nutella

nutella MSN, RN

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  1. 3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    nutella replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Ixchel - my husband and I had to take away all deductions years ago - even though we still have to pay $$$ each year. In addition I pay for graduate school and my son will start college this fall. So...

  2. How do you sign your credentials?

    nutella replied to heather717's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I assume you talk about work - Although I have my credentials on my ID I do not sign using my BSN. I do , however, use my credentials RN, CHPN when I write nursing

  3. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    nutella replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    In the area I live, BSN is already pretty much the desired entrance degree. Living very close to a major city with some of the best hospitals in the nation competition is high among graduating nurses....

  4. Dialysis Subclavian line antibiotics.

    nutella replied to ArvinC EMT's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The huge risks with regular nurses accessing "permanent" tunneled central lines are infection, heparin injecting by accident, clotting with inability to dialyze. As you may or may not know, the HD...

  5. Acute vs. Chronic Dialysis????

    nutella replied to adsmithrn's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I loved acutes - the actual work. But first of all you may have different work hours,sometimes really long days. Frequent on call and if you are hired for more than one hospital you may have to travel...

  6. Patients declining certain staff to take care of them

    nutella replied to dialysisnurseLC's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Be happy that you do not have to run his tx anymore. Some dialysis patients will just get hung up on a bad tx and blame the nurse for whatever is going on. Also, it is true that some patients always...

  7. I want to be a nurse!!

    nutella replied to LucidDreamer's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Nursing school is competitive - good grades are important. And nursing school tends to be hard but definitely doable if you are dedicated and want

  8. I want to be a nurse!!

    nutella replied to LucidDreamer's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There you go! I went into nursing and never regretted it - I have worked in ICU/critical care and acute dialysis - plenty of male nurses in those areas. Nursing is a great

  9. Denying Death As A Society

    nutella replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    Despite all the advances in medicine and nursing there are plenty of things we cannot fix. Even trying to do so can cause so much more suffering and pain as opposed to "let things go the natural way"....

  10. Neuroscience Externship--What to expect?

    nutella replied to kac016's topic in General Nursing

    Be prepared to jump to bed alarms going off constantly as pretty much everybody is a high fall for risk and often does not wait for assistance /confused. Other than that the usual garden variety of...

  11. HELP!! Advice Please

    nutella replied to IVNinja300's topic in Critical Care

    If your hospitals does internal transfers or has an application system I would still officially apply to an ICU position if you have not done so already. Also, apply to other hospitals that are within...

  12. Feasible Research Proposal Topic

    nutella replied to nelsheyn050787's topic in General Nursing

    This is a good topic - I vaguely remembering doing some kind of homework or project on it ... There is a lot of literature out there regarding safety of BCAMA. There also different systems (omnicell,...

  13. Are We "Glorifying" Nurses?

    nutella replied to nynursey_'s topic in General Nursing

    Yes - but let me tell you this - the success rate is

  14. Are We "Glorifying" Nurses?

    nutella replied to nynursey_'s topic in General Nursing

    To be honest - I find this "we are doing the harder nursing job" or glorification of some nursing areas plainly wrong and uneducated. I have worked in intensive care/critical care, med-surg tele,...

  15. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    nutella replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    It does not matter as much that some nurses do not see the advantage of a BSN education or want to spend time as well as additional money to obtain it. The job market and desire for non bedside or...

  16. Health care administration - non nurses

    nutella replied to nutella's topic in General Nursing

    I believe that additional training in management and administration is essential for nurses who wish to work in administration /higher leadership. Large healthcare systems seems to employ nurse...

  17. Nursing Depts Ran by Non-Nurses?

    nutella replied to Reeses30135's topic in General Nursing

    I guess it depends... I left a position as a clinical manager working under an administrator who had no idea about healthcare and was driving the car into the ditch so to

  18. What exactly is "skilled" nursing? Aren't we all skilled?

    nutella replied to SunnyPupRN's topic in General Nursing

    It is a specific term that is used to describe the need for nursing care that has to be done by a nurse (RN or LPN ). Skilled nursing plays a huge role in medicare reimbursement. If somebody needs...

  19. pharmacology question/nursing diagnosis

    nutella replied to addiesmomma181's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Check this out: Nursing Diagnosis List | Nanda Nursing Diagnosis List Those are the list of nursing diagnosis and looking at it will give you a better idea of what they are asking for. There is also...

  20. Student nurses with disabilities

    nutella replied to sara2013's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Explorer - I think you have a not accurate picture about home care nursing. Nowadays patients at home who receive home care are pretty sick. They get discharged with a variety of problems, drains, and...

  21. Health care administration - non nurses

    nutella replied to nutella's topic in General Nursing

    Number 2 is what I find concerning. I need to say that in a lot of nursing facilities for example, the DON is also the admin and at the same time supervises the LPN for example. Because they...

  22. Health care administration - non nurses

    nutella replied to nutella's topic in General Nursing

    I can see MBA etc in higher up positions where the focus is on money. Or in combination with a clinical manager who is a

  23. Health care administration - non nurses

    nutella replied to nutella's topic in General Nursing

    Yes - that combination makes at least sense. Or a MSN with management focus. I still wonder why people think they qualify to work as a clinical administrator if they are not clinical

  24. New Grad & Bullying

    nutella replied to NICURN87's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder if it would be worth for you to get some legal counsel regarding getting out of the contract. You are in a situation where it is probably really hard to turn things around. It sounds that...

  25. Hospice EMR

    nutella replied to Nascar nurse's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I used Roadnotes (Cerner) for home hospice. It did not bother me too much but it takes some time to get used to their