Natkat BSN, MSN, RN

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    What is MSN - leadership and management track

    Natkat replied to ArrowRN's topic in Nurse Management

    This topic is interesting to me. I was was hired at a hospital that has magnet status on the contingency that I obtain a BSN within a few years. Meanwhile many of my coworkers approached me about...
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    5/29 This week, I have learned... One year later!!!

    Natkat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Oh wow. That's awful. I leaened that that when your employer puts you in call in the last day of your employment and that you no longer work for them after midnight, that they will page you 27 times...
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    What do you hate most about your job?

    Natkat replied to PancakeSaturdays's topic in General Nursing

    This doesn't affect me so much, but why can't we go back to 8-hour shifts? I wonder all the time about how people with children manage 12-hour shifts as far as picking up and dropping off at day care,...
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    What do you hate most about your job?

    Natkat replied to PancakeSaturdays's topic in General Nursing

    The customer service model. I read somewhere that the reason the industry changed to this model was so that patients could be consumers and have w choice about their care. Meanwhile most patients are...
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    Losing my way....how did you find your Niche?

    Natkat replied to amazingme's topic in Nursing Career

    i would love that. I do very well with tedium. I worked in a chronic unit for a while and I did everyone's care plans because I love it. I will do all the paperwork. But where can I get a job that...
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    what's your pet peeve?

    Natkat replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    when they ask that I will ask a really dumb question like "Oh, did something go wrong when you tried to open it?" Or I might say "Oh, you can go ahead and open it for him. we don't
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    What did you do when you got burnt out?

    Natkat replied to dreamer30's topic in Health, Stress Management

    This is timely. I used to love my job but all of a sudden I'm having trouble coping. Several worlds collided to make make my job intolerable lately. I work in an acute dialysis unit, one of the few...
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    What did you do when you got burnt out?

    Natkat replied to dreamer30's topic in Health, Stress Management

    That is just the best! That would be my dream
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    what's your pet peeve?

    Natkat replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    I have seen unspeakable things done to a frail elderly patient in the name of keeping that government check
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    what's your pet peeve?

    Natkat replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my God, yes. We have a respiratory therapist.....A RESPIRATORY THERAPIST.....who reeks so badly of smoke the hallway stinks for several minutes after she goes by. And don't get me started on...
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    what's your pet peeve?

    Natkat replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    Oh lord. My most dreaded question is when a family member points to the dialysate and asks "whats that for?" Well hang on. Your about to get a lecture on chemical gradients and fluid spacing that...
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    what's your pet peeve?

    Natkat replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    The "well that's just stupid" attitude. Health literacy in this country is abysmal and yet everyone is an expert. If I tell someone "sir you need to wear this mask while I open up your catheter for...
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    I Hate People (my rant)

    Natkat replied to AlyaMF's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    How is it that people who love being nurse because they love people be so vile to someone who is feeling down and wants to talk about
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    Reasons to lose nursing license?

    Natkat replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    I hear the "I don't want to lose my license" line whenever someone doesn't want to do something and bully other people into doing things she doesn't want to do. We have a nurse who was hired to cover...
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    Hemodialysis Nurse : Forced to work overtime or face abandonment?

    Natkat replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Not in acute dialysis though. You don't assume care of the patient until you are ready to dialyze them. If you never assume care and never do dialysis then you're not abandoning them. It doesn't...
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    Lied to in Interview

    Natkat replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    I really wish I knew. When I left there I traveled for a little while. I stopped because the I was offered a job where I work now and I stayed. But you know how it is on bad days when you just want to...
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    Lied to in Interview

    Natkat replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    The nursing profession would benefit so much if everyone stood their ground about what they will and will not do. We would be more respected and they would stop trying to manipulate us, belittle us...
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    Hemodialysis Nurse : Forced to work overtime or face abandonment?

    Natkat replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Dialysis services get around the rule that nurses can only work a certain number of hours because the rule applies to who are employed by hospitals. And since a dialysis service isn't a hospital they...
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    "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Natkat replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    i saw an interesting phenomenon take place during clinicals. Several of my classmates were assigned to the same floor at various times. In other words, the staff on that floor had an opportunity to...
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    "Smart" students make bad nurses?

    Natkat replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    I think there is a false belief that you are either "book smart" or "street smart" but you can't be both. I don't believe that that is true. I have met people who are both - people who are just...
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    How To Get Started As A Nurse Writer

    Natkat replied to Elizabeth Hanes's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    I would appreciate learning how to get started. I love writing but not creative writing. I have no urge to write a novel. At all. I enjoy writing processes and instructions. I enjoy writing research...
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    Required By Work to Get BSN - Don't Want to Write Endless Papers

    Natkat replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I also just completed my BSN from Western Givernors University, last week as a matter of fact. I did a lot of research. I asked everyone who was or has been in school for their BSN and Wedtern...
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    One Liner to Diffuse Escalating Situation With Patient

    Natkat replied to Lev's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It took me a very long time to figure out that when people are being insulting and uncooperative it's usually because they're scared. Or they're just jerks. But most of the time by the time I see a...
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    When a pt "gets" to you

    Natkat replied to mmc51264's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In the recovery community we have a saying. "Cover up your buttons". We all have buttons that can be pushed. Manipulators, narcicists and just all around jerks are experts at pushing buttons. When you...
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    Solutions for Drinks at Nursing Station?

    Natkat replied to ImNicoEh's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah we know.