klone MSN, RN

Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery

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    Specialty areas

    klone replied to junebugger's topic in General Nursing

    If a specialty area will hire you, you can at any time. We hire new grads regularly right into specialty
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    Medication Error

    klone replied to CMA-RN29's topic in General Students

    Actually, in most practices now (particularly pediatric) they come in single-dose syringes. No drawing up necessary. They have eliminated thimerosal from pediatric vaccines, and thimerosal was used as...
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    Medication Error

    klone replied to CMA-RN29's topic in General Students

    Then your clinic was grossly out of scope for what the MAs were doing, or they were grossly under-utilizing you. I worked clinic for 4 years. Things I did that the MAs could not do: Take a thorough...
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    caregiving and cna

    klone replied to spark1's topic in General Nursing

    A caregiver is typically
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    Who may witness medication waste

    klone replied to ERRNDubai's topic in Patient Medications

    I don't know if it's a law so much as a facility
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    Medication Error

    klone replied to CMA-RN29's topic in General Students

    I disagree that an MA cannot adequately learn the 5 Rights and safely administer certain medications without direct physician supervision, within parameters (for example, when I worked clinic, MAs...
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    Medication Error

    klone replied to CMA-RN29's topic in General Students

    No, physicians are not required to do that. However, MAs are still required to perform the 5 Rights, just like nurses do. This did not
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    Stitches or glue

    klone replied to Agriffin86's topic in General Nursing

    Your post is incredibly vague and ambiguous, so I really have no idea what you're asking. Either way, we are not allowed to give out medical advice, per our
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    OT

    klone replied to nonnocere808's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital's union allows for different pay rules, as you describe. One of the pay rules is 8-80, which means anything over 8 hours in a day or 80 hours in a 2-week pay period is considered OT....
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    Medication Error

    klone replied to CMA-RN29's topic in General Students

    What was the
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    Family keeping Information from the Patient

    klone replied to gallor31's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yep, I actually enjoy helping students when they show that they are actually putting effort into learning it, rather than just hoping to be spoonfed an
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    Online BSN program

    klone replied to sisomori's topic in General Nursing

    There is no such thing as an online pre-licensure nursing program. You will have to do
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    Family keeping Information from the Patient

    klone replied to gallor31's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Where do you think autonomy fits in there with your scenario? What do you do when there are two different competing principles? And why do you think providing factual information would be harming the...
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    Family keeping Information from the Patient

    klone replied to gallor31's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    What are the basic principles of healthcare ethics? Can you name them? (there are like 4 or
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    OT

    klone replied to nonnocere808's topic in General Nursing

    Supervisor = not staff
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    What do you wear under your scrub pants in winter?

    klone replied to vspaniel's topic in General Nursing

    I will wear fairly thick cotton knee highs. That helps a
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    Putting UDS Orders In

    klone replied to pholda's topic in General Nursing

    It would be no different than any other order. Are you ACCEPTING the order from the provider, or are you completing a task that an RN has delegated to you? What is your facility's policy on entering...
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    Gluteal IM Injection

    klone replied to gpmedsec's topic in General Nursing

    Ventro? Not recommended by
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    MS in Midwifery

    klone replied to biggolp1's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    If you have passed the exam, and you are a licensed CNM, then no, I do not believe it will
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    Gluteal IM Injection

    klone replied to gpmedsec's topic in General Nursing

    I landmark it with my hand, looking for the iliac spine and greater
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    Gluteal IM Injection

    klone replied to gpmedsec's topic in General Nursing

    There's a huge difference between dorsogluteal and ventrogluteal. Ventrogluteal is an excellent site due to size of the muscle, and lack of any nearby nerves and major blood
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    MA

    klone replied to Jtraines5253's topic in General Nursing

    I will generally point at her and yell "LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!!" and then I will rip her name tag off her scrub top and throw it on the ground and stomp on it really hard, grinding the heel of my...
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    Catholic Nurse Sues Duke University Hospital After Refusing to Assist with Abortions

    klone replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    They don't do abortions in the ED. It's a surgical procedure. Unless it's a medical abortion, in which case it would be done through her primary care provider or an abortion provider with medication...
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    Catholic Nurse Sues Duke University Hospital After Refusing to Assist with Abortions

    klone replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    As I mentioned a few times earlier in this thread, she wouldn't be assisting with an abortion. She might assist with giving methotrexate for an ectopic pregnancy, or giving emergency contraception to...
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    MS in Midwifery

    klone replied to biggolp1's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I'm sorry, I misunderstood your OP. I didn't realize you had said that you already are a BSN. Yes, you are