phiir MSN

phiir has 21 years experience as a MSN and specializes in Informatics.

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1. Why do we do codes?

   phiir replied to scrubs0204's topic in General Nursing

   So you can look the families of your patients in the eyes and say: "We did everything we could"

2. Nursing Shoes for Males

   phiir replied to A.M. Wolf's topic in Men

   I have four pairs of Asics and cycle through them

3. Male Nursing swag

   phiir replied to Ohbeardedone's topic in Men

   Scissors / Trauma Shears Penlight Quality writing implements (you may even want to put your name on them because they WILL disappear)

4. Credentials

   phiir replied to phiir's topic in Professionalism

   Nah I'm still around. I asked here because that's how I learn as a nurse - I look for the answer myself and then if I can't find it, I see if anyone else knows.The conversation rapidly deteriorated into tangents instead of staying on-topic, so I did ...

5. Quick certs to spice up resume for Epic application analyst job

   phiir replied to Murse901's topic in Informatics

   I am actually interested in knowing the answer to this question myself - Google searches are relatively fruitless.

6. New Grad RN.... work options that do not involve a hospital

   phiir replied to new.grad.rn's topic in New Nurse

   There are also numerous RN-to-MSN programs available nowadays so one could acquire an MSN without working as a staff RN.

7. Is an acute rehab unit/inpatient rehab facility considered acute care?

   phiir replied to annlbuco's topic in Rehabilitation

   Worked my first year at a rehab hospital and we used to have crash carts with Epi, Sodium Bicarb, atropine, etc. which were removed because they removed the 'Hospital' designation. It is now pretty much a SNF and we only have BLS at our disposal whe...

8. New Grad RN.... work options that do not involve a hospital

   phiir replied to new.grad.rn's topic in New Nurse

   My wife does Clinical Research and she still has to go ask patients for samples, give presentations to large groups, etc. so you never really escape 'people', but it does reduce the number considerably. Maybe consider Nursing Informatics...

9. Failed nclex twice, advice?

   phiir replied to Huth99's topic in NCLEX

   Hurst review is excellent and they have a bank of either 600 or 900 practice questions.

10. bored to tears

    phiir replied to KThurmond's topic in General Students

    Troll: One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument Based on the reaction of the OP, my assessment is accurate.

11. bored to tears

    phiir replied to KThurmond's topic in General Students

    This is a troll - don't worry they go away when you don't feed them.I wasn't interested in my history classes and so they were tedious. I was VERY interested in some of my other classes, but the format caused my attention to drift more than I would ...

12. Onward to Texas!

    phiir replied to coughdrop.2.go's topic in School

    From Amarillo, currently live in Lubbock. Northwest Hospital (NWTH) is the 'County Hospital' of the area so they take the indigent, etc. despite the fact that they are still designated as a For-Profit hospital. Baptist St. Anthony's (BSA) is direct...

13. CNA or EMT

    phiir replied to Nurse2BeCam's topic in CNA/MA

    Probably depends on where you want to work as well - if you want to go to an ED then working as an EMT would be most beneficial. CNA's do a lot of bedside care so you would benefit as you can see a lot of what goes on and the local hospitals around ...

14. Credentials

    phiir replied to phiir's topic in Professionalism

    I have scrutinized the ANA Code of Ethics, the Texas BoN website, and examined my facility's policies. I tried google searching, but with the myriad of ADN-to-BSN programs being offered online, I could not come up with satisfactory results from my k...

15. Credentials

    phiir replied to phiir's topic in Professionalism

    Allow me to remind you that saying 'allow me' is asking permission and that I have not mandated anything. I attempted to refine the questions to the ones I wanted answered - I restricted nothing, I can monitor ALL I LIKE, and as for filters - I'll l...