dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. New nurses, I need your input please!

    dudette10 replied to nkang's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When you graduate and ask for recommendations from nursing instructors or preceptors, would you just copy/paste the instructions from the application in an email and leave it at that? I certainly...

  2. Best brand of scrubs?

    dudette10 replied to murda's topic in General Students

    I can't stand Cherokee...too stiff. I love Grey's Anatomy, but they are

  3. Why is nursing school so strict?

    dudette10 replied to lifeisgood00's topic in General Students

    What are these rules you mention? I would like to reply, but unless you tell use what these rules are, there is no way for any of us to speak from a place of experience. I'm wracking my brain...

  4. Coworker problem

    dudette10 replied to Nurse071094's topic in General Nursing

    It is dangerous to have the oncoming shift give report for a transfer to a higher level of care. The nurse who took care of this patient for 12 hours should be the one to do it, and it does not...

  5. Sharing is Caring... :)

    dudette10 posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Health professions teaching techniques are a different animal all together, so what might work for, let's say, the humanities, may not work in its original form for the health professions. I thought...

  6. Sharing is Caring... :)

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I'll go first! This is a combo what works which led me to realize what doesn't. I teach the dreaded research class for a bachelor's degree program. For particularly difficult content days, I do a...

  7. Negative reviews by students

    dudette10 replied to LilyRN99's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Thank you for your kind words. So encouraging! It also made me think of something... In the final intensive rotation before graduation, we require a journaling exercise that covers what they learned...

  8. Negative reviews by students

    dudette10 replied to LilyRN99's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Yes, when I teach this course again, I will need to impress upon them that the content may be difficult because they haven't seen it yet and won't see it in this form again (although they will use the...

  9. Negative reviews by students

    dudette10 replied to LilyRN99's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Ok, I just did a mini "content analysis" on the comments and on the Likert ratings. I was too emotionally involved in the way a couple students said things--using the anonymous commenting to be as...

  10. Negative reviews by students

    dudette10 replied to LilyRN99's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Instead of making a new thread, I'll just add to this one. Part vent/part request for advice. I'm completely flummoxed by a negative comment about something from one student and a glowing comment...

  11. Transfering patients

    dudette10 replied to kristine_bean's topic in General Nursing

    Here's the problem. They are refusing to change an intervention that is impeding the original goal in order to meet another goal that was never the problem. Bad

  12. Trouble for taking Doctors candy

    dudette10 replied to zynnnie's topic in General Nursing

    I have witnessed so much crap with regard to petty stuff like this. It's ridiculous. Nurse managers and nurse administrators definitely need to just say to those who report these things, "Are you...

  13. Nursing pay..Check this out!

    dudette10 replied to FrankRN2017's topic in General Nursing

    Well, since you don't want to take into account the cost of living, let me give you an example. I live in a large urban area. I took Lyft from my home to the airport. Distance, according to my app,...

  14. What's the most desperate thing you've ever done to advocate for your patient?

    dudette10 replied to MECO28's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I refused an order outright. I approached the attending with the nurse manager in tow--the NM called the medical director on my behalf. Explained (argued) to the attending why it was an...

  15. D50 amps

    dudette10 replied to fjluce's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    There was an insulin overdose going on. Didn't anyone investigate

  16. starting IV on same arm as a mastectomy

    dudette10 replied to coletanner123's topic in General Nursing

    There's a lot more that goes into it, the least of which is a mastectomy on that arm. Were lymph nodes removed? How many? Did the patient have radiation on that side? Lymph node removal, number of...

  17. What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    dudette10 replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Nursing

    It's like asking what do you hate more: cutting your fingers off or your toes off. They are different kinds of "hard". Not

  18. Discharging by Wheelchair

    dudette10 replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    I've re-read your posts, and I can't get a picture in my mind of exactly what type of patient you are talking about in the instance of YOUR facility and the lawsuit. At first, you stated it was a...

  19. Discharging by Wheelchair

    dudette10 replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    But, for a potential solution, is it possible to compare the PT notes to the distance from the room to the main exit and make a decision from there? A SmartText feature could be put into the nurse's...

  20. Discharging by Wheelchair

    dudette10 replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    "The answer seems to be "because the patient can't walk that far (typically a few hundred feet) without an increased potential for falling", which completely destroys the "they were assessed as safe...

  21. How satisfied are you with nurse educator or APRN career?

    dudette10 replied to elephantlover's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I love my job as an academic educator. It's really the first job I have ever had that feels like I "where I

  22. new and struggling

    dudette10 replied to novice7's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I agree with the above poster who suggested to observe an experienced faculty member. Also, you have to glean what is important in your student surveys. What is a consistent theme mentioned? Work...

  23. clinical instructor versus didactic instructor pay

    dudette10 replied to poopylala's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Where did you get that information? The only thing required is that you have a master's degree and be a registered nurse to teach in a pre-licensure program, and you must have a terminal degree to...

  24. School district apologizes for nurse delays treatment

    dudette10 posted a topic in Nursing News

    The student went to the nurse's office after fearing she had eaten peanuts and asked for an EpiPen injection. According to the article, the nurse advised Benadryl, then when the student insisted on...

  25. School district apologizes for nurse delays treatment

    dudette10 replied to dudette10's topic in Nursing News

    Thanks for your thoughts. Another news story included confirmation from a district rep that food service did substitute peanuts, which is very