Hannahbanana BSN, MSN

Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB

Knows a thing or two because she’s seen a thing or two.

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    What’s a Crusty Old Bat?

    Hannahbanana replied to Hannahbanana's topic in General Nursing

    I am crushed to report that this thread has been closed to further replies. Time to start it up again? Let's start c those three...
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    Now I know what a Incontinence pad feels like LOL

    Hannahbanana replied to Gratefully2years's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh god, those awful belts. Once I found myself in a public place and discovered the rear tab had come undone, the belt thus pulling the whole pad up in front of my pubis. Looked like a hard-on. I...
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    Active RN license working as an LPN

    Hannahbanana replied to Anon143's topic in General Nursing

    I am quite familiar c SNF operations. I completely understand that many RN and LPN functions overlap in them. I stand by my statement that an overlapping function set does not mean professional...
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    Nurse Personality Change

    Hannahbanana replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Same here. He was ripped when four yrs after we divorced that I married a wonderful man (who was more successful in business than he was, largely because he wasn’t a narcissistic jerkwad) and have...
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    How does your unit determine who floats?

    Hannahbanana replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in General Nursing

    There was an ongoing whine based on the perception that teacher’s pets didn’t float as much as others, so we decided to use actual data. We kept a list of all staffers and wrote the dates they...
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    I don’t know if I want to be a nurse anymore

    Hannahbanana replied to Vigirl465's topic in General Nursing

    What did the ads say? “If caring were enough, anyone could be a nurse.” And yet we know that it’s not. We used to admit 25% more students than we had seats for because we knew that in...
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    Active RN license working as an LPN

    Hannahbanana replied to Anon143's topic in General Nursing

    I do know that. As a matter of fact, since you have clearly not read the ANA S&S, you don’t know that they do not address tasks, which are determined by the BoNs. I think you may well find that...
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    Active RN license working as an LPN

    Hannahbanana replied to Anon143's topic in General Nursing

    That’s a big difference, though, isn’t it! The LPN cannot be held accountable for these critical parts of the nursing process. It’s the RN who controls and is responsible. Saying the LPN can do...
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    Nurse Called Police/CPS on Parents over Jaundice

    Hannahbanana replied to Simply Complicated's topic in General Nursing

    This is a ten-year-old
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    How often can you transfer between floors

    Hannahbanana replied to debcornett's topic in General Nursing

    We are not the people to ask, LOL. Ask your CM manager and your previous floor manager. If they say absolutely not, then start looking
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    Active RN license working as an LPN

    Hannahbanana replied to Anon143's topic in General Nursing

    Only RNs can assess, analyze, and make nursing diagnoses and then develop a nursing plan of care to be implemented. Tasks do not define level of practice. Yes, an RN is covered for performing...
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    Active RN license working as an LPN

    Hannahbanana replied to Anon143's topic in General Nursing

    This is because you see the job as primarily the tasks you list here. However, a registered nurse is the only nurse (in your example, the RSD/MDS nurse) authorized (mandated) by law to plan nursing...
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    Scope of Practice and medications?

    Hannahbanana replied to Catedi's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    She said the orders for chemotherapy weren’t taken off, not that they weren’t written. It was the diet orders that weren’t
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    Have you ever been patronized by your boss or a higher up? What did you do to overcome this challenge?

    Hannahbanana replied to creativelily's topic in General Students

    Remember your boss has a boss too, who is probably on his neck about data quality. If there were errors made by others during a period where you were not working, that makes me think it’s not just...
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    For pagan nurses, is "Happy solstice" the right expression?

    Hannahbanana replied to vetpharmtech's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Well, the Summer solstice is coming up in a few weeks, so Happy Solstice
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    Struggling to be a Christian Nurse

    Hannahbanana replied to newgirlintown94's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    If you’re truly interested in staying humble, remember that sometimes the answer to your prayer is, “No.” Deal with
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    Tenet Hosp strike enters eighth week

    Hannahbanana replied to Hannahbanana's topic in Nursing News

    As of today (6/2) the strike is still on. The hospital has begun hiring permanent staff to replace the strikers, who will not get their jobs back later. Still has a lot of travelers earning huge...
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    What Was a Highlight of Your Career as a Nurse?

    Hannahbanana replied to dareese's topic in General Nursing

    I am privileged to have lived long enough to have a few. My professional org awarded me the first recognition for outstanding volunteer service as a mentor and editor, stunning me at our annual...
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    What’s a Crusty Old Bat?

    Hannahbanana replied to Hannahbanana's topic in General Nursing

    As anyone who reads any kind of statistics must know, association is not causation. (I know Davey knows this.) Cf., the mashed potato theory of homicide, which notes that the vast majority of...
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    Should I renew my LPN license despite recently getting my RN license?

    Hannahbanana replied to Lurkndmurk's topic in General Nursing

    Linda, since you’re new here you might not know that your name can be searched online and found if you use it for your posts here. You never know who might do that. It’s wonderful to have you...
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    Yes, Employer Can Require Covid Vaccine

    Hannahbanana replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Fans of academic publishing also should be aware that PubMed is an indexing service only and does NOT vet or evaluate the accuracy or methodology of everything it indexes. Inclusion in PubMed is no...
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    COVID-19: Keep reading, keep learning about all this

    Hannahbanana replied to Floor_Nurse's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Ah, the false-equivalency fallacy raises its confused head again. As a benign example: Kyrie Irving famously believes in the flat earth “theory.” He’s not alone in this, but that doesn’t mean...
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    Help with CAS application

    Hannahbanana replied to Tao Vang's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yes, those do count. They show that some entity has thought you worthy of recognition and support. Of course, it would be nice if they were for study in some subject that would be applicable to...
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    What’s a Crusty Old Bat?

    Hannahbanana replied to Hannahbanana's topic in General Nursing

    Wait, wut? You lost me there. Last I looked there were thousands of people signed up. If the mods are erasing some people for intolerable comments, I’m not seeing it
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    What’s a Crusty Old Bat?

    Hannahbanana replied to Hannahbanana's topic in General Nursing

    Sure, because we have no vested interest or institutional memory that would make us care about standards of care or professionalism. Good