KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

KatieMI has 12 years experience as a BSN, MSN, RN and specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.

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   Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP): Job Description, Salary, and How to Become One

   KatieMI replied to Erin Lee's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   The Board exam for ACNPs is not "FNP". It is quite different exam, ACAGNP. Content of both exams has not much in common (I passed both). One doesn't have to "obtain experience" before entering...
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   Talk To Me About Being An Inpatient NP

   KatieMI replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Advanced Practice

   It is most probably about $$$$, not about knowledge or absence of it. Consultant gets paid for his job, in exchange "their" patients are admitted under hospitalist primary so that the said...
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   Talk To Me About Being An Inpatient NP

   KatieMI replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Advanced Practice

   I have hospitalist job 3/12, but it is a rare pick where I am. I agreed for this specifically to allow myself to go back to school (FNP, doing AGACNP for coming interstate moving' sake). The...
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   Autonomy

   KatieMI replied to IcanHealYou's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Small (25 beds) critical access hospital. 100% autonomy, on my days on I am the only one provider on floor. Support, if I need it, from ER doc and from "main" hospital over the phone. Enjoying it...
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   What is Nux Vomica? State Board Questions From the Turn of the 20thCentury: An Era Gone By

   KatieMI replied to Brenda F. Johnson's topic in General Nursing

   There is one in Philadelphia at La Salle University and International Nursing museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. I'd heard there is a private one in Glendale, Arizona as well. Here is some more:...
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   What did you do with your old nursing school textbooks?

   KatieMI replied to coopman712's topic in General Nursing

   In my time, I loaded them on a cart, brought in the corridor near hospital library and quietly left there with a sticky note "free books for everyone, BSN/MSN from X university just done". Did not...
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   (For the truly bored) Water beds vs. pressure ulcers: A thing or nah?

   KatieMI replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

   Not from the USA, but good analysis: https://www.alliedacademies.org/articles/analysis-of-pressure-relieving-mechanisms-for-the-prevention-of-decubitus-ulcers.html Apparently, the waterbeds are mass...
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   new job, can I be denied job for benzo PRN

   KatieMI replied to seeing123's topic in General Nursing

   A nurse (or APP, or physician, for this matter) can take whatever drugs necessary to support her/his health, including opioids, benzos, psychotropics and so forth, as long as there is a current...
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   About FNP ?

   KatieMI replied to JenMH88RN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

   You can work in Internal Medicine (including Gastro, Cardio, Onco, Nephro and everything else) clinic with FNP without any problems or additional certifications anywhere in the country. You can also...
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    New grad FNP - Health Risk Assessments?

    KatieMI replied to anchorRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    One job which is quite similar but better in so many senses is doing "face-to-face" for hospices. It is also about visiting homes whuch can be, er... different, but at least you perform real physical...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Worse yet, I am usually the only one provider who takes time to sit and explain those basics. I do not know how schools nowadays let out nurses who literally do not know ABCDs of pathology and pharma...
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    First APN Job: Not Getting Paid For Hospital New Hire Orientation

    KatieMI replied to keepitsimplesilly's topic in Advanced Practice

    Policies vary but computer self-taught modules are hardly ever (if ever at all) are paid exactly for the reason you noted: there are some people who can do it quickly and there are some who can't. And...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    One thing for you to remember iron-hard: - there is no such thing as "good" and "bad" physiologic process. Blood pressure, coagulation, cholesterol, etc., CANNOT be "good" or "bad", just like rain or...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Continuing: Without much ado about biochemistry (most interesting part for me, but it is another giant talk): Both clotting pathways work similarly. Each is a row of chemical reactions when one...
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    Can someone explain to me how INR, blood clotting and Warfarin works?

    KatieMI replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    OK. Get me coffee (black, lots of sugar) and one for yourself, too, make yourself comfortable. There will be a long talk (and likely several posts). To do its job - to deliver oxygen, antibodies,...