blackvans1234

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1. Did your dating life improve when becoming a male nurse?

   blackvans1234 replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in Men

   Women want a sugar daddy, now if they'll admit it is another thing. My dating life was crap before becoming a nurse and it still is.

2. Clinical informaticist = Nurse informaticist?

   blackvans1234 posted a topic in Informatics

   Are these two job titles essentially the same? This specialty really needs some standardization, as I've seen Nurse informaticists that solely gather data, and Nurse informaticists that work directly on the EHR and implementing changes based on facil...

3. Gave Blood transfusion too fast maybe?

   blackvans1234 replied to Maria1308's topic in General Nursing

   I love all of the ''I'll pressure bag the blood, give it over 3 minutes'' comments without actually knowing the clinical situation. Probably some 100 year old with ESRD CHF with an EF of 10%. Id love to be a fly on the wall when the patient goes into...

4. 3 Years bedside RN, how to transition?

   blackvans1234 posted a topic in Informatics

   Hello everyone! I'm a nurse with over 3 years bedside experience, and 5 years as a CNA. I have my ADN as well as an associates in general studies. I hope to transition to informatics, but honestly I have no clue how. Currently I work in a 400ish bed ...

5. Should drug diverters be prosecuted?

   blackvans1234 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   Not sure, but this isn't the only field where ''those on the inside'' get away with lesser punishments. IE police doing things against the rules and not being punished to the full extent.

6. 3 medication-related errors in 6 months. Is this a sign I should quit?

   blackvans1234 replied to hnnrgh's topic in General Nursing

   Missing eye drops as a med error? That's comical. Maybe the patient was off the unit, refused them, not available from pharmacy. Also sounds like you're using a paper MAR - Electronic MAR would show you (until you left) that the medicine was overdue....

7. When to call Rapid Response Team?

   blackvans1234 replied to LUCBSN's topic in Critical

   A rapid response for pain medication is inappropriate. The nurse should follow their chain of command (Charge RN -> Manager -> supervisor). Its almost universal (USA anyway) that a rapid response is for an acute change in patient condition, IE ...

8. Priming potassium lines

   blackvans1234 replied to Melanin's topic in Medications

   oy, sounds like a bad idea. so does 4 runs of k = 4,400mL? (1L + 100mL of k X4?) Also, how fast do you run the liter bag with k? 1 hour? #bolus #diluting the k anyway haha.

9. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

   blackvans1234 replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

   I bet you 100,000 dollars that instead of spending time writing papers to get my BSn I spent the same amount of time learning, discussing the problems, complications (and how to recognize them) my stepdown patients face, that the mortality would be l...

10. Advising Upwards: How to Advise Nurses as a CNA

    blackvans1234 replied to packersfan1590's topic in Career Support

    If you become a nurse and work in that environment you will eventually understand why there are lapses what you believe should be done.

11. Always 'paying my dues' because i'm PRN?

    blackvans1234 replied to Mrs_Momma_RN's topic in Career Support

    Isn't it ironic how Per diems get the short end of the stick, however when there is a need you're the first one that they beg to come in.

12. Tough question to ask admins/recruiters?

    blackvans1234 posted a topic in Job Hunt

    Recently read this on a yahoo article about corporate CEO's Long story short I feel it could extrapolate as a tough but good question to ask during interviews (if you dare ) "How does this unit (hospital) measure success in its nurses?" Also a classi...

13. I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

    blackvans1234 replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    I focus on the fact that I am expected to do unrealistic amount of tasks for an unrealistic amount of patients. ..And that three years ago, the ''normal'' number of patients I have now was the ''worst day'' the staff nurses used to have. All of that ...

14. Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

    blackvans1234 replied to RNDave's topic in Professionalism

    I worked as a CNA in a hospital for 4 years, and just passed my 1 year anniversary as a staff nurse on stepdown in a second hospital. I have changed my perception of my job, and the overall treatment // respect of nurses in the hospital. I have adopt...

15. A fib with rvr

    blackvans1234 replied to ksparks's topic in General Nursing

    Another learning point would have been to identify under which parameter the MD would've liked you to call back (or not) My conversations generally go like, "So I'll give the 5 cardizem IVP, I'll call you back if the hr sustains ____" OR "Okay so the...