Floyd Nightingale replied to Neuronurse1114's topic in Men in Nursing
Yes, men would rather be unemployed than embarrass themselves by working in health care and their wives don't want any girly-men at home. It's all in the nation's paper of record. Men Don’t Want...
Floyd Nightingale replied to freckles23's topic in General Nursing
"I had the ER drop off an actively dying patient to me at the IMCU where I used to work. Pt died 6 hours later." Mmmmmkay. Better to hold that pt in the ED and watch them die down there? Like the ED...
Floyd Nightingale replied to rescugirl's topic in General Nursing
This is a big problem with electronic charting. It's all too easy to mistakenly click open the wrong chart, or to forget to log out and have someone follow you and chart under your log-in. It happens...
Floyd Nightingale replied to Cathylady's topic in General Nursing
While we always inform each other of a pt's positive HIV status in report I don't do anything special beyond that. HIV is not that easy to catch, nothing near hepatitis and, honestly, I take more...
Floyd Nightingale replied to hand2cut's topic in Men in Nursing
I hate when people call me a "male nurse", and I reply that I am a registered nurse. Some people have trouble getting their heads around it and I have to admit that before I got into health care I...
Floyd Nightingale replied to deanpicu's topic in PICU, Pediatric
The system I work for recently went to the Alaris pumps after ditching the ones made by Baxter. If you've used the Baxters you know what a problem they were but as bad as they were, I want them back....