KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    You also see that the moon gets up in the sky every time after the sun goes down, as countless generation of humans did for the last 100000 years. It still doesn't mean that the moon comes up BECAUSE...
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    how to become a nurse while having an MD degree from Ukraine?

    KatieMI replied to lililid's topic in Nurse Registration

    Just to let you know, there are plenty of people like myself. The road to medical practice for foreign medical grads in this country is so excrutiatingly difficult that many people just do not have...
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    Non opioid pain options

    KatieMI replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    ER enviroinment is not well-suited for any type of pain management except acute pain caused by more or less clear pathology. It is especially so in our times of "customer satisfaction" madness and ER...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Get your passport, go to Toronto science centre, sit there for a while. I recommend the hands-on room near temporary exhibitions' wing. Listen what parents there say and do if the problem seems that...
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    Moving On Up: Clinical Ladder Programs, are they really worth it?

    KatieMI replied to Richard Wolfe's topic in General Nursing

    It took me quite a bit of energy to make it absolutely clear that I was not, and never will be, interested in anything any close to politics, meetings, policies and schmolicies. Clinical /technical...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I f people REALLY feel so hard for an issue, they usually do not bend that easy. They find jobs, they move, they immigrate, they fight, after all. Look what is going on in Ontario, Canada and their...
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    Manager wants me to alter documentation on expired patient

    KatieMI replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    THIS. I am pretty much sure that it is an issue of "every square must be marked" and, maybe, it would be fine to write like "N/A", then in comment section "patient coded at (time), please see code...
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    FNP Clinical Settings

    KatieMI replied to CR27's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    FNPs can do everything, including minor surgeries, and that includes derm and plastics small stuff. I could do as many warts' cuttings, biopsies, spider angioma burns, etc. as I would like in an...
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    NP Career Questions

    KatieMI replied to CareerSwitch1's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Partial responce: Shadowing and ​graduate programs What is the best way to find a shadowing or volunteer opportunity? None, unless you have personal contact AND the facility allows it. Which...
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    FNP Clinical Settings

    KatieMI replied to CR27's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Derm and plastics do hire NPs, but not right after school. You'll likely have to start in Primary practice office, where a fair number of small derm procedures (biopsies, excisions, sometimes even...
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    Now what??

    KatieMI replied to nerdynurse22's topic in General Nursing

    While they play being honest at the time of that particular assignment, nothing prevents them from putting you under microscope and with target on your back at the rest of it. Truly, honestly, I would...
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    High Flow Oxygen

    KatieMI replied to LovinIt2010's topic in General Nursing

    Had this pretty often when I was in LTACH. If NGT didn't stay there forever, it worked just fine as long as the patient could breathe with his nose. If within 96 hours or so there was no alternative...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    If you only once see that half-eviscerated woman asking her oncologist "why did you treat me if you knew that I MIGHT be suffering like this to the end of my life?" or a 5 years-old writing, in a huge...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Recently in Australia, parents lost their rights to receive goverment child support subsidies if they refuse vaccinations. It worked as a miracle. Parents of 200000+ kids suddenly forgot about their...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    For example, to prevent papilloma virus - induced anal cancer, which is not screenable, spreads early and has 5 years survival of 50 - 70% in case of diagnosis at stage I, which is rare. Survival...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    According to my own purely anecdotal observations, many anti vaxxers are just deeply disquiet about multiple life issues which may not have anything to do with vaccinations. Anti-vax movement provides...
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    Dr. denigrates NPs, cites low IQ etc

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

    He is anesthesiologist in Florida, where CRNAs are not "independent" and accountability theoretically falls onto MD/DO provider: CRNA Independent Practice Map | NCSBN Otherwise, it is yet another...
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    I went to work with a black eye

    KatieMI replied to Jessie-'s topic in General Nursing

    Just to clarify things - mandatory reporting requirements of domestic violence varies widely through states, in three of them there are no mandatory screenings to this day (except for suspected...
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    how to become a nurse while having an MD degree from Ukraine?

    KatieMI replied to lililid's topic in Nurse Registration

    I am foreign MD who converted to nursing here. If you have general nursing diploma from Ukraine (not "akusherka", "feldsher" or something, but "medsestra obshchei praktiki"), you can go through CGNFS...
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    Arterial vs Venous Pressure

    KatieMI replied to madys911's topic in General Nursing

    There are no big veins around radial artery, and this is not groin or AC fossa where these two things run close together. In the wrist, if it is pulsating, it is in artery. ABGs in venous and arterial...
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    What if I'm the Bully?

    KatieMI replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    The above proves that you are NOT a bully. You can trust me in that
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    What if I'm the Bully?

    KatieMI replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    I do not feel that the described example was "bullying". It might be less than "polite", but it was not "bullying". "Bullying" would look somewhat akin to this: - you found that bag, then came to...
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    Nurses and bullies...

    KatieMI replied to nightingale4me's topic in General Nursing

    While I am a convinced supporter of the point of view about prevalence of bullying and lateral violence in modern American nursing being so high that it should be considered a cultural norm, I might...
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    With a MSN, why do I need a BSN?

    KatieMI replied to INrnstudent's topic in General Nursing

    They also might not do so for legal reasons. An NP-prepared person who passed the Boards in many states is considered possessing knowledge and skills (and, therefore, liable for applying or...
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    Alert & Oriented Patients Who Pee and Poop on Themselves

    KatieMI replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    There are multiple patients who demand home care just in order to be wiped and cleaned every day because that's what "they always do for me while I am in hospital". As well as multiple people in the...