

  6. Saline Lock Question???

    IndySkies replied to RenaissancemaN's topic in General Nursing

    I like your response to the question and the trouble shooting suggestions you mention. However, not to get to pedantic about it, I think you mean the smaller the diameter the greater the pressure,...

  7. "She's a FLOOR nurse..."

    IndySkies replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in General Nursing

    Floor Nursing is the 'Boot-Camp', 'Trial by Fire', (LTC is the 'Hell-Hole), that other specialities could only wish they had the fortitude, skills, and intelligence, to be able to master, much less...

  8. Ahhhhhhhhhh Cancelled AGAIN!!!!

    IndySkies replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    When ya wanta be cancelled yer not....When ya don't wanna be yer

  9. Mistakes

    IndySkies replied to emilysmom,RN's topic in General Nursing

    NO HARM! NO

  10. Just a little night shift venting about day shift...

    IndySkies replied to iLovemyJackRT's topic in General Nursing

    These problems seem to me to be the result of weak managers. You need to vent professionally in staf meetings, (I know, they are never scheduled at a time that is convient for you). Or need to vent to...

  11. Paramedics and nurses in the ER?

    IndySkies replied to C. Howe's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked in rural EDs that have paramedics/emts on staff, working along side with RNs, taking assignments, etc., no problems

  12. Is it time to get rid of 12 hour shifts?

    IndySkies replied to country mom's topic in General Nursing

    When I was first a nurse, (in the mid to late 70s), the Evening shift was the shift that the 'newbies' and the young nurses had, (i.e., those in their 20s). It was okay if you were a partier, you...

  13. Manager problems :(

    IndySkies replied to ExaltedNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Even if you like everything other thing about the unit you work except this behavior of your manager it is better to leave now rather than later. The problem is if she has some problem with you and...

  14. Do you take the MAR into the patient's room with you?

    IndySkies replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

    Taking the MAR into the room, opening each unit dose in front of the patient is a JACHO ( I may have the initials ou of order),rule I

  15. a question - when nurses can't get your blood - is this common?

    IndySkies replied to Sand Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Here is the problem as I see it. Sometimes you cannot get blood for love nor money, for labs, IV start, etc. Now it could be against policy, (and ivory tower nursing ideals). To have a patient draw...

  16. a question - when nurses can't get your blood - is this common?

    IndySkies replied to Sand Cat's topic in General Nursing

    i would never have a patient draw their own blood. it should be against hospital policy. Why? The only reason I can think of, (if it is done properly, aseptically, and carefully), is it might cause...

  17. MI with No damage?

    IndySkies replied to Priddyeyez's topic in General Nursing

    On Non-Q wave MIs, and NSTEMI MIs, (Non-STEMIs, or No ST Elevation MIs), the thought is that the infarction did not go all the way through the myocardial tissue, therefore the cardiac fuction is not,...

  18. I was slapped by a doctor!

    IndySkies replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know the culture of the hospital you work at but I wonder if you report him through proper channels if anything will be done. I doubt if you were the first nurse he slapped, and if you were,...

  19. Know What I Hate About Patient Care?

    IndySkies posted a topic in General Nursing

    It Gets In The Way Of The

  20. MD practice and harrasment issues; long and vent,

    IndySkies replied to DaMale Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Just my 0.02$ worth...I would follow hollyvk's advice first and then if you feel like you have not had aedquate follow up with your management I would follow up with lindarn's advice. I had a...

  21. petty ? about med student

    IndySkies replied to hollyberry678's topic in General Nursing

    Early in my career I remember an Orthopedic attending that if he happened to be on the floor while we were totally lifting patients or log rolling patients would pitch in and have any and all...

  22. Maybe I am too tough???

    IndySkies replied to wearingmanyhats's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    One of the reasons I will not work LTC any more. Discipline of CNAs, (now, I met a lot of them...I when I worked nites @ a nursing home...I had some of the best), is usually non-existant unless it is...

  23. "fan out and go" + alchohol

    IndySkies replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I have read the post and all of the responses....and I must say I am appalled. I thought this web site was AllNurses.com.not SomeTimeNurses.com..or...NurseWhenIFeelLikeit.com...Don't cha know nursing...

  24. The Customer is always right

    IndySkies replied to MrsMommaRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is not a rare situtation at all. The nurse gets caught in the middle. I cannot believe people think its safe to bring infants on floors, much less an ICU. If the floor nurse says nothing you get...

  25. nurse vs doctors

    IndySkies replied to monkeymedic's topic in General Nursing

    I used to say...(This after a physician has finished his, (or her), training)...that doctors work longer hours...nurses work harder ones...I also noticed the various misspellings...Not really sure...