BkirbyRN

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   Nurses are self governed

   BkirbyRN replied to BkirbyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Ok, dumb question.... How do we go about advocating for better funding? Like as a verb. I want to be proactive, not an ignorant
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   Nurses are self governed

   BkirbyRN replied to BkirbyRN's topic in General Nursing

   I was at the biggest dialysis clinic in Milwaukee. I quit because it was unsafe. The terrible thing is that I really loved it and I miss my patients and co-workers. I think dialysis is a really good...
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   Nurses are self governed

   BkirbyRN replied to BkirbyRN's topic in General Nursing

   It's just sad and like I said I don't understand all of the technicalities. I just don't want to drive home at the end of the day knowing that someone crashed while I was trying to stop someone else...
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   Nurses are self governed

   BkirbyRN replied to BkirbyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Okay, I hear you. I'm just trying to understand. Because in some states there are laws defining what nurse to patient ratios are safe and are legally enforced. But not all of them. How does that...
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   Nurses are self governed

   BkirbyRN replied to BkirbyRN's topic in General Nursing

   The RN's job and responsibility is to protect and guard our patients from letting anyone else harm them. That includes physicians and corporations. That's the point. If I say that it's reasonable to...
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   Nurses are self governed

   BkirbyRN replied to BkirbyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Who defines nursing standards of care and scope of practice? Not the
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   Nurses are self governed

   BkirbyRN replied to BkirbyRN's topic in General Nursing

   This is what I thought I was taught, in essence: As with many other professions, such as physicians or pharmacists, registered nursing is a self-regulating profession. The purpose of regulation is...
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   Nurses are self governed

   BkirbyRN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was taught in school that the practice of nursing is "self governed". I believed it and had major respect for it. But the current masses have taken it for granted all that hard work that our...
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   Stripes on caps and the significance of..

   BkirbyRN replied to BkirbyRN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

   i_am_your_rn_8.pdf
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    Stripes on caps and the significance of..

    BkirbyRN posted a topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I was sharing with a nursing student the other day that even though caps were no longer worn when I graduated in 2000, why I felt it significant to wear one in my nursing graduation photo. That was 20...