IndySkies

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  1. Question for new and experienced nurses...

    IndySkies replied to MisterSimba's topic in General Nursing

    I went through an accelerated nursing program but had extensive experience as an LPN prior. The one thing I really liked about the accelerated program was that a lot of the BS that is incorporated...

  2. I was blamed for a medication error I didn't do!

    IndySkies replied to ponderpoema's topic in General Nursing

    Almost all posters have given you good advice. By all means the nurse needs to be exposed, she probably has gotten away with thsi kind of stuff before. At the very least it will be a wake up call, and...

  3. Did You Hear About The Nurse That Went To Hell?

    IndySkies posted a topic in Nursing Humor

    She was there for two weeks before she realized she wasn't at

  4. Do your eyeglasses get in the way?

    IndySkies replied to misserella8036's topic in General Nursing

    I have just started wearing glasses. I find that if it is hot they seem to be heavy on my face. I have noted that they do act as an extra eye shield in messy situations, sometimes I've taken off my...

  5. Who's The Boss, Nursing or Management???

    IndySkies replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Part of the problem is nurses are not see as revenue producers, but are seen as a cost, a budget drain. Because we do not charge for our services, per se, but are included in the room charge. Of...

  6. LPN Supervisor Over RNs.???

    IndySkies replied to zimsaint's topic in General Nursing

    I worked once in a Nursing Home with an ADON that was an LPN. For the most part in routine day to day operations their was not a problem. However every once in a while a situation would come up that...

  7. My family can't believe nurses don't get breaks

    IndySkies replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    I think the federal rule that you are supposed to get a half-hour lunch break, the two 15 minute breaks are optional. Of course that means if you take the half hour lunch break you will be an hour,...

  8. Is my boss committing fraud?

    IndySkies replied to wabisabi's topic in General Nursing

    I had an Education nurse once, that would write up Elaborate titles for her "education seminars" and in-services she would teach. She would then submit them, plus "forged" certificates testifeing that...

  9. Trite Management Platitudes

    IndySkies posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse for "mumble, mumble" years. Through out the years there have been trite mangement 'truisms' that have always set my teeth on edge. For example, once not too long ago, I was working...

  10. Trite Management Platitudes

    IndySkies replied to IndySkies's topic in General Nursing

    That's another one..."I expect people to take their breaks"...and when you do and have to stay overtime to finish your work, they complain about that...then it comes back to...."you must learn to...

  11. Trite Management Platitudes

    IndySkies replied to IndySkies's topic in General Nursing

    You Guys Are Great!!! I had forgotten some of these..."Think ouside the Box" usually said by someone that doesn't have a clue, or any idea on how to fix the problem...meant to put it back on you. I...

  12. silly question about working overtime

    IndySkies replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    I am pretty sure what you are suggesting is illegal from a labor board perspective. I don't think your facility would go for it anyway, even if it was legal. The thing about excessive deductions with...

  13. info on apnea

    IndySkies replied to catnip's topic in General Nursing

    CPAP is hard. I believe that compliance is very low. What I tell pts is to bey very compliant abotu using it for a week or so and see if they feel any different,(better), during the day after that...

  14. When Keeping up is Impossible.....

    IndySkies replied to BlearnRN's topic in General Nursing

    This used to bother me too...When I was a new nurse to be critized by the oncoming nurse(s)...this used to be very bad at one hospital I worked...they acted like their stuff never stunk...and they...

  15. T-shirt slogan for Intensive Care

    IndySkies replied to javajunkie's topic in General Nursing

    Sung to the tune of the old Mickey Mouse Club Song...(I know this dates me). M-I-C-U (see you real soon...) [Medical Intensive Care Unit...get it?]:) K-E-Y (why? because you're SEPTIC!!!)...

  16. Lab value tree

    IndySkies replied to HoosierMale's topic in General Nursing

    Look at one in a chart notice the numbers, (values), written in the 'slots' and see if you can figure it out. I have seen them written two ways for chemistries. The Sodium, (Na) in the upper left...

  17. Los Angeles city attorney to sue hospitals that dump patients on skid row

    IndySkies replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    A minister once said in a sermon that he believed a society would be judged by how it treats its old and its children. I would add how it treats its sick. However, what do you do for the sick...

  18. can a nurse be fired for not saying "no"

    IndySkies replied to livewell78's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What probably happened was the constant 'drip' 'drip' 'drip' of small disciplinary actions, reprimands, and corrections that this nurse was subject to prior to this event. If nothing untoward...

  19. TRAITOR: Get Out of Nursing!

    IndySkies replied to showbizrn's topic in General Nursing

    HEY!!!!.....I've seen Cardiologists running codes shock asystole...After you've done everything twice or thrice....It could just be fine v-fib without the telemetry gain turned up enough...you never...

  20. bathing

    IndySkies replied to kforgood's topic in General Nursing

    I have always considered the 'basin' bath, 'toweltte' bath to be a poor excuse for a bath, therefore, whenever I do one I try to do a complete of one as possible. And as putmetosleep says...it a great...

  21. Co-sign Insulin?

    IndySkies replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    This trend of co-signing insulin, (and enoxaparin), seems to have taken off in the last couple of years. I've always thought it was JACHO driven. I seem to remember reading one of their information...

  22. a med from transfer sheet missed caused injury

    IndySkies replied to leeposh's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    A lot of places will 'write' nurses up or keep some kind of records of any discipline or complaints just to store them up until and when they decided to use them to either terminate or deny raises, or...

  23. consent for surgery - who's job is it

    IndySkies replied to MIRockstarRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The idea that a physician can place an order in a chart for a nurse to get a consent has always bothered me. Sometimes the doctor will have come in and talked to the patient, other times he(she)...

  24. not coding a non dnr patient

    IndySkies replied to acerila's topic in General Nursing

    I know this opinion will probably not be popular, and in this litigitous society you would probably be setting your self up for a law suit, but I have been to more than one ethic and standards...

  25. Do you compliment your co-workers?

    IndySkies replied to Sassybottom's topic in General Nursing

    ....The ill-timed truth we might have kept- Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung! The word we had not sense to say- Who knows how grandly it had rung! excerpt from the Fool's Prayer Edward R. Sill...