Natkat BSN, MSN, RN

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    1/30 This week I learned: you suck, EMTALA.

    Natkat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    indeed it is. It's s important because it teaches you things you didn't know before. For example, I did not know that Hitler ordered handicapped and retarded people to be killed as way of eliminating...
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    1/30 This week I learned: you suck, EMTALA.

    Natkat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    1. There is a YouTube channel called "My Drunk Kitchen" that has existed since 2011 and I just found out about it. 2. I am obsessed with this channel. I can't stop watching it. 3. There is a role...
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    Do you see ethnic tensions at work?

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

    forbidden? Really? Don't you mean "discouraged"? Forbidden means that it cannot be done anytime ever and that there will be consequences. How would you feel if you were speaking a second language...
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    1/9: What I learned this week - Worst. Vagina. EVER.

    Natkat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    You just reminded me of a major irritation I've been dealing with recently. When I first started working my current job I was bullied and picked on like crazy. It eventually passed but I still wonder...
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    1/9: What I learned this week - Worst. Vagina. EVER.

    Natkat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I learned that working i love working in a field where someone says that a woman has produce in her lady parts is not at all
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    Never wanna take students again.

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

    i swear, if I see one more post from a student like this..... look, we've been where you are. You haven't been where we are. There is a shift that happens when you go from being a student to being a...
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    Never wanna take students again.

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

    i can predict with 100% certainty that it will happen. That is not an opinion. That is experience and
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    Never wanna take students again.

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

    Reminds me of when I was in nursing school and one of my classmates said "they should be thankful that we are working for them for free." Even as a I student I realized that his attitude was...
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    Never wanna take students again.

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

    Trying to delete
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    46 year old new nurse - Should I get a BSN?

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

    I am 54 years old and two classes away from getting my BSN. I was hired with the contingency that I get a bachelor's degree. As for it being needed to get a job, in my area, definitely yes. No one...
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    MSN students - anyone done Professional Presence and Influence?

    Natkat replied to klone's topic in Western Governors University

    Oh my gosh. I am taking this class now and I hate it with a passion that I don't have words for. I am am not a spiritual person at all. I like science and information. This course is asking us to...
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    What is up with these Sickle Cell Patients?!

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

    Believe it or don't. She's the most difficult patient I've eve dealt with. And I think it's dysfunctional to have to be nice to people who abuse us. Even worse is to blame us for their abuse. It's...
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    What is up with these Sickle Cell Patients?!

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

    We currently have a sickle cell patient we are dealing with and, as the OP said, she is the worst, meanest, ugliest, most belligerent, most manipulative patient I've ever dealt with. We cringe when we...
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    Beyond Frustrated with WGU

    Natkat replied to Nibbles1's topic in Western Governors University

    I can't imagine WGU doing things to just get fees and leave people hanging. They have a good reputation and I can't imagine they would do anything to harm that. Not on purpose anyway. I've been...
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    why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

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

    I have noticed that same phenomenon. Most nurses don't say their nurses when they are patients. I've heard various reasons as to why. Personally as a patient I didn't see any reason to tell them...
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    why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

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

    I sometimes run into people who, when they find out I'm a nurse, say something like "I'm going to nursing school". Translation - I'm thinking about probably logging on to the school's web site and...
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    why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

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

    I would guess for the same reason people lie about how much money they make, being friends with a celebrity, how much alcohol they can drink, member size, how they told that person off, etc....
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    Do RNs get extra pay for working with students?

    Natkat replied to johndough's topic in General Nursing

    Probably the most relevant nursing experience you have had is right there. Unrealistic ratios and not enough time to do those things. Welcome to
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    Do RNs get extra pay for working with students?

    Natkat replied to johndough's topic in General Nursing

    This is what I did as a nursing student to make it better for me and for the nurse I was working with. Anything you you can do, do it. Be helpful. Check blood glucose. Open food containers. Get ice...
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    Being Sued / Losing License

    Natkat replied to Meraki's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The crime wasn't commit d on the job. The BON has no jurisdiction over traffic
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    Going "Above and Beyond" UGH

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

    Oh don't even get my started about respiratory. I have had so many RTs try and push me around about something they felt was a crisis from their, albeit important, but limited perspective. It happens...
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    What happens to the paper charting when the system is back up?

    Natkat posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

    I am an acute dialysis nurse. For most of my career we have done paper charting that we then put in the patient's chart. I am now working for a hospital that has a dialysis unit and we do our charting...
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    What happens to the paper charting when the system is back up?

    Natkat replied to Natkat's topic in Nursing Informatics

    That's funny because one day I asked to see a policy and procedure manual, after a co-worker said something really crazy and said it was policy, and I was told we don't have one. So whatever she said...
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    "Why are you here?"

    Natkat replied to foxy1112's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I give my patients a free pass for negativity and bad behavior. I don't tolerate abuse, but crankiness and irritability are allowed. Their lives are miserable. As I write this I'm sitting in a room...
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    Primed dialyzer and tubing

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

    Okay here is what I learned. We prime our lines with heparinized saline. Our facility has a policy that any lines with medication in them have to replaced after one hour. Normal saline can hang for 4...