Dr. Kate BSN, RN

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1. Advice for an unsure pre-nursing student

   Dr. Kate replied to blueyzz's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

   Over 30 years ago, I had a BA in biology, was in a MA program in History of Religion and needed a salable skill. A nursing program took a chance on me. And, I found that nursing suits me. Is nursing...

2. Southern California nursing programs?? (ADN)

   Dr. Kate replied to rAbella's topic in California Nursing

   So you know, within the state of California the public junior colleges are mandated by law to use some form of lottery system. It sounds unfair now but was a response to the perceived unfairness of...

3. What does your post name reflect about you?

   Dr. Kate replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

   I really wanted Kathy, but that was taken. The only other screen name I use is what I used to call my dog and I didn't want that for a nursing board. I lack creativity. Some of my relatives call me...

4. Did I miss my calling?

   Dr. Kate replied to gotaluvtheER's topic in Emergency

   It strikes me that perhaps you could do with some time taking care of people in a setting where you have a bit longer contact with them than you do in the ER. I become concerned when I hear relatively...

5. an assignment.

   Dr. Kate replied to volume's topic in General Nursing

   You might want to check your state's nurse practice act for the details of what constitutes RN practice. There should also be a board for the LVN/LPN group. There's a lot of hearsay that goes on among...

6. Bad Eyesight

   Dr. Kate replied to military wife's topic in General Nursing

   Heavenly blue, if perfect eyesight was required we'd never get any new nurses. As long as you can see well enough, somehow, to be safe and are careful, come on down. And welcome aborad, it's a great...

7. Does anyone work for HCA? I need to know how long their orientation is?

   Dr. Kate replied to peaceful2100's topic in General Nursing

   Hard to tell. Within both corporations I work for the individual hospitals specify the length of new grad orientation. One has a standardized framework for the didactic, but total length is up to the...

8. 2 Nurses needed???

   Dr. Kate replied to BrandieRNq's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Sometime in the late 80s thought was that if we taught patients to give themselves their own insulin and not double check that there was no reason for nurses to double check. Well, times change,...

9. Telephone orders...read back and verified...

   Dr. Kate replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

   While there is little that you can do to stop physician denying having given a particular order, reading back orders and documenting that you did it is little enough to do to make sure you as the...

10. DNR'ed from hospital

    Dr. Kate replied to danvet's topic in Agency Nurses

    I truly hate it when nurses treat agency nurses like dirt then have the gall to make them DNS because they didn't do everything dumped on them. I also hate familities that let nurses get away with...

11. Functional / Team Nursing

    Dr. Kate replied to EMTPTORN's topic in General Nursing

    Go to the library. Ask the friendly librarian for help. To get this information you're going to need to get into some older material, 60s and 70s stuff, maybe older than that. See if you can get a...

12. how do you keep a nursing cap on?

    Dr. Kate replied to PowerPuffGirl's topic in General Nursing

    Back in the days when I was wearing a cap, my hair was always short. We had no option about wearing our cap and it had to stay on. The first thing I did was to tell my hairdresser I was going to need...

13. Embarrassing moments?

    Dr. Kate replied to canna42's topic in Nursing Humor

    It's been years ago and thigns were sometimes a bit lax in the safety area. In ICU we had fewer TVs than rooms. The TVs were on high stands and went from room to room. The cords were of varying...

14. Anybody work in a religious hospital?

    Dr. Kate replied to delirium's topic in General Nursing

    I also work in both a Catholic hospital and a for profit non-religious one. I concur with everything said above. The Catholic hospital where I work was bought 6 years ago by another Catholic system....

15. Am I crazy to leave my desk job?

    Dr. Kate replied to Wren's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I agree that referesher courses tend to be focused on adults and that is not what you want to do. However, you have no acute care experience except for school, 10 years ago. It will be a challenge to...