JKL33

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    CNA Frustrated with Being the Blame

    JKL33 replied to Kirsten Creator's topic in General Nursing

    How would the nurse know that you've charted it? Just sit there and keep checking and refreshing? A pulse ox in the 80s is something someone should know about within a matter of a few minutes. Should...
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    Should I talk to my manager?

    JKL33 replied to Sweetpea04's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like you are learning valuable lessons about yourself, nursing and life...which is basically how we grow. No shame there! Will admit I've come back to this post like 3 different times...
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    Navigating a Career Crossroads in Residency

    JKL33 replied to tcy12345's topic in General Nursing

    I would go to the interview. Out of curiosity, did you interview there as a new grad? If not, why? Also, depending on the whys that one dreams of working at a certain hospital, it is very...
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    How to deal with CNA insubordination?

    JKL33 replied to thenursebabe25's topic in General Nursing

    When you have people who aren't internally motivated to perform their role and have few consequences when they don't perform their role, they just won't perform their role. Just my opinion but if...
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    Anxiety Surrounding Emergencies

    JKL33 replied to ShelbyAS's topic in General Nursing

    I think if you keep an open mind you'll be fine. There are many, many nurses in different areas where it would not be expected to have to deal with extreme emergencies, and even then the large...
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    Medication Route Error

    JKL33 replied to OneRN50's topic in General Nursing

    My take was that it usually isn't mixed with water -- that's the part that OP was acknowledging as the error. I took it that they're usually crushing the med and administering it SL so that inmate...
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    Should I go into float pool as a new grad?

    JKL33 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Yes. I believe what I said was that having some support and already being somewhat known/accepted on the floors is not nothing. Peer acceptance and manager support are nothing to sneeze at; in fact...
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    New Grad jobs aside from floor positions

    JKL33 replied to iccul84's topic in General Nursing

    Side note - keep in mind that sometimes things are 100% different when you're the one performing a procedure as opposed to observing or helping. You might not have any trouble whatsoever when you're...
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    taking extra patients

    JKL33 replied to HARLEYDNS's topic in General Nursing

    I understand the situation. I could be mistaken but I felt there was possibly a particular implication in the OP question; what to do about "refusals by a nurse;" that is what my response was directed...
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    taking extra patients

    JKL33 replied to HARLEYDNS's topic in General Nursing

    This ^ I'd activate whatever your plan is for securing appropriate staffing when you have a call-in. If the only plan is to have the remaining nurses work in (even more) unsafe assignments...
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    false accusations

    JKL33 replied to stacydye222's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. It's too bad that you have had to go through this but it's one of those times where it might be appropriate to think you'll be better off in the end. They sound crappy. Learn whatever there is to...
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    Already Burnt out

    JKL33 replied to sarena33's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Bad situation. I do not have experience with this but I do know that I would refuse to participate in any part of their fraudulent schemes (which I agree some of this seems to meet that definition and...
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    false accusations

    JKL33 replied to stacydye222's topic in General Nursing

    Agree with those above me about a power struggle. I do think this was kind of a circumstantial set-up where a lot of people would've had their guard up just a little, being that coincidentally...
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    Confiscating patients weed

    JKL33 replied to MoeShe's topic in General Nursing

    Do not know the answer to your question but I do know that it wouldn't be me rummaging though a patient's belongings looking for contraband. Or for
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    Health at Any Size?

    JKL33 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This is already my basic approach; if one cares about people and their traumas and their feelings and desires to have a respectful, long-term professional rapport with them, then it is really pretty...
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    Is it normal for an employer to manage your off time?

    JKL33 replied to eBrekke's topic in General Nursing

    It seems like moonlighting policies are mostly about trying to get away with controlling things. They don't address the 1,001 other reasons that people call in, don't show up, are tired and/or don't...
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    Patient Abandonment

    JKL33 replied to DanT103's topic in General Nursing

    Probably because it can be a threat often thrown around in some circles, especially chaotic workplaces where nurses are treated poorly, and is OFTEN (by the looks of things I've read here) conflated...
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    Patient Abandonment

    JKL33 replied to DanT103's topic in General Nursing

    A resume is a personal document which includes information as the writer sees fit. The application is another matter and should include the information requested. Applications sometimes/often ask for...
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    Patient Abandonment

    JKL33 replied to DanT103's topic in General Nursing

    OP, in case this clarification helps: There is job abandonment and there is patient abandonment. -Job abandonment usually refers to either walking off the job, not showing up for work (no...
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    Patient Abandonment

    JKL33 replied to DanT103's topic in General Nursing

    In fact, if a place really seems off kilter I would say the best time to leave is
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    Patient Abandonment

    JKL33 replied to DanT103's topic in General Nursing

    Not really. It says the orientation began an hour after the shift had started. I suppose that could be a little ambiguous as written but it can easily be read as the orientation start time was an hour...
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    Patient Abandonment

    JKL33 replied to DanT103's topic in General Nursing

    What would a pleasant person have
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    Splitting Referral Bonuses

    JKL33 replied to Peterpan1234's topic in General Nursing

    Those are the terms of the one offering the bonus! One earns the $5k by referring a prospective employee who ends up hiring on and doing a good job--because the employer wishes to offer that money...
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    How long should I stay with my first nursing employer?

    JKL33 replied to PizzaNurse2023's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    You need to get other solid offers in hand, do the maths involved and see if it makes financial sense to make a change. That ^ might also be secondary to waiting to see if the new scheduling...
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    Splitting Referral Bonuses

    JKL33 replied to Peterpan1234's topic in General Nursing

    I'd say that since a referral bonus is a reward for bringing the employer a prospect [that they wouldn't have had otherwise] then it would have been reasonable to just tell the friend no in the first...