whichone'spink

whichone'spink BSN, RN

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  1. HIPAA and the Undocumented

    whichone'spink replied to nurseactivist's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    What can you expect from Texas? Same state where a hobbyist teenager with the wrong type of name and skin color can get arrested for making a makeshift clock that looks like a bomb. At least the...

  2. Nurse, policeman, or both

    whichone'spink replied to imintrouble's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure I'd be okay with calling the cops. I would prefer the stuff be destroyed or flushed. Do you know what prison does to people? It ruins them, mind body and soul. I would not be okay with...

  3. Nurse Retention ideas

    whichone'spink replied to CCU-Flight RN's topic in General Nursing

    I had an online survey for an exit interview. It was not conducted in person. I would have preferred that because surveys online can get

  4. Nurse Retention ideas

    whichone'spink replied to CCU-Flight RN's topic in General Nursing

    Both hospitals in my city are going through the same thing. My hospital has an incentive program where they are paying critical needs pay for extra shifts. Plus, if nurses sign up for a certain...

  5. EPIC pushback

    whichone'spink replied to JayWoz's topic in General Nursing

    I work in PACU, and currently the CRNAs and anesthesiologists (mostly the CRNAs since they do most of the work) chart their meds, vital signs and intake and output on paper. Next month, they will...

  6. 9/5 What I learned this week.....

    whichone'spink replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I can't wait for next week. I have to say it. This week, this day rather, I have learnt how much of an impact allnurses has made in my life. I have no real life nursing community. Allnurses is it....

  7. a step forward?

    whichone'spink replied to karo07's topic in PACU

    I work in PACU right now. If I have a patient with issues recovering, most of the time the other nurses pick up the slack and I can focus on my one patient. We don't have more than 2 at a time in...

  8. If you had a reset button, would you choose nursing again?

    whichone'spink replied to amazingme's topic in General Nursing

    This thread has appeared many times, and I know I've replied before with a emphatic NO! And I'll repeat myself like a broken record, no no no no no,

  9. Relieved my daughter decided against nursing

    whichone'spink replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, getting a qualification in one of the trades is a good way to keep a career going. Even a nursing license is a qualification of sorts. And with nursing, you get a degree too, associates or...

  10. 9/5 What I learned this week.....

    whichone'spink replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    This week I have learnt it's important to find a project right away for my DNP degree. And although classes haven't started yet, I feel overwhelmed. Am I going to be able to do this? Dear God I hope...

  11. Red flag?

    whichone'spink replied to ER_RN2010's topic in General Nursing

    I've had 90 day reviews where the focus was more on retention, and I didn't find anything odd about it. Maybe it's just the way my current facility does things. With both my jobs at my current...

  12. The Controversy: Mandatory Flu Vaccines

    whichone'spink replied to Julie Reyes's topic in General Nursing

    1) I used to, but found I still got a flu like illness the years I took the vaccine. Once I did it nasally, the other year I did it the conventional way. 2) My first employer did start to require the...

  13. What do you guys like to do in your free time?

    whichone'spink replied to PianoTiles's topic in General Nursing

    Not have anything to do with other humans 4 days of the week. Walking the dogs. Next month onwards it will be graduate

  14. Vent: treatment of new grads!

    whichone'spink replied to IHeartPeds87's topic in General Nursing

    Working at your current facility as an aide is no guarantee of a position. I would suggest you put applications elsewhere. Even out of state if you had to. I worked at one health system (with two...

  15. Poll- Caring Employer

    whichone'spink replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    I voted for the first option. My employer has launched an incentive program that offers critical needs pay, incentive pay and mandatory overtime pay all in one if we pick up more hours than we are...

  16. 8/22 What I learned this week....

    whichone'spink replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    This week I learned how depressing my old floor has become. I don't recognize anybody anymore. A lot of the nurses I worked with have left (at least 3 of them joined me in PACU) to other jobs, and...

  17. First Week - Grave Mistake!

    whichone'spink replied to DNS.RN78's topic in General Nursing

    I'm having a not so busy day at work, and I purposely do not leave the PACU because I don't want people outside the PACU and OR to know I am not busy. Then I'll get slammed or complained against. I...

  18. Is going straight from nursing school to nurse supervisor a good career choice?

    whichone'spink replied to Theloving100's topic in General Nursing

    Your friend is a fool and the place she manages is just a disaster waiting to happen. It will probably be in the new soon for all the wrong

  19. What advice would you give your 19 year old self?

    whichone'spink replied to depalma.amada's topic in General Nursing

    You shouldn't have listened to your mother. Go to medical school, get into the pre-med track now. God bless her, but she is just as flawed as you are. Not everything she says is the word of

  20. ixchel's 8/15 This Week I Have Learned...

    whichone'spink replied to Farawyn's topic in General Nursing

    This week, I also learnt I got an A- in my class I took over the summer, to get a head start on my DNP in Nursing Informatics. Nice to know I still have it. Academics was always my

  21. ixchel's 8/15 This Week I Have Learned...

    whichone'spink replied to Farawyn's topic in General Nursing

    This week I learnt that even though you may have been the one to quickly alert the doctor to a complication from a surgery, the patient may not necessarily remember that, and may remember how...

  22. Help, I have questions about recovery room specialities! please!

    whichone'spink replied to bengland's topic in PACU

    I think you'll be okay. And the phase 2 stuff is easy peasy, just make sure they can eat, urinate and their dressings are okay. Oh, and of course, go over discharge instructions in

  23. That one random nugget of information from nursing school that you've never forgotten..

    whichone'spink replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    One of my instructor's favorite number was 8,942. So she would often say "There are 8,942 ways to..." and so on and so forth. Don't know why I remember that number. Maybe it's because what I learnt...

  24. So...What Kind of Nursing Task Do You LIKE?

    whichone'spink replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Poop is not the worst aspect of nursing, is what I always say. Oddly enough though, I like getting patients cleaned up and smelling nice, especially after they have an incontinence episode. Same...

  25. Difference between nursing informatics and health informatics?

    whichone'spink replied to nur18's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I struggled with this initially when I was looking at informatics programs. I looked at the University of Minnesota's DNP in nursing informatics, and University of Illinois' MS in Health Informatics....