JKL33

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    We’re all being “fired”! Is this legal?

    JKL33 replied to Taylor22's topic in General Nursing

    I mean this is terrible treatment--not because a certification is being required but because there's no openness about what's going on and because of their approach. When they're calling you with...
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    LPN Supervisor Would Not Let Me Call Doctor

    JKL33 replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

    On the hook....taken the fall....who has the higher license.... All the wrong frame of mind. You were not prohibited from calling and the rationale for not calling that you were given is...
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    How do you decide what to do with a difficult charge nurse?

    JKL33 replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    PS - I appreciate that you have tried to "give [her] credit where credit is due," I think that's big of you. But just from life experience I suspect she really isn't all that. If she were, she...
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    How do you decide what to do with a difficult charge nurse?

    JKL33 replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    1. You need to find a way to stop caring about this. Pronto. You need to stop feeling uncomfortable over other people's inappropriate behavior. I'm not chastising you--I did it for a long time, too....
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    How do you decide what to do with a difficult charge nurse?

    JKL33 replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    In fact the OP did list the work-related strengths of this person, which seemed to me like more than we usually hear when people post about a problematic coworker. I don't agree with your take. I...
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    How do you decide what to do with a difficult charge nurse?

    JKL33 replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    Ask for your director's presence at a meeting with her. When it happens, none of this: I know that's supposedly some appropriate way to state one's complaints...how something makes us...
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    How can a nurse sustain a healthy and happy relationship?

    JKL33 replied to nicenurse819's topic in General Nursing

    Hooo boy, that might seem like a simple reaction of immaturity (which, it is immature) but it's quite more than that, actually. First, it is manipulative; it's to get you to feel silly/stupid for what...
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    Privacy Issue: Would Appreciate Your Input!

    JKL33 replied to guest998179's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    You're good. And it's good that you are cognizant of and careful about privacy issues. I agree this is not a HIPAA violation. However I would generally take these conversations elsewhere...
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    Freezing At A Critical Time

    JKL33 replied to PinkPeony's topic in General Nursing

    ^ This is pretty much EXACTLY what I mean by "CQEE." Seen it so many times. And then we are all supposed to cheerily act like this is something other than
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    Are we not talking about the largest nursing strike in US history happening right now?

    JKL33 replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I have no dog in this except to be perplexed that "work with your leadership" is still a suggestion that could largely be taken seriously. I really struggle to recall any nursing...
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    Are we not talking about the largest nursing strike in US history happening right now?

    JKL33 replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Lots of fear-mongering for a first post. Okay, second post. ? Right. Well, anyway, I'll bite, I do have a question for you. Let's pretend that could actually happen. Is it your...
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    Sleeping On Unit

    JKL33 replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, no, that isn't an example of being fair. What adult wants to receive an email reminding them not to rob company time by sleeping on the job when they would never do such a thing? No one....
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    Full Code

    JKL33 replied to thisnurse123's topic in General Nursing

    Well, for your own benefit you should change your thinking a little. Instead of worrying whether it's going to be you that management unfairly blames, you should maintain the belief that it isn't okay...
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    Can Managers Override Policy and Drs Orders?!?

    JKL33 replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    A point of clarification: What you are trying to avoid treating is asymptomatic bacteriuria. Simple, symptomatic cystitis and UTI are both treated with antibiotics. I think what you are...
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    Inability to Bill Prevents Pharmacists from Prescribing Paxlovid

    JKL33 replied to Terry Ann Donner's topic in Disaster Preparation

    These practices have no mechanism for handling the covid positive patients on their panels? It's more feasible that a completely different entity would develop said mechanism from the ground up?...
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    Can Managers Override Policy and Drs Orders?!?

    JKL33 replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    And let's not overlook the elephant in the room, which is that any UTIs associated with multiple straight caths by (often inexperienced) extremely harried staff members is not something that is being...
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    Can Managers Override Policy and Drs Orders?!?

    JKL33 replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    I suspect the OP has simplified (or perhaps their manager did in conveying the message to staff) but what they wrote here for us to comment on is that they were told they can't get orders from the...
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    Can Managers Override Policy and Drs Orders?!?

    JKL33 replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

    They should have a protocol that staff nurses can utilize instead. Protocols go through proper channels that include approval from the medical staff line. Joe Blow saying that medical decision-making...
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    Inability to Bill Prevents Pharmacists from Prescribing Paxlovid

    JKL33 replied to Terry Ann Donner's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh, no, no-- If they authorize pharmacists to gather the information and prescribe the medication, they don't have to pay the PCP who has to comb through the records and get information to said...
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    Full Code

    JKL33 replied to thisnurse123's topic in General Nursing

    Is there a particular reason you believe someone is at fault for something? I guess I'd start with whether or not a particular wrongdoing was
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    Freezing At A Critical Time

    JKL33 replied to PinkPeony's topic in General Nursing

    TBH it sounds like maybe this surprise was especially for you, that's why you had the perception at first that no one was really moving. I think they managed to just have a CQEE (confusing...
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    How much I pick up affects my yearly evaluation?

    JKL33 replied to Loly23's topic in General Nursing

    No...beyond the basic teamwork that is a crucial part of our job, pitching in is for the needs of a household, the needs of loved ones, for voluntary efforts in your community that you may choose to...
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    Nurse Giving Conscious Sedation Without Licensed MD Order

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

    Would just add (for the OP) that this applies to ALL the medical orders from this individual. I'm just imagining a scenario where someone calls him out so he says, "fine...we'll do [x]
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    Took A Gummy Which May Or May Not Have Had THC

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

    Yeah, they aren't reporting anything. This is probably one of who knows how many similar cases that day; the only relevant thing is how the patient is getting dispo'd and this sounds easy
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    Took A Gummy Which May Or May Not Have Had THC

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

    I understand that. I'm just making a notation that other portions of the system we all work in do use that language. FWIW I do think it would've been better to use the word "use" on the OP chart,...