santhony44 MSN, RN, NP

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

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    Dumbest rule in your hospital?

    santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    For some reason, the scarcity of common sense never ceases to astound me. Some of these folks must be related to the school adminstrators with "zero tolerance" policies who do things like suspend...
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    Diagnoses you never thought you'd see?

    santhony44 replied to KarafromPhilly's topic in General Nursing

    Hypothyroid 2-year-old. Infant with rat bites. Munchausen's by
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    Did you once feel uncomfortable with blood, needles,vomit etc?

    santhony44 replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    I don't like needles; learning to give an injection was tough, and it's still not my very favorite thing to do. Sputum can still really get me, and on occasion some odors bother
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    What's the dumbest thing you ever got called on the carpet for?

    santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Y'all probably smudged her make-up too, but I guess she didn't think about
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    Puny job situation

    santhony44 replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    If you're where I think you are, the hospital has lots of nursing jobs open that aren't necessarily advertised. So does the other big hospital in the immediate area. There are also several small...
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    What's the dumbest thing you ever got called on the carpet for?

    santhony44 replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    My body language. I had the Head Nurse from He**, worked full-time 3-11 as an LPN doing patient care, went to school full time days. "Your body language says you don't want to be here." No-call,...
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    i feel so stupid

    santhony44 replied to NurseTricia99's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Don't take everything the doctor said to heart. I think he has some issues with your facility and they didn't start with you. Far better to have caught this one when you did than later. Far, far...
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    Continuous Furosemide Infusion

    santhony44 replied to EmmaG's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I've been out of the hospital for a while, so I have never heard of a furosemide drip. Do they really work when bolus doses don't? I think I would share your concerns about monitoring the patient and...
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    MRSA scare !

    santhony44 replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    I think we ought to go back to the days of nobody under age 13 allowed to visit. I understand if someone is in the hospital long-term, or perhaps near the end of life, but why on earth bring a little...
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    MRSA scare !

    santhony44 replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    I agree that the media hype is scaring people to death. Every pimple and infected hair follicle is now suspect. I have seen it in the clinic in the last year or so. Usually the CA-MRSA lesions get...
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    Out of a job

    santhony44 replied to underpaidrn's topic in General Nursing

    Not only that, but this "bump" will be what steers you in the direction of something much better. That's been true in my life, anyway. I don't tell an employer when I'm looking for something else....
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    Just promoted to Recruitment and Retention- need some help and ideas

    santhony44 replied to ERnursegrl04's topic in Nursing Career

    I think most places work a lot harder on recruitment than they do on retention, which is the opposite of what it should be and, in the long run, counterproductive. I'd suggest that you start with...
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    Think I've come to a fork in the road

    santhony44 replied to wonderbee's topic in Home Health

    Office nursing can be good, but look carefully at each situation and ask lots of questions. I've known of office nurses who work until 7 or 8 PM every night, even if the office closes at 5, doing...
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    perfect job

    santhony44 replied to newlvngrad's topic in General Nursing

    If you don't need benefits, agency work would be ideal because you can work when you want, pretty much. Low stress/no stress nursing job?? I think that's an
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    Can FNP's subspecialize?

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

    As a FNP, I've worked in a pediatrics practice. The other NPs in the same practice were also FNPs. So yes, you can do that, and I have not seen pediatricians hesitate to hire FNPs. You cannot do only...
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    Help me decide!

    santhony44 replied to kodydc's topic in General Nursing

    Go for the gusto. If you're not going to do what you really want to do at 57, when will you do it? Even if it doesn't make economic sense- and I don't agree that this is the case- do it for...
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    Difference of Opinion...Opinions Needed!! *LONG*

    santhony44 replied to Crux1024's topic in General Nursing

    The nurse should have been told in the beginning that you could not give IV meds. It sounds like there are still too many students trying to give meds at once; maybed 1/3 should give them on any...
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    Emergency/Legal Issues

    santhony44 replied to WINDYLYNDA's topic in General Nursing

    In very small rural hospitals, there is often not a doc in-house. The one on call has to be within so many minutes of the
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    Topic ideas for a Pediatric Nursing paper!

    santhony44 replied to futurenp17's topic in General Nursing

    How about the use of cough and cold medicines in very young children? There's a lot of news about that right now. You could incorporate home care measures and how to get parents to use those....
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    Why Do Crna Gets Paid So Much?

    santhony44 replied to disboibdavid's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I think you misunderstand what CRNA2007 meant. One of the longstanding problems in nursing is the fact that nursing care is generally considered to be an expense, not a revenue generator. That's not...
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    Why Do Crna Gets Paid So Much?

    santhony44 replied to disboibdavid's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I don't think the OP has a really good idea of what CRNAs and NPs actually do. He makes it sound as if he thinks it's "just" a matter of getting a Master's degree. This isn't to denigrate a Master's...
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    Passive Aggressive males

    santhony44 replied to zaggar's topic in Men in Nursing

    Unfortunately, it can be dangerous, too. People like that worry me. Thinking back over the various males who were nurses that I've worked with over the years, I've run into that very little. Most of...
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    How in the world am I suppose to remember everything I learned in school?

    santhony44 replied to RN1263's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Relax! You're perfectly normal. No one expects you to have perfect recall of everything you've ever learned. As others have said, things will "come back" to you as you experience them. You will...
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    Drug Screen - Alprazolam??

    santhony44 replied to wyrleygirl1's topic in General Nursing

    If you have a valid prescription for the med and it's in your name it doesn't matter. Take the bottle with you and tell them you take it occasionally. If it's not your script that's another issue...
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    Stupid Fear of Surgery

    santhony44 replied to trethern's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: As far as I'm concerned, a lap chole is the greatest thing since sliced bread! I'm old enough to have taken care of a number of open chole patients in the hospital and you do not want...