Elvish BSN, DNP, RN, NP

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    Anybody else dealing with pertussis?

    Elvish replied to Kittery's topic in School

    Yes, yes, yes! When I was in Nicaragua last year, parents there were HORRIFIED that some people opt out of vaccines for their kids. I saw people walking around there with post-polio syndrome whose...
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    L&D--what are your patients like?

    Elvish replied to auson16's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It's a mixed bag, but most patients are grateful for what you're doing. The fact that they're (most of the time) there for a happy reason helps the general mood in the room. We still get our fair...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Elvish replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    When my late uncle was dying (colon CA) he was in an inpatient hospice facility during his final months. (No other caregivers close by who could do 24/7 care.) Anyway, we were kind of used to him...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    Elvish replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    This wasn't me, but we had a coworker with a remote control fart machine. She hid it in the fake plants around the nurses station and would make it go off when it was slow at nights, and especially if...
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    Orders from hell...

    Elvish replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Man, one of the worst orders I've ever read was my very first nursing job what feels like a hundred years ago (it was 16), on a general surgery floor. Back in the Dark Ages when we gave Demerol like...
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    DNP vs MD/DO

    Elvish replied to DrZaphod's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I just defended my DNP project & research at my brick-and-mortar university. It was a rigorous program - mostly. There were some classes/assignments that were BS and fluff, which, after living...
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    DNP & FNP concurrent-too much?

    Elvish replied to BirkieGirl's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I'm finishing my last semester of full-time DNP-FNP studies. (BSN to DNP) I just had to budget my time, sometimes down to the minute, and I haven't slept much in the last 3 years, lol. I've worked 3/4...
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    Elvish replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    O2 Christmas trees hurt like a mofo. Especially when you're bent down in a patient room plugging/unplugging something and stand up and whack your skull against one. It hurt, but I didn't realize it...
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    5 Weird Questions Patients Have Asked As An OB Nurse

    Elvish replied to JanineKelbach's topic in Ob/Gyn

    How much does the baby weigh? (Not weird in itself, but when I haven't taken baby off mom's chest yet it's hard to know.) Similarly, when are y'all gonna circumcise him? (Well, probably sometime after...
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    DNP Minimum Requirement

    Elvish replied to matthewandrew's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    FNPs have two certifying bodies, the ANCC and AANP. I think it's silly, because you can practice as a FNP either way. I took the AANP boards. NNPs and WHNPs take their exams via NCC. PNPs take the...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    Elvish replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    The issue is not with the BFHI, though; the BFHI steps are not that earth-shattering. The problem is when managers or admins or someone with an agenda misinterprets. The bit about rooming in? It says...
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    Nurse opinions on "Birth Rape"

    Elvish replied to EKUGRAD's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This is an issue that includes but is surely not limited to nurses. My larger point is that people are making this out to be an issue of lifesaving interventions being done against the patient's...
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    Nurse opinions on "Birth Rape"

    Elvish replied to EKUGRAD's topic in Ob/Gyn

    People all over the globe give birth without a single finger ever going in their lady parts. I'm all for safe birth, but we both know the majority of cervical checks aren't done to 'save' women from...
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    Nurse opinions on "Birth Rape"

    Elvish replied to EKUGRAD's topic in Ob/Gyn

    So many of these occasions aren't really a true emergency. Checking someone's cervix is very rarely an emergent situation, yet women get checked against their will. Last I checked, shoving your hand...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    Elvish replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    Anecdotes are fine for telling a story, but aggregate data are better when making policy. The benefits of breastfeeding have been demonstrated over and over and over and over - transcending race,...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    Elvish replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I'm on mobile and can't get to it at the moment but the AAP's 2016 guidelines for SIDS prevention recommend breastfeeding as an A-level (read: supported by the best type of evidence out there)...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    Elvish replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I'm doing my dissertation on breastfeeding - specifically, how to increase population breastfeeding rates via education of staff. It's hard. Women don't choose to breastfeed (or formula feed) in a...
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    What languages do you speak?

    Elvish replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    English & Spanish fluently. 17 years OJT, living & working with migrant farmworkers on the East Coast has done its job. I took a language proficiency exam a while back as an interview...
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    What languages do you speak?

    Elvish replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    English & Spanish fluently. 17 years OJT, living & working with migrant farmworkers on the East Coast has done its job. I took a language proficiency exam a while back as a job interview...
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    How to protect yourself from infections after work?

    Elvish replied to NurseIAm0613's topic in General Nursing

    I wear shoe covers at work so my work shoes go right in with everyone else's in the kitchen. Scrubs go in the hamper with all the other clothes. I wash them separately but only because I wash them on...
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    How was your 1st clinical experience as a NP student?

    Elvish replied to gelli.25's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I took my laptop with me to my first clinical site, but my preceptor asked me to so I could use it for charting. After that first semester I never had to take my laptop unless I planned on working on...
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    Level IV NICU with only well-baby experience?

    Elvish replied to slippersocks's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    If your gut tells you it's not safe, your gut is probably right. I second Guy in Babyland - go ahead and apply. Having L&D experience, believe it or not, is an asset, as is well-baby experience....
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    Chest PT on newborns post delivery

    Elvish replied to MzRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have one NP that does it to wet babies but that person is the only one. I kind of expect a brand new term baby to be a little crackly. If they're not otherwise in distress (or even with mild...
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    Undocumented Patients

    Elvish replied to srercg6's topic in General Nursing

    Undocumented people can (and do) apply for an individual tax ID number (ITIN) from the IRS. This is only used for filing taxes. You can apply for an ITIN as the nonimmigrant spouse of a US citizen...
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    "Fixin' to die"

    Elvish replied to ktwlpn's topic in Nursing News

    We 'fix' to do a lot of things. And we 'mash' buttons. Fundal massage is 'mashing your belly'. That's just how we talk here. I can turn it off to give a presentation to