KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    KatieMI replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    That's what you're probably already doing when you obligingly run for the next "sumethin' fo' pain shot for ma' mom" to be delivered in less than 10 min from the moment that caring daughter hit the...
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    Whatever happened to going to school to be a nurse?

    KatieMI replied to indish's topic in General Nursing

    THIS, too. I honestly like bedside - at the particular place I work now, because of wide clinical authonomy it gives to nurses. But, even with this, I feel stalling sometimes. The clinical realities...
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    When Your Doctor Doesn't Listen

    KatieMI replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    First line: levofloxacin, moxifloxacin, amoxicilline/clavulanate (the last one takes care about b-lactamaze producers, which are the most common reason of b-lactams failure): coverage over 90% overall...
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    When Your Doctor Doesn't Listen

    KatieMI replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    As a chronic patient myself and future provider, I have to tell something. The current epidemics of all-the-drugs-ever-known-to-humankind-resistant bugs is caused directly by this very phrase: "it...
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    Coffee marketed to nurses. Would you buy it?

    KatieMI replied to ResumeRN's topic in General Nursing

    Really. One day, a patient was loudly demanding that her wound vac cannister (sucking out her post-double-mast wound) must be pink "as it was before all the time". Unfortunately, it was no so for the...
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    Coffee marketed to nurses. Would you buy it?

    KatieMI replied to ResumeRN's topic in General Nursing

    You do realize that a good coffee must be roasted, grinded and brewed the right way in order to taste good? Now, just imagine the dirtiest, oldest, newer ever really cleaned coffee machine with no...
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    H4 VISA

    KatieMI replied to BLESSY LITHIN's topic in Nurse Registration

    You may want to start from changing your visa status, as you cannot legally work with
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    Polycystic Liver Disease

    KatieMI replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, Kooky... people ARE crying for organs, but transplant medicine is an area full of, to say that as mild as possible, totally crazy people more than anything else excluding acute mental health...
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    Did you initially think you weren't going to like nursing

    KatieMI replied to Corgilicious's topic in General Nursing

    I was pretty much sure that, while I always knew that I could do it, I would do bedside just as long as absolutely necessary for grad school and not a second more. My first year was very, very bad,...
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    Bullying at Work - What is your experience?

    KatieMI replied to compassionresearcher's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, why didn't you start it in 2013? I would give you a golden nugget of info
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    Polycystic Liver Disease

    KatieMI replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    It can help. These cysts are thin, fluid-filled cavities which press against healthy tissue and so with time destroy it, so removing pressure helps ror a while. Emptying cysts is a common palliative...
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    Why Can Pre-Med Students Know Their Choice But Nursing Students "Can't"?

    KatieMI replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    The known fact is, those medical students who "know their way" and just do what suites them along it are generally known to become worse residents and yet worse professionals when and if (and it is IF...
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    My professor told us NPs have no future...

    KatieMI replied to anilechim's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    and this is one reason why online education holds so much for the future. No gorgeous grounds, no mandatory "facilities fee", no dorms with jacuzzi, no stupid "societies" and "greek life" to kill time...
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    My professor told us NPs have no future...

    KatieMI replied to anilechim's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    That professor is welcome to where I am doing my clinicals now to see how things are going in the part of America of which existence he's probably not even aware. Trump country, 60% poverty level, up...
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    Seen Tendon Rupture From Cipro?

    KatieMI replied to SunnyPupRN's topic in General Nursing

    It happens with all quinolones, and not only with teen-aged patients. Not a common thing, but a known complication, which cannot be predicted or prevented. Cipro is just most commonly ordered for...
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    Rolling Veins: A Quick Guide to Being a “Good Stick"

    KatieMI replied to Krista Vaughan's topic in General Nursing

    Floating is precisely what you so nicely
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    I am not proud of my track record.

    KatieMI replied to STARL's topic in General Nursing

    "the customer stated that she was allergic to (...) and (...). She showed me her card and asked to double check with kitchen. I was serving three tables, I had some personal problems that day and had...
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    Rolling Veins: A Quick Guide to Being a “Good Stick"

    KatieMI replied to Krista Vaughan's topic in General Nursing

    One way to treat vasospasm: 1. find the vein and mark it. Get tourniquet OFF. 2. Go get a couple of towels and 3 or 4 those heated wipe packs. 3. Loosely wrap extremity in one towel below your future...
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    Rolling Veins: A Quick Guide to Being a “Good Stick"

    KatieMI replied to Krista Vaughan's topic in General Nursing

    ...and please, please SEARCH. Change tourniquet position. Go to upper shoulder. Lower hand. Wonder why this "limb alert" bracelet (PICC line, removed 3 weeks ago with no events; lumpectomy 10 years...
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    How much experience to work per diem/casual?

    KatieMI replied to 8130's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes organizations have clear requirements, usually 1 to 2 years of recent (within 1 year) and close/relevant (like for CVICU - not MICU or NeuroICU). I would say that anything below 6 months NOT...
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    Resigned During Orientation - Advice Needed

    KatieMI replied to Bonnie007's topic in Critical Care

    It looks like we were at the same unit at different times Give yourself a week or two to recover. Think of what you liked and not in terms of nursing process and what you felt like struggle. Think...
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    Preventing allergies in children

    KatieMI replied to Julius Seizure's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Also, well-known fact that kids brought up on farms among animals, plans and some dust and dirt as well are less prone to allergies than those who never touched anything that was was not carefully...
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    What are your biggest pains/ problems as a nurse?

    KatieMI replied to dma13's topic in General Nursing

    1). Little to no touch between what a nurse can do, and what he or she is forced to do and be responsible for. It doesn't pay to use a Bachelor's prepared specialist as a cross between maid, waitress,...
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    My professor is an LPN in a BSN program

    KatieMI replied to Chadnurse's topic in General Students

    Believe me or not, there are people who can rightfully title themselves like "LPN, PhD" or "ASN, MSN". It happens pretty often with foreign-trained nurses, those who get another, frequently unrelated...
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    NP program

    KatieMI replied to mdsrgnrs's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Well, if you're made it to Master's studies level, then get ready to teach yourself... in any case, to the end of your career. This is a part of being provider. Time of mandatory ed and all other...