IceDancer

IceDancer has 20 years experience and specializes in Oncology/Home Care.

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1. CNAs give medications

   IceDancer replied to Beaue's topic in General Nursing

   I am sure plenty of people will disagree with me but my personal opinion of people administering medications to anyone, is that they should obviously follow the five drug rights (pt. drug, dose, route, time), and that they should know what the drug d...

2. Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

   IceDancer replied to ryuunohime's topic in Relations

   So, to me, the bottom line is, you asked your charge nurse, she told you to call the CAT, you did as you were told. If you had not called the CAT it frankly would have been insubordination on your part at that point. You are getting flack from superv...

3. Did You Know the Specialty You Wanted to Work In Before Clinicals?

   IceDancer replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

   I had no idea. I kept thinking I would find my niche as clinicals went on and the semesters passed by as my peers seemed to be doing, but nothing ever clicked. By the time we were to be signed to our preceptorship that would last our final two semest...

4. Are There Jobs for Inexperienced RNs Besides Floor Nursing?

   IceDancer replied to jack1971's topic in New Nurse

   When I started nursing, twenty years ago, I was in a similar boat. On an Onc/med floor, with a great preceptor and supportive staff. It was the ideal situation for me to grow, "team nursing" with eight patients per RN and CNA. I stayed for five years...

5. Low census--what do you do?

   IceDancer replied to compassionresearcher's topic in General Nursing

   When I worked in the hospital, years ago, low census call off was by volunteer, per diem, then seniority, usually people were fighting to get called off. We did go thorough a couple of really dry spells, census wise, and during those I actually spoke...

6. Do women find male nurses attractive?

   IceDancer replied to Sykadia's topic in Men

   I was married to another RN for seven years ('96-2002), and I then had a long term relationship with another RN for three years and we have remained friendly afterwards, he was one of the most passionate relationships I have ever been involved with....

7. New Grad- What did I just get myself into?

   IceDancer replied to newRNnc's topic in Geriatric

   You just witnessed bad practice, in multiple obvious ways. As an orientee you need to discuss this with whomever is managing your orientation, it is perfectly acceptable to say in private, " I was orienting with so and so and noticed blah blah blah, ...

8. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

   IceDancer replied to jedimasterbrie's topic in Disabilities

   I think, as others have said, it depends on your physical limitations from those disorders. I can share my career experience with you, I have a hyper mobility disorder not specifically diagnosed, though I meet the testing qualifications for EDS (cons...

9. IIVD

   IceDancer replied to Nurse131382's topic in General Nursing

   Well, I have never heard of that but I would guess the last three initials are IntraVascular Device. So....if the first letter is also an I, maybe Inactive or Intermittent? We always called them saline locks, so if the first letter was an L I would t...

10. I'm afraid that I will never become a nurse and be stuck with 11k in loans

    IceDancer replied to Keracee's topic in Pre-Nursing

    This may have been asked, but can you live at home? Maybe pay mom a rent to help offset the costs and help her out a little, but it could be less than living somewhere else perhaps? Keeping in mind I went to school 25 years ago, I lived at home thro...

11. Fired from first job..."not eligible for re-hire"

    IceDancer replied to run.for.the.roses's topic in General Nursing

    If you have proven yourself a long term, faithful and reliable employee, a good supervisor and good co-workers will often reach above and beyond to help you if you have problems outside of work. But that is the caveat......you don't simply get that f...

12. Is home health that bad?

    IceDancer replied to trinan71's topic in Home Health

    Your comment brought tears to my eyes this morning Libby. Thank you so much for those kind words.

13. Is home health that bad?

    IceDancer replied to trinan71's topic in Home Health

    I worked in home care for nearly the last fifteen years. My job in our agency was primarily admissions. The paperwork and information collecting for admissions is something like you have never seen, but I had it down to a science. I know that when I ...

14. Fired from first job..."not eligible for re-hire"

    IceDancer replied to run.for.the.roses's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the other comments about tardiness during orientation. That said, if the main issue was that some preceptor *fabricated* that I missed thirty minutes of report 2-3 times and I got fired as a result, I would run, not walk from that creepy...

15. Hostile families

    IceDancer replied to KC,RN's topic in Relations

    I am not seeing how long you have been in nursing. As others have mentioned, you did not get good orders to begin with to control pancreatitis, especially given what the patient was showing you with her response to the ER/first floor arrival meds. Th...