Natkat BSN, MSN, RN

Corrections, neurology, dialysis

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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    You're my hero. We spent a bit of time learning about somatoform disorder and especially malingering. I found the information very
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I took the advice others gave her. I don't bother reading what she posts anymore because it doesn't make any
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    what should I do?

    Natkat replied to tryingtobecome's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing school was the hardest thing I've done, but at the end I felt so wonderful having done something so hard. The sense of accomplishment is amazing. There are so many directions to go in nursing....
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    Anyone here feeling bored with their Job?

    Natkat replied to bluefabian's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I just switched from chronic to acute and I LOVE it. I'm not bored at all. I bring things to do and stay busy the whole time. Yesterday I went back and helped out at the chronic unit I used to work in...
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    Any current/former nursing students have unsupportive families?

    Natkat replied to crazyco's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry for your situation. I know it's difficult. I had an unsupportive family too. They told me I wasn't smart enough to go to college and that I should get married and have kids. So I did. Now at...
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    Rules for the ER (long)

    Natkat replied to EDValerieRN's topic in Emergency

    I wish we had that sign when I was in clinicals. We had a young Mom, about 3 weeks postpartum, high fever, abdominal pain, probable retained placenta or endometritis. Either way, not good. She came in...
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    Need Advice Soon Please

    Natkat replied to intothemoon's topic in Travel

    Go with the first assignment, put your time in, then go with the second company
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    Breaking a contract?

    Natkat replied to Meghan1017's topic in Travel

    Thank you Selke. I thought about that after I made the post, but too late to make any changes. Yes, definitely document and follow through. I also think she did the right thing by switching...
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    Breaking a contract?

    Natkat replied to Meghan1017's topic in Travel

    Somehow I get the feeling that they wouldn't be all that sympathetic to her problem. Check out this story. http://nurse-ratcheds.blogspot.com/ Scroll down to "The War Against Nurses Part
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    Things you would LOVE to say to your nursing instructors...

    Natkat replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in General Students

    You'd be surprised. We just took HESI and there was a question about Yutopar on it. They stopped giving Yutopar years ago....
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    Totally flabbergasted

    Natkat replied to MissAnthrope's topic in Travel

    Go to a different
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think what you did was great. You didn't reveal his identity - just his eye, or the absence of an eye. Would the average person be able to identify this person by his eye socket? I have visions...
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    considering dialysis nursing, input?

    Natkat replied to RNwondering's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I disagree that it is anything but routine. It is VERY routine with minor daily variations. But I'm a person who likes routine so it works for me. I also disagree that you love it or hate it. I think...
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    Compassion....Why is it lacking?

    Natkat replied to RedhairedNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I will say the same thing I say to all nursing students. "Wait until you're a nurse." I got so tired of listening to my classmates judge the nurses they worked with in clinicals. What you learn in the...
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    "Patient" or "Client"?

    Natkat replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    I loathe the use of the word "client". As others have pointed out, this suggests a business relationship that we could terminate at will. We can't do this with our PATIENTS. We have to take care of...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think that's great. If someone wants to pay me extra to cut up their steak, read to them, play cards with them and make sure they have me all to themselves, that's fine. That way I won't be torn...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    It was a surprise to me how much of nursing is really waitressing. Last summer between first and second year nursing school, I enrolled in a program that gave me extra clinical time so I could take my...
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    Questions Fluid Restrictions Hemodialysis

    Natkat replied to mrs.captain.kangaroo's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    As I understand it, the fluid in food can be excreted as insensate loss - that is lost when the patient exhales, sweats, as evaporation from the skin, excreted in feces, etc. So fluid restriction is...
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    Anyone here feeling bored with their Job?

    Natkat replied to bluefabian's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I do understand the boredom. The environment seems counter to what most nurses go into nursing to experience. For me it works beautifully. I was a transcriptionist for many years. I basically sat in...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I repeat, WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HER. She was unconscious. She could have coded. She could have choked and aspirated. She could have tripped and fallen and been knocked unconscious. She...
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    Pay issues

    Natkat replied to Ramrodthegreat's topic in General Nursing

    My thoughts are that the reason nurses get paid more is because our training and expertise is so broad, whereas paramedics cover an area that is more focused - trauma. Last year a paramedic came into...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    That was kind of my reaction to. What? Work? Dialysis patient? A fair number of our patients didn't work BEFORE they were on dialysis either. I have noticed the same thing as you. Our patients who...
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    Didn't make it into the nursing program. Don't know what to do. Please help!!!!

    Natkat replied to persian's topic in General Nursing

    Hang in there. It took me 4 years to get in. There were times when I wondered if it was worth it. I thought I'd made a mistake, wasted my time, should have chosen a different path. Then once I got my...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    See, here's the thing. We didn't know what was wrong with her. We just saw a patient lying on the floor unresponsive and eight other people stepping over her like she was a throw rug. She could have...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    Natkat replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Fascinating. If you were to do a quick survey of our dialysis patients you would find that of the 30 patients we will see today, 29 of them are going to go home and sit on the couch and watch TV the...