FlyingScot

FlyingScot RN

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

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  1. Lets play the drug of choice game

    FlyingScot replied to 30days2nclex's topic in General Students

    Viagra most commonly used to treat ED but what is another use and in what form? No

  2. How should i round this based on the given rounding rules?

    FlyingScot replied to Nursing2102's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Actually, there are many pumps that allow you to do this and with infants and children it's important to have this

  3. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    You are absolutely correct and I completely agree with you. What I'm trying to communicate to the NEW nurses here is either utilize your facility's protocol book or get a clear order. This is not the...

  4. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    Yes but we are talking about new nurses here so we have to be clear. I don't want a new grad thinking it's okay to google a med for the correct

  5. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    Well you did go on about the backward thinking, old-fashioned hospitals that didn't follow EBP. Yes, see above post. You might be aware but I bet there are a few less experienced nurses here who...

  6. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    No mention of protocols

  7. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    What poster said they wanted to be micromanaged? It certainly wasn't me. All I said was that in absence of protocols (which are defacto orders) no nurse should start a drip without a clear order....

  8. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    Purely anecdotal and as such not evidenced-based. My question is, I will rephrase it, on what planet is it okay for a nurse to decide initial, titrating and max doses of vasopressive drugs in the...

  9. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    And just to be clear, protocols ARE orders so I'm not asking for the research on protocol-based nursing

  10. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    Hey now! Not every hospital that doesn't use protocols is old-fashioned, not forward thinking or don't use EBP. Maybe they don't have the money for departments dedicated to evidence-based practice....

  11. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    Not every hospital works from unit protocols. And seriously, you have physicians ordering a drug that they don't know correct

  12. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    And as a nurse you should be aware of your scope of practice and abide by it or else you won't be a nurse for very long. Listen, I'm not an idiot order follower. I used to RUN codes. I know standard...

  13. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    That is sooo wrong in so many ways. Believe me, if the patient went south she would have thrown you under the bus so fast your head would have spun. NEVER, EVER, EVER let a physician do that to you....

  14. New nurse and critical patients

    FlyingScot replied to fencer1119's topic in Emergency

    "For example the charge nurse had me start the cardene at 0.5 mg/hr and titrate up by 0.5mg, but I later read to start at 5 and go up in increments of 2.5. Or was the 0.5 appropriate because he was a...

  15. "If you're not doing anything..."

    FlyingScot replied to Anna Flaxis's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the time it took her to ask couldn't she have faxed it herself? Sorry but I took the nurse's request as a passive-aggressive statement that she thought the OP was just sitting around and she...

  16. serious bad karma, and yet...

    FlyingScot replied to mzmeRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    "My questions are: 1) Has anyone considered a similar dilemma? What did/would you do? 2) Practically speaking, what are the implications? Are they likely to refuse to give me references or actively...

  17. RN to BSN in Nursing Informatics

    FlyingScot replied to nkengchrist's topic in Nursing Informatics

    A BSN degree is a generalist degree. There is no

  18. How old is too old for Flight Nurse/Medic training?

    FlyingScot replied to Kerrimundhenke's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    By the time you get your BSN and have gotten quality experience you'll be in your 50's. Some flight companies run 24 hour shifts that can stretch into much longer if you get grounded for weather....

  19. accessing a port for just one blood draw

    FlyingScot replied to Ted D's topic in General Nursing

    It means I can't believe a nurse would actually publicly and unapologetically admit to putting her "needs" before her

  20. Transport in the hospital.

    FlyingScot replied to OCRN3's topic in General Nursing

    Wasn't there a thread not too long ago about the nurses being assigned to shovel the parking lot and side-walks when it

  21. CPR in Prone Position

    FlyingScot replied to Codeblue1982's topic in MICU, SICU

    KAM212, can I just tell you how sorry I am for your loss. I have taken care of many ARDS patients (although they were children) and it is one of the worst diseases I have ever had to deal with. So...

  22. accessing a port for just one blood draw

    FlyingScot replied to Ted D's topic in General Nursing

    You must have me confused with someone else because I never said you or anyone else was lazy. And as far as I can tell I didn't "slam" anyone either. You, yourself, said you were callous and made the...

  23. accessing a port for just one blood draw

    FlyingScot replied to Ted D's topic in General Nursing

    Just let me know when you're coming and I'll be ready.

  24. accessing a port for just one blood draw

    FlyingScot replied to Ted D's topic in General Nursing

    If 28 years of experience (I need to update my profile) constitutes not being a nurse for very long then, ummm, okay and no I don't work with saints nor am I one but I've never made a decision on how...

  25. accessing a port for just one blood draw

    FlyingScot replied to Ted D's topic in General Nursing

    If the nurses were really the cause of his port infections and they actually caused the skin breakdown then there was truly something horribly wrong with them and they have absolutely no business even...