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    FNP to PA?

    broughden replied to danceluver's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Sorry, but that is not true at all. It all depends on the nursing school and the PA school. I looked into the PA program Yale is now offering and I would only need 3 classes, about one semester,...
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    FNP to PA?

    broughden replied to danceluver's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    If you wanted to work ED then you should have attended one of the available ENP programs. You can still apply for and attend a post graduate certificate program for ENP. FNP's at one point could...
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    When does HIPPA no longer apply?

    broughden replied to GuineaPigs's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    How much is public record depends on the state and its guiding public records laws, and exactly which record is in question. Generally in most states arrest records are public. Incident reports or...
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    When does HIPPA no longer apply?

    broughden replied to GuineaPigs's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    As a former cop with the NYPD I think people who call the cops, make me do paperwork and then refuse to press charges are the literal bane of my existence. And commonly after dropping charges ended...
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    Nursing Incentives - New Grads and Expereinced

    broughden replied to RNCompConsultant's topic in General Nursing

    Offering to pay off student loans. Maybe offer a certain amount at the 12 month and 24 month anniversary dates. $5,000 at 12 months and $10,000 at 24
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    Team player

    broughden replied to missmollie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    YES!?!? Of course! No coworker should be "demanding" anything of you, period. They can kindly request assistance using "please" and "thank you", and if they cant or wont I would kindly tell them to go...
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    Does it matter where you get your BSN from?

    broughden replied to CPMSD's topic in Government, Military

    Short answer,
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    Malicious "pimping" in nursing / nurse practitioner school?

    broughden replied to RomaniGypsy's topic in General Nursing

    Well as a muscular guy I totally plan on pimping myself out in nursing school and as a nurse! I will take Starbucks cards in exchange for help with patient lifts and turns, and any other heavy...
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    re-used IV needle

    broughden replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    Good points! I hadnt even thought of the mouth and anesthesia injections. And the mouth is one of the filthiest places on the human body. I appreciate the discussion. And will definitely keep this in...
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    Exposure to Hep C blood daily??

    broughden replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    Because based on your past threads and your post here calling a capillary collection tube a "suction thingy" to be stupendously unqualified in your role as an
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    Exposure to Hep C blood daily??

    broughden replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    The advice I gave her applied, given I'm a first responder instructor, you don't need to be an rn to know how to do capillary tube draws
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    re-used IV needle

    broughden replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    If that's true then wouldn't you need a new needle for every single stitch you do when suturing a patient? Because with each stitch you are reinserting the needle again and again? (And I'm not...
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    Failing Grad school course

    broughden replied to SFMG ED RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    LOL does anyone really use the nursing care plan outside of nursing
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    Honesty with Recruiter

    broughden replied to Xpectsuccess's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Agreed.
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    "That's a myth about nursing"

    broughden replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I thought the new medicare/medicaid investigation into staffing levels in LTC and SNF's verified this. More than a thousand such facilities kept telling the investigators they were trying to fill open...
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    Failing Grad school course

    broughden replied to SFMG ED RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    As a first responder instructor I always placed RN's above us in the health care hierarchy, so it's just weird to me to have used and taught SOAP notes and SAMPLE history to first responders, and then...
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    Team player

    broughden replied to missmollie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Im picturing an early twenty something that grew up playing on soccer teams in the suburbs where everyone got participation trophies, and her parents always told her she was
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    re-used IV needle

    broughden replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    What I think Hherrn is asking is how resticking with the same needle in the same prepped site, seconds apart, is going to introduce more bacteria with the second stick than the original stick? Unless...
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    Exposure to Hep C blood daily??

    broughden replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! I was only trying to help since she seemed to be struggling with a basic blood draw and didnt even seem to be able to communicate the basic terminology for something like a capillary...
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    Exposure to Hep C blood daily??

    broughden replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    Thats what YOU said you were doing. A capillary blood draw. Its not a suction machine it just uses natural capillary action. What are you putting the blood into?!? Are you really an RN? This post is...
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    Exposure to Hep C blood daily??

    broughden replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    You must be over squeezing or milking the finger, and creating to large of a blood drop. The capillary tube basically fills itself, one small drop at a time. Its a fairly easy procedure. Watch...
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    Failing Grad school course

    broughden replied to SFMG ED RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    So they do use SOAP notes in nursing? I asked about this at my nursing school the other day, as Ive been using them for years in both the military and wilderness first responder settings, and they...
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    Exposure to Hep C blood daily??

    broughden replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    I must be missing something. Are you doing a capillary draw? After a finger prick? Or pricking it and then milking the finger into some container? Because for the life of me I cannot understand how...
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    Exploring the Gender Pay Gap in Nursing

    broughden replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Ahh yes the civilized world. One day I hope to join
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    Transgender patient and a dilemma

    broughden replied to CBlover's topic in General Nursing

    Great. You found one bigoted practitioner to support your position. No one is confusing transgenderism with being a tomboy or tomgirl, its a false flag argument to delegitimize