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    Nursing Shortage

    JKL33 replied to Maddie Zakos's topic in General Nursing

    So, right off the bat, this is an interesting issue. Most everyone can attest to the fact that there are underserved areas, underserved populations, long waits for some services, etc. etc. Good...
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    HIPAA anxiety!

    JKL33 replied to guest1200295's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Get yourself a small handful of responses that work for any situation where you don't want the appearances of anything inappropriate, such as "Oh I have no idea, and I don't discuss patients...
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    Can you give an opioid without a Dr's order?

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

    When acting without an order and outside of protocols, problems arise especially when people don't know what they don't know, are overconfident and it strokes their ego to "order" things on their...
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    Can you give an opioid without a Dr's order?

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

    Generally in the US, many nurses do these things under protocols that have gone through committees and ultimately approved/signed by the relevant medical director...in other words nurses have...
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    Can a nursing client be used for a reference with their consent?

    JKL33 replied to PJG RN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    As best I can guess: This technically has nothing to do with HIPAA. You, the one who would be disclosing information, are not a HIPAA covered entity. In addition, you would not be naming any...
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    Can a nursing client be used for a reference with their consent?

    JKL33 replied to PJG RN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Who is paying you/are you even a HIPAA covered entity or business associate? Beyond that--what does the company in question say when you have informed them that you do not have "manager...
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    Damar Hamlin's Cardiac Arrest Has Health Professionals Talking About Commotio Cordis

    JKL33 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    But if you've heard of it before, easy to remember the idea of commotion ? Same general reason for synchronized cardioversion not
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    Too Fat To Be A Nurse?

    JKL33 replied to Newprospnp's topic in General Nursing

    Best wishes! You sound like a conscientious person--if you can listen and relate to patients you will generally gain their trust. I get you, but remember that we don't advise people on...
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    Can you give an opioid without a Dr's order?

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

    Really curious about why a coworker would ever advise that this could be
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    Should Hospitals Rehire LPNs/LVNs?

    JKL33 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Just thought of another issue from the other side - in my first job those LPNs had very heavy assignments; heavy workload. It had to be that way. No RN in their right mind is going to begin to think...
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    Should Hospitals Rehire LPNs/LVNs?

    JKL33 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    First job, acute care, I was hired into RN role where I had an LPN to help me with half of my 12-patient load. In case there is any question that description is not mine, it's how my role and the...
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    Treatment of Nursing Students

    JKL33 replied to KrisNicoleE's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    And I didn't say you did. What you said directly and through implication was that staffing ratios would be improved if new nurses "fill[ED] your unit" because they were not treated poorly by...
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    Pt not getting procedure because of med

    JKL33 replied to PaddedCellLPN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Agree. If they did not want pt to have b-blocker due to its possible effect on stress testing, they should have written an order to hold it. ********* [Yay for another bumped thread.
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    Treatment of Nursing Students

    JKL33 replied to KrisNicoleE's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    All these old threads getting bumped, but this is worth commenting on. The above has pretty much nothing to do with the reason staffing is so poor. Staffing is poor because businesses want...
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    Why lift foot of bed up to lift pts in bed?

    JKL33 replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Noted.
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    Why lift foot of bed up to lift pts in bed?

    JKL33 replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I understand that; it really has nothing to do with what I was writing
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    Why lift foot of bed up to lift pts in bed?

    JKL33 replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    I suspect that it does indeed mean what you think it doesn’t. ?. If they expected that your job would entail lifting 100 lbs they wouldn’t say you can’t come back unless you can lift 65. They...
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    Why lift foot of bed up to lift pts in bed?

    JKL33 replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    ETA: These things have consequences for workers comp too (I would assume) in the following way: Your job expects that you should be able to manually lift 75 lbs. What were you doing trying to lift 150...
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    Why lift foot of bed up to lift pts in bed?

    JKL33 replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    My previous positions did; I only know because I checked due to similar discussions here. Under expectations it said something to the effect of being able to lift 75 lbs. That would most...
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    Why lift foot of bed up to lift pts in bed?

    JKL33 replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    This. ^ I'm sorry too, it isn't ideal. But this bit about what we are supposed to do or supposed to avoid is out the window in this particular case. The resources to accomplish the pie-in-the-sky...
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    Obesity in the Digital Age: Let's "Scale" Back the Misinformation

    JKL33 replied to Tana Bao's topic in General Nursing

    I asked the question because while I would never endorse keto diet, I do recommend lower carb, rationale being that people aren't overeating broccoli (and if they are its of little caloric...
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    Obesity in the Digital Age: Let's "Scale" Back the Misinformation

    JKL33 replied to Tana Bao's topic in General Nursing

    Why do you think they do
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    Nothing Left To Give At Home

    JKL33 replied to Weebnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I mean, is he experiencing a mental health situation? Could you try just a calm sit-down and ask him where this is coming from, or if there has been a situation that has provoked undue concern about...
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    Abandonment? What exactly is it?

    JKL33 replied to ppfd's topic in Nursing Career

    Just commenting because the wording ^ here brings up a point of confusion for both employers and nurses, and we've had plenty of stories here where employers throw the job abandonment thing around as...
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    How do you get the experience for NP program?

    JKL33 replied to olaswaisi's topic in Emergency

    So you have more time accumulated reading notes and correlating with how patients respond to things? You can read on your own at home, too. You can make job/career moves that give you additional...