Mike A. Fungin RN

You could try punching them in the face repeatedly until they let go. It worked for me.

HIPPA!!!

"Elderly account for 70% of healthcare spending and 80% of that is in the final month of care. HealthCare Partners is somehow getting their elderly population to choose home and probably hospice at rates double the national average which is due to ei...

What are your thoughts on patients who request no male nurses taking care of them?

Well, don't sweat it, because civilian ownership of automatic weapons has been effectively illegal since 1934. Don't look now, but your ignorance is showing.

That's the problem. Nurses (unless they're former Fire/EMS/LE or part of a flight program) haven't got the training to be "safe" at an accident scene. You don't know what you don't know, unless you know it. How to stage your vehicle at an accident...

Not that I'm aware of. Classes (ENPC, PALS, etc.) but not professional certs. Why don't you want to get the peds CCRN? If you're not caring for adults, you 'll have to let your CCRN adult lapse anyways.

Meh, don't sweat it until you get there. It might not be that bad. I see posts like those here all the time about how people had NO time in nursing school, and that was not my experience at all. I had lots of free time, it wasn't that bad. Everyo...

Well, first let's address your question about giving potassium in hyperkalemia. It may sometimes be appropriate, even life saving, to supplement K+ in someone with a high serum potassium. The most common situation that comes to mind is in metabolic...

If he doesn't have access because, in his words, "it would be a conflict," and you're circumventing that... how dies that make sense?

Proliability.comTheir plan's endorsed by AACN and they're underwritten by a MAJOR insurance company that's very well thought of in the business.No one in insurance has ever heard of NSO, and I don't know anyone who's had to use it and can report.

It's not a domestic problem, it's a military one.Both medics in the interview had their EMT-B certificates from the military. They can go work as an EMT when they get out. The problem is that they're really functioning as an EMT-P in the military, ...

I've always been a huge fan of Carharrt workwear, and just found out they're making men's scrubs now. They're made with ripstop fabric, available in tall sizes, and have a zippered fly and cargo pockets. I bought three pairs, have worn them for a mo...

None of it is healthcare reform. It's all health insurance reform. As long as both sides are willing to sell out to big insurance by keeping them in the mix, things won't get better.

The great irony is that while visiting this page, I see this at the top:

Should probably add that I had my med/surg and peds clinicals at Kaiser Oakland. I also have a good friend who works in their ER, and have taken my father-in-law there for care. Overall, folks seem pretty happy working there. At least as much as a...

Don't let Oakland scare you. Like any urban city, there are very bad areas, very nice ones, and everything in between. Kaiser Oakland happens to be (as the previous poster wrote) right on the edge of a really cool neighborhood with lots of great re...

I can recommend you not become a nurse, if this approach to your licensure exam reflects how you handle challenges.

I disagree. I don't think patients making requests for nurses of a certain race are different from those requests based on sex. These are often emotional, not logical, requests. If we accept the argument that, as many have posted here, we should re...

Count yourselves lucky. The way I hear it, things have been spiraling at John Muir for almost a year and a half. Evidently, yesterday they announced to staff that they're going to be laying people off. I know jobs are hard to come by right now, but...

Yeah, what you said. I knew I wanted to be a flight nurse, so I'm left my first nursing position (Adult ICU) after only three years to work in a Peds ICU. I'll probably only be at this position for a few years before moving on again, until I land th...

If you want to get an abortion, get an abortion. If you want to have the baby, have it. There's no easy answer, take your time and decide which one is right for you, absent any outside influences.

First thing's first: your fears are completely normal and even beneficial at this stage. They're going to help keep you sharp while you slowly close the experience gap that you're struggling with. I was where you are three years ago (new grad, fresh...

I wonder how well received a sexist joke would be on this board if a woman were the butt of it?

It also depends on what area of the country you end up working in, since there are wide variations in salary and cost of living from region to region.I made $106,000 in my first year as an RN. That was without overtime. This was in the San Francisc...