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    Up-credentialing: Why the move to the BSN is inevitable.

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to chuckster's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If you don't know the difference between "unnecessary" and "BSN hurts nursing as a profession" I'd ask for my money back for my BSN. I imagine we will go to BSN only at some point. All the cool kids...
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    New Grad Traumatized After First Interview

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to rollieem's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My facility has a 25% turnover rate, something like 65% of those were in their first year of nursing. That DOESN'T count the number of nurses who transferred from one "giant hospital corporation"...
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    Seriously?!?!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    And that's the problem. They're terrified if they don't do a full workup on every silly complaint that they'll miss a festering infection that goes septic, or the guy that has a completely unrelated...
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    Seriously?!?!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    Please tell me no one entertained this
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    Seriously?!?!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    Well thank you for assuming that my only job history is in nursing, you'd be wrong. Where in the world do you get that it's "against the law" to ask about insurance in the ER? I guess every...
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    Incident Reports...aarrggghhh!!!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to MessyMomma's topic in General Nursing

    I thought OP was clear about who and why she wrote people up. As charge I write more incident reports than average too, mostly at the request of my supervisor or a physician. Whenever that is the case...
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    Seriously?!?!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    Right now it's on the sidebar under "liked topics," so you're going to get people that don't even realize where they're
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    Seriously?!?!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    No copay for most if not all Medicare and Medicaid programs, that's why it's no sweat off their back to come on visit the ED for every piddling thing they can dream
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    Seriously?!?!

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to emtb2rn's topic in Emergency

    I'd have liked to hear the answer to the question I'd have asked, "What treatment did you have in mind when you came to the ED,
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    Please be prepared for your interview...

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Larry77's topic in Emergency

    The person with a disability is not the employee in the piece you quoted, so no, they'd not be discriminating against a disability. They'd be trying to fill a position with a person who could...
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    Student HIPAA violation question

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to studnt's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    HIPAA is HIPAA. The act of looking at one's own records is either a federal law violation or it isn't. (It isn't.) HIPAA has ZERO requirements that are "facility by facility." The point is, that...
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    What can I do locally if I am against the mandatory flu vaccine?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to lolakbolak's topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://www.vaccineshoppe.com/image.cfm?doc_id=12651&image_type=product_pdf What are the ingredients in Fluzone vaccine? Fluzone vaccine contains 3 killed flu virus strains. Inactive ingredients...
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    What can I do locally if I am against the mandatory flu vaccine?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to lolakbolak's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't think people understand how bad these conditions used to be without
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    Different Piggyback Antibiotics, Same IV Tubing??

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Pinky89's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Maybe you should go to law school. They are big on teaching people to say the same thing 10 different ways to make a brief so long that no judge will want to read! That was a lot of fluff to say...
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    Bed Side Report

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to 280090's topic in General Nursing

    I do not like bedside report, for the reasons that Commuter stated. The patients or their family interrupt constantly, you're trying to give history and they're like "What's that? I don't have that....
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    Opinion, how would you have handled this?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to beeker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Good, I'm glad they're hopefully going to look at her web history (not hard to do) and it's great that Rude Nurse couldn't find herself another emergency she was dealing with (because she was just...
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    Opinion, how would you have handled this?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to beeker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am pretty peeved myself. I want to punch someone for you. Here I was assuming the charge nurse had her own load or
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    Opinion, how would you have handled this?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to beeker's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, you have now learned your lesson. At the end of the shift I'd be writing up the charge nurse and the rude nurse for violating your behavior standards (I'm sure everyone has these?) and for...
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    i HATE my job. Does anyone else feel the same?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We occasionally get overflow orthos too...I love transferring them from stretcher to bed. "Now now WAIT A MINUTE WAIT A MINUTE! HOLD ON!" "Ma'am let go of the rail, we are going to pull you over and...
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    question: can you chart on a pt. being rude?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to aligar89's topic in General Nursing

    OMG. I walk out on this stuff and tell them I'll come back when they've calmed down. Are you allowed to walk out and say "Have the baby yourself"?
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    question: can you chart on a pt. being rude?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to aligar89's topic in General Nursing

    I usually stick one * in there. I don't want to repeat "sand n-----" in my note even though that's exactly what the pt said. (about his doctor who was from the Philippines, lmao) "Sorry sir, wrong...
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    Doctor texting order turned into a nightmare

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Scotthudson1966's topic in General Nursing

    HIPAA too! That doc had better forget it ever happened, unless they want to be dragged into violation land with you. We were either taught, or had a policy (at the time I was a student and didn't care...
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    i HATE my job. Does anyone else feel the same?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My beef is family members who come in at random times of the day and demand to know "When is the doctor going to be here?? He didn't come yesterday." "Uh yes ma'am he did, I was here and in the room,...
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    Vent about scrubs

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to NellieRN10's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    We have a tech that every time she sits down I can see at least 2 inches of crack and about 3 inches of muffin top. What really grosses me out is all of that skin and butt is touching the backs of...
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    Agoraphobia...anyone with experience?

    redhead_NURSE98! replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Was there really a question here? lol Reminds me of the people on Judge Judy when she asks them about their disability, some of them tell her they are on disability for panic disorder, agoraphobia...