dudette10

dudette10 MSN, RN

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  1. Endorsing to the next shift.

    dudette10 posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I know we've talked about this before, but a situation came up recently where I wasn't quite sure what was "right." I'm pretty easy-going when it comes to stuff endorsed to me on day shift. The night...

  2. How to break into wound care nursing.

    dudette10 posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I had a revelation. I love wound care. I currently work telemetry, and I get a lot of satisfaction out of wound care, dressing changes, reading up on why the wound care RN ordered this treatment...

  3. Do you share teaching materials with other professors?

    dudette10 replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    It's ridiculous that your colleagues are not sharing their materials with you. It helps to have a basic template that you can then revise to fit your style, especially for a someone teaching a course...

  4. HIV patients

    dudette10 replied to jessxrn24's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I have taken care of AIDS patients and HIV positive patients. Standard precautions. I had a spot of blood come from a kinked catheter during IV removal on an HIV positive patient. It landed on my...

  5. Skills Lab, Creative ideas?

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

    Students LOVE skills labs because they feel more "nursey," and it increases their self-efficacy. They will love it, regardless. There are some teaching-learning strategies to consider. The most...

  6. Any tips on how to become faculty?

    dudette10 replied to bug2621's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Most brick-and-mortar schools use adjuncts for clinical teaching and full-time faculty for classroom teaching (along with clinical responsibilities). Online teaching may be a different situation for...

  7. Transitioning to Nurse Educator?

    dudette10 replied to syoung078's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    For academic nurse educator, it really depends on the type of program/school you will be teaching for to determine if you can get by with an MSN or need a doctorate to even get your foot in the door....

  8. Anyone else been turned off to academia?

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

    The burnout in academia is based on leadership decision-making to 1) let students slide through for things that are clearly expulsion-worthy (and stated as such in the student handbook) and 2)...

  9. Vaccination for clinical

    dudette10 replied to Grad 2020's topic in General Students

    This. Clinical sites require it. No vax; no clinical. You've entered the wrong

  10. Nursing instructor gave a Warning for being late to first day of clinicals despite emailing her? What should I do?

    dudette10 replied to faithandfood's topic in General Students

    Most things are definitely avoidable. If you saw the reasons for the 20 "exceptions" request per term, you would

  11. Nursing instructor gave a Warning for being late to first day of clinicals despite emailing her? What should I do?

    dudette10 replied to faithandfood's topic in General Students

    This is what you don't understand about teaching. I get about 20 requests for "exceptions" every single term. One out of the 20 is unavoidable. The rest are bad planning or special snowflake...

  12. Nursing instructor gave a Warning for being late to first day of clinicals despite emailing her? What should I do?

    dudette10 replied to faithandfood's topic in General Students

    Yes, because of clinical hour requirements. Those requirements by the accrediting bodies are not a "monster" to keep nursing students in line. They are there to avoid predatory schools that do not...

  13. MSN in Nursing Education Online - Practicum?

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

    I earned my online nursing education degree from a brick-and-mortar in another state that had been around for more than 100 years. I had an excellent nursing education experience. I secured my own...

  14. Precepting for New Nursing Educator? Not here!

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

    Yes, yes, and

  15. Precepting for New Nursing Educator? Not here!

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

    It is well documented that expert nurses have a significant learning curve to be expert educators. And, the methods of teaching and assessment are the foundations of teaching....it's a specialty in...

  16. What is most important to chart on?

    dudette10 replied to Red_Diamond's topic in General Nursing

    I worked acute care floors, and I became a master at documentation. Determining what was necessary for the care of my patient and skipping everything else. The following was my standard routine. Of...

  17. Let go/resign from new grad 6 months in

    dudette10 replied to shaza111's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, a million times. Depending on the way things are done on a particular unit, doing a CHG bath and making someone NPO overnight is no big deal, even if surgery is decided against or delayed. NOT...

  18. 4hr lecture

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

    Treat each hour as a separate class session. No more than two concepts per 50 minutes, break for 10. Fifteen-minute lecture, 10-minute class activity, repeat x 1, break. Depending on your content,...

  19. Eating the patients' food?

    dudette10 replied to blackmamba123's topic in General Nursing

    Four 4-oz cups of cranberry juice over a cup of ice was my dehydration elixir at around 3 p.m. on a 12-hour shift. No guilt. At

  20. Question about use of Heparin and platelet count

    dudette10 replied to pjmiller's topic in General Students

    Are you talking about holding heparin for possible HIT? There is a way to determine via labs and clinical signs and symptoms if HIT is a possibility. I would have to look it up--it's something like...

  21. Retirement at what age, and how much $$ will you will need to retire "comfortably"?

    dudette10 replied to Horseshoe's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not retiring, but the hubs is soon. When he gets SS at 66, his monthly take-home (pension + SS) will be more than he brings home now, and that's not counting the 401k, which we will probably just...

  22. Can you give a lesser dose than prescribed without an order?

    dudette10 replied to Faith1234567's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, what a load of ****. (Not at you klone...at the whole 'nurses are idiots' way that the accreditors are acting.) And, as you indicated at your workplace, this is just a matter of 'tightening up...

  23. School Shootings

    dudette10 replied to OldDude's topic in General Nursing

    Here is a novel idea that will take some additional research that we currently don't have. This is a bit of a long-winded explanation, but bear with me. Is it possible that today's children are...

  24. School Shootings

    dudette10 replied to OldDude's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, our culture may be a bit different from Australia (but not apples and oranges, by any means), but that doesn't mean we can't look at their INTERVENTIONS and ADAPT them for our own

  25. School Shootings

    dudette10 replied to OldDude's topic in General Nursing

    Only two of those were a stranger walking in to a building and shooting indiscriminately--the Monash University killing and the Sydney Hostage Crisis. The rest were familicides or feuds with specific...