IndySkies

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 look how professional nurses felt about the pandemic....

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 cultures? Mask for those. Assist with Central Line Place...

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, your choice. Wear the mask for your fellow Americans wh...

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’ adverse reactions, always will be. 40,000-45,000 deaths reported is a...

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

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, that is why a 3cc syringe will flush sometimes when a...

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 survive. I have always said that the standard unifor...

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

NO HARM! NO FOUL!

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 the manager, again and again

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

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 could hit the bars and/or parties after work, go home ...

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 you never can be sure what it is, how you can correc...

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 think

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 their own labs, start IVs. However, how you gonna ge...

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 the patient to relive their addictions, and may be a...

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, or very minimally impaired.

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, he probably did it because you were new and he coul...

It Gets In The Way Of The Paperwork!!!:)

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 situation similar to this and a gradual professional escal...

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 residents and/or med students that were trolling behind hi...

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 some grevious, suit libel malpractice occurance. I...

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 is a 24/7/365 day gig...you must bend over and say...

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 reamed by the supervisor. If you try to enforce th...

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 where the doc was going with this...