FlyingScot

FlyingScot RN

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

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  1. What have you found in your pockets at the end of your shift?

    FlyingScot replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    2mg vials of Ativan:eek: I'd mostly find them in the washing machine. Always freaked me out and necessitated an immediate phone call. Problem was I was usually administering it in an emergency and we...

  2. Why does this stigma exist in relation to new nurses?

    FlyingScot replied to VeraciousRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Actually, I get absolutely nothing for precepting either students or orientees. Wait...I take that back, I once got a "Nurse Mentor" pin. It was cool. Oh, and sometimes I get a headache. Does that...

  3. Job posting- "Must not be overweight"

    FlyingScot replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    Not just a healthy BMI. They have specific weight limits (some have height limits as well). These weights are used to calculate fuel requirement and determine if it's safe to fly. I have switched...

  4. How many of you have to pay for parking for your work?

    FlyingScot replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    Not if they take it out pre-tax which I understand most big hospital systems do. Found this out from my tax

  5. How many of you have to pay for parking for your work?

    FlyingScot replied to ~Mi Vida Loca~RN's topic in General Nursing

    600 bucks a year for garage parking and I think 400 and some change for surface parking (which entails a rather long walk and is getting longer as they keep closing the lots to build more buildings on...

  6. Maintaining EMT-B cert as an RN

    FlyingScot replied to CrazyCatLadyRN's topic in Emergency

    Usually it's just CEU's to renew your state license. Unfortunately I could not renew my NREMT-B because I am not employed as an EMT or in any capacity at this time that counts toward it even though I...

  7. I precepted a nurse intern today...

    FlyingScot replied to FlyingScot's topic in General Nursing

    I assure you younglings, if you do all the things that "my" Liz did your precepting experience is going to be

  8. Can I find a "desk" RN job without experience

    FlyingScot replied to SoulSpirit_Rn's topic in Nursing Career

    Having to gain experience and skill prior to supervising, educating and/or managing others is not a nursing "tradition" it is a fundamental requirement in all jobs and this is unlikely to change no...

  9. Can I find a "desk" RN job without experience

    FlyingScot replied to SoulSpirit_Rn's topic in Nursing Career

    The training you need to seek out is acute care floor nursing preferably with progressive supervisory experience. There simply is no shortcut. Your degree alone is not even close to what's needed....

  10. Pseudo-seizures

    FlyingScot replied to Lucyinthesky's topic in General Nursing

    You didn't have a pseudo-seizure. You had a vaso-vagal response that sometimes includes brief twitching of extremities. It is often mistaken for a seizure. It is similar to the twitching or jerking...

  11. Your one stop for all the most popular pressing questions on allnurses!

    FlyingScot replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    Quick question. I'm an MA which everybody knows is the same as being a nurse only better so don't start h8ting on me. I gave a penicillin vaccination to a patient( I know it was a vaccination because...

  12. Can I find a "desk" RN job without experience

    FlyingScot replied to SoulSpirit_Rn's topic in Nursing Career

    Because the jobs you listed are not entry-level

  13. Mechanical Ventilation

    FlyingScot replied to ahm5012's topic in MICU, SICU

    You'd be better off to talk to one of your respiratory therapists. Most of them are eager to answer questions and are a wealth of knowledge. And they are usually able to explain it in a manner that is...

  14. What to put in lunch box? Can't spoil on me in 4 hours.

    FlyingScot replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    I guess I don't equate not wanting to eat warm mayonnaise with being a germ phobic. I think that's a bit of a leap. Carry on with the nose-picking, I'll stick to kleenex.

  15. What to put in lunch box? Can't spoil on me in 4 hours.

    FlyingScot replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    actually, they just did a study about the safety of the lunches that kids were bringing to school and the results were appalling. i'll try to find the link for you but it was really gross. of course...

  16. Your one stop for all the most popular pressing questions on allnurses!

    FlyingScot replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    What can I expect to make as an FCS? Do you think I will be able to work part time? Oh, also, is there a "beauty

  17. What to put in lunch box? Can't spoil on me in 4 hours.

    FlyingScot replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    If I could quadruple kudos you I would. Oh, and you owe me a new

  18. NG/OG collection device

    FlyingScot replied to sherirn127's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We connected them to sputum traps so you could place it to suction or just leave it to

  19. What to put in lunch box? Can't spoil on me in 4 hours.

    FlyingScot replied to northmississippi's topic in General Students

    Or you can do what the staff where I work does. Take your enormous lunch bag and shove it into the overstuffed fridge preferably on top of the lunches that are in plastic grocery sacks because those...

  20. So frustrated with IV starts!!

    FlyingScot replied to NeoPediRN's topic in Emergency

    The nerves of being in a new place are probably getting to you. You'll get your mojo back. Just give it a little

  21. Attention Nurses....

    FlyingScot replied to jesskidding's topic in General Nursing

    I offered you my name because in the your first post where you, to use your verbage, took a strip off of me you basically stated that it was easy to be "tough" when hiding behind anonymity. So I'm...

  22. Attention Nurses....

    FlyingScot replied to jesskidding's topic in General Nursing

    see below it appears that i was not jumping to any conclusions and that my facts were quite straight. and speaking of jumping to conclusions, i was not in any way being sarcastic. i was pointing out...

  23. Attention Nurses....

    FlyingScot replied to jesskidding's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and in case you're still wondering. My nursing philosophy is "the buck stops with me" even if you aren't my patient. If I see a problem I deal with

  24. Attention Nurses....

    FlyingScot replied to jesskidding's topic in General Nursing

    I never accused you of anything and, quite frankly, I'll respond to what I want to respond. I told you I wasn't trying to be mean but throwing around the "bully" word is going over the top. You...

  25. Physical restraint on uncooperative children

    FlyingScot replied to Aleccandra's topic in General Nursing

    Soooo, I'm wondering how that convo with the pediatrician