NurseKatie08 MSN

I know of many unvaccinated coworkers. I'm fully vaccinated. It will be a condition of employment at my job by 10/31.

Our med surg units do mix COVID & non-COVID patients, however my unit (transplant) and the hematology/oncology unit are excluded from having COVID patients. If someone tests positive, they get transferred to another unit. I've floated to units wh...

I was going to suggest the same!

Hi! I've been clinical instructing for 5 years and it can really be a learning curve! Is this an advanced med surg type class? If they are about to hit preceptorship, they should be pretty solid in their assessment skills. I focus a lot on criti...

I don't necessarily think so! I wouldn't be a med/surg clinical instructor, but I think you could do lab. My lab co-instructor for the last year did not have an acute care background--she had a brief stint in ED as a new grad and then did school nurs...

Ah, no I do have an acute care background. I didn't see a place in the OP where a non-acute care background was mentioned. Just that the OP was looking for examples of jobs you could do with a MSN in Nursing Education.

I teach pathopharmacology!

I'm 24 hours/wk night shift as a bedside nurse and also teach part time. Currently teach 1 didactic section (online), 1 med surg clinical group & 2 lab sections. Before I dropped to 24 hours at the hospital I was doing 36 hours/wk nights and teac...

Agreed. I teach lab for a hybrid ABSN program and there are 7 lab instructors

Yup, totally possible! I have my MSN in Nursing Education and teach part time (didactic, lab & clinical) for a hybrid ABSN program.

I work 2 12-hour night shifts and tend to do both of them in a row as I also teach part time so need certain days of the week off for that. Before I taught as much when I worked 3 12's I also preferred them all in a row, but I'm able to sleep pretty ...

I agree with those stating that you need to have worked in the area you're teaching/have a lot of exposure to it. I'm a "young" nursing professor at 33 years old with 11 years nursing experience, 4 years of formal nurse educator experience (many year...

That's such a tricky situation! It's so different in my area/in my experience. Most of the other clinical faculty I know are employed (or had recent previous employment) at the facility where they bring their clinical students. This is my case--in fa...

Agreed! Depending on your fields and experience level it is not at all realistic. I work part time as a bedside nurse and part time as adjunct faculty and am the breadwinner. My husband had 10 years of experience in one industry and it wasn't going a...

I'm a part time med/surg nurse (24 hour nights) and clinical instructor/part time faculty for an hybrid ABSN program. This semester I'm teaching med surg clinical, med surg didactic & fundamentals lab. I have about a nine hour per week in person ...

Hi, As I mentioned in my initial post, I do not want to disclose the school for my personal privacy. However, if you're interested in such a position and are currently teaching clinical for a school, I suggest talking to your supervising faculty memb...

I'm assuming you mean didactic/lecture? I think there are opportunities depending upon your area. I am MSN prepared and teach didactic in a hybrid ABSN program so it's certainly possible. Before anyone asks, would rather not disclose where just for m...

I'm on a med/surg transplant floor & there are multiple drips that we initiate or titrate. We do insulin, heparin, argatroban, bivilarudin, diltiazem, amiodarone, lasix, bumex, lidocaine for pain mgmt, epidurals for pain mgmt, morphine & dila...

I agree with the MSN Nurse Educator track! Education was the whole reason I wanted a MSN--I had no interest in being a NP (and still don't) which is why I took that MSN Ed route. Some nursing programs (mine included) allow you to teach clinical part ...

Agreed. I became an educator with seven years of full time nursing experience & a MSN in Education. I had extensive experience precepting senior nursing students and orienting new staff. No one precepted me when I taught my first clinical. I had ...

I've never seen that happen (at least not that high of residual with gastric feeds being held) so not sure specifically why. I would have asked for an order to hold feeds and to vent the g tube to foley bag to make sure everything was out!

Depends on the surgery, and my floor sees the gamut. Lap chole, appy, or thyroidectomy? Yup, you're getting up on POD #0, because you're probably going home in the morning. Liver transplant? You're possibly/likely still intubated in the SICU until th...

Not a HIPAA violation as the nurse was not providing care to the patient. Just a bad friend.

Sorry, just seeing this now. Assuming this is in response to me. Unfortunately, not much. Usually low-dose Tylenol (maybe 650mg every 8 hours tops) or low dose Tramadol (something like 25mg every 12 hours). Generally pain meds aren't even ordered PRN...

I am a clinical instructor part-time (as well as a full time staff nurse). It frustrates me to no end when I see/hear of other instructors that just dump their students on the floor staff. That is not your job! I teach med surg, and my students are e...