KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    MD notify question to all experienced nurses

    KatieMI replied to Kennynguyenlvn's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Ok, here is that very "doctor" (well, NP, but that's me who would be called): 1). You have The Holy Order of Parameters which say "above 100.4". It is written so with purpose to give you clear...
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    Destined to Be a Flight Nurse

    KatieMI replied to skorupar's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Leaving alone the question about being "destined" into something, I would say that trying for another ICU might be not a bad idea. As a former LTACH nurse, I would dare to say that after 4 years in...
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    Is $85k worth it for BSN program with no guarantee acceptance?

    KatieMI replied to nhayes1984's topic in General Students

    And every student who is about to suddenly change his or her mind and get out of some mundane and down-to-the-Earth professional course for "discovering yourself" into something like Bachelor's in...
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    Is $85k worth it for BSN program with no guarantee acceptance?

    KatieMI replied to nhayes1984's topic in General Students

    No. Absolutely NO. Furthermore, getting some kind of Bachelor's and converting it to nursing BSN when you have no previous career and no money is just a sure way to burn your loan $$$$$. $85 grands...
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    Nurse Charged With Homicide

    KatieMI replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    It looks just like trying to convict someone of homicide after accidentally hitting and killing a man while speeding 25 miles over speed limit. Yes, it is a tragedy. Yes, someone had died. Yes, there...
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    Worsening Health, Considering Resignation

    KatieMI replied to Serhilda's topic in General Nursing

    1). Just as much as you want. Better yet, nothing. It is not anyone's business to know why exactly you resigned. And you are not responsible for making your health history known to anyone. You might...
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    Passive Aggression is Harmful to Your Health

    KatieMI replied to Divine-LPN,BSN's topic in General Nursing

    Really, what exactly is "passive aggressive" behavior in nursing? That forever busy Nurse Sally who roamed halls with old Flo but always refuses to help (she already planned her retirement and her...
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    Should employers check titers periodically?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It may be good idea, but it wouldn't be cost effective. We do not know, actually, which titer is how much protective, and to whom, and in which situation. Titers are "that second" measures, and they...
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    Anyone work only per diem with an agency?

    KatieMI replied to KKEGS's topic in Agency Nurses

    I did it for almost a year. Short call coverage for everything that was out there within my skill set. It was very high stress, as I was thrown into completely unfamiliar SNFs as a single ACLS...
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    Head hunters be like...

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

    Oh, yeah. One smartie from there was absolutely sure that "rare and elite" (he used these words) position of regional CNO for the worst chain of nursing homes I'd known so far would be wonderful match...
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    Advice please I’m torn.

    KatieMI replied to Yourfavoritenurse13's topic in General Nursing

    2). Go ahead and try to prove that it was not YOU diverting. Good luck. There is a thing named "chain of evidence". Whoever disrupts it, willingly or not, out of good intentions or not, automatically...
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    Seriously?!?

    KatieMI replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'd heard something quite like that from an RN, not a patient. As well as thinngs about tylenol being "sleeping pill", for one other, not too egregious, example. I could write a book about the...
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    Advice please I’m torn.

    KatieMI replied to Yourfavoritenurse13's topic in General Nursing

    1). You go to your boss right now and tell him/her in clear and simple English that you won't set your foot in that house from now on, period. 2). You call every single home care nurse in your agency...
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    Is It Possible to Never Make an Error? The Perfect Nurse Fallacy

    KatieMI replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    I actually know one guy from upper nursing management who boasts wide and loud that he never made a mistake and therefore nobody else ever should. The truth was, he was removed from 3 units after...
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    How to publish a clinical case?

    KatieMI posted a topic in Advanced Practice

    Recently, in my forever pursuit of all things that are new, stimulating and medical, I caught a real diagnostic zebra. I cannot write the Dx here due to HIPAA, but it is likely to be considered...
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    Please help

    KatieMI replied to Sharkbait251's topic in General Nursing

    You are supposed to get out of there ASAP. It is like that little dry cough when flu is about to start. Today they named re-initialing MAR for a person who did not know about it "MAR etiquette"....
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    "He just wanted to know..."

    KatieMI posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    So here is the situation. I work as a private practice NP Internal Medicine provider in the same medical center where I started as RN years ago. A some time ago, I stopped sharing ANY private...
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    Code Blue

    KatieMI replied to BingoBoys's topic in General Nursing

    If you DO NOT KNOW IF THE PATIENT IS DNR, you start compressions while yelling for help on top of your lungs (or pressing that button, or doing whatever they use where you are). Whether it is "your"...
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    Are We Too PC?

    KatieMI replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Then the opposite must be the truth as well. And if that is so, we surely must live in paradise itself. Just look at all those wonderful works of language - the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, the...
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    Are We Too PC?

    KatieMI replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    My opinion might be unpopular, but I still feel I got right to voice it. - If YOU are the one thrown from two jobs in a row for speaking with (apparently) easily understandable accent.... - If YOU are...
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    41 yr. old business executive going to Nursing School

    KatieMI replied to ESP808's topic in General Students

    If you think office politics is bad, then you shouldn't even bypass any health care facility while driving by. What current White House administration is doing pales in comparison with what is going...
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    What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    KatieMI replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    Here we come, ladies and gentlemen... today I heard a birth announcement for some poor baby (apparently) boy to be named Tyrion Lannister King. AFAIK, there is a whole list of weird and worse names...
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    41 yr. old business executive going to Nursing School

    KatieMI replied to ESP808's topic in General Students

    PA - 2 years, quite difficult to get in, lots of prereqs (add at least 2 more years), usually very expensive, ageism still there but at least no bedside. Cheap RN in community college (many of which...
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    41 yr. old business executive going to Nursing School

    KatieMI replied to ESP808's topic in General Students

    If you really just want to do "something meaningful", go volunteering in a nursing home. Become a sub teacher. Or join religious mission to Haiti. You likely won't be able to work that much as CENA....
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    Travel nursing? Those with experience - how does it work?

    KatieMI replied to jaidon84's topic in Travel

    Well, my dear, welcome to reality: To work travel you need experience. Plenty of it, and better in different areas and settings. Because it works, basically, like this: you sign contract, come in a...