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  1. Should RaDonda Vaught Have Her Nursing License Reinstated?

    floydnightingale replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I'm unaware of her history, ICU or whatever, but if she exhibited incompetence she should have been watched until they realized she wasn't safe and let her go. Interesting, reading a lot comments...

  2. Should RaDonda Vaught Have Her Nursing License Reinstated?

    floydnightingale replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know that she was working in an ED. I assumed that maybe a med-surg nurse wasn't familiar with Versed or vecuronium, both of which are very common in emergency settings. In my experience vec...

  3. Student RN Scrubs

    floydnightingale replied to Brenwick2's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    "Isn’t that what admission standards are for?" I went through a state school CD2 program, there were no admission standards beyond a degree from an accredited school and a review of my...

  4. Student RN Scrubs

    floydnightingale replied to Brenwick2's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

  5. Student RN Scrubs

    floydnightingale replied to Brenwick2's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    If they know that black bras or no undershirt under a white top is inappropriate, it's on the student. I don't see any obligation on the school's part to help them make up clinical hours. My own...

  6. We’re all being “fired”! Is this legal?

    floydnightingale replied to Taylor22's topic in General Nursing

    Thinking a little more about this, I can't imagine how smart it is to fire an entire department in today's job market, especially a department nobody wants to work in, even if it is "legal" to do so....

  7. We’re all being “fired”! Is this legal?

    floydnightingale replied to Taylor22's topic in General Nursing

    A hospital's, or any employer's, right to fire varies by state but they obviously want you to resign. Don't resign, it will only disqualify you for unemployment benefits. Let them fire you and then...

  8. Calling A Code Death (call police?)

    floydnightingale replied to Jcezz's topic in General Nursing

    In 20 some years I've never heard of such a thing. We clean them up, if family is present they're moved to room where they can sit with the deceased, otherwise they're moved to the morgue to wait for...

  9. My Coworkers are Driving Me Nuts

    floydnightingale replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Retired two years ago, can't say I miss a lot of it. Professionalism and adult behavior is something of the distant past. Everybody had a phone and they'd take pictures of me and put it up on...

  10. Scared to Take a Job in ICU Because of Radonda Vaught Conviction

    floydnightingale replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Nurses are typically allowed a mistake, ex; Radonda Vaught, albeit that was bad one. I can imagine a med-surg nurse might have been unfamiliar with those meds but an ICU nurse would never confuse...

  11. The Unsung Hero of The Emergency Department: The 24G IV Catheter

    floydnightingale replied to Damon McGill's topic in Emergency

    Yeh, they wouldn't even use a 20 for a chest study w/

  12. The Unsung Hero of The Emergency Department: The 24G IV Catheter

    floydnightingale replied to Damon McGill's topic in Emergency

    I don't recall ever using a 24g for anything but peds. I'd often default to a 20g for easier access or to spare veins but if there was even a remote possibility of a CT w/ contrast I wouldn't go to...

  13. Double Time Pay

    floydnightingale replied to Elleteedee226's topic in Operating Room

    Can't cite specific laws and things vary from state to state but the two hour break is effectively starting you off with a 14 hour shift, albeit 2 hours are unproductive. No, no, no, no. Your employer...

  14. Just Got Hired But Want to Go Per Diem in Order to Travel RN

    floydnightingale replied to EatCake2Day's topic in General Nursing

    Not even off orientation and you want to quit, which is effectively your plan because per diem isn't going to happen. When I was on the committee that interviewed prospective hires, people would...

  15. Is it worth going from Paramedic to RN in Florida?

    floydnightingale replied to Medic1995's topic in General Nursing

    "They both can intubate, ..." Actually, I don't believe an ICU RN can intubate

  16. What I Hate About Nursing In 2021

    floydnightingale replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Online education is largely worthless. They even went to online CPR certifications. Too cheap to pay a medic a few bucks to run a

  17. Thoughts On Eliminating Nurse Report

    floydnightingale replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, we went to the no report thing except for ICU transfers and if a patient is unstable they should be going to an ICU or at least travel with a nurse. Fact was, too many units avoided report...

  18. Nurse in Germany Convicted of Killing Patients

    floydnightingale replied to jeastridge's topic in Nursing News

    You'd think somebody would've noticed after the first 90 or so. I've been an ER nurse for 20 years, work as much as 80 hours a week, and I've lost exactly 4 patients and all were DNR. Dude was

  19. Getting into the Emergency department

    floydnightingale replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure you're smart enough to do it, but my experience suggests that ICU nurses don't do well in the ED and emergency nurses don't transition easily to critical care. I'll call report and they'll...

  20. Peritoneal Dialysis in the ED?

    floydnightingale replied to robrn1123's topic in Emergency

    We don't touch that, and it's not that common at my ED. We see many hemodialysis patients daily, but I don't think I personally see as many as one peritoneal dialysis pt in a year's time. If I'm...

  21. Thinking about buying an Accuvein 300...responses?

    floydnightingale replied to XY_RN's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    We bought three of these for our ED. Save your money. First off, if a patient's veins are so bad that you need this device it will likely only confirm that they have lousy veins. It's also a very poor...