kbrn2002 ADN, RN

Geriatrics, Dialysis

RN from WI

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    Stressed as a nurse. Experience needed to be a Nurse Educator?

    kbrn2002 replied to Jennifer George's topic in Nursing Career

    I got a recruitment letter recently from a local community college, which I found a little odd as I don't meet the education requirements to be an instructor but here is the minimum qualifications for...
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    School Not Allowing Us to Take NCLEX

    kbrn2002 replied to JDS's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    The more I read the less sense this makes. How can a school fail students after they graduate? I've never heard of a school, any school not just nursing, that allows students to graduate but then...
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    Have debt but don't know if I want to be an NP?

    kbrn2002 replied to daisychains11's topic in General Nursing

    You are of course welcome to do whatever you want, and if you are OK with that amount of debt nobody here is going to be able to stop you. But please at least go into it with your eyes wide open....
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    Do I need to keep two active RN licenses?

    kbrn2002 replied to ss626's topic in Nursing Career

    I live on the WI /MN border and with job opportunities on both sides I licensed in both states, needed to if I were going to work in MN as MN is not yet a compact state. After a few years of renewing...
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    Media: Where are the Nurses?

    kbrn2002 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The only shows that I can think of where nurses were portrayed reasonably well aren't on the air anymore. Scrubs, ER, Code Black and Night shift did it pretty well. The couple that were centered on...
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    To overcome nursing heebie-jeebies?

    kbrn2002 replied to angel5000's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There is no path to becoming a nurse that skips the general nursing education/degree. You can't just jump right into becoming a nurse midwife without first becoming a
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    RaDonda Vaught - What is she doing now?

    kbrn2002 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I hadn't heard the orientee said that and I always kind of wondered where the orientee was during this. Probably a good thing as that makes me even more angry and disgusted with the whole situation if...
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    Needing Ideas

    kbrn2002 replied to Rusti22's topic in General Nursing

    It would maybe require some collaboration with the social workers but a good, possibly vital topic to patients discharging to home is an easy to access list of community resources. I Under the...
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    Delta 8 THC now federally legal, what does this mean for nurses?

    kbrn2002 replied to RNMN667's topic in General Nursing

    You said it yourself. THC stays in your system as a detectable substance for a considerable amount of time. There's no way to prove, at least with current testing exactly when you consumed THC based...
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    Nursing Then and Now

    kbrn2002 replied to RN WRITER NC's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't been around quite long enough to have seen the 3 day in person paper and pencil NCLEX but have been around long enough that to get early results we could call a 1-900 phone number after 3...
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    RaDonda Vaught - What is she doing now?

    kbrn2002 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Frankly I am surprised at how many nurses have rallied to the side of this being simply a mistake. What happened is way more than a simple mistake. The amount of safety protocols designed to prevent...
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    MEN, dont come into nursing

    kbrn2002 replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in Men in Nursing

    Well, there's that...and I am jealous! Significant COVID bonus? Not here in the good old US of A. Sure, everybody got the so-called stimulus checks but there was nothing extra specifically for health...
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    Old Timer's Take on Fixing the Nursing Shortage

    kbrn2002 replied to KathyDay's topic in General Nursing

    It sort of worked having mixed 8's and 12's at the SNF I worked for. A previous DON came up with the idea to try the 12's for those that were interested. I'm sure it would have been to their...
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    School Not Allowing Us to Take NCLEX

    kbrn2002 replied to JDS's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    It's not an NCLEX problem you are having. It's the school that's not allowing you to graduate and test that is the problem. Hire that lawyer. I assume all of you considering the lawsuit are in the...
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    Job ideas with a Restricted License

    kbrn2002 replied to Balbaroy's topic in Nursing Career

    Good question. The rare patient that takes a narcotic pain med during treatment brings their own med and was always able to self administer in my clinic. I suppose on the off chance a patient uses a...
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    Old Timer's Take on Fixing the Nursing Shortage

    kbrn2002 replied to KathyDay's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked with a couple of old school diploma nurses and they ran circles around the BSN nurses. That kind of hands on education worked! While the old diploma programs definitely graduated...
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    Accused of Diverting Narcotics

    kbrn2002 replied to katnmart's topic in Nursing Career

    The BON in many states seems to follow a policy of guilty until proven innocent and not even then necessarily innocent even after proof of no wrongdoing. I'm glad you are hiring an attorney right...
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    Job ideas with a Restricted License

    kbrn2002 replied to Balbaroy's topic in Nursing Career

    Dialysis is an option. Most clinics are large enough to always have at least two nurses on staff fulfilling that requirement for supervision and we do not administer any controlled meds so the...
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    Nursing Homes Short Staffing Causes and Effects

    kbrn2002 replied to Susan Sears's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Every state has staffing guidelines, which are typically a joke. For many years as a night RN part of my job was to post daily the staffing grid which listed that days resident census and how many...
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    LTC Nursing/Skilled Rehab RN Ratios (Ohio)

    kbrn2002 replied to SNgirl21's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yes, that ratio is typical in LTC and no, it's not easy. Just the med pass for that many residents is brutal, then add in the rest of nursing care you are responsible for and it becomes even worse....
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    Should I resign or am I overreacting?

    kbrn2002 replied to BaybeeNurse20's topic in Nursing Career

    If they "invited you back to work" you are not being terminated, at least not for this. Once the investigation is completed you are either reinstated or terminated, the investigation is closed and...
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    Share your Nurses Week "gifts"

    kbrn2002 replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    A t-shirt, which needs to be ordered by the end of the month then it will be delivered who know when. I am actually OK with this as it saves so many t-shirts from the landfill. Easy enough to not...
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    Regret becoming a nurse

    kbrn2002 replied to NURSE998's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Here's my dumb question of the day....what is an FQHC? I'm scratching my head trying to figure it out,
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    LPN to RN with NO Hospital Clinicals

    kbrn2002 replied to Tim Parr's topic in LPN to RN

    I am so sorry. What a mess! I wasn't aware you had already finished two years of school before finding out you can't find a clinical placement to proceed. Have you and the school exhausted all...
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    Feeling Like An Idiot

    kbrn2002 replied to LPNBC99's topic in General Nursing

    Nope, not an idiot at all. The emergency/on call pharmacy was open and taking calls, why would you expect that they couldn't do anything to get you the meds you need? Why even be open and answer the...