klarck

klarck has 3 years experience and specializes in Tele-Float Pool, Home Care, Pt Safety.

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1. Men in home health

   klarck replied to Noimanurse's topic in Home Health

   I'm a male bedside nurse who's moving to a home care job at the first of the year (Yay!) I agree with those upthread guessing that the problem lies with the agency. I might add that the agent rep's "warnings" may be coming awfully close to discrimi...

2. Running Abx as primaries/Not setting up NS primaries

   klarck replied to klarck's topic in Infusion

   I haven't contacted our P&P - I'm a new guy on nights and am trying to quietly acculturate to my new institution. Just trying to get a feel for whether this is weird or not.

3. How do you sign?

   klarck replied to Mashira's topic in General Nursing

   My first institution gave nurses the option of either "BSN" or "RN" (but not both) on their ID badges. "BSN" may not be big-headed, but it sort of seemed to me that the nurses who chose it over "RN" tended to be. I'm more proud of the work I do tha...

4. Running Abx as primaries/Not setting up NS primaries

   klarck posted a topic in Infusion

   I just started at a new institution and am a little puzzled by one the the practices on the floor. When an IVPB gtt such as Zosyn or Vanco is written for a pt who's not on IV maintenance fluids/heplocked, the nurses here will connect and run it with...

5. Does being a Male open more doors in the nursing profession

   klarck replied to Uwabodo's topic in Male Students

   The suggestion that there's a super-secret imposed ratio in effect could be verified with some simple statistics performed on readily available govt employment and educational data. Hungry, enterprising lawyers are plentiful and if sex discriminatio...

6. ICU vs PCU

   klarck replied to glamgalRN's topic in MICU

   After spending a mere 15 minutes searching my PCCN study guide for the definitive answer, I can assure you the "P" stands for "Progressive". (btw, always -ALWAYS- question acronyms.)

7. Too much estrogen! Women! Ahh!

   klarck replied to ZanatuBelmont's topic in Male Students

   Humor is sometimes generated at the expense of others and sometimes at the expense of the joker himself. Chose the former at your own risk. BTW, If you don't want some of your behavior simply dismissed as due to "too much testosterone", you'd do wel...

8. Displaced Autoworker Wants To Be A Nurse 46yrs old

   klarck replied to LakesLPN's topic in Michigan

   I passed my NCLEX last year and was hired immediately into the unit I wanted. I was a balding, graying, very obvious 47. Age was definitely not an issue. I too was in SE Michigan manufacturing. After my first code brown (c-diff), it occurred to me...

9. Are accelerated BSN programs looked down on?

   klarck replied to Dattebayo's topic in Med-Surg

   Here's a timely article in the Journal of Professional nursing. Here's the money line: "The authors found that second-degree students are usually older and more motivated. Because they have more work experience, they have coping advantages over new...

10. Government shutdown

    klarck replied to hair_tie's topic in Michigan

    Yikes, I just got my quick view results from Pearson/NCLEX this morning (I passed) but the MI Public Health website still shows my license number "pending". This seems like just the kind of detail that'll get completely hosed up under a gov't shutdo...

11. Sometimes I hate my current boss

    klarck replied to Howie781's topic in Male Students

    I'm in a 2nd career program after working on the shop floor as an IE for about 10 years in SoEast Michigan. On my way out, I got very little in the way of gender/poop jokes. I'm assuming it was because all the guys - both bargaining unit and white ...

12. What to wear???

    klarck replied to IWANT2BE's topic in Male Students

    Go retro. Adidas still makes their all-leather Superstar II and it's available with white stripes. They also still make the Stan Smith, an all white leather tennis court shoe. After a short break-in, they're remarkably comfortable, even by today's...

13. Required to wear girly scrubs

    klarck replied to SteveNNP's topic in Men

    As a 2nd career student with limited health care experience, I've always held a slightly different perception of men in white. If I see a non-uniformed guy in white pants and shirt, I immediately think of the orderlies in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos ...

14. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    klarck replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a second-career nursing student. After 20 years in industry - manufacturing, engineering, mba - I can tell you that anyone who begins a sentence with "I didn't get four years of education to..." is automatically labelled a primadona. To be succes...

15. Nursing school books

    klarck replied to atrice's topic in General Students

    Another good used book site is www.abebooks.com. I never buy the current edition of a required textbook; the second-from-last edition can always be found for a tiny fraction of the cost. The only things that really change from edition to edition are ...