icuRNmaggie BSN, RN

MICU, SICU, CICU

Member

  • Content

    1,970

  • Visitors

    27,337

  • Followers

    0

  • Likes

    52

All Content by icuRNmaggie

  1. icuRNmaggie

    What policy do you have for ebola patients at your hospital?

    icuRNmaggie replied to adou's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sign in ER lobby asking persons with a fever to put on a mask. Anyone with a fever questioned about travel over the last month. Isolate in negative pressure room if high index of suspicion for EBV....
  2. icuRNmaggie

    Nina Pham being transferred to MD

    icuRNmaggie replied to Ginger's Mom's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, which is across from NIH has a military medical team that has been studying Ebola and quietly going into the Hot zones to combat it for over...
  3. icuRNmaggie

    *rolling my eyes*

    icuRNmaggie replied to OhioCCRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Disaster clean up people have more common sense than hospital
  4. icuRNmaggie

    Is it fair for the media to blame the RN in Texas for contracting Ebola?

    icuRNmaggie replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Everyone who still believes what the CDC said about Ebola not being infectious until the pt shows symptoms raise your
  5. icuRNmaggie

    What Are The Most Creative Call-off Excuses You Have Heard?

    icuRNmaggie replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    My friend was stung by a bee on her thigh and when she called out she said "I can't pull my pants
  6. icuRNmaggie

    Abuse in Nursing

    icuRNmaggie replied to stickit34's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Call the code for a violent and out of control person. No one will fault you. Whether or not he is alert and oriented is irrelevant; he is dangerous. Your charge nurse is clueless. Shame on...
  7. icuRNmaggie

    I am broken

    icuRNmaggie replied to Dana1969's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It's not you, it's them. Nursing and even Medicine are being dismantled and restructured to be a bunch of inexperienced people who take nice pictures. No independent thinkers are invited into...
  8. icuRNmaggie

    HELP! I'm being pressured to lie at work...

    icuRNmaggie replied to Dana1969's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the event of a sentinel event or near miss event as described above, the very first thing the risk management or legal dept. will do is pull the educational file for the nurse. If she was not...
  9. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I know who you
  10. icuRNmaggie

    The infamous time management post

    icuRNmaggie replied to Iwander's topic in Medical-Surgical

    to iwander, That is a ridiculous and unsafe situation. No one should get three post ops in one hour. That is a crummy thing to do to a new nurse. I suggest that you switch to nightshift for the...
  11. icuRNmaggie

    Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    icuRNmaggie replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    The online version does not. But I do not want to get into an argument over
  12. icuRNmaggie

    Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    icuRNmaggie replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I prefer the Oxford dictionary. The word impacted has been used incorrectly for so long that it has become accepted only in the US. It sounds
  13. icuRNmaggie

    Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    icuRNmaggie replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    In that sense, Impaction is a noun. Impacted is an
  14. icuRNmaggie

    Nauseous vs Nauseated (another grammar lesson)

    icuRNmaggie replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I would like to vent about the misuse of the word impacted. Impact is a noun not a verb. ( There was a huge crash upon impact.) Impacted is an adjective. (He has an impacted fracture of the...
  15. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Alternately flattering, "what do you think would help?" then dodging a direct question with glib double talk, or a dismissive comment such as "are you so downtrodden that you resort to self...
  16. icuRNmaggie

    best i quit or fired story

    icuRNmaggie replied to OnlinePersona's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Be thankful you were spared working under such a person. Did the nurse who was choked press
  17. icuRNmaggie

    Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

    icuRNmaggie replied to dudette10's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That was dreadful. I shut it off when they danced with bedpans on their
  18. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    [quote name= Stew, does the presence of a nursing union complicate or change the way a consultant handles their job at a given hospital? How exactly does a nursing union affect your job?[/quote] If...
  19. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    stew You need to start by verifying the academic credentials of the people in charge. It is not uncommon to find a few sociopathic individuals in executive positions who have fraudulent credentials...
  20. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    To stew: What your agency's fee structure for an individual client, hospital or healthcare
  21. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Is your client a for profit
  22. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    No antipathy yet. Perhaps you could answer the question instead of dancing around it with half hearted
  23. icuRNmaggie

    Going "Above and Beyond" UGH

    icuRNmaggie replied to SubSippi's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Anyone who is offended by references to the Bible should skip this post. I was educated by the Jesuits, undergrad from a Catholic University. A man who proclaims an act of charity has already...
  24. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Who is
  25. icuRNmaggie

    Nurse Staffing Costs

    icuRNmaggie replied to stewstew03's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It is inappropriate and insulting that you have not provided an explanation of your motivation for asking these questions. Is it to increase profits for your