Bug Out

Bug Out BSN

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  1. Questions to ask at interview in LTC

    Bug Out replied to Leelee2's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Yes Yes but if you reallywant to look professional you should just lookthat up yourself, its pub record, and then ask the DON what action plan they were using to correct mistakes. "What are your...

  2. Can a LTC not have DON or ADON?

    Bug Out replied to elprup's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    I know that depending upon the facilities size the regs may be different. Smaller facilites are not required to have the same staffnig. For example my current DON was a DON at two seperate smaller...

  3. do you skip your lunch break routinely?

    Bug Out replied to Leelee2's topic in General Nursing

    I think I have taken maybe 2 or 3 lunch breaks in over a

  4. Male Nursing Students

    Bug Out replied to Ram1802h's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Baby boomers are getting old. Old people get sick. Unless Medicare fails and the private insurance industry fails and 2012 occurs the patient load should go up increasing demand for RNs. At the same...

  5. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out posted a topic in General Nursing

    Weird topic I know but I think about this alot. I always wonder out of the thousands of patients I have been assigned how many of them demised because of something I either did, did not do, did not do...

  6. Wondering about how long it takes for an AZ license?

    Bug Out replied to bscn_rn_10_years's topic in Arizona Nursing

    87

  7. What's the general role of a nurse?

    Bug Out replied to ice2012's topic in General Students

    The chief patient advocate and leader of the interdisciplinary healthcare team to achieve the patient's health goals in a hollistic manner through the lifespan in an evidence based

  8. A Few Silly Questions

    Bug Out replied to MedChica's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Don't discount LTC, Rehab, and LTACHs. Many of them will pay more than acute

  9. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you, I can understand that. I just want to clarify that I am in no way attempting to put down life but on the otherhand I do not take death personally. I assumed we all saw life and death...

  10. former architect . . .

    Bug Out replied to formerarch's topic in Nursing Career

    Don't worry about he BSN thing. There are still plenty of jobs, esp for someone with a professional background, you just have to be willing to search and settle. Loans, loans and more loans. Work...

  11. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    How many lives do you think you have saved? NP running a code...interesting, most of the NPs I am familiar with are very skiddish for some

  12. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    does this line of conversation make you uncomfortable? i would imagine most people do not openly discuss matters like these, esp if they feel as though they may have negatively impacted someone's...

  13. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    I think most all floor Nurses must admit that our actions directly or indirectly effect the ultimate outcome of our patient's condition. Do you not think that you have had a life or death impact upon...

  14. Do you need to check placement before using a Bard Button or a Mic-key

    Bug Out replied to changeseeker's topic in General Nursing

    I think this may be the difference between acute care and long term. In Nursing homes often times the people are well enough to pull on their...well everything. PEGs, NGs, buttons what have you....

  15. Do you need to check placement before using a Bard Button or a Mic-key

    Bug Out replied to changeseeker's topic in General Nursing

    They did not go after the Nurses, no money in LPNs. The facilties policy is to check placement of every feeding tube, no matter the type before every single feeding or use. Weird you guys do not...

  16. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    This thread has spawned an interesting idea.. Do we ever really kill people or for that matter, save their lives, or only prolong/hasten

  17. Being Sued / Losing License

    Bug Out replied to Meraki's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    i was always taught the nurse that practices defensively is the nurse that practices reasonably and prudently. since it is not your license you really should not be upset how someone else practices...

  18. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    on reflection after becoming a rn i realized an incident as a new cna years before. fed someone something i most likely shouldn't have, did not recognize the signs of aspiration...code...belly up....

  19. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    ok, change it to died then. why say awkward and not just weird? you say tomato... merriam-webster demised main entry: 1de-mise pronunciation: \di-ˈmīz\ function: verb inflected form(s): de-mised;...

  20. Ever Killed Someone?

    Bug Out replied to Bug Out's topic in General Nursing

    Was not ment to be a serious discussion. I do not contemplate these things in a serious manner, just thought it was an interesting reflection upon one's career. I think everyone can agree that the...

  21. Male Nursing Students

    Bug Out replied to Ram1802h's topic in Male Nursing Students

    There is a huge Nursing shortage and we are facing the largest RN retirement wave in history. Keep in mind new grads that the Nursing shortage is not a new grad shortage but an experienced RN...

  22. We need a hat!

    Bug Out replied to K.P.A.'s topic in Male Nursing Students

    White scrub cap with Red Cross

  23. Fever question

    Bug Out replied to MissChloe's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    A 1 degree movement of temp is so insignificant that I don't pay much attention to them. Like mentioned before, time of day, time of menstrual cycle, age, sex, eating, mechanical variability,...

  24. A Few Silly Questions

    Bug Out replied to MedChica's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    - How much flexible do you have in the nursing homes? I don't know that I'd get any sayso -- but I like to work nights. If you can find an acute care setting it would be easier or even a LTACH, they...

  25. Being Sued / Losing License

    Bug Out replied to Meraki's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I really don't think lawsuits and loss of license are THAT common in Nursing but the result of such is so terrible that it warrants extreme caution. I don't know anyone who had their house burn down...