NurseSpeedy ADN, LPN, RN

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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    NurseSpeedy replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That would be a question for HR. I think a lot of people have had unknown exposure in the community already. I may be a bit old school- but our instructors never assigned us to isolation patients due...
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    Really America?

    NurseSpeedy replied to GrumpyRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And watch watching tv out of boredom-Dr.oz shows the corona virus and hand washing, not touching our faces-yet has people taste testing finger foods with their bare hands...OK...guess a show needed to...
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    Really America?

    NurseSpeedy replied to GrumpyRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I’m actually surprised that hand soap is still available-best method of disease prevention yet hand sanitizer is sold out.....people are stupid-cannot count the number of health care workers using...
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    Is it just me or?? Are needle stick injuries more serious than people make it out to be..

    NurseSpeedy replied to guest1142824's topic in General Nursing

    It should not take 4 days and still be in the process of “getting the patient tested”. He will either consent to it or he won’t. Sounds more like they’re trying to keep it quiet more than...
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    Why do so many cheerleaders enter nursing?

    NurseSpeedy replied to RitzyCinnamonRoll's topic in General Nursing

    Most people could be labeled as ‘cute’ in some way during their youth-then we get older and are referred to as nurse
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    Why do so many cheerleaders enter nursing?

    NurseSpeedy replied to RitzyCinnamonRoll's topic in General Nursing

    I REFUSED to try out for cheerleading in high school when a new friend at school asked me to try out. NOT my thing. Not a nerd either. Graduated top of my class, trip over my own feet all the...
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    Coronavirus and Supply Shortages

    NurseSpeedy replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Mine just emailed us with a sick=home policy. Anyone who comes to work coughing, other typical respiratory symptoms will not be given the option to wear a mask-management has been ordered to send us...
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    Coronavirus and Supply Shortages

    NurseSpeedy replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No way in hell I would work without them. Med pass is one thing but bloody and body fluids-employer better phone a friend and ask for a
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    Coronavirus and Supply Shortages

    NurseSpeedy replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh good lord! And the integrity of the faulty mask is already compromised Further with the makeshift eyeholes ! You got someone on the phone at CVS? It’s usually 45+ minutes to get a live person on...
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    Calling in sick

    NurseSpeedy replied to 2bnursdee's topic in General Nursing

    just stay home. You are sick, not sure what exactly it is- please don’t share. The mask doesn’t help much anyways and viruses will live on surfaces you touch as well-cannot run around the facility...
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    I Have No Words

    NurseSpeedy replied to AlmostThere19's topic in General Nursing

    Most places that I have worked there has been a two stick rule, unless you are the hard stick nurse (say IV or PICC team). She did not say anything to you until shift change that she had an issue with...
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    They locked up all the masks in security ?

    NurseSpeedy replied to RegisteredNurseReneeRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Okay, so I’m a bit of a smart ***. I would print out a pamphlet about universal precautions and body fluids and then ask if she was still going to hoard the PPE. If so, I’m not accepting an...
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    Coronavirus mask shortage

    NurseSpeedy replied to zillynurz's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Okay, that is just GROSS....and the high possibility of cross contaminating-wandering how bad it is to “reuse” a dirty mask.
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    Coronavirus and Supply Shortages

    NurseSpeedy replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I have had a lab-mix dog and three cats during my lifetime-there is no way in heck they would allow that mask to stay on for more than a few seconds-that useless thing would be ripped off faster than....
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    Travel Bans?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Emergent's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think people get hyped up with the hysteria, forgetting that sometimes it’s the easy things that will help the most-like hand washing...I see people always reaching for the hand sanitizer...
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    Travel Bans?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Emergent's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Doing great if you have stock in face masks or Lysol....people are crazy-stores are sold out-reminds me of the cipro shortage during the anthrax scare years
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    Face masks

    NurseSpeedy replied to SchoolNurse91's topic in School

    Or maybe start a system that penalizes people for coming into work obviously sick-I have seen people come to work with fevers, coughing, or worse combo and state, “I don’t want to waste my PTO...
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    Face masks

    NurseSpeedy replied to SchoolNurse91's topic in School

    Masks won’t help as much as having sick children and staff staying home-but good luck with that ever happening. Schools are petri
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    What’s changed since 2004?

    NurseSpeedy replied to RenRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don’t get me started with Google. It is the technology version of the devil. I have patients that will look up their results, Google the crud out of them on the internet, and then contact me in a...
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    How do you get a sub?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Jenniferocious's topic in School

    In high school I worked part time at an ice cream shop. At 16 I called in with a fever and was told to call so and so, their phone numbers, and if they would cover then I could ‘call out’ from the...
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    What’s changed since 2004?

    NurseSpeedy replied to RenRN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked as an LPN in 2002 started in a hospital. Then I tried some other fields in 2009 and then went back to get my RN in 2014-a LOT had changed that I didn’t even realize because I was working in...
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    Emergent's Answer

    NurseSpeedy replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    I saw the cartoon and thought “protein on the go!”...then I remembered a trip to Walmart when I got rammed with a cart full of beef jerky and natural ice. Back then my thought was, well, typical...
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    Attendance Overboard

    NurseSpeedy replied to ChristmasNurse's topic in School

    Require a doctor’s note to return to school if child is sent in with a fever-will cut back on just sending sick kids to school-and with a doctor’s note it proves the child was ill and should not...
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    Gloves at all times?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I guess I missed that day in nursing school and never stumbled across it in my 20 years as a nurse either. So many in services, so little time (I feel silly needing to add that I’m being...
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    Can I refuse an infant patient??

    NurseSpeedy replied to knoelle30's topic in General Nursing

    Is boss a nurse too? Maybe she should do the admission with you shadowing so that you May feel comfortable doing the next one. Otherwise, hell no. You have no experience with this population and their...