KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Do you feel more people are entering nursing only to become APRN's?

    KatieMI replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in General Nursing

    Also for those who are smart enough to calculate that doing 3 years accelerated BSN with prereqs right after high school, 2 years in ICU and then CRNA school will put mean potential earnings within...
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    Do you feel more people are entering nursing only to become APRN's?

    KatieMI replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, the useful skills learned at bedside nowadays often have very little to do with what is required on provider's level. When you run for 12 hours documenting, doing tasks supposed to be...
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    YOUR Childhood School Nurse memories

    KatieMI replied to MHDNURSE's topic in School

    Nurses, including school nurse, were a few people who succeded in scaring my parents literally to the level of wetting their pants. It tells something, especially in the USSR where most people were...
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    Will work for Preceptor hours

    KatieMI replied to Gizmopup1's topic in General Nursing

    Something is already going on: PreceptorLink - Home page for PreceptorLink Preceptor Matching Service for Nurse Practitioners (and a few other such online businesses) They pay preceptors for taking...
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    Enterally-administered TPN?

    KatieMI replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

    We had a few patients who were fed with TPN mix through j tubes for weeks. These guys had short bowel syndrome and pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, among very many other problems. Apparently, TPN...
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    Negative UDS.. how on earth???

    KatieMI replied to StillRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    While you were sleeping under, you were given a whole lot of NS. Anesthesia usually just runs a bag open wide at all times unless they know that patient has HF, KF of some other problem which requires...
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    Rejected from dream job

    KatieMI replied to yoganurse22's topic in General Nursing

    They got me in hiring commitee once and really tried to push me on clinical ladder. Over my cold body I'll ever do something like that. Sorry, leadership requires a bit of professional psychique...
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    Rejected from dream job

    KatieMI replied to yoganurse22's topic in General Nursing

    I pretty much know that management (as well as more experienced nurses) can tell if an applicant has good prospects for hiring in that particular unit or not within 5 to 10 min max. Everything else is...
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    Rejected from dream job

    KatieMI replied to yoganurse22's topic in General Nursing

    Well... I really dislike when people are lying into my face. I understand that's what HR and management are living and breathing with and that nowadays lying became a socially acceptable and even...
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    Why? Why is it so hard to find a job I like?

    KatieMI replied to DaisyRN's topic in Nursing Career

    1). Nights are not for everyone. Now you just know it, and that's good. 2). Do you actually know what you want? What do you like, besides hours? High stress and exitement vs. low to boring, procedures...
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    Socially needy coworkers

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I heard that in hospitals walls got ears, and there's a pair of them on every step and in every elevator,
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    Socially needy coworkers

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    That really depends on policies of your agency. If you are covering, you are supposed to get report from the nurse you relieving with all necessary information for this (presumably) short period of...
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    Socially needy coworkers

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, I misunderstand the last sentence. What's the key to success that everyone has to join the party for? What success? I meant that, if the nurse is seriously irritating to everybody (maybe...
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    Socially needy coworkers

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Pics of kittens and boasting about kids/husbands/shopping/etc.- I do not think that anyone can really do anything with that. Hope that she will find someone wanting to share the stories with her...
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    aesthetic nurse practitioner-training

    KatieMI replied to Mazie21214's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    1). Get FNP (important) 2). Get a job in an IM or FM office where you can start learning small things. Cutting off nevuses, pimple shots, freezings, etc. Many primary care providers do that in...
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    Return to the bedside

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

    I know one guy who keeps licenses (and, accordingly works) as an RRT, RN and per diem hospitalist NP. He somehow does it in the same hospital and brags that it is his own way to have only one set of...
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    Encouraging Staff vs Discouraging Staff

    KatieMI replied to Kebner's topic in General Nursing

    As a bilingual person myself, I do not think it is appropriate in patient room until the patient knows Spanish or another language in question. On the other hand, if several staff members speak a...
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    Need help renewing my license for the first time.

    KatieMI replied to JuliusSeizure's topic in General Nursing

    I can tell you what MIGHT happen if you renew your license and do not have documentation supporting your CE. License bearers are audited. They say it is "random" but in reality the most attention is...
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    Feeling unliked and unrespected at work

    KatieMI replied to Juniper83's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Being a natural and very deep introvert, I can relate, too. I came to the point of not caring any more after a couple of years. I have my own life which is as distant from ones of 95% of people who...
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    Misconceptions in NP/PA/MD education: experiential requirements, online, and for-profits

    KatieMI replied to SummitRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    My former allergologist spent a couple of years persuading me to figure the exact reason for my allergies because "maybe these's something that still can be done". A year later, several thousands...
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    Misconceptions in NP/PA/MD education: experiential requirements, online, and for-profits

    KatieMI replied to SummitRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    The problem is that "steroids cause WBCs going up" is the only one thing taught in nursing school about this point. Worse yet, it is taught as "the only one" thing. I lost count of how many times I...
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    Misconceptions in NP/PA/MD education: experiential requirements, online, and for-profits

    KatieMI replied to SummitRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    Am I alone here thinking that Mr. Wrong is a low-quality troll which deserves no
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    Misconceptions in NP/PA/MD education: experiential requirements, online, and for-profits

    KatieMI replied to SummitRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    For that matter, I saw an MD/PhD and the chairman of Psych department of a large academical center pushing his teenage son for uro eval under general anesthesia because the boy started to have early...
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    Misconceptions in NP/PA/MD education: experiential requirements, online, and for-profits

    KatieMI replied to SummitRN's topic in Advanced Practice

    Well, they actually study it all. Volume and depth is less, so many NPs just read med school textbooks. That's not a sacred knowledge or rocket science. P.S. biochem and organics are standard prereqs...
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    10yrs @ bedside, rookie mistake!

    KatieMI replied to kingairg90's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, everything depends on those "juicy details" and more of them. Which state, which hospital, what was the problem, etc. There are facilities where management, out of their small wits,...