K+MgSO4 BSN

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    New York Nurse Steals Narcotics from Cancer Patients

    K+MgSO4 replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    It speaks so much to department culture. I started managing my unit soon after another job where a nurse had committed suicide with drugs they had stolen from their workplace. All narcotics and...
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    Electronic Charting - Anyone have it?

    K+MgSO4 replied to US RN in Oz's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Since that post a number of hospitals in Melbourne have EMR or are in the process of implementing them. EMRs were initially introduced as a financial measure in the US and the Australian funding...
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    Student Not Eligible for NCLEX

    K+MgSO4 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    What??? This is the students MOTHER on here. Laen mowing parenting to the extreme. This student is hoping to work in a career where she is accountable for patients lives but her mother is on an...
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    Clinical resource nurse

    K+MgSO4 replied to jml436's topic in General Nursing

    How is this different to a clinical nurse
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    US Nurse - Jobs for Enrolled Nurses?

    K+MgSO4 replied to Mitzy Bastida's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    If I am discharging a pt the doctor writes a discharge summary with instructions for follow up. If this includes public system appointments then the ward clerk or outpatient team book the appointment,...
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    Broaden Your Horizons - from Heartburn to Hemorrhoids! Life as an Endoscopy RN

    K+MgSO4 replied to camelbakhi's topic in Gastroenterology

    You mention CRNAs which don't exist in Australia but we do have nurse endoscopists. Do you have any nurse endoscopists? They do a lot of screening scopes for NBCSP and don't do EMRs or HALOs, or...
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    Nurse Beaten by Patient Denied Request for Unpaid Time Off and Fired

    K+MgSO4 replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    Ahh
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    Which is worse? Having non clinical RN experience or no experience at all

    K+MgSO4 replied to tambat's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed
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    Wastefulness in healthcare

    K+MgSO4 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    most of those packs should be "custom kits" where the purchaser i.e. the hospital instructs what is put into it. Your hospital should have someone who part of their job it is to negotiate the design...
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    US Nurse - Jobs for Enrolled Nurses?

    K+MgSO4 replied to Mitzy Bastida's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Have a look at NDIS and private health insurance sector such as Medibank private, BUPA etc. For roles that you can do but there is nothing like what you describe. There are care coordinator roles in...
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    Wastefulness in healthcare

    K+MgSO4 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    O also, we let staff who are moving house take kimgaurd for packing and the empty boxes that items get bulk delivered in that would get flattened and sent to
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    Wastefulness in healthcare

    K+MgSO4 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital has a number of programmes. Baxter IV bags and oxygen tubing/ masks with the hard bits and metal removed are recycling by a guy that uses them to make garden hoses and other garden...
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    Patient fall

    K+MgSO4 replied to littlemissBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Please contact EAP or talk to someone you trust. This should not be consuming your every
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    Virtual/Hallway patient

    K+MgSO4 replied to Ra3liana's topic in General Nursing

    This is one of the reasons I left Ireland. 12 yrs ago we started this due to ED targets. It is still happening there now. Where I am in Australia this would not happen. There is a day flex ward that...
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    Foley pain

    K+MgSO4 replied to lucy8686's topic in General Nursing

    Lucy, this is your second foley catheter related question in a row. If you are a nurse please talk to your TL CN educator or someone more senior. If you are a patient/ family member of a patient...
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    Universal health care...the Australian history

    K+MgSO4 posted a topic in General Nursing

    One of the former Prime Ministers of Australia died last Thursday. Bob Hawke was a Labour PM. One of his greatest achievements is seen as the implementation of Medicare. This is different to...
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    And The Reason Nurses Don't Get Fired

    K+MgSO4 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm, my response is different as I live in Australia. Due to FairWork Australia, unions and other legislation it is difficult to give a "first and final". Everything must go through the process of...
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    New to EPIC charting in Main OR

    K+MgSO4 replied to MiahScrub1998's topic in Operating Room

    Agreed. I am part of a working group for implementing EPIC across my hospital and the LDA page really excites
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    And The Reason Nurses Don't Get Fired

    K+MgSO4 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse not fired for restraining a pt to a bed with a bed sheet. Subsequent 4 nurses not fired for same thing. Nurse manager not fired despite napping in meetings, no understanding of flow, no...
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    Alarmingly true article!

    K+MgSO4 posted a topic in Nurse Management

    https://theconversation.com/too-much-love-helicopter-parents-could-be-raising-anxious-narcissistic-children-116182 Who had parents call them because you disciplined their precious baby? I have had...
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    Alarmingly true article!

    K+MgSO4 replied to K+MgSO4's topic in Nurse Management

    No not a troll...just an absolute 'lawnmower parent'. Of course I told her where to go. I was half expecting a call from the EDONs PA to say she was trying to call her. Trust me the nurse and I had...
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    Case Study: Trust Your Gut? A Fecal Transplant Could Change Your Life

    K+MgSO4 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care

    I had a staff member have a FMT. She had been struggling following a number of antibiotic courses and I referred her to our head of unit who treated her very
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    Poll: do you have professional liability insurance?

    K+MgSO4 replied to SDANG's topic in General Nursing

    I live in Australia, it is required by the national registration body to have PII professional indemnity insurance. Mine is via my union
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    Alarmingly true article!

    K+MgSO4 replied to K+MgSO4's topic in Nurse Management

    O good grief, the article was a lament for nurse managers dealing with parents who don't cut the cord. It was not supposed to develop into a squabble about political
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    looking for resources (signs)

    K+MgSO4 replied to NurseLiz13's topic in General Nursing

    Love that Davey is as fond of a clip art as I am! The international nursing community using free images to deliver