klone MSN, RN

Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery

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  1. Smh. Fine, you win. I have no interest in continuing this pointless line of conversation. Chare very generously posted a link to the bill - all Washington nurses, particularly those who work for CAHs...
  2. I’m not here, posting on Allnurses about how the tax law is screwing me personally. If I were, you bet I would at least READ about it
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    Sen. Maureen Walsh Response to Backlash

    Gosh, if only she was allowed rest and meal breaks, she wouldn't be so tired. Good thing she isn't actually responsible for people's
  4. Of course I don't read every bill. But I read bills that affect me personally. Particularly if it affects me to the point where I'm going to Allnurses to ask about it, I would certainly familiarize...
  5. But why not? It affects you. Apparently enough that you're considering moving to a different state over it. It boggles my mind that you wouldn't actually READ the bill and know what you're arguing...
  6. 8 hour shifts x 7 days a week = 56 hours worked/week The bill is not forcing you to work 56 hours/week. I don't agree with the bill, but it helps no one's cause to be
  7. Read the articles I linked in the post above
  8. How can a parent forget their child in the car?? I would NEVER do this. Please read: https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/hot-car-deaths-explained/index.html...
  9. Perhaps not here, at a nursing site. But yes, when similar cases have happened with other parents, these same conversations inevitably take
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    Cerner or Epic - Which do you prefer?

    I've used both, and prefer Epic quite a bit, but as verene stated, so much of it depends on how your individual facility has customized it (or, if you're using someone else's platform, how THEY have...
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    Insulin drips patients on L&D

    That's crazy. I've worked in 7 different L&D units in 4 different states, and I've never heard of L&D nurses taking more than 2 labor patients at a time, except in the rare instances of...
  12. This happened a year ago, and this is someone I knew. She is a good person, and a good practitioner, and a loving mother. There is research that talks about brains on autopilot, and how it can...
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    RN school while in High School?

    I wonder how they would get around the liability issues of non-adults in the clinical setting doing their clinical rotations. I don't believe minors can sign binding consents and enter into contracts,...
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    Insulin drips patients on L&D

    I’m the manager, and I insist on following AWHONN’s staffing guidelines. I’m sorry your facility staffs so unsafely. You’re saying you have 4 patients in LABOR? Not
  15. Just letting you know, it's not different. That's why most nurses go into
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    Survey for NRP trained nurses

    I completed it. I stated in the comments that for the survey, the questions should actually be phrased as statements, because your scoring is whether you agree or disagree. It doesn't make sense to...
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    End of Year Reviews...finally done!

    I wish I could take the credit, but I have a super awesome clinical coordinator who wrote most of them for me, I just had to make time to sit down with each employee and go over it with them. I wish...
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    Destined to Be a Flight Nurse

    It changes based on new research, sharing ideas with other practitioners, and going to conferences and hearing what other facilities are doing. I then write hospital policy and practice changes,...
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    Destined to Be a Flight Nurse

    My lord, you're still a baby. The hubris, to think you've learned all you can learn as an ICU nurse after 3 1/2
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    End of Year Reviews...finally done!

    Which is why I felt not an ounce of guilt or need to apologize for getting them done at the end of March instead of January 4th, when they were
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    Is this even Legal?

    What type of facility is this? Are your ANM and/or NM planning on coming in to work? What I would do is, when you get there, only take report on the number of patients you would normally take care of...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    To what advantage would the floor nurses manipulate the acuity tool? I mean, they would just be screwing themselves, no? It's not like you have the CEO or the finance person filling it out. It's...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    In Oregon, staffing the unit based on the unit's staffing plan (which was created by the nurses who work in that department and includes an acuity tool) is mandated by law. The acuity tool is filled...
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    That's the problem. Nothing is going to work, even mandated ratios, if the facility doesn't follow the
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    CEO Says More Nurses Won't Improve Care

    That's why I am in favor of an acuity-based staffing matrix, rather than a mandated set ratio. Because if you have a set ratio, THAT is what administration will focus on. "Sorry, your ratio is 6:1....