KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Healthy Fit Nurse navigating potlucks.

    KatieMI replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Just contribute something healthy and what you can eat, then let your colleagues to know that you're on diet and that's your doctor's order. I was doing just this for years because of my many...
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    Lack of "customer service" as beneficial factor for chronic disease process?

    KatieMI replied to KatieMI's topic in General Nursing

    I made a solemn promice to myself and my husband to stop my formal education after MSN. But right now my hands are itching about making a small scale research project about this observation. I was...
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    How has nursing changed you?

    KatieMI replied to thoughtful21's topic in General Nursing

    Confirmed. I was, technically, down to GCS 3- 5 quite a few times on drugs (anaphylaxis) and a couple of times more for pure medical reasons. I remember quite a few things, mostly sounds, and I...
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    Failed my drug test and I'm pregnant

    KatieMI replied to ianurse's topic in General Nursing

    A very strange story. UDS can surely be run on anyone and some ERs now just automatically do it for every patient, but standard UDS only detects "opiates" in general. Tests which detect particular...
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    Tell me the downsides.

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

    And - for all of them - please think about quitting smoking, losing weight and taking all of your meds as prescribed - not only "ma' pain pills and anxiety
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    Stuck in an unfulfilling position

    KatieMI replied to RockinNurse2018's topic in General Nursing

    There was/is a user with nickname "purplegal" who started several discussions about the same subject. There were tons of good advices from other users, as the situation is common and far from...
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    Raises

    KatieMI replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    Go agency or short-term travel contracts. Or pick something you're good at and needed as a skill and throw nets around skilled facilities. SNFs pay good money for sticking IVs or changing wound vacs....
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    Tell me the downsides.

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

    Patients and families - yeah, and there are immediately more of them. WAY more. But at least that's understandible to the point. It is nothing new for me. But then there come insurances,...
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    Tell me the downsides.

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

    If you, like myself, enjoy communications with people who are intellectually either equal or above yourself, then, as an NP, you'll experience, say, 10-fold increase in just such communications as...
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    Advice, Please! Need to Leave ICU...

    KatieMI replied to jack1971's topic in General Nursing

    "As I developed and matured as an RN, I discovered that my strengths are (A, B, C) and things I love to do are (X, Y, Z). ICU specifics do not allow me to get enough of above so I hope to find more...
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    Manager out to get me. Even shift coord. agrees.

    KatieMI replied to Axmann, RN, BSN, NREMT-B's topic in General Nursing

    Been there, had that, and, yes, I think that if one feels targeted and bullied, then he IS targeted and bullied, with all unknown "details". Speak with those in your unit who treat you well so that...
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    Bullying :Living well is the best revenge

    KatieMI replied to Oldmahubbard's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, but Prospero'work on forgiveness starts from saying about "them being petinent" and ends with asking Ariel (whom he himself treated less than nicely for quite some time) to set him free. His...
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    Bullying :Living well is the best revenge

    KatieMI replied to Oldmahubbard's topic in General Nursing

    Those who follow this philosophy are probably blessed to never experience enough real, cold-blooded evil in their entire lives. I do not even mention that the only one thing bullies are afraid of and...
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    NP Programs that provide preceptors.

    KatieMI replied to Zamy's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Michigan State University/Lansing, if you need preceptors and nothing else. Most of of clinicals for NP students happens in places which get rejected by their medical school - such as community...
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    Do you think this is worryingly incompetent

    KatieMI replied to dolphinmonkey's topic in General Nursing

    If something electrical suddenly stops working, first check if it is plugged in. If a tube suddenly stops draining, first check if it is obstructed in any way, then check if it is still where 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

    Nux vomica is still used a lot on CAM, especially in aurvedic medicine. As the name says, it causes vomit which is supposed to "purge the body" of whatever thought to cause the disease. I'd seen liver...
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    overusing GLOVES

    KatieMI replied to liluiass's topic in General Nursing

    Here in the US, most nurses won't ever touch the patient without gloves out of their over - enhanced sense of security. It is not good for their assessment skills, but they do it anyway because that's...
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    Bullying :Living well is the best revenge

    KatieMI replied to Oldmahubbard's topic in General Nursing

    Even better is to walk into THAT unit and speak with those who harassed and maligned you knowing darn well that now you're in charge. And if they know that all their corner-cuts and other little sins...
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    Situation at work-Need words of wisdom

    KatieMI replied to TNViking's topic in General Nursing

    Get outta there. Your only one life worths more than opinion of some jerk. Two weeks note and medical leave till that day. Get seen by your doctor and ask for relief note due to extreme stress....
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    Ambulating post op day zero

    KatieMI replied to oceangirl1234's topic in General Nursing

    I've once seen a nurse who quietly refused to ambulate patients POD#1 doesn't matter what out of compassion. Her reasoning was that they must be in terrible pain and "all that new stuff they tell you...
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    Nursing or medicine? BSN vs MSN; already overeduated.

    KatieMI replied to Fermer's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    1). NP profession as it is understood in the US is, basically, not existing anywhere else in the World, leaving alone immigration issues. So, your dreams about working "both within and outside of the...
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    Is it legal for your boss to dictate where you poop?

    KatieMI replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    Your boss can legally demand you to do whatever that is not classified as criminal activity. You, on the other side, can legally leave your workplace at any moment and spread information about a place...
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    Ambien on second shift

    KatieMI replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    "Mr. Jones, please wake up - it is time to take your sleeping pill!" OMG... PLEASE let me know it is not true. It is even worse than giving b-blockers to the patient on Levophed just because they are...
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    Really, Doctor?!

    KatieMI replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    Really, OrganizedChaos, 1). you've got to chill down. Seriously. 2). you've got to stop getting into that psychology of patient's ownership. It doesn't help anyone. You're all working together,...
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    Really, Doctor?!

    KatieMI replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    It is a common misconception among nurses that when provider "doesn't order anything" then he or she is lazy, doesn't know what to do, doesn't care, etc. In fact, at least half of what providers are...