MelEpiRN

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1. Signs of hospital closing?

   MelEpiRN replied to slauren's topic in General Nursing

   warntracker.com I don't know if hospitals are exempt from this, but businesses with a certain amount of employees are supposed to file a notice if they're doing a mass layoff 60 days before it happens with the state. Some sort of federal ruling....

2. Patho Paper

   MelEpiRN replied to TaMecca Jones's topic in General Students

   Maybe narrow it down a bit? There are different types of strokes, you can focus on ischemic (the most common) or hemorrhagic or specifically subarachnoid. You can easily get 5 pages out of stroke, but I'd definitely choose a specific type.

3. Is social media clamping down on alternative healthcare ideas?

   MelEpiRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   mmc51264- I think the poster is referring to certain medications used to treat autoimmune diseases (eg methotrexate) can be used as abortives and therefore it's getting hard to get methotrexate due to current policy/ law. (just a guess)

4. I feel stuck in my nursing career!

   MelEpiRN replied to Civatreb's topic in General Nursing

   I don't really have any advice other than the CM I usually have worked with are often understaffed and seem to be "pulled in 10 different directions". It's just 10 different directions than bedside nurses.

5. Do grades really matter in nursing school?

   MelEpiRN replied to Jessica1077's topic in General Nursing

   When it came time for senior placements for whatever they called it...like a 2 week internship in various clinical settings...your GPA determined what place in line you got to choose your clinical. So if you reeaaallly wanted one of 10 peds positions...

6. "Discrepancies" In Epic Documentation

   MelEpiRN replied to Faithx14's topic in General Nursing

   are you saying they were pulled and not given under your ID?

7. ETOHer...(and other slang)

   MelEpiRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I hate the term 'expired'. Food expires. I prefer to use 'celestial discharge'. 🙂

8. No Ethnic DIversity

   MelEpiRN replied to Nonie76's topic in General Nursing

   No experience with it, but I'd say both lack of diversity is a problem but also a company that is heavily staffed by family and friends? Run far far away. So many potential problems with that business model.

9. Do you need certification for the Modified NIHSS?

   MelEpiRN replied to dinobiceps's topic in General Nursing

   It's going to pose more of a problem with a re-certification if y'all aren't assessing the deficits. If your mNIHSS is only assessing LOC and extremities but the deficits are sensory or speech, what good is it going to do? How do you catch a patient ...

10. Hourly vs Salary Position

    MelEpiRN replied to Sadnewgrad's topic in General Nursing

    I have also not heard of salaried bedside positions. I would say the answer depends on the position. Hourly- you should be getting compensated for any overtime. Salaried jobs tend to be more flexible...eg you may work late Monday and take off a...

11. Should I remove clinical experience and my first job from my resume? Advice please!

    MelEpiRN replied to nurse1045's topic in General Nursing

    Keep it in. In other fields it's completely normal to leave out stuff you did years and years ago to condense a resume and keep things relevant, or leave out short stays, however nursing likes to pay people based on years experience. (Learned that t...

12. What is something you never thought you'd have to say to a coworker?

    MelEpiRN replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    That turkey, is in fact, meat. Couldn't figure out why we never had vegetarian options for work lunches. Turns out the person ordering the food thought turkey was considered vegetarian.

13. Does Joint Commission have any credibility left in 2022?

    MelEpiRN replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Eating/ drinking in patient care areas is an OSHA regulation. Gotta take it up with them. TJC enforces OSHA.

14. Healthcare And Birthdate Imperative

    MelEpiRN replied to MarkMyWords's topic in General Nursing

    Who is going to remember a PIN number to recite back? I can't even remember 90% of the passwords I'm required to have for literally everything these days. Been in the field for ~20 years, no patient has ever complained to me about asking for the...

15. Life in the vaccine clinic (can I whine for just a moment?)

    MelEpiRN replied to klone's topic in COVID

    Virtual hug!!