KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    When Your Preceptee is a Know-it-All

    KatieMI replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I am really sorry to ask, but can anyone for just one time imagine that there are REAL know-it-all people? Novice nurses or even students who, for one reason or another, really know things, and more...
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    Ethical Issues

    KatieMI replied to RN2020scm's topic in General Nursing

    Please once upon a time visit some less prudish and conservative country than the USA. One of EU, once they open. Just please. You'll have discoveries of your life! (oh, Champs Elysees... Musee de...
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    New GraduateWith 3 Incident Reports

    KatieMI replied to Taito29's topic in General Nursing

    1000%
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    Will Only Having Psychiatric Experience Hinder Me As FNP

    KatieMI replied to Azonto's topic in General Nursing

    One word: no. You likely won't be qualified to work in ER as APN with FNP only, but you will be a cherry-pick for SNF and primary care office jobs. Psych experience is always welcome there. Nobody...
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    The culture of silence and police brutality

    KatieMI replied to rebeccaUTA's topic in General Nursing

    When a nurse runs with the speed of Olympic sprinter to report a peer to her boss, State Board, FBI, KGB and M16 for doing something that she imagines might potentially cause some unknown but...
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    Documented note for a coworker RN

    KatieMI replied to FloatDaddy's topic in General Nursing

    You can, technically, access any patient's chart at any moment, even with "restricted access" (for which in most systems you only need to click on "reason to access" and maybe re-enter your...
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    Documented note for a coworker RN

    KatieMI replied to FloatDaddy's topic in General Nursing

    To make a big deal or not out of it is totally up to OP's administration, unfortunately. We can love or hate it but accepting patient without that "taking assignment" click for 30 min while another...
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    Ethical Issues

    KatieMI replied to RN2020scm's topic in General Nursing

    That was in school and long ago. Now you are in real world where the law and order are the same for everyone and your freedom ends right where every others' freedom
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    Documented note for a coworker RN

    KatieMI replied to FloatDaddy's topic in General Nursing

    The OP did not admit or access the patient, did not establish relationship, was not included into treatment team, but still wrote "very short" admission note from the info that was overheard from a...
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    Ethical Issues

    KatieMI replied to RN2020scm's topic in General Nursing

    BTW, "moral turpitude" clause which might interest Boards is usually something on the level of being closely investigated by children/elderly/animal Protection Services, petty crimes like shoplifting,...
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    Ethical Issues

    KatieMI replied to RN2020scm's topic in General Nursing

    Unless the nurse in question practices in the state where her out-of-work activities between two responsible adults are prohibited by law, she doesn't do anything illegal. Her license cannot be...
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    New Paradigm for the DNP. What do you think?

    KatieMI replied to KetafolDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Even my superficial understanding of Bayesian analysis really helped me to be less panicky during COVID19 pandemy, because it showed early that "catastrophic models" predicting hundreds of millions...
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    Unique Nursing Career

    KatieMI replied to Icumurse2315's topic in General Specialties

    Medical personal assistant Clinical leader (clinical role, somewhat akin to Rapid Responce but centered on particular unit) - I did it and loved it immensely Life style coach Mystery shopper (for...
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    What to do before my Psych-DNP

    KatieMI replied to adwoafrimp's topic in General Nursing

    1). Even if you know 100% that Psych is your passion, get a job there. Apart from ER, you can try SNF locked unit (gery/psych), mental health youth program and outpatient clinic. Four years is a good...
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    FNP jobs with RN schedule: 3-12 hours shifts

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

    In Michigan, new grad FNPs are hired in UC all the time straight from school with 3 months orientation. It is "dependent" state, so M.D. provider must be there on regular basis to sign charts. Many...
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    Have you noticed a better quality of life going from full time to part time?

    KatieMI replied to A Hit With The Ladies's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, yeah. When I went from working 4-5 12h shifts weekly to 2 PRN, it was a blissful heaven for a whole two and a half weeks. Then full time Master's program started, and that was the end of the
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    To kill or not to kill... another person dream?

    KatieMI posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Here is the story: About three months ago, our family hold a big celebration gathering in our house. One of the invited guests asked to bring with him his daughter who is a senior in the same high...
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    New Paradigm for the DNP. What do you think?

    KatieMI replied to KetafolDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    One will never understand statistics without calculus. And all quality improvement, policy development and outcomes are based, essentially, on statistics. I do not support the idea that bedside...
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    New Paradigm for the DNP. What do you think?

    KatieMI replied to KetafolDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I just recently had a dialogue with one dudette from nursing leadership of the large tertiary academic center. As pretty much anywhere else, the policy for bedside nurses here is to access and...
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    Trouble with Dorsogluteal injections!!

    KatieMI replied to Marythenurse1994's topic in General Nursing

    1) just letting you know: if you really hit schiatic nerve only ONCE, you'll remember it to the end of your life. So, if you really shoot in the outer upper quadrant, you might relax about it. The...
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    New Paradigm for the DNP. What do you think?

    KatieMI replied to KetafolDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I agree. The problem is, currently students in BSN/DNP programs cannot be taught physo, patho, pharma and other theoretical base subjects at the level required for their future practice because they...
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    New Paradigm for the DNP. What do you think?

    KatieMI replied to KetafolDNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    1). Are they FINALLY going to teach APRNs biochem, normophis, pharma and patho at the level they really need to know them? If not, then I personally do not care about any other "underpinnings"...
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    Nurse Practitioner -FNP

    KatieMI replied to nursing#101's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Decide: - where you want to work (hospital, clinic, SNF, etc) - target specialty - adults, kids, women, men, newborn, geri, doesn't matter - OK with psychiatry or hate it FNP offers the widest...
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    No Jobs For New Grads Despite RN Time?!

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

    Only one thing is that a good 30+% of NP jobs are not advertised. Private practices and smaller groups typically operate on pretty thin margins in the sense of both time and money and will not spend...
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    Low Pay...for New Grad?

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

    1). This is Southwest. The region well known for lower salaries for all nurses (as well as physicians, teachers and many other occupations, BTW. Heck, my hubby had a fat pay cut when he was in Sandia...