Elvish BSN, DNP, RN, NP

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    Illegal immigrant nurses can now be licensed in California

    Elvish replied to Guest07/13/15's topic in Immigration Advice

    My guess is that a good number of these people were brought here as young children and raised in the US. While that doesn't change their immigration status on paper, it isn't like they came here of...
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    Illegal immigrant nurses can now be licensed in California

    Elvish replied to Guest07/13/15's topic in Immigration Advice

    1) In order to take the NCLEX, you still have to get through nursing school, and not everyone is going to do that. US citizen or otherwise. and 2) Considering the fact that even if a person has...
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    Physician Bullying of Nurses Reaching Epidemic Levels

    Elvish replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Our docs are smart enough to call us
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    Illegal immigrant nurses can now be licensed in California

    Elvish replied to Guest07/13/15's topic in Immigration Advice

    With all due respect, 'illegal' is an adjective, not a noun. If someone is already here without papers, I'd rather they be able to sit for whatever licensure or certification exam they need in order...
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    Physician Bullying of Nurses Reaching Epidemic Levels

    Elvish replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in Nursing News

    Nurse for 14 years. Bullying happens but in my experience it is not worse now than it was when I started. And when I started the older nurses allowed as how it was much better then than when they...
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    Urgent Csection

    Elvish replied to Tink1987's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This sort of thing happens, no matter how many years' experience you have. Fortunately it isn't common and it isn't likely to be for you, either. Urgent C/sections can be crazy when a dozen things...
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    Neonatal Admission Meds and bedside barcode scanning...How do you all do it?

    Elvish replied to Kldrn9963's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We recently transitioned to all computer charting and order entry with Epic, so assuming we get our ordersets initiated in a timely way it's never a problem for us. Admitting baby via Epic is...
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    Who continued to work?

    Elvish replied to nyc2011's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm in FNP school full-time and work 3/4 time weekend option (2 shifts one weekend, 1 shift the next) along with 12hrs of call every 6 weeks (we almost always get called in). I also have two young...
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    Maximum bedside visitors

    Elvish replied to guest769224's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    2 at a time unless short life expectancy/palliative
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    When did this trend start??

    Elvish replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    When I got my BSN in 2001, lots of people decorated their mortarboards for the big ceremony where ALL the graduates from all disciplines (bachelors, masters, doctorate) filed into one portion of the...
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    Nurses have an Attitude Problem

    Elvish replied to SunriseDay's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I can count on my two hands the number of nurses in 14 years as a nurse that are truly catty, unhelpful, rude, know-it-alls, or any combination of the above. Truly. Just as in every other group of...
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    Parents wanting MD

    Elvish replied to pedspnp's topic in Advanced Practice

    I think some of it is people see 'nurse' in the title and not 'doctor' and think that for whatever reason you aren't as smart or didn't make it through med school or whatever people's tiny little...
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    "Don't Work" Isn't An Answer

    Elvish replied to mirandaaa's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It's so dependent on an individual's time management skills, their individual school requirements, their work, whatever other outside obligations they may have....one answer will not work for...
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    Tylenol ordered for pain.

    Elvish replied to gouranga's topic in Patient Medications

    While I agree with most the rest of this post, I feel the need to point out for anyone reading that fevers are not bad. Uncomfortable, yes. A sign of symptoms that may need to be addressed, yes. But...
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    Patient Thank You Gifts

    Elvish replied to AJpcvRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Well, it's not exactly a new thing. It's just dads passing out cigars revamped for the 21st century. Probably 5-10% of our patients do this in OB. Everyone gets the same
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    Patient Thank You Gifts

    Elvish replied to AJpcvRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    In my experience there is no such thing as too much chocolate or too many sweets. But food that can double as a meal that we can eat on the fly (since we may not get a lunch) is also VERY much...
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    What do you do to protect yourself on floor?

    Elvish replied to juana15's topic in General Nursing

    Have worked fulltime in a hospital for 11 of 14 years as a nurse and have never caught anything from a patient. I wear my PPE and wash/gel my hands like I should. The 3+ years I worked in a clinic I...
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    Tylenol ordered for pain.

    Elvish replied to gouranga's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm of two minds about this. 1) Doctors need to be specific about orders. If you want me to use Tylenol for pain and fever (and not just one or the other), then write your order as "PRN fever >...
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    Staying comfortable vs. hastening death

    Elvish replied to RNMarykay's topic in General Nursing

    It's hard to wrap your head around at first, I get it. It was for me. So much of our education - and for many of us, our practice - is focused on helping the patient avoid dying. And sometimes that's...
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    Advice on creepy doctors?

    Elvish replied to carterr's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What would be even better is if men were taught not to do this to anyone and held responsible when they do, thus severely reducing the need to give women 'skills to deal with'
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    Overcrowding in L&D

    Elvish replied to perfexion's topic in Ob/Gyn

    How I WISH we could divert patients. We have had days where postpartum is full (47 beds), L&D is full (12 beds), triage (8 beds) is full and people were laboring/delivering back there, and we are...
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    Esme Needs Your Prayers

    Elvish replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Love and prayers,
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    What is your nursing "joy?"

    Elvish replied to jamisaurus's topic in Nurses Rock

    Getting flash on a neonatal art stick immediately. Doing a PKU where the circles are all perfectly filled in. Five drops, five circles. Watching a FP/internist I used to work with take off ingrown...
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    What is your opinion on getting the flu shot?

    Elvish replied to Surg-OncRN's topic in Holistic

    I'm pretty crunchy, but a) I recognize that orificenic and radon are natural but not necessarily good for my kids; and b) I'm not a xenophobe. If you are implying that immigrants are ones primarily...
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    Advice on creepy doctors?

    Elvish replied to carterr's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think he has crossed the line into stalking. That is a