SummitRN BSN, RN

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    Appropriate way to Check off Bed Baths (Fundamentals)

    SummitRN replied to AmesRT6510's topic in General Students

    By your reasoning, students SHOULD be performing enemas and foleys on each other and would except for those pesky lawyers. That is absurd. If you change your argument to there being some chance of...
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    Appropriate way to Check off Bed Baths (Fundamentals)

    SummitRN replied to AmesRT6510's topic in General Students

    I hear a lot of "it didn't bother me, why should it bother anyone" and "I did it so others should have to as well." Clearly, you all didn't learn enough empathy during your bed bath sessions. Bed...
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    Appropriate way to Check off Bed Baths (Fundamentals)

    SummitRN replied to AmesRT6510's topic in General Students

    Haha very
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    Bed Baths & Other Nursing Arts Still Taught? (Speaking of Wet Wipe Baths)

    SummitRN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

    Commonplace despite education and policy...
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    Bed Baths & Other Nursing Arts Still Taught? (Speaking of Wet Wipe Baths)

    SummitRN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

    Remember, too tight of a top sheet contributes to foot drop and pressure ulcers. Patients must be able to move
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    Regis Traditional BSN for fall 2013

    SummitRN replied to JLN76's topic in Colorado Nursing

    When they accepted me, I first received a phone call. You can also check your status online. I don't remember an email. There was probably a
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    Can visitors be 'forced' to wear PPE?

    SummitRN replied to Double-Helix's topic in General Nursing

    I agree but the situation becomes sticky when it is parents and a minor
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    Adventist University Health Sciences BSN

    SummitRN replied to mrnightinggale's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Another school? Denver, the entire front range, arguably the state, doesnt have enough clinical placements for existing programs. Yet another no-name school... not what the community (or the students...
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    LOC or ABC first?

    SummitRN replied to Caffeinated RN's topic in Emergency

    On the test, ABC first. In real life, you often assess LOC as you do your
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    Bed Baths & Other Nursing Arts Still Taught? (Speaking of Wet Wipe Baths)

    SummitRN replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Students

    Before nursing school (BSN) I hadn't even thought of the possibility of making an occupied bed. I thought it was magic when we learned it. Lab is what taught me how. Clinical is what made me good at...
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    MAP vs SBP

    SummitRN replied to MLB55's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    MAP is a more consistent measurement and is the better perfusion indicating metric. BP is dynamic, but overpressure injury in neuro is going to come from the peak overpressure, SBP. So I'd imagine...
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    SummitRN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think I read about this type of thing in the past... have they mentioned new uniforms? (The first stewardesses had to be RNs as
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    Regis Traditional BSN for fall 2013

    SummitRN replied to JLN76's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I want to say something like 5-10 alternates were placed in my class, quite a few. People apply to many programs, are accepted by many, choose other programs or paths in
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    Appropriate way to Check off Bed Baths (Fundamentals)

    SummitRN replied to AmesRT6510's topic in General Students

    Sweet... let's make students uncomfortable to teach them empathy. That's logical and professional. Hey, why not just yell at them like a drill seargant to drive home the value of therapeutic...
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    What in the world happened to CU Denver's College of Nursing??? Unbelievable...

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    If I went to CU, I'd blame them for not planning ahead and placing accordingly. They knew this was coming for a long
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    What in the world happened to CU Denver's College of Nursing??? Unbelievable...

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

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    What in the world happened to CU Denver's College of Nursing??? Unbelievable...

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    For that precise reason my friend at CU-D is most upset as they wanted to apply to the UCH CC residency and was told the same thing. I am glad you were able to still get a placement that met your...
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    PHRN transfer to EMT-P in other states?

    SummitRN replied to RegMurse12's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    I find CCEMT-P to be a misnomer in how it is written. It is as if the bearer wants people to think of their EMT-P post-nominal title, Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic, and read it as Critical...
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    What in the world happened to CU Denver's College of Nursing??? Unbelievable...

    SummitRN replied to SummitRN's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I was told they still have OB and peri-op/PACU, but something about some tower move meant they weren't taking students
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    New Grad. Want to work in the ICU

    SummitRN replied to msubtt's topic in Critical Care

    Being a new grad in the ICU is kicking my posterior... but in a good way... I feel myself improve slowly... I am just trusting what people say: it gets easier with
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    ADN plus a previous 4 year degree

    SummitRN replied to MN2LA's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    A BA degree in a non-health/nursing related will not make you stand out as a candidate. It might make a good tie-breaker in otherwise equivalent candidates; it's better than no 4-year degree, but not...
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    Nurses can't be punished for violating HIPAA

    SummitRN replied to MikeyBSN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    So it seems civil and criminal consequences are rare and reserved for egregious and malicious intentional
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    Should Respiratory Care get its own mid-level provider credential?

    SummitRN replied to incrediblehulk2016's topic in General Nursing

    Let's be clear: the A.A. system is a Anesthesiology pushed foil to counter the growing independence of
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    What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

    SummitRN replied to foreverLaur's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

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    What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

    SummitRN replied to foreverLaur's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Why should nurses have lesser educational requirements than teachers, an office worker, etc. Radiation technologists and respiratory therapists are transitioning to bachelors entry. People are going...