ILoveRatties

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  1. Unfair suspension

    ILoveRatties posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I took care of a pt who had a daughter who truely was borderline personality disorder. DeLing w/ her was crazy, as those familiar w/ bpd know. The pt was end-stage and the daughter's vehement;...

  2. Unfair suspension

    ILoveRatties replied to ILoveRatties's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Bpd = borderline personality disorderNOT

  3. Unfair suspension

    ILoveRatties replied to ILoveRatties's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Maybe I should contact the person at the DOH to whom the daughter

  4. Unfair suspension

    ILoveRatties replied to ILoveRatties's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Suanna, too bad you are wrong. The suspension was without pay and there was no investigation, just falling over themselves choosing a disciplinary approach to me. No questions asked, period. The...

  5. JHU and AGH/West Penn Deal

    ILoveRatties replied to AWanderingMinstral's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    This just in, boys and girls: AGH is going to team up with Highmark and Cleveland Clinic, and all patients with Highmark insurance will HAVE to go to AGH. That is going to cut patient admissions to...

  6. Anyone attended previous Nurse anesthesia school and withdrawn

    ILoveRatties replied to suarc's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm sorry for your

  7. RN jobs in Pittsburgh area

    ILoveRatties replied to MichelefRN's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Even with West Penn downsizing dramatically and so many of those nurses flooding the job market, UPMC is hiring nurses all the time. Passavant just underwent a huge hiring period. McKeesport has lots...

  8. New Grad Program at Hershey Medical Center

    ILoveRatties replied to EMSnut45's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Both Hershey and Geisinger have outstanding reputations, all the more amazing in that they are well outside the areas of the 2 huge cities in PA, those being Pittsburgh and Philly. Country living,...

  9. Anyone attended previous Nurse anesthesia school and withdrawn

    ILoveRatties replied to suarc's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    It's been 2 years since I withdrew. For those in the same shoes, you can't let it ruin your life. It took a while to recover from what I truely believe was PTSD, and I could have stressed out over...

  10. Please help! CRNA school for Post-Master student

    ILoveRatties replied to suvatata94's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    The question being asked is not about schools that do not require the GRE at all, but those that waive if for people who have already taken it. two thoughts 1. just why should one be required to...

  11. Anyone attended previous Nurse anesthesia school and withdrawn

    ILoveRatties replied to suarc's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm going to stand by my "pretty clueless" assessment. In no other Advanced Practice role education would this subject even come up, let alone having been condoned for decades. When I envision APNs,...

  12. Anyone attended previous Nurse anesthesia school and withdrawn

    ILoveRatties replied to suarc's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    It's been a while since I posted to this thread. I agree with the person who said that hazing is condoned and perpetuated because of political reasons. That hits the nail on the head. It has...

  13. Operating Room Nurse: Roles

    ILoveRatties replied to BethCNOR's topic in Operating Room

    I think the OP significantly overstates the patient assessment and intervention done by OR circulators. I spent a year as a SRNA and, believe me, it is the CRNAs who have that major role. The...

  14. St. Elizabeth's YSU vs. Laroche/Allegheny Valley

    ILoveRatties replied to gilli6809's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Gilli, I sent you a PM. Please read it before you

  15. Trouble with getting a job

    ILoveRatties replied to fxg002's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    There seems to be a real hiring slow-down in Pittsburgh. The stock market slump affects hospitals capitol improvements but the decrease in Medicare reimbursements affects the daily operating budgets...

  16. Vent: CV pt that should have gone back to OR (long)

    ILoveRatties replied to jbp0529's topic in MICU, SICU

    Wow. This kind of thing is always a team effort. Two or three nurses working their butts off at this bedside for hours. I am amazed that he suffered no MOSF. Whenever I interview nurses for...

  17. Anyone attended previous Nurse anesthesia school and withdrawn

    ILoveRatties replied to suarc's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    This is not a school thing--it is a clinical site/individual CRNA-MDA thing. Many clinical sites have students from more than one school. So many of you want to think that it is 'some schools', and...

  18. Anyone attended previous Nurse anesthesia school and withdrawn

    ILoveRatties replied to suarc's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'd say prob. 10% of SRNAs have only good clinical experiences, incl. reasonable pimping, helpful feedback, friendly and supportive CRNAs/MDAs. I'd say prob 10% have really horrific experiences....

  19. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    ILoveRatties replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    No one has ever survived brain death. This is not persistent vegetative state. What if your child were critically ill and there were no available beds in the ICU, and your child, who was neither...

  20. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    ILoveRatties replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    Brain death isn't something that's just 'used' in organ donation. If a patient has a massive stroke, or suffers massive traumatic brain injury, and if they show no signs of brain function, it is...

  21. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    ILoveRatties replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    You are thinking of persistent vegetative state. That is not brain death. People do not 'wake up' from brain death. You do not 'diagnose' brain death. You verify it. The criteria are strict. It...

  22. Oh well, I tried..........

    ILoveRatties replied to CathRN's topic in Operating Room

    Great post, WitchyRN. I am a firm believer that it is each persons right and responsibility to set boundaries regarding how they let others treat them. However, there are some situations that make...

  23. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    ILoveRatties replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    A patient can have brain matter oozing from a wound and NOT be brain dead. There are specific criteria used to determine brain death. Response to ice calorics, apnea test, brain blood flow scan,...

  24. Refusal of Brain Death exam??

    ILoveRatties replied to PICNICRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is not a matter of 'not letting go--poor family'. Sorry, but dead is dead. You don't have to ask a family if their loved one is dead. Brain death = dead. Period. Why have to check twice? And...

  25. Anyone attended previous Nurse anesthesia school and withdrawn

    ILoveRatties replied to suarc's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Just keep telling yourself