TiffyRN BSN, PhD

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    If you are a male can you ask to only work for male patients?

    TiffyRN replied to dbtw's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    A quick search here on AN turned up several threads about this but I'm on my phone right now and lack the needed know-how on how to link to them. I think a few shifts with male offenders would...
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    If you are a male can you ask to only work for male patients?

    TiffyRN replied to dbtw's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I don't think you can get out of it in school but maybe you could go work in a male correctional facility? Just
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    Passports & Hiring Dilemma

    TiffyRN replied to RNtilTEN's topic in Immigration Advice

    Undocumented students can attend college. I am not implying you are undocumented but you asked how could you attend college without valid paperwork in hand and this would probably explain that....
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    testing prior to enrolling with excelsior

    TiffyRN replied to annadina's topic in Excelsior College

    Yes, it costs to be an enrolled student at EC (Excelsior College). You may want to check with local community colleges whether they will provide you a student ID you can use at a far reduced cost...
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    NP vs PA currently firefighter/EMT

    TiffyRN replied to Pool0202's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Make sure you find out as much as you can about NP versus PA. These are based on quite different models of care: nursing versus medicine. EMT & paramedic one is based more on a medical model of...
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    Passports & Hiring Dilemma

    TiffyRN replied to RNtilTEN's topic in Immigration Advice

    Well, like in medicine, law and so many other fields, it's all about what you can prove. My suggestion is that you start with the social security office but you probably need an immigration lawyer....
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    Alarm Fatigue, Silencing Many Hospital Alarms Leads To Better Health Care

    TiffyRN replied to Emergent's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    There certainly needs to be work done by the monitor companies to give us more accurate monitors. In addition to that nurses need to learn to customize their monitors more accurately. I work with...
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    Smoking by pregnant women

    TiffyRN posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Okay, I know none of us need to be schooled on the detrimental effects of smoking but I just got a link to this article today through Smartbrief (NANN): One really impressive finding: in the third...
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    Smoking by pregnant women

    TiffyRN replied to TiffyRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Yes Bortaz; I maintain a strict no-smoking policy for all my
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    WHY do I need a BSN?

    TiffyRN replied to AnnMarie52471's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    How about starting with the autonomy to choose our own verbiage? I think we all studied therapeutic
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    WHY do I need a BSN?

    TiffyRN replied to AnnMarie52471's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    And here I go with another post; but I think it's better chopped up rather than one long ole post. What was my main motivation? My hospital was one of the few local hospitals still hiring ADNs into...
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    WHY do I need a BSN?

    TiffyRN replied to AnnMarie52471's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    ^^^^this^^^^ I've read a lot of arguments about the uselessness of BSN (versus ADN) education. Acquiring the skill above is so valuable, not only in increasing one's confidence but also in increasing...
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    WHY do I need a BSN?

    TiffyRN replied to AnnMarie52471's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    PMFB-RN: I don't often agree with your thoughts on BSN education, but here we sing the same song. This would stop the squabbling and allow us to focus that energy on increasing the quality of nursing...
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    I never, ever went to ER when I was a kid

    TiffyRN replied to Emergent's topic in Emergency

    Neither myself or my 2 brothers ever. They both had multiple minor traumas which would get butterflied by mom or stitched at the pedi's office. Imagine my shock when I heard my aunt took her child to...
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    RNC

    TiffyRN replied to JamieBSNRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I took (and passed) this last year. I used two books: [h=1]Neonatal Certification Review For The CCRN And RNC High-Risk Examination[/h] and [h=1]Certification and Core Review for Neonatal Intensive...
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    Ventilator pt chokes on food

    TiffyRN replied to bcassella2007's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Really? Can't eat? Years ago I had a longtime complete C2 injury vent dependent patient that didn't have a g-tube and kept getting fatter & fatter. Tacos, burgers, beer, whatever he could talk...
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    Has anyone used Rue?

    TiffyRN replied to jazzyrtrn's topic in Excelsior College

    Also check out a thread which I think is under the LVN section called "the College Network, help plezzz" or something like that. TCN & Rueoperate pretty much the same
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    Continuing education after Excelsior Degree

    TiffyRN replied to mikect05's topic in Excelsior College

    Well, if you get your RN through EC and want to go elsewhere I believe they are pretty equivalent to other 2 year programs. I know a nurse who went through LVN-RN with EC, then attended a State...
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    Has anyone used Rue?

    TiffyRN replied to jazzyrtrn's topic in Excelsior College

    They are an aggressive publishing company nothing more. You don't need them to do Excelsior. Stay
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    CLEP Humanities & Sociology

    TiffyRN replied to savy31's topic in Excelsior College

    I took the Humanities CLEP almost 2 years ago. I'm copy/pasting the thread where I discussed it. It was reasonably easy for me but I had substantial exposure to arts & music due to dear mom...
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    RT a good path towards becoming NICU RN?

    TiffyRN replied to Noob_to_Nursing's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Well, yes, decent question. The OP would be well served to ask opinions from an equivalent RT board and get their take. I have a few thoughts: First thought: Wow! RTs with bachelors or masters?...
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    Tuition Reimbursement

    TiffyRN replied to zje123's topic in General Nursing

    My employer has a tuition reimbursement program but it is only for classes attended while working and one must have worked at the hospital for at least a year with full-time employees qualifying for...
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    Do you calculate drip rates anymore?

    TiffyRN replied to goingback's topic in General Nursing

    I could see teaching students to calculate drip rates for basic fluids. And I think asking them to learn how to calculate how many mls per hour on med drops such as dopamine/dobutrex would be needed....
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    High frequency vents on your unit

    TiffyRN replied to katierobin23's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Each one is better for certain conditions. When we quit using them for several months (sounds like everyone did) we had several kids that we put on HVOF but they really needed HFJV. The nurses...
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    Sweet-ease

    TiffyRN replied to Bortaz's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Guess we're one of the "bad" units. We don't use 10 ml syringes though. Most commonly using 1ml syringes & giving 1-2 drops each time. Does it get given to gut kids? Probably; but tiny drops and...