dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. The holidays and legal issues

    dudette10 replied to OldGrayNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Can I just say that it is ridiculous this is even a question. (Not a cut at you, OP, but the fact that a nice gesture makes us all feel somehow legally vulnerable because of the wording of a thank you...

  2. Compassionate Connected Care (C3)

    dudette10 replied to calivianya's topic in General Nursing

    Sooooooo, what was the "approved" explanation if the patient asked about

  3. ACLS should always be 2 days and in person!

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I do think the new way of presenting it online is really cool. I tried to kill a couple of the patients by choosing hare-brained interventions (like giving atropine for tachycardia), but the computer...

  4. Feels like I am being used like a slave!!!

    dudette10 replied to MyPrnPleaseBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Have you spoken to the night charge nurse about the inequitable sharing of

  5. Customer satisfaction callbacks

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    you mean nurses who are assigned to patients are expected to take time away from patient care to make customer satisfaction callbacks? When is this **** ever gonna stop?!?! Answer all call lights...

  6. How would you interpet this order?

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, this is just an example. It's not real. Well, it's real as in the 2x/day vs q 12 hours, and I was interested in knowing how people interpreted. Just like NCLEX, no need to add

  7. How would you interpet this order?

    dudette10 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Let's say you have a rather innocuous medication, like milk of mag indicated for indigestion. The order is written as: milk of magnesia 15 ml 2 x per day PRN. Would you interpret it as: Patient is...

  8. How would you interpet this order?

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    I was responding to katfish's order change suggestion to Girlafraid's

  9. Capturing charges is main function of EMR

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    We were recently told to truncate and trim our shift notes too. Weird. Does anyone know if some sort of regulatory thing has made this a nursing edict du

  10. How would you interpet this order?

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    Why get the order changed? The order is working fine as it

  11. Admissions are Difficult!

    dudette10 replied to nurse7502's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a teaching hospital, and admissions are pretty quick because the work is shared. The ED usually has the prior-to-admission meds entered (or they are already in the system from a prior...

  12. Do differentials make up for working 36 hrs vs 40 hrs per week?

    dudette10 replied to Philly85's topic in General Nursing

    .9 is your full-time equivalent (FTE), or your portion of a 40 hour workweek. If you work 3 12-hour shifts, you work 36 hours per week = .9 i used to work 3 8-hour shifts per week, so my FTE was

  13. Do differentials make up for working 36 hrs vs 40 hrs per week?

    dudette10 replied to Philly85's topic in General Nursing

    I forget what that method of figuring overtime is called...8 and 80, I

  14. Do differentials make up for working 36 hrs vs 40 hrs per week?

    dudette10 replied to Philly85's topic in General Nursing

    Not everywhere. I work 12-hour days and get a shift diff the last four hours of my

  15. How would you interpet this order?

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    For the record, I interpret it the first

  16. A sobering story-------

    dudette10 replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    How do you know that the circumstances of the nurse are irrelevant to a patient and their family? Look, even the laws for criminal charges take into account circumstances of the person charged with a...

  17. A sobering story-------

    dudette10 replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    Your response is disingenuous, and you are back peddling in light of situations in which families did not want to hang the

  18. A sobering story-------

    dudette10 replied to NanikRN's topic in General Nursing

    The article states that the baby's family asked that Hiatt not care for the child anymore, but that no one should be severely punished for it. The Quaids didn't want the nurse who overdosed one of...

  19. What thrills you/what terrifies you?

    dudette10 replied to Philly85's topic in General Nursing

    Agree, with a modification: Thrilling: Other nurses' patients' rapid responses and codes Terrifying: my patient's code Knock on wood, I haven't had a patient code yet, but I've had plenty of rapids....

  20. Tension between Nursing Home Nurses and Acute/Critical Care Nurses! Lets visit!

    dudette10 replied to downsouthlaff's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    This is real. Thanks for going all out and just telling it like it is. The LTC world is very lucky to have you.

  21. IVs in the breast

    dudette10 replied to kasekin's topic in General Nursing

    Bluntly speaking, the infusion nursing standards are so "perfect world" that they can often be unrealistic and don't take into account risk vs benefit. "If a patient needs a vesicant medication,...

  22. Contributions of Master's Prepared Nurses

    dudette10 replied to esokitty's topic in Advanced Practice

    Your ego certainly fits that of a Chief of Surgery. Innovator? Really? Your innovation extends as far as your wallet from what I've read. Nothing wrong with picking a career due to the income...

  23. Contributions of Master's Prepared Nurses

    dudette10 replied to esokitty's topic in Advanced Practice

    Aw, you don't feel you belong, huh? Well maybe it has more to do with you Three Stooges acting like *******s, rather than your

  24. Contributions of Master's Prepared Nurses

    dudette10 replied to esokitty's topic in Advanced Practice

    I'm so glad you became an NP about six months ago so that you could sit at the big boy's table and sneer at the nurses who are forever banned from a seat. Good lord, between you, sauce, and...

  25. Contributions of Master's Prepared Nurses

    dudette10 replied to esokitty's topic in Advanced Practice

    Sauce, you're pretty offensive. I swear that I've had patients with the same attitude toward me and all nurses. Do the nurses that work with you know that you just see us as pill pushers, waitresses,...