KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Miserable nurses

    KatieMI replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in General Nursing

    OP, just to let you know, the unit was quite probably declared "education dedicated" by people who never in their lives saw a live nursing student, much less dealt with one. Then, all nurses there,...
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    Asked to resign after 6 months

    KatieMI replied to FNKA's topic in General Nursing

    OK... just relax now. (((hug))) You are not the first one to go through it, and not the last one. I was right there twice in a row. 1). GET YOURSELF A REST. You went through a lot of stress and need...
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    Should I feel bad for not picking up shifts?

    KatieMI replied to cheesypuff's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, you should feel guilty... for allowing yourself to miss your own very single life because of someone else's professional problems. You wrote that other nurses avoid the Location B as a...
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    New DNP mandate

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

    NONPF can make whatever recommendations they like. It has zero power to enforce them. It must be either federal act (Congress), or refusal of both ACEN and CCNE to re-certify programs AND every...
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    What would you do if nursing staff refuses do carry out your request?

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

    As you might know, nursing as a profession harbors a lot of people who do not feel comfortable doing what they do not "usually" do, whatever the circumstances. You named the assessment "tick check"...
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    I want to be an FNP/CNM...what should my first job be?

    KatieMI replied to tiffanygrace's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Find a couple of FNP/CNM dual programs (the two I know about are in Emory and Vanderbilt), go to there or call them, request an interview with admission person and ask all the questions you want....
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    Blood Sugar Question

    KatieMI replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    No, it is not Somogui. That would be due to previous HYPOglycemia through glucagon peak and very quick synthesis through liver storage of glycogen (takes a few minutes, intended for severe stress)....
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    LTACH with med-surg background?

    KatieMI replied to Calm_Down's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    There were tons of nurses who did that where I worked, as well as those who rotated between LTACH, med/surg, PACU and pretty much everything else in between. While two main reasons were money (LTACH...
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    AN Scholarship

    KatieMI replied to NICU Guy's topic in General Nursing

    OK, and what happens if I make a post like, for example, "How I survived my NETY first year and saved my career"? I do not make a big secret from the fact that I was bullied and abused as a new nurse....
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    Treating Dehydration DT Physical Exertion

    KatieMI replied to NurseNurseNurseNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Medschool Lange's Norm Physiology book says that normal concerntration of sodium in sweat 30 to 65 mmol/l, depending on the organism and acclimatization (the hotter the "usual" environment, the less...
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    Treating Dehydration DT Physical Exertion

    KatieMI replied to NurseNurseNurseNurse's topic in General Nursing

    If books had been matching life exactly in at least 85% of cases, you and me would be jobless by now. But it doesn't look like happening any time soon :) For the last 4 days we had awfully hot wave...
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    Treating Dehydration DT Physical Exertion

    KatieMI replied to NurseNurseNurseNurse's topic in General Nursing

    In pure theory, sweating is considered to be mostly "water" loss, not salt loss, plus insensitive losses (with breathing) will increase in high temperature as well, and they are 100% water. "Sweating...
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    How many med errors to lose your license?

    KatieMI replied to Bakingismylife's topic in General Nursing

    I would rather say it is employer's issue. Unless there was sentinel event or serious harm, BON has no chances to know except through employer. And this is up to a particular manager to blow things up...
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    What's the nicest compliment you've gotten as a nurse?

    KatieMI replied to NurseNinja1990's topic in General Nursing

    Just today: a frequent flyer with BMI>48 shyly installed herself onto a scale. BMI 44.5 Real loss of fat. Feels a little better overall (list of diagnoses is quite long) Her last stay we spoke for...
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    People In Pain

    KatieMI replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Who or what prevents every rehab RN to do a med check on her patients every week or so and then call the provider BEFORE scripts expire? I thought it is one of their job responsibilities - at least, I...
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    MSN options

    KatieMI replied to sbr8y55's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Accidental double
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    MSN options

    KatieMI replied to sbr8y55's topic in Post Graduate Students

    If you like MH, wait for a couple more years till your kids grow up and go to school, meanwhile collecting $$$$. Then go to PMHNP, maybe combined with Ed. Tons of jobs practically guaranteed, good...
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    MSN options

    KatieMI replied to sbr8y55's topic in Post Graduate Students

    What do you like to do? What you don't like? What do you want from your career? Do you want to go back to school, or you just want to get heck out of bedside for whatever it takes? What kind of...
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    New grad per diem job offer - am I being ripped off?

    KatieMI replied to meganec17's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In a place which needs PRN staff putting 40 hours/week, which takes new grad with zero experience as PRN and just hired 12 such new grads at once one woudn't have a chance to demonstrate anything...
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    New grad per diem job offer - am I being ripped off?

    KatieMI replied to meganec17's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Heh, I'd seen "EBP nursing projects" for new grad program which were, in fact, parts of various educators' job description but from time to time one of them was feeling too lazy or too rushed to do it...
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    Waking your patient when coming on shift?

    KatieMI replied to Gardeninggirl's topic in General Nursing

    You know, there is not a shred of evidence about a whole lot of stuff we all were "always taught" in school and after it. "Never putting an IV on the side of mastectomy", "never taking BP on the side...
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    New grad per diem job offer - am I being ripped off?

    KatieMI replied to meganec17's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If they promice per diem 40 hours/week, it is either a blatant lie or the unit is in crying shame in terms of staffing. Please RUN. Run for your
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    Nurse pay in France equivalent to CNA pay here

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    ... and they have those vacations and pensions. But also THOSE taxes and those costs of living as well. I do not know fine details but in my estimation more or less decent Paris suburbs are roughly...
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    Nurse pay in France equivalent to CNA pay here

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It has indeed. It is just like comparing rural Alabama with NYC here - apples vs
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    Order your own labs services

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Well, it can definitely be useful for us here. On the other hand, let's assume that Mr. K, 49, suddenly decides to check himself over like that with BMP, CBC and lipid profile and random testosterone...