Coffee Nurse

Coffee Nurse BSN, RN

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  1. Newborn careplan-Nanda Diagnosis Elimination

    Coffee Nurse replied to rhoangel123's topic in General Nursing

    I was thinking about the fact that they might delay feedings secondary to the tachypnea and concerns about aspiration, but evidently that wasn't the case. I can't think of any connection between...

  2. Newborn careplan-Nanda Diagnosis Elimination

    Coffee Nurse replied to rhoangel123's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe Risk for Dysfunctional Gastrointestinal Motility, i.e. necrotizing enterocolitis? Was the baby a preemie? Had they started

  3. Nursing Internship Cover Letter

    Coffee Nurse replied to ijuanabhappy's topic in General Nursing

    If at all possible, find out who's in charge of the internship program and address it to him/her specifically. You might try calling the HR department and asking, if they don't specify on their...

  4. Newborn careplan-Nanda Diagnosis Elimination

    Coffee Nurse replied to rhoangel123's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have to choose an elimination-related diagnosis? For a kid with TTN who's not even three hours old, lack of stool would not even be on my list of

  5. New Grad from NJ thinking of moving to Boston, Baltimore or Virgina...

    Coffee Nurse replied to LookForward's topic in General Nursing

    Where are you living

  6. New Grad from NJ thinking of moving to Boston, Baltimore or Virgina...

    Coffee Nurse replied to LookForward's topic in General Nursing

    Don't move to Boston without a job in hand. There's a lot of hospitals, but there's also a lot of schools churning out new nurses. The new grad market was saturated when I graduated and moved away a...

  7. Why should support workers be dependable?

    Coffee Nurse replied to ritujus's topic in General Students

    These questions are straight-out asking for what you think. Getting other people to answer them for you defeats the

  8. Florida NICU reviews

    Coffee Nurse replied to NebraskaRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    You're probably going to get a better response by putting this in the FL nursing forum and giving it a more specific title than "Calling all nurses." Just a

  9. Humanities People

    Coffee Nurse replied to onthefence's topic in General Nursing

    I was a linguistics major in college before I switched into nursing (and was actually far enough along in that track that I managed to finish it up as a double major). I had a lot of Latin in high...

  10. Babies discharged on caffeine

    Coffee Nurse replied to nicunana's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Same in my unit as most of the other posters -- we don't send kids home until they've gone a full seven days without A/B's once off

  11. How many of you took Maths in High School?

    Coffee Nurse replied to jess112's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yeah, I forgot, I did take statistics in college, because most MSN programs require it and I didn't want to have to do it later in case I decided to go back to school. I hated that class too; it...

  12. How many of you took Maths in High School?

    Coffee Nurse replied to jess112's topic in General Nursing

    I went up through calculus in high school. It helped me in college insofar as I was able to get out of the math requirement. Nursing math is, IMO, much simpler -- all arithmetic and some algebra....

  13. I have a hunch about a patient and I cannot prove it!

    Coffee Nurse replied to WoofyMutt80's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I don't have five family members in law enforcement, but the comparison seems flawed to me. I can still remember the section in the student handbook of my high school saying that lockers were...

  14. Do you go to work when you have fever/cold?

    Coffee Nurse replied to northmississippi's topic in General Nursing

    IMHO, that's not the main issue; the issue is going in and subjecting a large number of people, in all likelihood at least some of whom who are immunocompromised, to your illness. I work with...

  15. What do NPs do in the hospital?

    Coffee Nurse replied to nurse1219's topic in General Nursing

    Our NNPs can do anything the MDs can do -- prescribe meds, order blood, place central/umbilical lines, etc. They collaborate with the NICU team and function under the auspices of the attending MD, but...

  16. At what point can you go from CNA to Student Nurse?

    Coffee Nurse replied to amanda1266's topic in General Nursing

    Student nurses aren't paid. The time you spend in the hospital as a student nurse is during your clinical rotations, which are a component of the nursing school curriculum. You're actually paying to...

  17. TV shows and movies that are ruined, because you know better

    Coffee Nurse replied to HollyHobby's topic in Nursing Humor

    somebody must have finally pointed it out to them:

  18. TV shows and movies that are ruined, because you know better

    Coffee Nurse replied to HollyHobby's topic in Nursing Humor

    Seen too many painful things to list here, but my biggest peeve by far is the way CPR is portrayed in the TV/film industry. I'm terrified to imagine how many laypeople forego proper CPR training...

  19. Licensure Question

    Coffee Nurse replied to Yayamaya's topic in California Nursing

    You fill out the top part (section A) of the transcript request, then send it to your school -- probably the office of student services, registrar's office, or something like that. They fill out the...

  20. Isn't there such a thing as a learning curve?

    Coffee Nurse replied to tasha1722's topic in General Nursing

    It was a PRN? Huh...makes management's case for firing you even weaker, it seems, unless the patient really laid it on thick in her complaint (or maybe was a VIP or

  21. Isn't there such a thing as a learning curve?

    Coffee Nurse replied to tasha1722's topic in General Nursing

    Tasha, I'm not trying to argue with you. I think you might have a hard time proving your point about the charting, but chalk it up as a lesson learned. I hope everything works out for

  22. Isn't there such a thing as a learning curve?

    Coffee Nurse replied to tasha1722's topic in General Nursing

    "Wow, sarcasm. That's original!" Intuition =/= assumptions made about a situation described in three sentences, without context, by an anonymous person on the

  23. Isn't there such a thing as a learning curve?

    Coffee Nurse replied to tasha1722's topic in General Nursing

    But your proof would be -- since you have entered A, B, and C for charting, then it is complete, and since X, Y, and Z are not charted, then they never existed in the first place. They've already...

  24. Isn't there such a thing as a learning curve?

    Coffee Nurse replied to tasha1722's topic in General Nursing

    Uh...where do you get this

  25. Isn't there such a thing as a learning curve?

    Coffee Nurse replied to tasha1722's topic in General Nursing

    I think it was probably less a pattern of not charting, and more a pattern (at least in management's eyes) of losing one narc, withholding another without sufficient documentation of your rationale,...