KalipsoRed21 BSN

KalipsoRed21 has 14 years experience as a BSN and specializes in Currently: Home Health.

KalipsoRed21's Latest Activity

1. Life After Probation

   KalipsoRed21 replied to Cleona11's topic in Recovery

   Sorry no one has had any answers for you. My guess would be time and tenacity.

2. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

   KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

   Yes. HSHS Saint Joseph’s in Highland, IL is a good example of fiscally responsible, adequate technology, good care institution. The only “problem” I have with their institution is that since it is catholic based it did not provide fertility care or p...

3. Med-surg is this transfer appropriate?

   KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in General Specialties

   Nurses: Would any of you think it normal to get sent a patient from the ER with a comminuted tibia head fracture that was not splinted and had not been seen by the ortho team yet? Oh, under 60 and on eliquis when they fell?

4. Are you a Nurse just for the money or do you do it from your heart?

   KalipsoRed21 replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

   Do two years of any hospital specialty (m/s, tele, psych) and then do travel nursing. No benefits, but lots of money weekly.

5. Are you a Nurse just for the money or do you do it from your heart?

   KalipsoRed21 replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

   I kind of think this is a stupid question….or the person who posted it has no experience in a healthcare role that actually requires being responsible for a person’s well being. We would not suffer the *** we do if we didn’t care about other humans d...

6. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

   KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

   Home health is not without theirs. No way I’d go back to the pissant pay of “salaried” home health or per visit home care. The charting is dramatic and the drive miles on my personal vehicle inordinate compared to the compensation. The one good home ...

7. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

   KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah, I posted it on my professional facebook (which is just 300-400 previous co-workers) and no response at all. When are others going to be as angry as I am?

8. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

   KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

   I do wish we in the US saw healthcare as a public service and not a place to profit. Just like a good solid education, basic healthcare leads to a better country. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I posted it on my facebook page too. I’m tire...

9. Hospital Profits Over Patient Safety: The reasons you should not be a nurse

   KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I saw this and it just spoke to me in a thousand ways. I want hospitals to be profitable enough to be stable, and to expand services, but the goals for profit are FAR beyond those meager goals. Your healthcare sucks because of capitalism. And the rea...

10. Peri-care without gloves?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to lightwing's topic in General Nursing

    Lost in current education today, hand washing is more important AND effective than wearing gloves. In my home health position there were a lot of wound care that I did without gloves, but I washed my hands.

11. When the Nurse Becomes the Patient: What I Learned Sitting on the Other Side of the Triage Desk

    KalipsoRed21 replied to echmorrill's topic in General Nursing

    While I liked your story, I would say the staffs’ reaction and support were more feed back from you than anything. Yes, being a nurse ,in general, does run the risk of being less empathetic at times, but I find that frustration to be do to overwhelm ...

12. Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    I think it is kinda funny that everyone has posted how much of a lie TJC is…and management in general. Like I am so long in this field that every time another smoke screen gets blown away I get more apathetic about getting fired.

13. Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Ha! You are always so wry. What I continue to struggle with is why we put ourselves through this at all? I honestly wished I had become a plumber or like got a degree in horticulture. Since I support my husband and kid, I’m kinda stuck. I hate debt m...

14. What Is Wrong with These Students?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to PamtheNurse's topic in Educators

    Quit telling this person how great flexibility is. Good lord, this is how people die. Yes, acceptance of change is necessary. Weekly/daily change is just butt-effing dangerous. Mostly because people are just spewing their best attempt to get it right...

15. What city do you work in and how much do you get paid hourly?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Mortaaaay's topic in General Nursing

    Clear Lake Texas (Houston area) $43.50/hr day shift medical surgical unit. Weekend differential $2.50. I don’t know what nights make. 14 years of nursing experience.