SummitRN BSN, RN

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    Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    SummitRN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with a lot of what you are saying OP. I also think that there is not enough cultural emphasis on a nurse's duty to nursing's future through mentorship or at least being a resource. Nurses are...
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    Online, Go-At-Your-Own-Pace, RN to BSN Option through Capella University

    SummitRN replied to pmabraham's topic in Online Distance Learning

    You wrote a promo piece on your for-profit school... one that doesn't even have a campus... and went on at length about how much easier it is than WGU. So your point of comparison was a non-profit...
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    Online, Go-At-Your-Own-Pace, RN to BSN Option through Capella University

    SummitRN replied to pmabraham's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I find it comical that you wrote 1500 words and didn't mention those things. It sends a very strong message about what you think is important vs unimportant. I think that reflects poorly on your...
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    Online, Go-At-Your-Own-Pace, RN to BSN Option through Capella University

    SummitRN replied to pmabraham's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Did OP or AN receive financial consideration from Capella for this featured adticle? Interesting that the only things discussed are how easy and cheap it is to go to this online-only for-profit...
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    Made a fool of myself to board of nursing rep

    SummitRN replied to Lemon Bars's topic in General Nursing

    It is easier to learn a skill/procedure. It is harder to know why we do it, how it works and relates to the big picture, and when to do it (and often more importantly, when not to). You are valued for...
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    Meeication Pre/Suffixes

    SummitRN replied to Apple-Core's topic in General Nursing

    Check out this book Memorizing Pharmacology: A Relaxed Approach: Tony Guerra: 9781329898448: Amazon.com: Books It breaks down med names for easier memorization and
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    A Feminist Approach to the Opioid Epidemic

    SummitRN replied to Issaiah1332's topic in General Nursing

    Just... wow... I tried to work my way through that dismissive word vomit. You even managed to concoct a straw man, and claim it was my doing. You managed to write all that while still failing to...
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    A Feminist Approach to the Opioid Epidemic

    SummitRN replied to Issaiah1332's topic in General Nursing

    It is asinine to argue a given philosophical approach (feminism) is the cure by (comically) co-opting patient centered care as that philosophy applied when it may have also been the cause. I agree....
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    A Feminist Approach to the Opioid Epidemic

    SummitRN replied to Issaiah1332's topic in General Nursing

    Medicine is still defined paternalism. It's the 80s/90s. Keep drinking that koolaid. How about you provide modern validated evidence based on modern medical education? Things have been changing! 1....
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    Nursing School Needs Repair (And Why I Quit)

    SummitRN replied to Barmherzigkeit's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Anyone who has been to engineering school and then nursing school will experience a lot of eye rolling about disorganization and remedial math. But you play along or you move
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    A Feminist Approach to the Opioid Epidemic

    SummitRN replied to Issaiah1332's topic in General Nursing

    The OP has used a bunch of supposition to split care along poorly defined labels. The OP didn't cite where it would actually be relevant to the claims. Only because OP's professor agrees with the...
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    Smallest gauge for blood draw?

    SummitRN replied to KLouHerout's topic in General Nursing

    Canoehead mentioned 24G backing out at infusion rates of 500ml/hr but not lower flows, which begs the question why? You don't need any math to know the answer, just deductive reasoning and newton's...
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    Smallest gauge for blood draw?

    SummitRN replied to KLouHerout's topic in General Nursing

    So the question is, backpressure or pressure exerted directly by the infusion? You don't need fluid dynamics equations to see that a 24G that backed out while infusing doesn't whip around spraying...
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    Smallest gauge for blood draw?

    SummitRN replied to KLouHerout's topic in General Nursing

    You don't have access to a needle that is too small. Average erythrocyte has a diameter of 7μm Largest cell you are going to find in the blood is a 20μm monocyte Inner diameter needles: 27ga -...
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    Walden now has a Psych NP program

    SummitRN replied to LoneStar1908's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Even a crappy sluice with low grade dirt will produce a few flecks of gold... doesn't mean it's a good
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    "Noctor?" Offensive title?

    SummitRN replied to Breathing16's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It's derisive often used to imply a NP is overstepping their bounds or as short for not-a-doctor. NP is not a "mid-level"
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    Breaching StaRN Contract

    SummitRN replied to Bella_CO's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yea yea yea... this is the spew put out by hospitals and some folks gunning for their thesis approval in management/edu track degrees. The number keeps growing every time I hear it quoted! Don't buy...
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    Health One vs Centura

    SummitRN replied to Nurse216's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I don't think that is true at all. FYI "Peter Banko" is the name of Centura's new CEO. This sounds like disinformation to
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    Is spending $80,000 on a private ABSN school a waste

    SummitRN replied to Big_Mike's topic in General Students

    If it is a good and accredited school... then ask A How much will you make as a RN after taxes? B How many years sooner will you start as a RN vs your other school options? C How much do you other...
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    Breaching StaRN Contract

    SummitRN replied to Bella_CO's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Getting out of HCA and into basically any other system should make you an additional 4K in a year or far less. Go work for the VA you'll make an extra 10K in your first
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    Breaching StaRN Contract

    SummitRN replied to Bella_CO's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Do you know anyone who has had to pay AFTER consulting legal representation? Or is that just what the rumor mill says because management has insert these rumors into the
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    Jokes on me....?

    SummitRN replied to Ms.UndastoodRn's topic in General Nursing

    First, tell us what hospital so we can all be sure never to work there or be a patient
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    Breaching StaRN Contract

    SummitRN replied to Bella_CO's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Then they could fire you on day one and demand 10K? Wow! I'm going to start a company and get rich quick! Except... that would be totally unenforceable
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    Sings of hypoxia on a ventilator

    SummitRN replied to BBB888's topic in Critical Care

    1. Look at your patient. 2. Fix your pulse ox or draw an ABG. 3. What vented patient only has BP/HR? 4. Look at your vent. 5. Changing HR/BP is not diagnostic of hypoxia except in the VERY late...
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    Breaching StaRN Contract

    SummitRN replied to Bella_CO's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What does the contract say about if they terminate you? I bet you don't have to pay... I bet you can find a way to get fired... problem solved! (Just make sure you have a job/reference lined