Kyrshamarks BSN, RN

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    Unit Councils---help!!!

    Kyrshamarks replied to irishnurse68's topic in General Nursing

    I am afraid that my opinion is not going to be popular with you but I suspect like me that many of your staff members just do not care about UC's and the things that they do in general. I honsetly...
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    Tube delivered meds

    Kyrshamarks replied to makes needs known's topic in General Nursing

    Most pills are actually a powder that is formed into a pill thru the application of pressure. That is what holds the pills together (now granted capsules are different but you you do not crush...
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    Lost my first patient - could I be in trouble?

    Kyrshamarks replied to southernhospitality's topic in General Nursing

    The key ois fx hip. PE is the culprit. That is the major complication from them. That is how I lost my dad when he fell and fx his hip, He was in the hospital and threw a PE. Do not worry about a...
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    Code blue at my LTC and AHA guideline

    Kyrshamarks replied to tokebi's topic in General Nursing

    All the oxygen in the world will not help if there is no circulation in the body to get it to the
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    Watsons theory of human caring

    Kyrshamarks replied to qt2168's topic in General Nursing

    When oh when are the nursing schools going to stop teaching this crap. This is one pf the many reasons nurses are not truely considered porfessionals. You do not see various "caring theory" being...
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    Horizontal Hostility Crisis / HR

    Kyrshamarks replied to pistolchick's topic in General Nursing

    what ever hapened to the days when you grabbed the person harrasing you and took them into the linen closet where it was just the two of you and you told them to knock this garbage off or you would...
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    Sex offenders

    Kyrshamarks replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You cannot refuse to admit someone to a hospital because they are convicted of a crime. They still have the right to access healthcare
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    is this shady or not?

    Kyrshamarks replied to haitianrn's topic in General Nursing

    The compnay has a postion to fill and you did not accept the offered postion in the time frame they wanted it done in. Sure they said think about it but they never promised that the postion would...
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    Scheduled to work called out due to snow--can I be fired?

    Kyrshamarks replied to Wsmith16's topic in General Nursing

    Why oh why do nures think and allow others to tell us that we must risk our personal and family safetly for the sake of STRANGERS. Yes patients are strangers and yes we are nurses but we also have a...
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    I'm very disturbed by this

    Kyrshamarks replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    I can guarantee you that when she went thru CPR they told her and taught her to NEVER do direct mouth to mouth. If they did, the teacher would have their teaching certificate
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    I'm very disturbed by this

    Kyrshamarks replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    It was still an error and it only takes a moment, a single drop of blood, a single microbe for a transmission to occur. It may sound like I am a stickler, but in my side business of biohazard cleaing...
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    I'm very disturbed by this

    Kyrshamarks replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    This actually is a huge deal, and if for some reason the state or OSHA walked in a that precise moment, the hospital or nurse could have and rightly should have been fined. She put herself and others...
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    Poster Making Contest about a theme "Evidence Based Nursing".

    Kyrshamarks replied to Irwin0111's topic in General Nursing

    A poster making contest...and they wonder why other medical professionals do not consider nurses as
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    AWOL for giving verbal resignation only. What to do?

    Kyrshamarks replied to ntgale08's topic in General Nursing

    You quit. You are no longer connected with them. I would not go into that meeting with hat in hand. They do not control you or what you do. Heck I would not even go to a meeting with them. They...
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    Patient Organizational Sheets

    Kyrshamarks replied to hope2-B-RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    a good old fashinoed blank piece of copy
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    Newsletter name

    Kyrshamarks replied to deowen's topic in General Nursing

    Fresh from the cutting room
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    Why do units rotate shifts?

    Kyrshamarks replied to TooterIA's topic in General Nursing

    WOW...last time I had a job that had rotating shifts in any manner was 1994. As for dayshift jobs and new grads, I kknow plenty of new grads that work dayshift jobs. It is not always the most...
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    When the tables are turned (nurse on the receiving end of care, acted like a fool)

    Kyrshamarks replied to Born2BWild's topic in General Nursing

    I have been shot before with an AK 47, had sharpnel in my ankle and have had big gaping cuts in my legs before and watched them bleed.. I absolutely hate needles, going into me that is. I cannot watch...
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    Do you think this is fair compensation for orientation?

    Kyrshamarks replied to lvnjden4ever, R.N.'s topic in General Nursing

    If they do not pay you correctly now for your time they will not pay you correctly in the future. They cannot cut you hourly wages down for orientation. That is illegal. They have to pay you your...
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    Is It Just Me...

    Kyrshamarks replied to kbm318's topic in General Nursing

    and what are the "right" reasons to go into nursing? Because I sure went into it for the "right" reasons, job stability and the flexability and the money. I also have been doing it for many
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    Professions before nursing

    Kyrshamarks replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    I was in the military. I worked as a hunter/killer of bad guys. Taking lives or saving lives.I look at it as two sides of the same
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    IPPB

    Kyrshamarks replied to snowmaiden2005's topic in General Nursing

    Since the advent of cpap and bipap, IPPB has pretty much fallen by the wayside. I work ICU and have not seen it used in the last 10 years or so at all. I was actually talking to an RT the other...
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    Can't order ink pens but ceo earned > $1,400,000.00 in 2008

    Kyrshamarks replied to lisa moree's topic in General Nursing

    What is stopping any one of you from geting into that field if you despise it so much? Go ahead and become a CEO, take the classes and the training and do the work and offer to work for 50-60K a...
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    IV start gone bad

    Kyrshamarks replied to lsvalliant's topic in General Nursing

    I started to vagal out onetime during an IV start. Everything strated to go black and I felt like vomitting and passing out. I strasted sweating and told the nurse to stop but she did not want to....
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    Saline flush..saline taste?

    Kyrshamarks replied to Gabriel13's topic in Emergency

    I always taste the saline flushes when ever I have had them. I thin it is more a chemical taste than anything. I had a PICC line for 2 months and hated the flushes and i was getting 2 different ABX...