JKL33

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    Valid Reasons To Not Get Vaccinated

    I believe that we haven't given enough consideration to the fact that in our large country we citizens live vastly different lifestyles. Life is very, very different between urban areas, suburbs and...
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    Normal Findings List?

    So frustrating. If I had a dime for the number of times I've been in classes where we were told this same thing while we're looking at a detailed and rule-happy instructions/rubric or an...
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    What is the pathophysiology? SPO2 34%

    Aside from wanting to verify... There are
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    TRAGEDY at Clinical!

    The speculation part? Just that I have no idea what the student might have known or might have told anyone about the incident and am just guessing at a plausible scenario. And I said forgive/excuse...
  6. Why would that be unreasonable? What is unreasonable is the idea of collecting tuition dollars when unable or unwilling to make similar provisions available to all
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    Pathophysiology - HELP!

    We also can also assure you that it did not. Take it easy, no one is threatening your superiority. What the poster is saying is that at the expense of any possibility of retention or deeper...
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    Normal Findings List?

    Ditto. I searched yesterday after first reading this post and it's easy to find things to copy down. To the OP, this is not the way. Surely your introductory nursing text describe...
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    TRAGEDY at Clinical!

    ...she probably told the program director she didn't know anything had gone wrong until she saw blood after all was said and done, when in reality she suspected in real time that she might have...
  10. @Barr I'm glad you have focused on re-grouping. You're gonna be okay. Let us know how things are
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    Quitting a New Job

    You're
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    "New Nurse"

    So at this point you have had about 20 floor shifts total for orientation? That's almost 7 weeks of (3) 12s per week (equivalent). I'd say 8, 10 or 12 weeks is a more reasonable orientation for...
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    Quitting a New Job

    If you're sure about your feelings on this, then just use the standard "not the right fit" type wording. Be generally gracious. Personally I would decline to elaborate and if pushed I would say as...
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    Scope of Practice Question

    This is more a matter of legalities, technicalities and liability than a scope of practice issue. An RN generally has the proper training to perform an injection and the training/knowledge to...
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    Burned Out?

    I stand by my original assessment of the concept of burnout. If I'm burned out on something, it's something enjoyable that I'm just personally tired of. I would never naturally use that terminology to...
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    Seasoned Nurses Make Me Feel Incompetent

    Why would you feel like everything you are doing is all wrong, when the example you gave is of one of these busy-bodies being the wrong one? You need a different perspective! ? These people...
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    Vaccination Mandating

    Damn. This is up on top again and I read too fast and my brain processed it as "vacation mandating." I thought we were gonna get to talk about that.
  18. I was raised doing hard work even as a child, adolescent and young adult. I think work ethic is very valuable, both working diligently and doing one's best. I'm not one whose tendency would be to...
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    New Grad’s New Role

    I do not have experience with the RN role in LTC, but have a couple of comments that seem true regardless: 1. If they are accepting patients to the facility without the ability and/or intention...
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    New nurse, just told to find another unit

    This is likely nothing more than a mismatch between their desires and reality. It may not have been a great choice of position for you if they were not willing to provide training similar to what...
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    Forgot to call doc after lab called

    It's a bad feeling because you want to do your best for patients. But this is not the kind of thing that would typically cause someone to lose their license. You reported this to your...
  22. I would think hard on this, and do it quickly before too much time passes. Sometimes good places do get off to a bad start for completely normal reasons, such as a key person being on a...
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    Sabotaged at Work

    Agree--leave. This is ridiculous and malicious behavior and the fact that it's being tolerated is even worse than the behavior
  24. It was a simple mistake and very small potatoes. Let it go. Believing that your every move should (or can) be perfect is a negative, destructive pattern. Through the years nurses have been manipulated...
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    Cricothyrotomy kits on crash carts?

    No. They are located in airway boxes (portable) and for ED they are also in trauma/resus room