JKL33

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    Employer refusing to provide even verification

    JKL33 replied to mermer_rn's topic in General Nursing

    While I'm sure there are cases of individual NMs being vindictive in this way, HR sure the heck isn't nurses; they're just another "profession" we are now subject to and taking orders from. And...
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    Psych NPs - What do you do when you get this patient?

    JKL33 replied to mangopeach's topic in Advanced Practice

    Understood! I found your answer informative. So...thanks.
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    Anything wrong with speaking out about staffing issues at work?

    JKL33 replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Your feelings are probably shared by many. We have all watched these dog and pony shows going on while staff struggle along under impossible demands. Still, management isn't going to like rain on...
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    Psych NPs - What do you do when you get this patient?

    JKL33 replied to mangopeach's topic in Advanced Practice

    Thank you for the information! It seems like it would make sense to have patients sign an agreement to have all available relevant information reviewed if the clinician felt it would be...
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    Psych NPs - What do you do when you get this patient?

    JKL33 replied to mangopeach's topic in Advanced Practice

    Would you make the same statement about reviewing previous medical care records? Why or why
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    Type C

    JKL33 replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    It is very useful to understand a patient's behavior. I prefer to start from a position as close to neutral as possible. That is to say, I prefer not to start from a position of assuming much of...
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    Protections of civilian nurses from fed. inmates

    JKL33 replied to Fishfeels's topic in General Nursing

    For those of us who don't have direct experience with this exact situation, why is a federal prisoner with attendant guards punching anyone in a hospital? Why able to spit blood on nurses (after the...
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    Are nurses really leaving nursing in droves?

    JKL33 replied to Mqshell's topic in General Nursing

    ....in relation to the actual expectations, which were not disclosed at the time anyone was trying to decide that the pay seemed adequate. So then that really isn't a complaint about the money as...
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    Are nurses really leaving nursing in droves?

    JKL33 replied to Mqshell's topic in General Nursing

    On the other hand, if one is standing in brown grass or a barren wasteland it probably isn't too entitled to imagine that just maybe a little bit of grass actually could grow somewhere else. There was...
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    Type C

    JKL33 replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I prefer to look at it like every patient has some kind of situation in which I will try to provide therapeutic nursing assistance. I was convinced in my original nursing education that some of...
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    Starting FNP Program, HELP!

    JKL33 replied to ENTTriageRN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I would reject any school that doesn't even make a pretense of helping to find preceptors. On principle. That is utterly ridiculous and is an abuse of students and is contributing to the growing poor...
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    New RN Orientation

    JKL33 replied to Kaylyn126's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Then don't. ? I mean that kindly but seriously. Let's use some logic. You are a brand new nurse. Accept that and accept that the process of eventually becoming an expert is a long (but...
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    Looking For Advice On A Hospital Job

    JKL33 replied to Lovethenurse2b25's topic in General Nursing

    "The position that was offered is the one that I'm currently working. What you are discussing is not the agreement that was made. No one hired me to work 34 hours a week but just randomly decided to...
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    Is it selfish?

    JKL33 replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    I'm looking at this with a broader perspective. There are two different things to discuss here--the patient safety aspect and the business/liability/disciplinary aspect. I wouldn't hide my actions in...
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    Protections of civilian nurses from fed. inmates

    JKL33 replied to Fishfeels's topic in General Nursing

    So what is the prevailing thought about this on your unit? I ask because I guess if I assessed someone as a threat to self or others, I would institute the appropriate precautions as soon as I got on...
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    First Time Parents Asked For A Different Nurse

    JKL33 replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    I think logic can help you here. I see this as black and white so I tend to write in a straightforward manner, not meant to be harsh. You had been attending to that patient/family appropriately....
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    Are nurses really leaving nursing in droves?

    JKL33 replied to Mqshell's topic in General Nursing

    Many people who leave are leaving a job, not the profession. There seem to be a number of articles that don't make that distinction. Around me there are a number of people who are done with acute...
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    I cant be a nurse anymore

    JKL33 replied to Cg134357's topic in General Nursing

    Hello, Sorry to hear of the mounting distress you have been experiencing. I would recommend meeting with your PCP to make sure your physical health is in order and to receive an evaluation...
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    Blood exposure possible

    JKL33 replied to nsa22's topic in General Nursing

    Best advice is that whenever you have a concern like this in the course of your work you should contact your infection control/employee health people right away. They can direct you as needed if there...
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    Anyone here who loves bedside nursing?

    JKL33 replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    I have never experienced that in my entire medium-length career. This is just my experience, but I feel that this handmaiden thing hearkens back to the days of nurses rising and giving up their chairs...
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    Is it selfish?

    JKL33 replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    I think you can handle it and should be a nurse unless you decide for positive/proactive (rather than negative/reactive) reasons that you truly don't want to any more because you believe something...
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    Bad shift after bad shift

    JKL33 replied to newnursemoon's topic in General Nursing

    Most sincerely, I don't think they can't understand. I think they literally do not care. They have different system in place now, which is churning through new grads and slandering the group of them...
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    How to deal with anxiety when there is an "investigation" at work?

    JKL33 replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    OK. I asked because sometimes what seems to be happening all around you has behind the scenes stuff you don't know about. And when we don't experience things directly or witness all the related events...
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    How to deal with anxiety when there is an "investigation" at work?

    JKL33 replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Have you been directly involved in any of the scenarios you
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    Share Policies That Have Not Saved One Life

    JKL33 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    All specific screening recommendations that are inappropriately made universal (screen every patient rather than the intended population). Policies that link medication orders with specific pain...