kat7464

kat7464 has 5+ years experience and specializes in Hospice, home health, LTC.

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1. CA Gov. Newsom On Wildfire Devastation: Impact Of Climate Change Cannot Be Denied

   kat7464 replied to herring_RN's topic in Talk Politics

   How on earth did this land on a nursing site? Is All Nurses going political? Okay, then you will have my full opinion. Newsome is an idiot....the latest of many generations of democratic morons that have run the state of California, which I was born ...

2. Coronavirus-Are we ready to talk about rationing care?

   kat7464 replied to dinah77's topic in COVID

   Where does the rationing of care end? Will you ration the nursing care of my hospice patient? How is one life valued above another and thus receives more care? No human being has the right to determine human value or privilege - only God can do that....

3. Why do so many cheerleaders enter nursing?

   kat7464 replied to RitzyCinnamonRoll's topic in General Nursing

   Nerdy girl here. Plenty respond...and we make pretty darned good nurses.

4. Lasix for EOL secretions?

   kat7464 posted a topic in Hospice

   A co-worker was at the bedside of an actively dying patient. Not unusual, this patient had copious secretions. She got an order for Lasix to give thru the patient's G-tube. His hospice Dx was Gastric CA. She completely bypassed hycosamine, scopalamin...

5. Miles on my car

   kat7464 replied to friendlylark's topic in Hospice

   Are you in this position for your patients or your car? Because your car will definitely take a beating. They are replaceable (at a price, of course). But you have a heart for hospice and know the lives of your patients and what they are struggling w...

6. Moving California. Insight on pay scale etc?

   kat7464 replied to Nurse4lifeNC's topic in General Nursing

   Left California after spending all of my life there. Graduated 2010 as a RN and made good money, but thanks, Jerry Brown (and all other democrats), as your policies and hidden fees...AKA TAXES, ate up my salary. The weather and landscape is good but ...

7. Women's Right to Choose

   kat7464 replied to River&MountainRN's topic in General Nursing

   Abortion is the murder of an innocent human being, plain and simple. You can dance around it all you want and talk about women's rights, but where is the right of the human she is carrying? I am sure plenty will hate me for being pro-life, but the fa...

8. Hospice nursing not easy!

   kat7464 replied to benharold1's topic in Hospice

   I work in a large inpatient hospice facility and we are crazy busy and understaffed. I am running almost my entire 13-hours shift. Gotta tell you, I do love it though. By the end of my 3-day stretch I am exhausted. I have worked as a CM seeing hospic...

9. Profanity in the workplace

   kat7464 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I care. Just because you are older (and I am, too) does not give you license to say or do whatever you think you are entitled too. You still represent an honored profession. You are not entitled to trash it. Yes, our jobs are hard...that is no excuse...

10. Profanity in the workplace

    kat7464 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    By who...the staff or the patients? You can't really control the patients, but personally, I hate co-workers' foul mouths. Come on...take the high road and be professional. Yeah, we get that circumstances may stink but be professional. Some of your c...

11. When family fails the patient... it breaks my heart

    kat7464 replied to Kharma711's topic in Critical

    Totally selfish family, unable or unwilling to see the patient's perspective, which (hopefully) was expressed prior to this situation. Have been a hospice nurse for years and am always amazed at how reluctant families are to let go when all evidence ...

12. I am new to nursing but I don't want to do this anymore

    kat7464 replied to newgradkat's topic in New Nurse

    You either love nursing or you don't. Loving it doesn't make it easy. But if you are not called to it please leave. Very difficult decision to make for many nurses. Why did you become a nurse in the first place? If it was for convenience, money, or s...

13. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    kat7464 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Best advice I was ever given came in nursing school - always ask yourself, "Does this make sense?" before doing anything to the patient. This made no sense on many levels and the nurse should have stopped in her tracks before administering that drug.

14. How do you deal with Doctors that insult nurses?

    kat7464 replied to relusanmi's topic in Relations

    Be a professional. Treat the physician the way you want to be treated. Feeling put out? Not understood? I so get those feelings... But taylor your (loving) speech in such a way as to be a blessing and not a curse. The goal is your patient....not your...

15. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

    kat7464 replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

    Where to start? I get so sick of Code Browns....my sense of smell has been burned away thanks to smelling crap all of the time. Phlegm? So gross, but we deal with it. Foul urine? Always....families (let alone patients) are completely clueless about t...