santhony44 MSN, RN, NP

FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed

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    Passed the ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner exam!!

    santhony44 replied to emtneel's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    congratulations!!!! :clpty::nmbrn::clpty::rckn::dancgrp::ancong!::smiley_aa:balloons::yelclap::cheers: now, just think, keep up the hours and ceu's and you will never have to take this...
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    When do you NOT want people to know you're a Nurse

    santhony44 replied to Nurse_Newbie's topic in General Nursing

    I only mind people knowing if they want free services. Most people who know me know I'm a nurse. I get asked questions, to look at this, etc. Mostly I end up with the usual "Yes, you need to talk to...
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    Patients who are too lazy to open their own splenda packets

    santhony44 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked dialysis, for about 6 months, some 20 years ago. While I didn't like it at all, and found the patients very demanding, I can't imagine this happening with our patients. While they might...
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    Medication Errors-Why?

    santhony44 replied to ERGirl83's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. I think that some factors can be changed, but the human factor will still always be
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    Time to Come Clean,,,,slips of the tongue

    santhony44 replied to Calgon-take.me.away's topic in General Nursing

    Before I became a nurse, I got a degree in English and planned to teach. I never actually taught high school, but I did teach in a GED program for a short time before nursing school. I did a lot of...
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    Time to Come Clean,,,,slips of the tongue

    santhony44 replied to Calgon-take.me.away's topic in General Nursing

    oh, i can top that one. not, i thank god, my own boo-boo, though. a few years back, we had one of the gideons visit our church. (the folks who put bibles in hotel rooms and such). he was standing at...
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    Bummed Out- Leaving OR

    santhony44 replied to Joe Nurse's topic in Operating Room

    OK, this is coming from someone with no OR experience to speak of, so maybe some experienced OR nurses can correct me if I'm wrong. I'm offering my opinion, though, because even though I'm an...
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    You Know the patient is going bad when...

    santhony44 replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    The patient is sitting bolt upright in bed, taking deep gasping breaths, her eyes are about to pop out of her head, she's getting a little blue, you can see her jugular veins, and you pump the mercury...
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    You Know the patient is going bad when...

    santhony44 replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    When the experienced nurse says "this patient is fixin' to go bad" (yes, she's Southern) and the inexperienced doc blows her off... not only is the patient going bad, it's not going to go
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    You Know the patient is going bad when...

    santhony44 replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    The patient gasps and goes from a normal Caucasian color to the color of a Smurf. The patient says "Oh, the angels are singing! Don't you hear the angels singing?" The patient says "I'm going to die....
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    Acused of no compassion

    santhony44 replied to nurseofficegail's topic in General Nursing

    Let me tell you what I'm thinking. This is early April. In, what, six weeks or so, we'll have a brand-new crop of new grads out there. I would just about bet you that someone's brother's girlfriend's...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hey, you did awfully well not to add "Woof, woof, woof!" to that!! Fetch, indeed! (I don't know if it's universal, but here in the US "fetch" is what you say to a dog when you want it to retrieve a...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    if you're having a senior moment, then I'm joining you in it! I think the "you all sound so mean" post came from the same poster who started the "schadenfreude" (sp?) thread yesterday. from reading...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think we've worked the same place! I had a patient tell me once he "couldn't afford" his medication (less than $10 a month). I looked at the pack of cigarettes in his pocket, and asked him how much...
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    Acused of no compassion

    santhony44 replied to nurseofficegail's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with all the above. You need some specific things you can change or improve upon. If they can't give you those, then there is no way you can do anything to satisfy them. Even for something as...
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    Homeless shelter staff administering medication

    santhony44 replied to KatzchenLSW's topic in General Nursing

    Have they really considered the implications of this? In a homeless shelter, I think there's a pretty good likelihood that you have folks on some fairly powerful prescribed medications, such as...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I kinda like the sign I saw in a store recently: "Children left unattended will be given a double espresso and a free
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    What do you think about this reason for a grade?

    santhony44 replied to wishNhopeNdreamN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    BTW, if your spellcheck picks up an "error" like pseudolistening and you're not sure it's really an error, look it up elsewhere. If it's actually a word, you can add it in to your dictionary. If it's...
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    What do you think about this reason for a grade?

    santhony44 replied to wishNhopeNdreamN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Not only that, but spellcheck is not 100% reliable. It may not "get" the difference between "two" and "too," for example. Its vocabulary tends to be limited, as
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    NNP vs PNP vs FNP..which one is for me???

    santhony44 replied to FL NICU RN's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know that it was possible to sit for the PNP exam as a FNP. That's something I might be interested in looking into. Which certifying body would that be? I won't disagree with you that PNPs...
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    should I be concerned about my daughter not menstrating?

    santhony44 replied to oknurse320's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree with Arwen's suggestion about giving her the option of being alone with her PCP. I'd also suggest that she go see someone she is comfortable discussing "personal" stuff with and being...
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    NNP vs PNP vs FNP..which one is for me???

    santhony44 replied to FL NICU RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a FNP. I've worked in a pediatric clinic, and have worked in family practice settings seeing quite a bit of pediatrics. If I had to limit my practice to one age group, it would be peds. However,...
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    Kicked out of Nursing program

    santhony44 replied to leereynold218's topic in General Nursing

    It doesn't matter!! Her HS grades don't matter. It doesn't matter if she has had A's and a 4.0 in every single other college class she's taken. She did not make the grade she needed to make in this...
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    Kicked out of Nursing program

    santhony44 replied to leereynold218's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds as if the community college/associates route might be the quickest, simplest, and least expensive route for her to take. She will take the same NCLEX exam and get the same RN license as if...
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    Women's Health NP for me?

    santhony44 replied to sargentrn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    ANP definitely gives you more flexibility, but it really does boil down to what you want to do. If you can't see doing anything but women's health, then do that. I've known more than one NP who has...