MamaKitty13214

MamaKitty13214 specializes in Med Surg,Hospice,Home Care, Case Mgmt.

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1. Deathbed visions **UPDATED**

   MamaKitty13214 replied to ag_man's topic in General Nursing

   When it ain't your time, it ain't your time, by Golly!!

2. Home Health RN going back to hospital setting.

   MamaKitty13214 replied to Kauai RN's topic in General Nursing

   I'm in upstate NY (WAAY north of NYC) and where I work FT case manager salaries range from 70-80K or more DOE. So, I can't complain. The money and benefits meet my needs. You may want to do something like what inadvertently happened to me -- I ac...

3. Deathbed visions **UPDATED**

   MamaKitty13214 replied to ag_man's topic in General Nursing

   He was there. You just didn't see him. Always remember that when you feel them, they are there. Your eyes and conscious mind can't see them, but your spirit can.

4. Deathbed visions **UPDATED**

   MamaKitty13214 replied to ag_man's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, Eagle78, you have really been through a wringer. Cancer is about a weakened immune system -- our bodies have a certain number of cancer cells all the time and a healthy immune system keeps them under control. When we have a lot of exposure to...

5. Home Health RN going back to hospital setting.

   MamaKitty13214 replied to Kauai RN's topic in General Nursing

   I went back to a hospital bedside job after 10 yrs working first in a hospital (4 yrs) then in hospice, home care and field case management and found some sample medication tests online just by googling several terms -- that was 8 yrs ago, so I don't...

6. Textbook nursing vs. real world nursing.

   MamaKitty13214 replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

   The Real World is not a well-ordered place You can't control everything You do the best you can within the Standard of Care for Nursing Practice and according to institutional policy You document carefully and clearly, especially when there is non-co...

7. Top 8 things I hate about being a nurse

   MamaKitty13214 replied to Airina Desuyo's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you, Peng! Well said. Here in the U.S. we are not all required to wear white anymore, although a very few hospitals may require it, but we can certainly relate to everything you said! We all have our Guardian Angels with us to help us through...

8. Carry Me Across

   MamaKitty13214 replied to morecoffeepls's topic in General Nursing

   AWESOME story!!! And beautifully written! I have always found that our patients are our best teachers -- I think that's part of why we are drawn to do what we do. These kinds of things happen to teach us about the world of spirit and sometimes the ...

9. Scared of MD

   MamaKitty13214 replied to tamari07's topic in General Nursing

   Good for you!!! Love it! Wish I could do that! I'm only barely 5' tall, but I'm gonna start standing on chairs & do what you do, dammit!!

10. The Problem with Nursing

    MamaKitty13214 replied to sarjasy's topic in General Nursing

    I think you need to finish your program and get some more experience under your belt before judging an entire profession based on your limited experience. There is, indeed, a lot of dysfunction in the nursing profession due to a complicated historic...

11. Socialized Medicine the myths and the facts

    MamaKitty13214 replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    1a2s3d -- you are channeling Glenn Beck. I think you have been watching too much of him.

12. How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    MamaKitty13214 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    Swift Boat Propaganda:down: Don't look at that man behind the curtain. "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." ... Albert Einstein

13. How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    MamaKitty13214 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    OK. You are right, he is perfectly OK with how things are in this country right now. But I don't think my statement was rude. He is anti-government & anti-change and offers no productive solutions to the desperate problems that so many of us a...

14. How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    MamaKitty13214 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    Our health should not be treated as a commodity ("market") to be exploited for corporate profits. Please specify what "failed government policies" have destroyed our "health care market". Health care should not be a "market" where our health and wel...

15. How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    MamaKitty13214 replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    No one said HR676 is not federally funded. It is. Our taxes are federal funds and are supposed to be used in ways that benefit all of us, not just corporate entities. And yes, it is an expansion of Medicare to cover everyone. Many things would cha...