Teresag_CNS

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    Win $100! February 2013 Caption Contest

    Teresag_CNS replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    Sir, the injection's for your
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    "I would help you out with a job if I could.."

    Teresag_CNS replied to littlekaneRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    With all due respect, I think you are looking at it the wrong way. At the end of the day, I am both an advocate for people who are trying to get health care within a broken system, a politically...
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    "I would help you out with a job if I could.."

    Teresag_CNS replied to littlekaneRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    maybe "nurses have developed a caste system," but i wonder if she just assumed you'd make more money at a hospital. it was an insensitive remark,
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    How does one cope post antidepressants

    Teresag_CNS replied to esunada's topic in Psychiatric

    There is a specific syndrome called "SSRI/SNRI discontinuation syndrome" that occurs when one stops taking one of these medications. They must be tapered, and even if they are tapered correctly,...
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    1st Nursing Cartoon caption contest - win $100

    Teresag_CNS replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Sheesh - the pups look younger every
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    Best article ever written on the nursing experience

    Teresag_CNS replied to fungez's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. What this article says is very much in line with the conclusions of others who have studied nurses' work environments more recently. The Institute of Medicine study, recently concluded, comes...
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    NLN - Cast Your Vote!

    Teresag_CNS replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Links go to the wrong URL. Please
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    Has Feminism Abandoned Nurses?

    Teresag_CNS posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Waitresses, sex workers, mothers, child care workers....all are included in the welcoming arms of a feminist ethos that values the work of women in society. Women in historically male occupations such...
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    ANCC Magnet certification

    Teresag_CNS replied to dzadzey's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The original research done on magnet hospitals showed that hospitals with the magnet characteristics had lower nurse turnover. The Magnet Program is not a guarantee of job satisfaction, quality of...
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    Discontinuing IJ turned into a Rapid Response

    Teresag_CNS replied to Manatee111's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    He did not have an air embolus, but a clot. His sitting position did not cause the clot. As someone else posted, improper line maintenance allowed the clot to form. Perhaps the Cordis line maintenance...
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    How come we arent considered APN's?

    Teresag_CNS replied to Heogog53's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Actually, that's not quite true. Clinical nurse specialists do not make medical diagnoses and only a few prescribe, but we are APNs. I chose to be a CNS specifically because I didn't want to be a...
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    Has Feminism Abandoned Nurses?

    Teresag_CNS replied to Teresag_CNS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I admire men in nursing. I think a man who studies nursing has to be pretty darn secure to put up with the ignorant jerks who call them "male nurses" (as if that is something different from "nurse"),...
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    Has Feminism Abandoned Nurses?

    Teresag_CNS replied to Teresag_CNS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If you count jewelry store retail, office clerk at a medical group practice, and cocktail waitress, yes. I fully agree that compensation for nurses is good; it's working conditions that still trouble...
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    Has Feminism Abandoned Nurses?

    Teresag_CNS replied to Teresag_CNS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I don't believe the current hiring freeze means there is no need for more nurses. In fact, I think your point is important as we discuss nursing as an autonomous profession, instead of one subject to...
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    Has Feminism Abandoned Nurses?

    Teresag_CNS replied to Teresag_CNS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Every time "Dirty Jobs" comes on tv, I say aloud, "Why don't you try being a nurse? No job is dirtier." Have you ever noticed that all the jobs shown are men's jobs? Where are the women who clean...
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    Has Feminism Abandoned Nurses?

    Teresag_CNS replied to Teresag_CNS's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I do not agree about working conditions for nursing being above average. Think of the rates of back injury, the emotinal burnout, the missed meals, the hours on our feet, the sense of failure as we...
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    Why are nurses exposed to more carcinogens than other professions??

    Teresag_CNS replied to psustudent5's topic in General Nursing

    Where did you read this? It's hard to respond without knowledge of the source and its contents. Many chemotherapy agents are carcinogenic, and some nurses administer these solutions, but certainly...
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    Why such a gap between theory & practice?

    Teresag_CNS replied to dorimar's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I have PhD in nursing, and I practice in a Trauma ICU. I agree fully that standardized tests, esp. NCLEX, focus on minutiae, not the important issues in nursing. I have heard that NCLEX item writers...
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    Debridement Types

    Teresag_CNS replied to TKTK's topic in General Nursing

    Have you tried calling your state board of nursing? They are the ultimate source for scope-of-practice questions. By the way, I've never heard of conservative sharp debridement - where did you find...
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    How to Write to Your Legislator

    Teresag_CNS replied to Teresag_CNS's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I got a reply. I've copied it
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    Nursing School Bloopers

    Teresag_CNS replied to Jabber964's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was working night shift in the ICU. We weighed and bathed the patients on nights. (Back then, the beds did not have scales in them.) We had to turn the patient to place a rolled-up full...
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    Is working working in a union hospital better??

    Teresag_CNS replied to bunnie004's topic in General Nursing

    I agree 100% with the above remark. I'd also like to add that union hospitals got that way for a reason; nurses in healthy work environments do not feel compelled to join a
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    Time spent on resuscitation of a celebrity

    Teresag_CNS replied to DuluthMike's topic in General Nursing

    I think you nailed it with "Perhaps is it our inability to allow those whom we hold in such high regard to pass when it is obvious to someone outside of the situation that they are gone?" Imagine...
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    rhythm question

    Teresag_CNS replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in General Nursing

    A good retort to these people is to ask sincerely, "Is there something you don't understand?" Don't be sarcastic; act as if the problem is theirs, not yours. Because it
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    rhythm question

    Teresag_CNS replied to Hoosiernurse's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe the oncoming nurse was confused by the use of the term PAC because, technically, the non-conducted p waves were not "premature." Premature usually refers to a p waves that comes sooner after the...