HiddencatBSN

HiddencatBSN BSN

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  1. Radonda Vaught Trial

    HiddencatBSN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Yep. Regardless of how safe we think we practice and how we’re not making mistakes like Vaught, this is a bad precedent for us and for Just

  2. Can I Take Adderall as an RN?

    HiddencatBSN replied to SNgirl21's topic in General Nursing

    Your mileage may vary but my anxiety improved on stimulants for ADHD: struggling and then feeling bad about struggling with “easy” things for others was a huge contributor for me. I’ve...

  3. Healthcare And Birthdate Imperative

    HiddencatBSN replied to MarkMyWords's topic in General Nursing

    #1 You answered your own question, it’s to verify ID. #2 The “one clinic at a time PIN” sounds like an absolute disaster LOL. How is the patient identified to give out the PIN in the first...

  4. Are there any travel nurse jobs for Unvaccinated Nurses?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Heart Attack Zack's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And I just want to add, that people with genuine medical exemptions is why I feel it is so important for those who are medically able to be vaccinated to provide a larger vaccinated population for...

  5. Are there any travel nurse jobs for Unvaccinated Nurses?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Heart Attack Zack's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh goodness, that would suck LOL. No, they came to the peds ED in the morning when we were (in theory) slower. They got registered as patients and hooked up to full monitoring (cardiac,...

  6. Are there any travel nurse jobs for Unvaccinated Nurses?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Heart Attack Zack's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My hospital had a program that gave second doses slowly over an hour and monitored closely for reactions for those who had a reaction to the first dose but wanted to be fully vaccinated. I’m...

  7. Never Say Never

    HiddencatBSN replied to Kristi Van Winkle's topic in General Nursing

    Imagine being a nursing instructor and not knowing how stuttering works ? Or that it’s a disability covered under the

  8. Nurses Did Not Sign Up for This

    HiddencatBSN replied to NurseintheMtns's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Rather than peer groups we should be organizing. Unionizing where we’re not unionized and making the unions more active where we are. Working together as a group is how we change systems. The...

  9. Nurses Did Not Sign Up for This

    HiddencatBSN replied to NurseintheMtns's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yes. ? down to calling this a bandaid to a systemic issue. These studies were also all conducted in 2020. We’ve since had another full year of the same or worsening conditions. The support and...

  10. How does write ups work in the hospital?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a hospital with a point system and it was highly punitive but also weirdly encouraging of longer callouts: for example, consecutive absences were counted as one event, and leaving a shift...

  11. Patient going to complain against me?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Bella345's topic in General Nursing

    Getting a kidney stone and having it surgically removed is a pretty intense way to game the system to get a fix. How’d they fake the stone? Or the

  12. Patient going to complain against me?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Bella345's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah as a peds nurse I want to know how many kg the patient was because 2mg is an appropriate dose for a 20kg child. 4mg is our standard adult dose. And for surgical pain we use PO opioids with IV for...

  13. Patient going to complain against me?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Bella345's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah I'm side-eyeing the comment about wanting narcan on hand for 2 norco and 4 mg of morphine that were spaced out. For a kidney stone that's not all that exciting and it sounds like the patient was...

  14. Hyatt Place vs Residence Inn

    HiddencatBSN posted a topic in Travel

    I'm doing my first travel assignment in the Bronx and have a choice of staying at a Hyatt Place or a Residence Inn. Distance/commute is pretty similar and amenities appear similar or the ways they...

  15. What else can be done about a nurse sleeping on duty??

    HiddencatBSN replied to Kastiara's topic in General Nursing

    There's a difference between creating a work environment that allows this (which I fully support, but I haven't had adequate coverage for a lunch break in like, ever, so clustered nap breaks for night...

  16. Where do you stand on "Nurses don't get paid enough"?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    It doesn’t need to be a competition with other professions tho. The working class is, as a whole, underpaid and over exploited. That includes nursing. That includes other jobs that are less...

  17. What else can be done about a nurse sleeping on duty??

    HiddencatBSN replied to Kastiara's topic in General Nursing

    No, this is not "nurses eating their young.” What this nurse is doing is horribly unsafe and irresponsible. Most hospitals it's an immediate fireable offense. I think you should consider why...

  18. 3 Injuries That Look Like Child Abuse But Are Not

    HiddencatBSN replied to SoniaV.'s topic in Pediatric

    I want to add that bone disorders are usually not something immediately diagnosed. We recently admitted a patient and the results and diagnosis took several days to come back. We still had to file a...

  19. Where do you stand on "Nurses don't get paid enough"?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    I agree- I worked in PA and when I got a job in Allentown after working in Philly I took a huge paycut that the hospital justified as being due to the lower cost of living but the decreased COL wasn't...

  20. Where do you stand on "Nurses don't get paid enough"?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    It's about $100 a year, not a month. I agree $100 a month would be tough but yearly it's much more

  21. Where do you stand on "Nurses don't get paid enough"?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    For $100 a year I'd rather know there's no conflict of interest or that I'm not going to be judged to be worth the loss for the benefit of the org which is the whole point of having your own...

  22. Where do you stand on "Nurses don't get paid enough"?

    HiddencatBSN replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Two things: as a profession that’s got a good job outlook and is somewhat accessible (although there are still tons of barriers rt our educational system in the US) it’s definitely (in general)...

  23. Resignation Question

    HiddencatBSN replied to DSG28's topic in General Nursing

    Email and give notice now and start your new job. With staffing concerns a lot of staff are being reassigned BUT: 1. They didn’t think to explain the situation to you until you asked 2....

  24. What have been your favorite gifts from families?

    HiddencatBSN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I want to thank the teams that took care of a family member and know what I’ve really appreciated from families but am looking for more ideas. And don’t worry, as a night shift nurse I am...

  25. What have been your favorite gifts from families?

    HiddencatBSN replied to HiddencatBSN's topic in General Nursing

    And I apologize that I wasn’t more clear about it being a unit gift when I said “packaged and delivered in a way that gets to them [night shift]