Sapphy BSN, RN

Nursing Instructor

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About Sapphy

Sapphy has 8 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Nursing Instructor.


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  1. I find it funny that you talk about literacy and then you make the statement "Who do we do if a child don't pass a test? Am I the only one who sees the irony in that poorly worded (illiterate) statement?
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    2013 LPN PAY???

    Interesting to see what some of the LPN's make in different areas. I am in Northwest PA and I teach LPN's... Starting rates around here are as low as 12 bucks an hour! My son has a friend who just got a job at Radio Shack making 15... no education...
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    The Reason I Became a Nurse

    What an inspiring story that gives me some real hope for my daughter. None of us want our kids to be teenage parents but if it should happen we also do not want our kids to become statistics. My daughter was 15 when my granddaughter was born. She ...
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    MSN Capstone: Veteran Centered Care.

    Thank you to those of you who have completed my survey. It is 5 days until the survey closes and I would like to get as many responses as possible! For those of you who have not, I would greatly appreciate you taking 5 minutes to answer some questi...
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    Team nursing?

    I worked in a rehab facility where they did team nursing. What I found, having gone there as a new grad BSN was that I was supposed to be the team leader with an LPN who had more experience in her little finger than I had in my whole brain, and one...
  6. Please help me with this!! I have come so far and I don't want to blow it by not getting enough responses!! It is only 18 questions!! :) Thank you so much!
  7. Introduction:You are invited to participate in a research project being conducted by a researcher from Western Governors University. Mrs. Karyn J Hodgins is conducting research to determine if nurses who are employed at private sector facilities are ...
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    Teaching while raising a family?

    Yes, What the above user posted is true. However, my program has back ups in place just in case we are sick. But we use them very sparingly. Most nurses I know will call in dead before they call in sick anyway lol. Because we are a contact hour p...
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    Teaching while raising a family?

    I teach full time in a Practical Nursing program and I will tell you that I put in 40 plus hours a week. That being said, I have more time with my family now that I ever did as a staff nurse. Mostly I work straight days with no weekends, and nice b...
  10. Introduction:You are invited to participate in a research project being conducted by a researcher from Western Governors University. Mrs. Karyn J Hodgins is conducting research to determine if nurses who are employed at private sector facilities are ...
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    Reporting Wrongdoing

    Complete... and I will be posting my own Capstone survey in the next few weeks :) Seems there are quite a few of us WGU Leadership and management candidates on this site!
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    Help Need advice!

    I have no trouble discussing the options with this family. But the way my DON is putting it to me... she wants me to convince this family to make him a DNR. As far as I see it, it is up to the physician to make the diagnoses and then discuss those ...
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    specialty air mattresses

    I have seen some specialty air mattresses (usually on people with stage IV's) that you are not supposed to put any linens on. Usually they are beds that are rented by facilities for people who are on the verge of dying from said wounds. From what y...
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    Help Need advice!

    I am The ADON in a nursing home. My DON asked me today to do something which I feel is outside of my scope of practice. Without violating HIPAA, what I can tell you is.... we have a patient who is going bad... twice we have sent him out to the ER b...
  15. We have a pt right now who has a wound vac. She has an abdominal incision that would not close from back in August of last year. She came to us about a month ago with TPN running, and with the wound vac over this incision. There is a fistula undern...