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    Nurse cannot take report because she/he on break can you call back in 30 minutes?

    11blade replied to HalfBoiled's topic in General Nursing

    I hope you realize that this is textbook definition of abandonment. If the transfering nurse allowed this to happen, and, some harm came to the patient on the floor, the nurse would have to answer...
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    Bedside / ICU Surgery (Decompressive Laparotomies)

    11blade replied to ctsurgeryscrubrn's topic in Operating Room

    I would never have been a fan of this policy, until I worked at a Level 1 Trauma hospital last Summer. They built the 'new' ICU in a different building...a full quarter mile away from the OR!! Moving...
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    Job security

    11blade replied to Yesdoc's topic in Operating Room

    I've never seen the OR as a place of job security, and I'm going back to 1983 when I was offered a position to 'learn' OR at a small hospital. I've worked at many since (travel nursing) from one...
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    New Grads with no patient care experience in the O.R

    11blade replied to Joanni61's topic in Operating Room

    I got to OR via the med-surg floor, first as a new grad, then after a stint as a night charge RN. I wanted to switch to a surgery floor for a change up and ended up in the OR. For years I thought all...
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    Help with equipment

    11blade replied to Interstellar95's topic in Operating Room

    The equipment used in those cases will be surgeon dependant. You should be looking at the case posting, surgeon and equipment list. If the preference cards are crap, which most are, make your own...
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    Unlicensed surgery tech working under my RN licence?

    11blade replied to philip8614's topic in Operating Room

    Izaak ( 7 years experience...at what, exactly) has posted a statement from the AST. Nice, but the original poster of this thread noted that the people she would work with would be 'experienced' but...
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    New Grad looking for fun tips

    11blade replied to Swalton19's topic in Operating Room

    Shoes-Look for a pair of shoes with Vibram soles. These are shock absorbing plus they are non slip on wet/greasy floors. You will be running to set up your next case before the floors are dry in a...
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    Is This Normal "Training"

    11blade replied to Omibashu's topic in Operating Room

    You need to bail. They are expecting production rate of case load from you with minimal to no training. An experienced OR RN could function in that situation, but it is no place for someone who...
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    Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    11blade replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thanks, but I'm not anyone very 'special', even though my mother always told me I was. It is an election year, so it's a good time to put some words in the mouths of the politicians that want our...
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    Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    11blade replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I could not have written a better assessment of the profession. PREACH, sister! This is so well done, I would like your permission to attach it to the letter I'm sending to my Senate and House...
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    First year nurse, not sure if nursing is for me after the pandemic? How do I get back up on the horse?

    11blade replied to AnonyNurs's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sounds like you made the right move. Your hospital management ABSOLUTELY endangered your and your co-workers lives with their idiotic actions. You obviously absorbed enough of good nursing sense to...
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    Nursing Is No Longer Worth It

    11blade replied to AnonymousSuper's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Amen, sister! The COVID thing has just exposed to the rest of the world what we who have been slogging along in this dysfunctional system have known all along. We truly ARE expendable! Advertise pay a...
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    Has anyone left nursing job due to COVID19 virus?

    11blade replied to Tirednurseandmomma14's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Firefighters wouldn't run into a burning building without bunker gear on, and, police don't show up to a gunfight 'with a bandana' over their face. Why should we feel 'guilty' when we demand the RIGHT...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    11blade replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What state would that be? Order me to go to work? Please provide some reference for this
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    11blade replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This would be the SAME WHO that SAT ON THEIR HANDS for weeks, waiting to declare a world wide pandemic....IDIOTS! They are weaseling around the wording to give cover to all the hospitals that will be...
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    COVID-19 and extinction of human species

    11blade replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They also didn't have ventilators in 1333. If you count everyone who requires more than just 3 l/min nasal cannula thru those on ventilators as 'deaths' the R factor of COVID19 is MUCH higher. THAT is...
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    Case Study: Sudden Severe Pain

    11blade replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Disaster Preparation

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    COVID-19 and extinction of human species

    11blade replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    They can't even come up with a reliable annual flu vaccine, and that flu is much less severe than this. We aren't even at peak in a few cities in the U.S. and the numbers are astounding. I've been...
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    COVID-19 and extinction of human species

    11blade replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The pics of the three nurses I've seen to date that have died are not
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    COVID-19 and extinction of human species

    11blade replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Disaster Preparation

    WOW!. The virus is putting all ages of people in the ICU on ventilators...for weeks, if they don't die. The ones that do survive have lasting lung damage, will drastically changed pulmonary function...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    11blade replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Heck YES. This whole wasted effort on testing herds of people pos/neg is such a waste of resources and TIME. It reminds me of the early days of HIV, when everyone thought every gay man was positive,...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    11blade replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And COUGHING, which is how many of these patients present. ER is full of them coughing in the waiting room, coughing in the exam
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    Has anyone left nursing job due to COVID19 virus?

    11blade replied to Tirednurseandmomma14's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Mandatory? Who would mandate that you go to work? The job? The state paying your unemployment benefits? You did apply for
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    Am I a coward for going on FMLA due to COVID?

    11blade replied to ML1376's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A nurse in NY today describes conditions like that as a 'suicide mission'....
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    New Grad Traumatized After First Interview

    11blade replied to rollieem's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Bitter old bag! I, too, had my first job interview as a new grad with the DON of the hospital where I trained go somewhat that way. I reacted differently than you, though. I got ****** off after...