Red Kryptonite

Red Kryptonite

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  1. What should I do?

    Red Kryptonite replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    Hospitals get sued for bad outcomes all the time too. Based on this logic, we should trash hospital jobs and nurses too. There are crappy, neglectful nurses in all settings. I'm sorry your family...

  2. Black Humour

    Red Kryptonite replied to Tenebrae's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh GIVE ME A

  3. What should I do?

    Red Kryptonite replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    I always feel so sorry for LTC nurses when I read threads like this. They must feel so crapped on, and by their own colleagues. I've met and worked with some good LTC nurses in my clinical rotation...

  4. I'm failing out of nursing school

    Red Kryptonite replied to BusyMan's topic in General Students

    LTCs and LTACs, hospice orgs, home care agencies, rehabs, assisted living, doctor offices and clinics, schools in some states, private duty nursing companies, heck there have been LPNs posting here...

  5. Want to be a nurse, just no butt wiping or other yucky stuff please

    Red Kryptonite replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Urgent interventions not including brief changes or other toileting needs, apparently, which to the patient, ARE urgent. And which, as a nurse, are NOT below your level of education as care

  6. Urinary Incontinence before first child? C section or Natural? Read more: Urinary Inconti

    Red Kryptonite replied to ddavis2344's topic in Ob/Gyn

    A cesarean is major surgery and introduces extra risk for both you and baby. It shouldn't be undertaken lightly. You owe your baby the healthiest birth possible. Talk to a urologist about your...

  7. Black Humour

    Red Kryptonite replied to Tenebrae's topic in Nursing Humor

    Bwa ha haaaa....I was thinking exactly the same thing! I work in hospice so postmortem care is something I do a lot. One night while preparing a body for mortuary pickup, I realized I was whistling...

  8. 4 Point Restraints in the ER. Is that Abuse?

    Red Kryptonite replied to Vickymay's topic in Emergency

    When I worked in the hospital here in AZ, abusive intoxicated patients were certainly put in restraints, and not just in the

  9. Esme Needs Your Prayers

    Red Kryptonite replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Prayers for healing going Esme's

  10. Nurses forced to work as aides

    Red Kryptonite replied to NewYorkerGirl's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Here's what I still don't understand, though: why not just assign more nurses to the shift, give them each a smaller assignment, and have them do total care? Then they aren't paying nurse wages to...

  11. Want to be a nurse, just no butt wiping or other yucky stuff please

    Red Kryptonite replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I completely believe

  12. Deep Suction for comfort with trach at end of life?

    Red Kryptonite replied to BryceBehrens's topic in General Nursing

    Correct use of the word "daft" in conversation makes my

  13. Now that we've reached Spring Break, how are the current students doing?

    Red Kryptonite posted a topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Halfway through the semester, how is everyone getting along? After clinical this Saturday I'm off for the week and officially 1/4 done with my program. My grades are where they need to be. So how...

  14. Deep Suction for comfort with trach at end of life?

    Red Kryptonite replied to BryceBehrens's topic in General Nursing

    I am so glad you posted this! Just today at clinicals I was working with a fairly new LPN who was caring for her first hospice patient. I am a pretty experienced hospice CNA and knew atropine is...

  15. ZDoggMD Fan Club

    Red Kryptonite replied to CamillusRN's topic in Nursing Humor

    "Blank Script" is hilarious, as is "I Try to Be a

  16. An Idea Whose Time has Long Come: EMPLOYEE satisfaction scoring?

    Red Kryptonite replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    *reflects with smug satisfaction on the "critical need" text she got, and ignored, from staffing today* Sorry folks, I had a critical need to take my baby girl out for her 17th birthday dinner and I...

  17. So Sick Of This Nurses Eat The Young Crap

    Red Kryptonite replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    OMG if I were that poor nurse, or his wife, I'd demand she be arrested and charged for making a false report. In the current climate, even a hint of such an accusation can utterly destroy a man's...

  18. failed nursing school again

    Red Kryptonite replied to snowybee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Right here, dear. I can't tell you how many times my instructor has told us to trust our instincts and NOT change our answers, and yet she tells us she sees it on every test. Someone always changes...

  19. So Sick Of This Nurses Eat The Young Crap

    Red Kryptonite replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    Plus about half the board traffic would

  20. The Hunger Games and Nursing

    Red Kryptonite replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Breastfeeding dragons, hand amputations, and assistive devices mounted on the backs of the developmentally disabled for a crippled child sounds right up nursing's alley,

  21. "He wants his Ativan? Well I'm not giving it to him"

    Red Kryptonite replied to learnfromthis's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well since the OP seems to have completely checked out, I guess we'll never

  22. Pay rate for new LPN grads

    Red Kryptonite replied to Butt3rfly's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Oh MF....are you kidding? I am not putting myself through all this hell with school to make the same money! As a night shift CNA I already make almost $14 an hour!

  23. Want to be a nurse, just no butt wiping or other yucky stuff please

    Red Kryptonite replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Trust me, we hate those nurses. If you can't find me for ten minutes it means I'm busy caring for your patients. Seriously, putting them ON the bedpan or commode isn't even the gross part. Put them...

  24. An Idea Whose Time has Long Come: EMPLOYEE satisfaction scoring?

    Red Kryptonite replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    klone, where do you work? Cuz.....dang. That sounds awesome. And

  25. Acronyms: Where's the COW?

    Red Kryptonite replied to Brian's topic in General Students

    With as well as some of these computers work....in many cases it still