dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. The Culture of Nursing

    dudette10 replied to nynursey_'s topic in General Nursing

    For our role as coordinators of care and patient advocates be respected by refusing to dump more duplicative documentation and non-patient care tasks on our laps. Just because something doesn't fit...

  2. Can't wrap my head around these kinds of questions...

    dudette10 replied to nurse01.01's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It is correct. Don't get all caught up in the amount to use to reconstitute and allow that to throw you off. Think of it in two distinct parts. In real life, you would 1) reconstitute with the...

  3. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    dudette10 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I feel bad for you just reading that...but it doesn't stop me from laughing long and hard about it

  4. Does how much money we make and benefits really matter

    dudette10 replied to clarinets's topic in General Nursing

    I have been working since the minimum wage was $3.85 an hour, and I thought I had hit the jackpot when the minimum wage got raised to $4.25! In my opinion and experience, work ethic rather than the...

  5. Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I missed the "bippy" reference. Someone please 'splain because what I'm thinking would make an OB/GYN blush. Thanks in

  6. Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I will ignore the more reasonable voices in my head, and listen to the cray-cray ones by saying this: Sarahrnay, you called your charge rude, snarky, inappropriate, unprofessional, and you encouraged...

  7. Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I did the same thing just now. That was way too easy. Yikes. This is one of those situations where, if I was a mod, I would seriously consider banning her current username just to save her from...

  8. Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I won, I won! On the Internet!!! I personally think it was my strategic use of all caps! Never mind that the same suggestion was given by about 10

  9. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    dudette10 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Were you wearing ruby slippers and striped

  10. Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Do what you want, then, as I'm sure you will. Good

  11. Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    dudette10 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Sarahrnay, with long dark hair, thin, looks petite, kinda pretty, works med/surg on a unit with 1:6 ratio where the charge has only one more year of experience and doesn't take patients. Describing a...

  12. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    dudette10 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, one more. Not so much how stupid I looked, but a moment in which an unprofessional comment rolls off the tongue. Order for Foley placement on A/O x 4, heavier female patient. All set up,...

  13. Stupid Nurse Tricks (Or How To Look Incredibly Stupid)

    dudette10 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Being annoyed about a unit-wide problem, muttering to yourself about said problem and other work -related annoyances while removing meds from the Pyxis, then exclaiming, "Take this job and shove it!"...

  14. Pressure ulcer stage 2..what would you use?

    dudette10 replied to seks's topic in General Nursing

    In addition to the wound care manual on the unit, some facilities will have "wound resource nurses" on each unit who were trained by the CWON for times when the CWON is not available. They are great...

  15. The Admission Process: Make Sure You Actually Say Something of Importance!

    dudette10 replied to pinkiepieRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This is an article? Whatever.... Anyway, from posts here from new grads, LTC orientation is often much shorter than acute care. You said yourself that you've never seen an orientation checklist in...

  16. When patients request NOT to have you as their nurse...

    dudette10 replied to julz68's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah, getting "fired" by a patient happens. The second firing for me happened recently. One family member was fine with me, and told me that they had gone through three PCPs over a few years because...

  17. back up of blood into picc line..

    dudette10 replied to psmithlove's topic in General Nursing

    Was the abx in a plastic collapsible bag or was it in a bottle that needed to be vented? During my first try at hanging albumin in a bottle to be vented, I did it wrong and it pulled blood into the...

  18. How long is the new grad orientation at your hospital? What about experienced nurses?

    dudette10 replied to Niki_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    At my current facility, new grads get 12 weeks. Experienced nurses get a variable orientation based on performance during orientation. I started here in my specialty after 15 months of working as a...

  19. Here's a feel-good post

    dudette10 replied to Peppermint_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Wonderful! It made me a bit teary. Thank you so much for

  20. GN to NP in <1yr

    dudette10 replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    There are APNs that approach their role entirely medically, and there are APNs that approach their role as a hybrid of nurse and physician. I have had a chance to directly observe three acute care...

  21. D/Cing an IV

    dudette10 replied to happynurse49's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I stabilize with my left thumb, remove right side and secure under thumb, then left side and secure under thumb, then "top" and secure under thumb, then gauze pressed gently to insertion site and...

  22. GN to NP in <1yr

    dudette10 replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    We agree on this then. I guess I'm getting a bit confused, and you drew me so much into this conversation that I switched from my iPad to my laptop so I can type faster! I'm going to reiterate what...

  23. GN to NP in <1yr

    dudette10 replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    PI wouldn't equate NCLEX-RN and the NP boards as two tests compared to the USMLE's three. The USMLE is a continuum for the same role, while the NCLEX and NP boards are for two different

  24. GN to NP in <1yr

    dudette10 replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, but one exam compared to the USMLE steps? Yet another major difference between the two providers'

  25. GN to NP in <1yr

    dudette10 replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, fine. I'm not going to continue to argue this point because I don't think we will ever agree on this. I'm glad you wouldn't recommend autonomous practice for a novice NP. However, a big part of...