FlyingScot

FlyingScot RN

Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc

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  1. Please help me with my homework

    FlyingScot replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    She wasn't the one who couldn't remember the ratio that was me and yes I can remember it. It's just when you do something for over 30 years one way and it gets changed you sometimes have to think a...

  2. Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    FlyingScot replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Only if it was

  3. Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    FlyingScot replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Then I guess I and all of my co-workers should be charged with murder. Beyond that, I am

  4. Please help me with my homework

    FlyingScot replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, at least she was up front with us. It's one little question. She wasn't asking us to write an algorithm for her. Sometimes we get stuck on one

  5. Please help me with my homework

    FlyingScot replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    After 5 rounds or two minutes of CPR. As someone who has been certified since I was 14 (nearly 40 years of certification) I feel your pain. The 2010 changes have thrown me for a bit of a loop....

  6. Should nurses be able to pull chest tubes?

    FlyingScot replied to Ninjateagan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Good point, though I think it's usually pretty clear. I can pretty much divide the nurses I work with into the yesses, the no ways, and the maybes pretty easily. Which now that I think about it is...

  7. Should nurses be able to pull chest tubes?

    FlyingScot replied to Ninjateagan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I totally agree that it would be inappropriate in the scenario the OP put forward. That surgeon was an idiot and frankly so was the nurse that actually did it not knowing how. I, personally, am...

  8. Should nurses be able to pull chest tubes?

    FlyingScot replied to Ninjateagan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Why not? I used to put them in, why shouldn't I or anybody else who is properly trained in their removal and has the critical assessment skills needed to monitor the patient be able to take them out?...

  9. Flushing with Sterile Water

    FlyingScot replied to BonnieSc's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Having done a few medical missions I've really had my eyes opened at how lucky we are here in the US. While it would be best to follow EBP sometimes it just isn't possible. For instance, in Peru they...

  10. Overflow in the er

    FlyingScot replied to medic978's topic in Emergency

    On one particularly bad shift with multiple codes and multiple admit holds we forgot to feed one of our patients (who needed to be fed) for the ENTIRE shift. The. Entire. Shift. The tray never came...

  11. If people make me feel bad, I've been bullied

    FlyingScot replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I know you didn't. I was just using what happened between the two of you to make a point. Maybe what you said made her feel bad but that doesn't make you a bully. You're right, bullying is a pattern...

  12. If people make me feel bad, I've been bullied

    FlyingScot replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes you did and does that make you a bully? Or just a human who responded inappropriately because one of your buttons got pushed? I think that's what Emergent was trying to say. Sometimes people get...

  13. Hospital vs. Clinic

    FlyingScot replied to FloatFNP-C's topic in First Year After Licensure

    And I agree with you on that point. At the same time I feel it's necessary to dispel the myth that clinic nursing, in its entirety, is not acute care. That might be the case for some facilites but not...

  14. Hospital vs. Clinic

    FlyingScot replied to FloatFNP-C's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is rather a broad brush you're painting of clinic nursing and without knowing the type of clinic it is may not be entirely or even remotely true. I currently work in a very busy oncology clinic...

  15. Pearson Vue Trick 2015 Latest

    FlyingScot replied to NurseCalif's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Yes there have

  16. huber needle

    FlyingScot replied to spma1234's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That's a really good start! If you have any questions about Medi-ports or PICCs don't hesitate to PM me. That's my current area of

  17. hearing impaired

    FlyingScot replied to buffybuffy's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    First of all she said in her original post that she would not wear them because she was too self-conscious but she was having a great deal of difficulty hearing. Sorry...not acceptable from a patient...

  18. huber needle

    FlyingScot replied to spma1234's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Here's the thing. There is no justification for your actions. Not one. Your actions were egregious and saying other people make mistakes doesn't mitigate the seriousness of your poor decision. Yet you...

  19. Diploma nurses are worthless?!

    FlyingScot replied to stephdRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    You can advocate for BSN as the minimum entry level requirement without denigrating those who currently do not have one. Oh wait, no you

  20. Diploma nurses are worthless?!

    FlyingScot replied to stephdRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    You said you only wanted to be cared for by someone who had 4 years of nursing school. No such school exists. Even a BSN only has two years of actual nursing school. The first two years are not...

  21. Diploma nurses are worthless?!

    FlyingScot replied to stephdRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Then sadly for you there wouldn't be any nurses to care for you because the first two years of a BSN education are pre-reqs and gen-ed classes not nursing classes. And you are mistaken when you say...

  22. Stories of the pre-vaccine days

    FlyingScot replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have taken care of two Amish kids with tetorifice and an 8 year old with pertussis who had to go on ECMO! 2 of the three died. Totally unnecessary deaths from diseases that "aren't that bad". And...

  23. hearing impaired

    FlyingScot replied to buffybuffy's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I also want to add. If you were a student on my unit and had hearing aids it would alert me to make sure I was facing you when speaking and to slow down my rapid fire delivery from Mach 5 to at least...

  24. hearing impaired

    FlyingScot replied to buffybuffy's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Yes you most certainly did say you weren't going to wear them and you asked for suggestions on how to make everyone adapt to you. If you wanted encouragement then perhaps you should have phrased it...

  25. hearing impaired

    FlyingScot replied to buffybuffy's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Really?!!! Really?!!! I'm sorry but I can't believe that you actually think not wearing your hearing aids is even remotely okay. Patient safety always, always, always comes first. If you can't hear...