FlyingScot

FlyingScot RN

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

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  1. The right car

    FlyingScot replied to RN1981's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Do your homework to be the best informed but you are all ready driving one of the highest ranked vehicles for safety, especially in inclement weather. Not only that but used Subaru's are ranked as one...

  2. The right car

    FlyingScot replied to RN1981's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Is your car paid off? If so my advice to you is to put aside (in a separate savings account-interest bearing) every month the amount that a reasonable, 2009 dollars, car payment would be for you....

  3. The right car

    FlyingScot replied to RN1981's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    :yeahthat:

  4. Having trouble with care plan

    FlyingScot replied to willingtolearn's topic in General Students

    Hey, I just wanted to tell you thanks for all the work you did coming up with a care plan and then typing it here. So many students seem to expect us to do the work for them but you did your part....

  5. Our experience with H1N1 flumist

    FlyingScot replied to pedinurse05's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Prayers from here too but a thought as well. There is a very good possibility that your little one was all ready infected and the timing was just coincidental. Unless she lives in a bubble she could...

  6. Helping others outside of the hospital

    FlyingScot replied to labman's topic in General Nursing

    Well geez what kind of nurse are you? Didn't you bring your portable EKG machine with you? I mean she could have "DIED!" Oh wait, I forgot. We have magic hands that can diagnose and heal with a single...

  7. Do good socks make a different? And if so... which ones???

    FlyingScot replied to QueenElisaRocks's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I knit my own. They're awesome. I always tell people "once you go hand made you never go

  8. Chest Tube dressings

    FlyingScot replied to Morgan McCarl RN's topic in General Nursing

    Bio-occolusives, Tegaderm, Op-site whatever you have does a really good job and gives you direct visualization of the site. You can add a little vaseline guaze just around the point of entry if it...

  9. "technician" dispensing meds under RN's licence (??)

    FlyingScot replied to laurasc's topic in General Nursing

    The only person that practices "under" your license is you. If a UAP is trained by a facility/agency to do a job and has been deemed proficient and they screw up unless you have active knowledge that...

  10. BLS Certification

    FlyingScot replied to chare's topic in General Nursing

    Mods, can you make this a

  11. Pediatric H1N1 Deaths Already Rival Seasonal Flu

    FlyingScot replied to indigo girl's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We just has our first pediatric death here. 13 year old boy with history of mild asthma. Also lost a healthy 20 year old pregnant

  12. Flu shot policy at your hospital....(m)

    FlyingScot replied to pink2blue1's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital it's get the flu shot or you get to wear a mask. Flu shot for me!! Too bad the H1N1 vaccine didn't come out sooner. I'm not so much enjoying having the actual disease (going on 7 days...

  13. acd?

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

    ACD=anemia of chronic disease. Your patient is on isolation for something else. ACD is often found in HIV and cancer patients. Are you sure it's not reverse

  14. HIPAA And My Rights As An Employee

    FlyingScot replied to jprn7171's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I'm not even allowed to look at MY OWN results without a signed release much less look at anyone else's. Get thee to Human Resources and file a complaint, you have no idea what other private info of...

  15. ALL NURSES this affects all of you

    FlyingScot replied to AnalegnaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen many posts talking about "civil liberties" and being "forced" to get the flu shot. Nobody is forcing anybody to get the shot. In order for you to be forced to take it and thereby have your...

  16. What is nursing like in the U.S.A? Please explain for a Scottish nurse

    FlyingScot replied to calastro's topic in General Nursing

    I have PM'd

  17. Not properly trained for ER?????

    FlyingScot replied to bassadict69's topic in Emergency

    A new grad is a new grad is a new grad. No program, be it diploma,ASN,ADN or even BSN, will prepare you for working in an ER directly out of school. I think it's pretty crummy that an instructor in...

  18. Patient Compliant...Taking it Really Hard

    FlyingScot replied to Diva7332's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I know this isn't helpful to the situation but if she was so sensitive how in the heck did she get

  19. CODE question

    FlyingScot replied to JMDRN09's topic in General Nursing

    Apnea is the absence of breathing. A person who is not breathing is said to be "apneic". I think the word you are looking for is "agonal" which is breathing that is very, very slow, disorganized...

  20. CPR Certification

    FlyingScot replied to Adams_Mama_07's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Not only that but you may have to take CPR for the Healthcare provider which is different from community

  21. Passing nclex early and working as extern possible?

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

    So, are you saying that you plan to sit for the "NCLEX-RN" BEFORE you actually graduate from nursing

  22. I can't even believe that this recall even made the news....

    FlyingScot replied to BabyLady's topic in General Nursing

    Warning on new iron. "Do not iron clothing currently being worn."

  23. Ec 135

    FlyingScot posted a topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Any of you who fly in an EC 135 can you help me out? Need to figure out a way to secure an Airborne H-20 isolette in the 135 but want it on a stretcher WITH legs not a wheeled litter. What...

  24. Ever stuck your foot in your mouth in front of a patient/visitor?

    FlyingScot replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    Only

  25. Sure signs your pt. is sick

    FlyingScot replied to danger's topic in Emergency

    I've seen it in babies. Their eyes look "old" for lack of a better term. Anybody who's taken care of a neonate with NEC knows what I'm talking about. Makes my stomach clench when I see