JKL33

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    How Has Covid Affected Nursing?

    JKL33 replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Well that explains not only why things won't be improving any time soon, but also exactly how they got this way. It is really hard to understand why there is such a persistent disconnect around...
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    PTO?

    JKL33 replied to Sadnewgrad's topic in General Nursing

    Are you talking about the math? Divide the # of accrued hours by the # hours in a day of work for you (shift length). Ex 195/12 =16 full days/shifts off in which you would normally work a 12...
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    I feel like I'm being bullied.

    JKL33 replied to CeeCee4250's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    ? This is why I don't think it's great advice to tell new grads to try to short-cut the formation of workplace relationships and manipulate new coworkers by bringing things like donuts, baked...
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    Handling med errors

    JKL33 replied to Goaldigger80's topic in General Nursing

    @KKstillcares, You cannot put your own self and your patients in danger because of a dangerous, chaotic environment. Medications should not be charted before they are given. I'm sure there's...
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    Need help

    JKL33 replied to dreamer0x's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hello - This is not an appropriate intervention, it is the assessment that you have already done. You have chosen a nursing diagnosis. What kind of diagnosis-related goals are appropriate for...
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    I Need Help To Improve Writing Skill On Nursing Notes

    JKL33 replied to yx5001's topic in General Students

    From the samples you have posted I don't think there is a significant problem with the words you are using. The main area for improvement will be charting what is relevant and leaving out what...
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    Struggling With New Job

    JKL33 replied to lizdimi54873's topic in General Nursing

    Were you adequately oriented to the areas in which you would be working? If there are areas where you have almost no familiarity I would ask them straight up for a little more time orienting in those...
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    Eye protection for ALL patient interaction

    JKL33 replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I can say what purpose it did not serve, and that would be the well-being and safety of health care workers caring for sick patients during a pandemic. You chose the word embarrassing. I...
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    Eye protection for ALL patient interaction

    JKL33 replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    Frankly I consider it problematic because it was *not* stupidity; it was very purposeful. Just like the emergency bandana
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    New Grad Programs - Do they not tell you what shift you work?

    JKL33 replied to newnursewhodiis's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have been suspicious of them almost from the beginning because I feel I had an excellent orientation by experienced/expert-level nurses on the unit into which I was hired years back. I had about 6...
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    Manual blood pressure!!

    JKL33 replied to Mariestrong's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    This will get much easier with time. It's one of those things that is much easier to hear once you're used to hearing it and know what the sounds are. Since checking a blood pressure is nothing...
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    I feel like I'm being bullied.

    JKL33 replied to CeeCee4250's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I also am very sorry to hear of your experience and would echo a lot of the previous poster's comments. Anyone who acts like this has a problem. Period. If there were a student who was really...
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    COVID: It's Time to be Outspoken

    JKL33 replied to Jenna Arsenault's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I remember when I was a newer nurse I had a patient who had been treating himself for lymphoma with a regimen of increasing daily drops of ingested peroxide. It was one of those moments you never...
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    COVID: It's Time to be Outspoken

    JKL33 replied to Jenna Arsenault's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No. That is completely incorrect. I am surprised you would even write that as a psychiatric nurse. One of the things in which your specialty is sometimes involved is involuntary admissions and various...
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    Have debt but don't know if I want to be an NP?

    JKL33 replied to daisychains11's topic in General Nursing

    I view this whole problem in a much bigger context. I think it is beneficial to do so. 1. Nursing itself is a quasi-profession subject to significant manipulation from the outside. We want to be...
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    Which skills allowed during clinicals?

    JKL33 replied to aspiringnurse12345's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I would not do anything that you heard the manager say not to do. Then I would do as asked and call your instructor when you need to administer medication. That's exactly the kind of thing...
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    Switching to ER

    JKL33 replied to smiling_riley's topic in Emergency

    Your experience will serve you (and patients) well. Sheehy's Manual of Emergency Care is a resource that has been recommended quite a bit. Available through Elsevier and booksellers. I...
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    COVID: It's Time to be Outspoken

    JKL33 replied to Jenna Arsenault's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It makes sense that being retired you will only hear the latter and not the
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    JKL33 replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The ER/ED issue is irrelevant; it isn't any kind of gotcha. Both are used in the
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    Anyone work as a case manager in the ED?

    JKL33 replied to carebear01's topic in General Nursing

    Hope you get some actual experienced replies. Coming from the perspective of having worked in a system where they were utilized (but not having filled that role myself), I believe a lot of their...
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    Article by HuffPost: The Essential Items Nurses Always Keep In Their Bag

    JKL33 replied to britk64's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I have a few of the items. But really the essential things I carry "as a nurse" are my phone, my keys and my wallet. The cringe I apparently honed in on were these: Kind of makes it...
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    Dumb move on my part...(ANCC vs. AANP FNP cert)

    JKL33 replied to JKL33's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Thank you very much, @Lunah - I am already done with the exam (passed). It just happened to occur to me today to write the post about the fees.
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    Dumb move on my part...(ANCC vs. AANP FNP cert)

    JKL33 posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    So, because I could not decide that one of these two certifications was tangibly superior to the other in some significant way, I decided to register for both exams and take whichever one would let me...
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    4 Strategies to Avoid Nursing Burnout During COVID-19

    JKL33 replied to Sarah Villavicencio's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Here are my strategies: 1. Don't take responsibility for others' poor decisions 2. Understand that you/your life is completely separate from your patients and from your employers' needs. How...
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    New Grad Programs - Do they not tell you what shift you work?

    JKL33 replied to newnursewhodiis's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes, that makes it all the more unacceptable. To all of you new/newer nurses, think carefully. The line from employers has for years been that there is a massive nursing shortage. That schools...