klone MSN, RN

Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery

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    Are nurses and doctors equal?

    klone replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    Are you really confused, or is this a rhetorical question? Are you referring to Clebeck's response? Because I can definitely validate what s/he is saying - in the eyes of the hospital, the physician...
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    L&D nurses who became CNMs

    klone replied to TarheelGirlx3's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I feel very fortunate that our state laws REQUIRE us to use our professional organization's staffing recommendations when determining how to staff the
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    Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    klone replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

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    Crap! Am I a crusty old bat nurse?? Carrying pens...

    klone posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I've noticed an interesting phenomenon lately. Our unit regularly gets students of various kinds - nursing, EMT, APN, etc. The nursing and EMT students sit in on report. Because they come to the...
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    MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

    klone replied to klone's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't know what this
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    Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    klone replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    It was just me throwing out a red
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    MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

    klone replied to klone's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Our hospital is offering student loan forgiveness for certain hard to fill positions (ED and OR, I think - we offered it in OB when we still had open positions). $12,000 total over 3
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    MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

    klone replied to klone's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Gosh, I feel like some places just can't win for losing. In my other long thread about how the nursing shortage is alive and well in many smaller communities, everyone said "If you offer a sign-on...
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    MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

    klone replied to klone's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes, I have. My first nursing position in
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    L&D nurses who became CNMs

    klone replied to TarheelGirlx3's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Double
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    L&D nurses who became CNMs

    klone replied to TarheelGirlx3's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    This is super crazy and unsafe. I assume you mean nurses take 3 LABOR patients?
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    Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    klone replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    I call my husband a "male nurse," or sometimes just "murse" for short. Usually only when I'm being Dom,
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    MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

    klone replied to klone's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It's almost like the old days when I entered the nursing workforce (2006) - they were offering sign-on bonuses and relocation reimbursement to new grads left and
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    Do we just guess at blood pressure readings?

    klone replied to TMB41's topic in General Nursing

    One of my HUGE frustrations is that we have SO many IOLs for gestational HTN. They come on the unit for their induction and their pressures are totally WNL throughout the
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    Do we just guess at blood pressure readings?

    klone replied to TMB41's topic in General Nursing

    They should be calibrated annually by
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    Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    klone replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Dang, how did I miss
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    Do we just guess at blood pressure readings?

    klone replied to TMB41's topic in General Nursing

    Not only arm positioning, but body positioning, talking during the reading,
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    Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    klone replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    That's a convenient
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    Bringing in the Boys: How to Attract More Male Nurses

    klone replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Until such time that women's salaries are dollar for dollar the same as men's instead of $.86 to their $1.00, I don't feel particularly compelled to entice more men to the nursing
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    Is there a "Nurse Shortage" Lie?

    klone replied to New_Man_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Nope.
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    Is there a "Nurse Shortage" Lie?

    klone replied to New_Man_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I know you all have seen my big long diatribe in that other thread. So I'm sure you know my answer to that
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    Nursing Shortage!! It's real and it bites (new grads, can't find a job? Read this post!)

    klone posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had no idea, when I took a job as a nurse manager of an inpatient unit at a rural hospital that's 4 hours away from the nearest large city, that a huge portion of my job stress would come from the...
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    Nursing Shortage!! It's real and it bites (new grads, can't find a job? Read this post!)

    klone replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Since this was bumped up by someone's bizarre rant, I thought I'd update. We hired every new grad who applied to our unit (luckily they were all also really strong, smart candidates, we really lucked...
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    Nursing Shortage!! It's real and it bites (new grads, can't find a job? Read this post!)

    klone replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Do you feel better
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    Does Oxytocin need to be refrigerated?

    klone replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think she was asking about the actual vials, not the admixed bags. I'm guessing because they use it in the