TazziRN RN

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    Nursing student looking for experienced RN to interview for paper

    TazziRN replied to Yasminek's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be happy to
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    Patients on Medicaid

    TazziRN replied to DiEd's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is the difference between you and many (perhaps most) Medicaid recipients. You had a reason to be on Medicaid. You worked and paid into the system for the system to take care of you when you...
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    Hospital or Nursing Agency?

    TazziRN replied to punkstar's topic in General Nursing

    Right. Not in LTC if you want to work agency, needs to be in acute care. Unless you find an agency that staffs LTCs. LTC is a specialty in
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    Hospital or Nursing Agency?

    TazziRN replied to punkstar's topic in General Nursing

    If you don't have any experience how are you listing ICUs as your specialty? Agree with the others, in order to work agency you need to be able to jump in and take a full load with minimal...
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    Oh my......nowwhaddoIdo?

    TazziRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    This morning one of the other nurses asked for help; she not only needed to take the afternoon off but she had a pt who needed a periph line started and she hadn't started lines in years. I'm good at...
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    Oh my......nowwhaddoIdo?

    TazziRN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    uhh......am i missing something here? when did i say i was the only good one? i just said the other nurse asked me to help because she was no good at lines. i happen to be good at lines. i'm not...
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    could u please proofread & give feedback TY

    TazziRN replied to IngyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, cough up the documentation on
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    Rn

    TazziRN replied to kanny's topic in General Nursing

    You did fine. He didn't tell you to discharge her in two days, he said he didn't want to discharge her until then. Big
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    Oh my......nowwhaddoIdo?

    TazziRN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    We can't go out together; we're so short-staffed right now that unless it's a teaching issue we can't go out in pairs, and I'm not gonna teach this nurse how to start a line in one visit. It's not a...
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    Oh my......nowwhaddoIdo?

    TazziRN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    Accessing veins and ports has always been my forte. I worked at a rural place before this job; they admitted a lot of kids but not enough to keep the medsurg staff proficient at pedi lines. Whenever a...
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    could u please proofread & give feedback TY

    TazziRN replied to IngyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have never seen BSN or any other degree come before RN. It's always been Nancy Nurse, RN, BSN, CCRN, MICN,
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    Not able to continue orientation, feel terrible.

    TazziRN replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

    When he gets hungry enough, he'll eat. Trust me on
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    How many days a week do u work? Please need help

    TazziRN replied to deniseS's topic in Home Health

    That's not how it works at my place. We have one nurse who only works weekends, so she does all the new opens and resumptions, takes care of on-call stuff during the day. The regular staff member on...
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    could u please proofread & give feedback TY

    TazziRN replied to IngyRN's topic in General Nursing

    to whom it may concern, it is with great pleasure that i write a recommendation for xxx for volunteer service. i have known xxx in a personal capacity for ten years. in that time, i have watched her...
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    mowing the lawn, driving and working

    TazziRN replied to erroridiot's topic in Home Health

    I'm not an ogre about the homebound thing, but if there's no way I can fudge it, I won't open it. Your agency had better be careful, or it will find itself in trouble with
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    Kindergarten Career Day

    TazziRN replied to Kiren's topic in General Nursing

    All kids like to hear heartbeats. Take a bunch of steths with you and let them listen to each other. Teach them where the radial pulse
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    ages:)

    TazziRN replied to iluvmynavyman's topic in General Nursing

    1) what is the adverage age of a new nurse ?? no clue 2)what made you want to become a nurse ? never wanted to be anything else, for as long as i can remember. 3) what age did you start nursing school...
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    Sad conversation today

    TazziRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    i have a home care pt that i've been seeing for quite a while now, and she and her husband are really sweet. she has mild dementia...remembers me in between visits but doesn't remember my name, etc....
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    Please help the MD, don't put him/her to shame!

    TazziRN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    If that's what it took to get the lady what she needed, I see nothing wrong with it. He followed procedure....only coding pts can get dopa out of the ICU, so he called a code. Since the lady WOULD...
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    hostile ex-mother-in law being admitted

    TazziRN replied to llisdog's topic in General Nursing

    Best thing you can do is stay away from her. If she tries to impugne your nursing abilities you can honestly counter with "How would she know what kind of nurse I am, I had nothing to do with her...
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    Nurse to Doctor

    TazziRN replied to Caitlind89's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Do not compare being a doctor to being a nurse. They work together but are not the same. If you want to be a doctor, do not "settle" for being a nurse just because it's easier financially to...
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    Sad conversation today

    TazziRN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    jmg, i appreciate your sticking up for me but i wasn't offended by tele's statement. tele and i go back a ways, and i saw her statement as she meant it: pointing out another way of thought. thank you...
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    Nclex-rn Result Clue Please.

    TazziRN replied to Yitta17's topic in General Nursing

    It means you answered enough questions that you either passed or failed. In othe words, there is no way to know by the number of questions you
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    Sad conversation today

    TazziRN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

    that's a good idea, les. she's a neat lady. i tell her about the trials and tribbles.....i mean, tribulations...of raising two girls, and i have her practically rolling on the floor
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    Palliative care question.How would you respond?

    TazziRN replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in General Nursing

    My response, because the pt is a minor and the parents do have the right to decide what she is told, would be to tell the parents "I will not volunteer the information but if she asks, I will not lie...