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This is pretty cut and dry to me. The baby is simply not viable. The mother is viable. The two options are to terminate the baby or terminate both persons. I don't see how any religious beliefs could even logically go against ectopic pregnancy termin...

Meticulous attention to detail, thorough charting, adherence to policy and evidence based practice, and collaboration with the team will not go unnoticed if you simply do it quietly. I know it seems like the recognition does not come quickly, but nur...

I also am curious if the D20 was heparinized. We would never run a PICC line KVO without heparin. We would also never run D20 for KVO purposes. We actually would never run dextrose for only KVO purposes. We run heparin 0.5u/mL in 0.9% NaCl or somethi...

But that's not actually getting time off. I truly don't understand what is going on here. If you are working your full time hours Sun-Tues, then what are they paying you any PTO for? That's how I take "vacation" when I'm not actually using any PTO. S...

Do you have anything to support this? It is 100% definitely illegal in my state to come in off the clock and read through patient charts that I am not caring for.

Think about this scenario. If a nurse comes in early and starts looking at charts based on what the assignments might be, and then before that nurse's shift begins something occurs where the charge nurse needs to change the patient assignments and th...

I gave you legitimately helpful input. If you do not want a huge learning curve, I would not seek employment anywhere in the field of nursing. The input I gave is also helpful towards society and patients in your geographical area.

I don't understand your post either. I thought you were going to say you were worried about losing weight. Regardless, I and all of my co-workers just bring for lunch what we normally would and eat anywhere from 12AM-4AM usually. I don't eat a ton on...

I get that it is frustrating but it really doesn't matter if the rest of the team is on board with comfort care if she is the one that has legal decision making rights for the patient (I'm assuming she does as health care POA?). It's really one of th...

Never heard the word mandate on our unit. We do use on call though. And if that fails, our managers work in staffing, night shift, weekends, doesn't matter, if staffing is unsafe.

Management or LTC would not be where I would go if I were looking for what you are describing. Outpatient/clinic nursing is probably what I would seek out. You are there for a set number of hours, the workload is reasonable, and you clock in and out ...

In August you were complaining about taking an OB course, and suggesting that it should not be part of nursing curriculum, and now all of a sudden you are interested in postpartum because it's "easy"? Also, as a side note, you do realize that normal ...

Last thing, if I really feel a family doesn't get it, I don't try to make them get it. I go back to the team and say hey guys, this family does not understand and I really think you need to sit down and talk to them. Either they will be surprised by ...

To answer your question OP, I typically don't present a whole lot of information regarding prognosis. If they want to pay me an MD salary I would certainly be willing to present that information. But I can tell you what I do with families when I know...

Glad you are taking your RN role super seriously. Lol. Good luck. Probably the best area of nursing for you is unemployment. Any other area requires the ability and openness to learn and grow in the RN role.

Just reiterating... it can be very difficult to find a L&D/NICU position. A lot of the positions go to people who "know people", worked there as a tech/secretary, or nurses with NICU/L&D experience. So while yes, you could try, it's not as ea...

It is really hard to get hired into a new facility on day shift even without a questionable work history resulting in termination. I would open my options up to include nights.

I don't think making medical advances means just throwing our hands up in the air and accepting that we have to sustain life in unethical ways. The goal of intensive care generally is to sustain life until the patient makes some sort of recovery into...

Keep in mind with a level II, as pointed out above, you will be doing an AWFUL lot of feeding babies. They won't have IVs for the most part or any respiratory issues. Maybe a home-going cannula on a very stable kid. They will really just be learning ...

If something doesn't seem right with your patient or if you have any minor concern that something might not seem right in the future, keep assessing over and over and over. It's annoying to repeat a BP, or keep checking on output or something that yo...

A small part of me thought you were going to ask who here was a James Charles fan...

I think telling a woman "hi beautiful" in a work environment is sexual harassment. Same as if I walked up to a male co-worker and said "hi hot stuff" or something like that. Inappropriate in a professional environment.

I am not that surprised that your clinical instructor doesn't communicate well with the school. That seems like a common issue for nursing schools across the board. They are adjunct faculty and sometimes they don't receive the best information, and s...

I found that when my subconscious knew I had a preceptor to fall back on I would miss more things. I felt like I would never be able to keep everything straight on my own. Once my brain knew I was the last line of defense so to speak, I kept it all t...

I love being a nurse. Neonatology is my passion. There is honestly nothing more rewarding than watching a family take their baby who was critically ill for six months out of our doors. Putting a baby who was not expected to live on their mother's che...