BabyLady BSN, RN

I am posting this because it has become a weekly topic of discussion on the board. To me, so many people overthink this task and make it much more difficult than what it really is. I decided to post some tips that may help with the business of givi...

I am wondering if anyone has heard any updates. Everything I keep seeing online from the AACN is "recommendation", "strongly encouraged", "highly suggested". I have yet to see anything, that says, "Look, either you graduate and pass your boards by Ja...

I am curious as to how other facilities handles situations where the mother comes in or desires to room-in with a baby and has come in obviously impaired or if they are already rooming in, an impairment is obvious such as apnea alarms, fire alarm, et...

It is a lack of practice. Seriously....this is probably the #1 mistake that people make in math...they rush through their homework, don't do enough of it, etc. I am not a strong math student, however, I have never seen math that I cannot eventually m...

We had one that was charged with a violent crime and she wasn't allowed to come back to clinical (she could attend class) until it was resolved. She was ultimately convicted, dropped out of the program and will probably never be a nurse...b/c she had...

If you get a copy of an NCLEX study guide, they should be in there. Don't obsess with minute measurements of start and end values...these will always vary slightly by text. We were told that on the NCLEX the value will be VERY out of range...not bord...

I would really like to see your source if I am an RN that assists at a scene and Mr. Ego Paramedic can't seen to get it in his thick skull that a patient is having a possible MI and needs O2 NOW because he is fiddling with non-essential things (Which...

I had this same procedure done under general anesthesia and I was shocked at how fast the recovery was. I never even took a Tylenol.

yes, but you have to read the fine print. to borrow an example from minnesota: "a person at the scene of an emergency who knows that another person is exposed to or has suffered grave physical harm shall, to the extent that the person can do so wit...

Maybe to you and in your opinion...but not in mine. There is so much myth going around on this message board about the legalities of people that respond first on the scene, I could write a book if I drew them all out.

Please go back and read the post I responded to....that is important. When somene says that they "would not reveal" that they were an RN if responding to an emergency situation because they think it would set them up somehow....how can RN's claim to ...

It makes no difference if you hand off someone and identify yourself as an RN. This is why... An RN has a scope of practice and you are only responsibile for legally performing to your highest level of training...so that would differ in NO WAY from a...

Don't confuse RENDERING aid with CALLING for aid. No state wants someone with zero training to try to pull someone from a crashed car only to find out that had they been stablized properly, that their broken back probably wouldn't have severed their ...

In my state, it is MY decision, whether or not to become involved if I am not at work. When I touch a victim, I am legally required to perform "to my highest level of training" and you are legally responsible if you do anything that is OUTSIDE of you...

Why are you concerned about what someone else posts on their OWN Facebook account? Would you want someone monitoring the information you post on yours? Sounds like the only people that find it irritating are probably jealous.

Court order overrules HIPAA...all day long. Think about it....a biological mother loses custody of her child due to a COURT ORDER...does that STILL entitle her to medical information? Absolutely not. Follow the court order and tell her she needs to c...

But seriously folks...is this situation even that unusual that the OP described? I would think that pharmacies would very savvy at picking up these fake call-ins and to me, it wouldn't take but rattling off a little pharmaceutical jargon before you c...

It's not that simple...I wasn't contradicting myself at all...in fact I said that the only crime that MAY have been committed was identity theft with regards to the OP...but that isn't for me to decide, that is for the local police department. Report...

As a person that has been a victim of identy theft MULTIPLE times, I can tell you now that identity theft does NOT automatically go through the FBI...it depends on WHAT part of your identity that was stolen, who stole it, where it was stolen and how ...

I'll be honest..you have been watching too much CSI. 1. What is she going to report to the narcotics officer and what PROOF is she going to be able to provide? Nothing...absolutely nothing...because it is the PHARMACY, not her, that took downt he inf...

How many of you got your CNM and then went back to get your WHNP? How long did it take? Just curious.

I agree they need to be more understanding and more professional. That is one of the reasons why I aspire to be a nursing educator. Because there are too many in the profession that have ZERO business teaching.

Well, that isn't the series of events you mentioned in your original post (please go back and read). Also, considering you agreed with a co-worker regarding confusing assisted suicide with a patient's legal right to refuse treatment...it was a logica...

I'll be honest, I am not a fan of nursing instructors. 80% of them have chips on their shoulder and it is only in the BSN program that I am currently in that I actually realized that there was a such thing such as a quality instructor. So trust me, ...