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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    Volunteering Internationally

    Hannahbanana replied to Dyson's topic in General Students

    This discussion comes up from time to time. Students often want to volunteer fir a short period of time for many reasons, almost (but not always) altruistic and well-meaning, but not really aware of...
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    Leaving First RN Job Prior to One Year

    Hannahbanana replied to phassy21's topic in General Nursing

    When they ask why you left your previous job, you can (honestly) say you moved to be closer to family. There’s nothing the matter c that. First jobs are often like dating— nobody should expect to...
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    Discipline Meeting

    Hannahbanana replied to nurse_elle1956's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Don’t do anything immature or petty like watching for any little errors in her practice; this way lies madness. Don’t forget that she is now known to have made a false accusation (a big mistake in...
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    NANDA retired?

    Hannahbanana replied to LilyRN99's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    NANDA-I isn’t “the law” but it is recognized in litigation as authoritative, which means if it was used properly you have cover if your legal rights to do what you do are ever called into...
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    Critical Thinking - Need Help!

    Hannahbanana replied to jennsrn's topic in General Nursing

    Critical thinking develops when you have enough experience to see patterns. You get just a tiny bit of this as a student; not counting the time you weren’t in your current job, you’re not that far...
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    Is this a HIPAA violation?

    Hannahbanana replied to guest0000005's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    HIPAA is actually fairly short and absurdly clear for a governmental document. Suggest you go to OCR.gov and download it, and tack up a copy on the board and forward it to everybody’s email. That...
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    What does "s/t" mean?

    Hannahbanana replied to mymoment4life's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This may be individual facility preference. There should be a list of approved abbreviations for charting either handwritten or manually entered in every one. Find it and you’ll have your answer of...
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    Do you dread April Fools Day?

    Hannahbanana replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Different holiday mannequin anecdote: When I taught students one of my responsibilities was all the learning lab sessions, so I had a key to the lab. One of the mannequins had exchangeable parts, with...
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    Do you dread April Fools Day?

    Hannahbanana replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and then there was the kid who recorded fart sounds as the ring tone on his dad's phone, and kept calling him all day. It's almost always boys, isn't it?
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    Do you dread April Fools Day?

    Hannahbanana replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    There's a great thread on Twitter about this going on. One of my favorite ideas there: For your kid: Pour his Cheerios into a bowl, float them in water, and put the bowl in the freezer overnight. Top...
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    How Has Your Nursing Career Affected Your Relationships Or Other Aspects of Your Life?

    Hannahbanana replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, I’ve been on Twitter too long.
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    Doctor Trying To Blame Blunder On Me

    Hannahbanana replied to nurselambda's topic in General Nursing

    I’ve told this story before, but it’s apropos here. My first year out of school I worked in a 17- bed PACU in a 700-bed regional hospital. We had one grumpy anesthesiologist (Dr. X) who...
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    If the Covid-19 vaccines interview for a job

    Hannahbanana replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Getting my #2 Moderna in 6 days, hubby already had both of his (he’s in an older age group). Very minor fever and fatigue the next day and that was it for his side
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    Is it wise to work from home?

    Hannahbanana replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    If I were your management that’s exactly what I would do to get you the heck out of the building: tell you to work from home and then cut off your access. If we can see what you’re like from...
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    How Has Your Nursing Career Affected Your Relationships Or Other Aspects of Your Life?

    Hannahbanana replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Just stop this. You obviously thrive on the attention —and any mother of a toddler knows that bad attention is as good as any, and bad press is famously free good publicity— but my heavenly days,...
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    Anyone regret leaving the clinic for remote job?

    Hannahbanana replied to PirateNurse06's topic in Case Management

    I have done both. The best result came when I took a very deep cleansing breath and dived into birthing my own nurse consultant business. Sure it was scary— nothing in our nursing education ever...
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    How Has Your Nursing Career Affected Your Relationships Or Other Aspects of Your Life?

    Hannahbanana replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Or Door Numbah Three: This is all made-up. Srsly getting into troll fantasy territory
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    Is this a HIPAA violation?

    Hannahbanana replied to guest0000005's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    OK. HIPAA violations are ruled on by the OCR ( Federal Office of Civil Rights) in response to a complaint. The violation, if any, would be penalized to the institution, not the individual, because the...
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    Is it wise to work from home?

    Hannahbanana replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I work from home and I love it, but I agree with SmilingBlueEyes and Pixie. You sound like the kind of person whose brain is so wired for the dopamine shot you get when you look at a screen that...
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    Is working too much bad for your health?

    Hannahbanana replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    If it's affecting your health-- physical or mental-- then it's too
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    Nursing as a distinct body of knowledge

    Hannahbanana replied to jsawyer's topic in General Nursing

    This, more or less, has always been my stock answer to this perennial question. This question, and its example of injections, begs the question. This means, it rephrases the set-up as proof...
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    Job Market for Nurses

    Hannahbanana replied to joonilchoe's topic in General Nursing

    CA has a mandatory ratio law now, which has been helpful. Also, COVID has resulted in more than usual burnout, so there are openings. Not sure I'd want to dive right in as a new grad, but needs must....
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    Why did we accept this patient?

    Hannahbanana replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yes indeed. EMS should have a good idea of whether the local shop is capable and do their own sort of triage in cooperation c their radio control en route. However, in the case of a borderline...
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    Why did we accept this patient?

    Hannahbanana replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but EMTALA isn't designed to prevent an appropriate transfer to a required higher level of care. I grant you that you have to arrange such a transfer in advance c...
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    Why did we accept this patient?

    Hannahbanana replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You don't say what state you're in but you might consider going online and looking up your state nurse practice act. I'll bet you'll find something in there that says something to the effect that if...