Indy

Indy LPN, LVN

ICU, telemetry, LTAC

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  1. Best Nursing Shoes/Sneakers

    Indy replied to gladtobeOB's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    My shoe journey has been pretty expensive. For nursing school, nurse mates and some other thing that were on sale, made me cry. Walmart used to sell women's "treds" shoes in white, that pair lasted...

  2. Are you doing fecal transplants very often?

    Indy replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

    I feel so sorry for the blender. It comes out of the factory, ready to make smoothies, mixed drinks, puree soups, crush ice, all sorts of lovely things. Next thing you know, someone puts a glob of...

  3. Why are ICU nurses so rude?

    Indy replied to wanderlustRN24's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Nowadays everywhere is a hard place to work. Tele, where I worked it, was a mixture of post procedure and "everybody has a heart" patients. The post cath and post stent patients could very easily...

  4. Seriously? What are they telling you in school?

    Indy replied to Simply Complicated's topic in General Nursing

    One of the many reasons I like my doc is that in her practice, the MA's do not try to be nurses. They do a good job and are honest about their credentials. For that reason I happily let them give me...

  5. Excessive smoke breaks

    Indy replied to ProgressiveActivist's topic in General Nursing

    Look at it this way. You don't need to worry about ruining a working relationship with this employee, because it's already bad. So you have to do the reporting. Repeatedly. I have been in this...

  6. Obese children...my rant

    Indy replied to Gently.me's topic in Pediatric

    My family has the genetics to be: fat, for the females they are usually really fat after 3 or so babies, have heart disease, kidney problems, arthritis, high cholesterol, etc. My immediate family...

  7. Another shoes thread-- narrow feet

    Indy replied to anon456's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Depending on what size narrow feet you have, some of the nike shox do decently. I did have to move to childrens sizing to get them to fit me. Kswiss has decent arch support and stability, and they...

  8. Injuries r/t toning sneakers

    Indy replied to BrazoriaLVN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I tried on the shape-ups and declined to buy them as I could not stand still without just about falling over, and there are a lot of times where I do need to just stand there for tasks. Not to...

  9. My Nursing Career In Six Words

    Indy replied to No Stars In My Eyes's topic in Nursing Humor

    My husband said it before I could: I love to tie people

  10. and everyone's... OK with this?

    Indy replied to tater.jake's topic in General Nursing

    Part of the "merit" is continuing to come back to work, at all, not to mention doing it for years on

  11. Calling a Death

    Indy replied to KareBear0609's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say, sometimes the doc can be blunt. We had a case of the 3+ (bunch) of codes back to back, ending in death, where a family member was having problems getting the bleep out of the room so...

  12. Whiskey Horse FoxTrot - Are You Kidding Me?

    Indy replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Don't forget to read the book book before you call her for coaching! Yes, it really says to "read the book

  13. Which specialties have 3 pts/nurse or less?

    Indy replied to RPN_2012's topic in General Nursing

    Just so you know, three or less can often be a whole honkin' truckload of

  14. Can I do this to help me insert a Foley?

    Indy replied to allthesmallthings's topic in General Nursing

    One reason not to stick a syringe in there is what the rest of y'all explained, the risk of hurting the patient plus the risk of them getting very upset about a foreign body stuffed where it don't go....

  15. Time for some introspective criticism perhaps?

    Indy replied to eriksoln's topic in General Nursing

    I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling when I thumb my nose at management. I don't have any fantasy crusades. I know my unit sucks for staffing and I know they may suck worse if I leave, because they...

  16. Shift Wars! Just need to vent...

    Indy replied to RxOnly's topic in General Nursing

    Heh. We don't have much in the way of shift wars, at my current job both shifts are too busy trying not to drown. We're generally nice to the oncoming shift, whatever it is, because we want them to...

  17. questions about hoist and hook

    Indy replied to comnursesall's topic in General Nursing

    This is the kind of thing that you learn to use, by actually using it. When you have the patient on the sling there should be enough room around the sling for the hooks to come up a bit and attach to...

  18. Dog days

    Indy replied to RN4LaftR's topic in General Nursing

    I was going to say, if it has a tumor on its scrotum... a neuter is a really inexpensive

  19. worst death you've seen

    Indy replied to Darkfield's topic in General Nursing

    I would have to say the worst deaths involve suffering and my personal helplessness to relieve that suffering. The guy who died of the pain of a broken back when I was so new that I didn't know how...

  20. The ethics and laws associated with keeping a personal diary

    Indy replied to Bruce_Wayne's topic in General Nursing

    I have to say my mother searched my room, and found any and all attempts at journalling, every time. She even got her hand mirror and read the one where I taught myself to write in mirror image, and...

  21. OMG will I get sued if I continue to work here?

    Indy replied to sunshineyday's topic in General Nursing

    Goodness gracious Louise. Well I did come off defensive of LTAC. And thanks for clearing up how you came across with checking on the patient the next day. Just so you see, how your situation has...

  22. OMG will I get sued if I continue to work here?

    Indy replied to sunshineyday's topic in General Nursing

    Okay I feel the need to address these things, and there are multiple things. You could have been describing my current full-time workplace, except that we don't use the pyxis system. 1. tubing...

  23. What do you pack in your lunch box?

    Indy replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

    It varies from day to day, but I love to freeze leftovers from my off days and take some of whatever that is... usually it's some sort of soup. (I have a rotation of about ten different ones that I...

  24. Milk and Molasses Enema

    Indy replied to medicrnohio's topic in Patient Medications

    You're right. The old OB nurses are it on a stick. They can do more, with less, and more creatively than you'd think. You can't faze them and they will teach you stuff, you just have to show up...

  25. Calling briefs "diapers"....*vent*

    Indy replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

    How about um, if you have time to argue about what to call a diaper, you obviously have too much free time on your