kat7464

kat7464

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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 U.S. Politics's 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...

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

    kat7464 replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...

  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

  4. Lasix for EOL secretions?

    kat7464 posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    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...

  5. Miles on my car

    kat7464 replied to friendlylark's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    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...

  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...

  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...

  8. Hospice nursing not easy!

    kat7464 replied to benharold1's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    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...

  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...

  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...

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

    kat7464 replied to Kharma711's topic in Critical Care

    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...

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

    kat7464 replied to newgradkat's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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...

  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...

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

    kat7464 replied to relusanmi's topic in Patient, Colleague 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...

  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...

  16. Breaking Free From Nursing

    kat7464 replied to HealthyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    A "thankless profession." What were you looking for...endless praise? Seems to me you are more concerned about what you receive from nursing vs. the care you deliver. Nursing demands a heart of...

  17. Praying in the work place

    kat7464 replied to RipeTomato's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I am always available to pray with my patients and family members, should they be open to it; it is a fundamental (I believe) aspect of nursing, and a predominant reason why I chose hospice. We are...

  18. I feel so used..

    kat7464 replied to LadyMystic's topic in Aesthetics

    What are you doing?! Making no money for all of your blood, sweat, and tears in nursing school, in a job that will lead nowhere. Get out, find something that will use your skills and gifts to actually...

  19. Inpatient center patient load

    kat7464 replied to hospicernva's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Six bed hospice house, with one nurse, one

  20. I don't want a male nurse! - Caption Contest Winner

    kat7464 replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Sorry, just don't understand the humor in the

  21. OMG Say it correctly!

    kat7464 replied to seanynjboy's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Coudamin (for Coumadin) and, my personal favorite, the

  22. Feeling sad about my ALS patient

    kat7464 replied to ekramona's topic in General Nursing

    The poor man has little control of his life, and is therefore "picky." I work in hospice and we recently had an ALS pt. Regardless of the diagnosis, anyone facing a terminal illness feels a definite...

  23. Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    kat7464 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am so sick of thin, pretty nurses being slammed. Sorry.... I am 53 yo, thin, and have been called pretty. Ppl need to stop making appearance an issue. I do not apologize for my looks and I don't see...

  24. I don't know how you nurses deal with death

    kat7464 replied to Poochiewoochie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am so sorry for your loss. I work in hospice and just love my job. It never gets easier, but I feel so honored to serve my patients during this special time of their life. It is an...

  25. Looking to connect with other Christian nurses

    kat7464 replied to SuzieF's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Hi, Suzie! I am a hospice nurse in Northern Calif. I love my job and I love serving my Lord and Savior as a nurse. What a privilege and honor! I pray you are experiencing equal joy in your career and...