Professor_Mike

Professor_Mike

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About Professor_Mike

Professor_Mike has 15 years experience and specializes in Critical Care.


Assistant Professor of Nursing

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  1. 1 year out, no job. Throw in the towel?

    This may be a little late, but may help someone else. I encourage my students to walk right up to the manager of a u nit that they are on for clinicals and introduce themselves, express an interest in working there after graduation and ask a few pert...
  2. Keeping A Written Record Of The Patients You've Had: Good Or Bad?

    Not even addressing the HIPAA issues, which may be very serious, but the existence of personal notes outside of the medical record are admissible in court and you will be asked very early in any deposition if you have any such records. Anything other...
  3. My biggest concern is that the ANA, Planned Parenthood and the Obama Administration does not represent my views as an citizen, nurse, member of my faith community or even ethically. I joined ANA as a new grad at great expense and soon found that I wa...
  4. New Nurse-Legal Nurse Consultant

    One other consideration is that by working in the highly specialized field of NICU nursing, a great deal of what you do, procedures, medications, dosages, etc are only applicable to the NICU world. Consider how well qualified you will be to evaluate ...
  5. Nursing Diagnosis...the sacred cow that needs to go.

    I am a nursing professor and I agree 100%. I understand them, but never saw a meaningful application for them. Amen!
  6. Annoyed by nursing commerical they keep running

    Do a little research and and avoid emotional postings. Once you see where the current nursing shortage really does exist and where it will be in 10 and 15 years, you will be shocked. The most critical shortage is nursing faculty. I know because I am...
  7. 0.45% NS is Hypernatremia?

    That makes sense. Stabilize then definitive treatment. I teach that exact process for treatment of DKA. .9 then .45. Look up the water deficit formula. To get a result, you plug in the weight in kg and serum sodium. It tells you how many liters of fl...
  8. 0.45% NS is Hypernatremia?

    Many hypernatremic states are a result of deyhydration/volume loss. The examples of diarrhea or diabetes insipidus are examples. The goal is to replace volume, so using .9% NS would be just fine until volume is corrected. Then changing over to .45% w...
  9. Did I cause my patient to die faster?

    That nurse is a card-carrying member of the no clue club. Clearly no understanding of comfort measures. Thanks for caring as you did for your patient.
  10. How to ask for a pay raise???

    Don't bother asking. Three reasons. 1. As a new grad, you have nothing other than a body to offer. You have no experience and in an ICU, you will cost the institution between $60,000 to $120,000 to orient. 2. They are already sweetening the deal with...
  11. Whats the deal with all the crying?!?!....

    I can only speak to what my own students experience on clinical with me, and that is with few exceptions an excellent experience. I approach each student as a professional and assess where they are in their learning and tailor their learning and our ...
  12. Has Anyone Ever USED Their Malpractice Insurance?

    I did about 10 years ago as a traveler. The plaintiff named every nurse on the chart for punitive damages less than a week before the trial was to start. By naming me, I got individual representation and an injunction to postpone the trial. This resu...
  13. Nurses wearing white

    My current hospital has a plastic color coded tag behind everyone's ID badge. They say RN, respiratory therapist, surgical tech, etc. very clear. RN's are bright red.
  14. Nurses wearing white

    Two years ago, a hospital I used to work at did the same thing in 2 units as a trial. They even paid for the uniforms of your choice. Visitors and patients were surveyed about their impressions. The outcome was that the public did not like the white ...