KalipsoRed21 BSN, RN

Surgical Specialty Clinic - Ambulatory Care

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    You're Right, It Is You: How do I get out of this career please?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    ????? awwww. Well thanks for the passive aggressive response….and for proving my point. Davy, you’ve been on awhile and have given me some insightful answers in the past, so thanks for...
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    Wisconsin Nurse Amputated Man's Foot Without Orders

    KalipsoRed21 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    ?????? Sorry friend, I have to disagree 100%. I would say healthcare has been slipping in delivery for the last 30ish years…at minimum for the last 15 that I have been in it. And the research shows...
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    Wisconsin Nurse Amputated Man's Foot Without Orders

    KalipsoRed21 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Thank you!! I feel this way about ALL of healthcare in the USA at this
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    Wisconsin Nurse Amputated Man's Foot Without Orders

    KalipsoRed21 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Well dear, right back at ya. “It isn’t our decision.” Is the mantra for those who don’t want any responsibility for the suffering they are ignoring. Was this an appropriate decision?...
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    Surgical clinic—-is this really doable?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    Yes the front desk person does check in and check out patients and she is excellent at fielding calls. She already does everything you suggested (she is the only one who has been there the longest, so...
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    Workload fair or no?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to MissRN2394's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    I think it is hilarious when people make comments about how the interviewee needed to be more through. There is just a point in every interview where you don’t know what to ask because you’ve...
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    Wisconsin Nurse Amputated Man's Foot Without Orders

    KalipsoRed21 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Puh-Leeze! The man’s foot was hanging on by ONE tendon and TWO INCHES OF SKIN! The doctor should have taken it off himself. No I don’t think a nurse should be in a great amount of trouble for...
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    Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I love to get on Youtube and watch nurse stuff. Nurse Blake is one of my favorites. He somehow manages to be funny without being cynical (I am a total cynicist myself). But this video points out...
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    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...
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    Life After Probation

    KalipsoRed21 replied to learnfromthis's topic in Nurses Recovery

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

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    So, got a new job 8 weeks ago. Was told there was a Tele floor and a med-surg unit and I would be floating between the two. Not a problem, I am comfortable with both. 6 to 1 ratio. Again pretty...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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
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    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....
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    What Is Wrong with These Students?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to PamtheNurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    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...
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    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
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    What Is Wrong with These Students?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to PamtheNurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Thank you. I haven’t heard of clinical care RNs but I believe anything that puts the power back in the hands of actual care professionals and out of the grubby hands of hospital administrators is...