KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Thieves! Stealing Supplies During COVID-19 Crisis

    KatieMI replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If this epidemy doesn't cure, or at least mitigate, that stupid and shameless entitlement so many Americans feel nowadays, then I do not know what will....
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    Could Covid 19 actually save lives by reducing all cause mortality?

    KatieMI replied to myoglobin's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And these,
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    Could Covid 19 actually save lives by reducing all cause mortality?

    KatieMI replied to myoglobin's topic in Disaster Preparation

    COVID19, should the epidemy be let run its natural course, may decrease all-cause mortality within limited time AFTER the peak is over + some omega periods. Because of many high risk people who...
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    Well, At Least They Tell You Up Front

    KatieMI replied to Katillac's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah. Acute HD nurses I spoke with told exactly the same story: they can call you any time during the shift and order to go somewhere in the heck of the woods to do another run in some critical access...
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    Do Not Resuscitate - An Inconvenient Truth About Our Healthcare System

    KatieMI replied to Skwidward's topic in General Nursing

    It does. Only one way to avoid it, should one becomes an object of heroic efforts from either medical staff (who might have their own vested interests in a "case" for research, teaching or purely...
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    What can I do with my MSN-FNP that doesn't require much patient contact

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

    That's why we have nursing managers, researchers and leaders who en masse have no idea whatsoever about the things they are supposed to manage, research and
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    What can I do with my MSN-FNP that doesn't require much patient contact

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

    There can be a significant difference between what one wants and loves to do and what the occupation and work functions really are, and many schools do pretty poor job teaching students about it....
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    Terrible experience with nursing staff

    KatieMI replied to guest1074638's topic in General Nursing

    What kind of help the OP could potentially receive from strangers on public online message board? Should NURSES condemn their colleagues for practicing nursing on the level of third world because they...
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    Question about proventil and Duoneb breathing treatment for nebulizer?

    KatieMI replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    They should not be ordered both PRN simultaneously, although it happens. Sometimes one is used through nebulizer and another patient can carry around in inhaler. Or patient can jump from one to...
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    Question about proventil and Duoneb breathing treatment for nebulizer?

    KatieMI replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    Patient can use both Duoneb in a combo med as it contains ipratropium and is considered "safer" for prolonged use in terms of b-2 overstimulation and side effects. There are no conclusive studies but...
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    Are you friends with coworkers? Maybe you should be...

    KatieMI replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    What I never can get is what is wrong with being introvert who goes to work in order to do the job and not to "make friends" there. Because with the latter inevitably come gossip, cattiness, cliques,...
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    What can I do with my MSN-FNP that doesn't require much patient contact

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

    You did not meet enough people working in High Science, arts and medicine/physician level. The phenomenon of shaming peers for "not loving" even some part of their profession and not being dedicated...
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    HELP! New NP in MI - DEA, NPI...

    KatieMI replied to PedsNP6119's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    For Michigan, you need agreement for DEA, if I remember it right. DEA really takes 4 to 6 weeks. Regulatory paperwork should not be your job at all. The HR/practice manager should know the process...
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    What can I do with my MSN-FNP that doesn't require much patient contact

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

    Heh... it really depends. What patients, what care, what business, actually FNP or just having those letters after last name, other some 100500 questions. As the possibilities for FNPs are currently...
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    What to do about DNP and flu shot?

    KatieMI replied to Travelingon's topic in General Nursing

    But you accept flu vaccine and provide education based on existing evidence despite of your personal beliefs. This makes all the difference from what OP declares. Although, I would bet a round sum of...
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    Do Not Resuscitate - An Inconvenient Truth About Our Healthcare System

    KatieMI replied to Skwidward's topic in General Nursing

    I personally called APS on a catholic church -closely associated SNF where relatives were told that it is "un-Christian" and against will of the God to discontinue futile care and those who made their...
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    Do Not Resuscitate - An Inconvenient Truth About Our Healthcare System

    KatieMI replied to Skwidward's topic in General Nursing

    Usually, nope. The family just see the opportunity and then, as one Fed guy explained us, "they just got used to get ting that check, and they want it to be coming as long as possible - after all,...
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    Do Not Resuscitate - An Inconvenient Truth About Our Healthcare System

    KatieMI replied to Skwidward's topic in General Nursing

    1). It happens. Every single day, in pretty much every hospital of the USA, it happens. It might sound "shocking" only for someone incredibly naive. 2). It most commonly happens due to insistence of...
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    Have any of you read any medical textbooks? How did they compare to NP texts?

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

    We were given list of "nursing" books but most professors (except for research and other fluff which was, thankfully, not too much) told right away that there are med school books for those who want...
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    Do you consider an infiltrated IV a medical emergency

    KatieMI replied to guest1074618's topic in General Nursing

    You know, it was not funny for me at that point. I was still very green and going through acute phase of PTSD caused by bullying on previous job, and she was publicly threatening me with Boards and...
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    What to do about DNP and flu shot?

    KatieMI replied to Travelingon's topic in General Nursing

    Just for further fun: Heard yesterday in ER: Aluminium which is in vaccines, including flu, is a foreign substance. As such, it is picked up by macrophages and they carry it in every corner of the...
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    Threw out back, what’s next?

    KatieMI replied to Lightning Rose's topic in General Nursing

    Please, if you decide to go back to school or do a big career switch, do this only for what you enjoy doing. After 5 years of bedside you surely have things you just like. Play from there. What you...
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    Do you consider an infiltrated IV a medical emergency

    KatieMI replied to guest1074618's topic in General Nursing

    After what there will be yet another round of dog and pony show about so-called "teamwork". There's no place for "I" here, every opinion counts, it is all about the patient, everyone is soooo...
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    Do you consider an infiltrated IV a medical emergency

    KatieMI replied to guest1074618's topic in General Nursing

    Hypodermoclysis is alive and well in hospice care and in chronic outpatient care when IV placement is not possible for some
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    What would you do?

    KatieMI replied to Hunt er's topic in General Nursing

    This. A WHOLE LOT worse. Take your worst kind of customer, multiply by 10 and imagine you're in there with him or her every 10 to 20 min for 12 hours straight. You cannot exclude yourself from the...