KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Feeling like you're complicit in the addiction problem...

    KatieMI replied to ScientistSalarian's topic in General Nursing

    Some of them stay long enough. Some stay frequent enough. Some of them are more susceptible. And some experience opioid-induced pain, which, in turn, is dutifully treated by more opioids because it...
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    Feeling like you're complicit in the addiction problem...

    KatieMI replied to ScientistSalarian's topic in General Nursing

    When I was working in ICU, I mostly followed the path of "being the only nurse". Luckily for me, my current area permits much more freedom. When I establish strong enough conract with the patient AND...
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    got fired/terminated

    KatieMI replied to YesYesRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    "As time went by, we discovered certain subtle discrepancies in our views and perceptions of (insert specialty of your choice) nursing which were, in all our good faith in each other, somewhat...
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    got fired/terminated

    KatieMI replied to YesYesRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    @Horseshoe, it is all correct before things get to real business of lawsuit. For example, "opinions are generally protected" as long as they are based on something, and that "something" is timely and...
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    got fired/terminated

    KatieMI replied to YesYesRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    @dishes: While I agree that agency work is not the best choice, and especially for a new grad, it is just one way to dust off and work things out. There are agencies which are risky and careless and...
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    No RN experence NP "non-nurse"

    KatieMI replied to Malenurse1235954's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    BTW, the article contains the link to another article which alleges NEGATIVE correlation between previous experience as an RN and quality of provider as expressed by physicians employing the said...
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    got fired/terminated

    KatieMI replied to YesYesRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    One more thing: The best place for you is where YOU is accepted and welcomed as a nurse and a human being and where you can practice with your strengths fully exploited and continue to learn and...
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    got fired/terminated

    KatieMI replied to YesYesRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The thing is, none of these letters will ever word something in particular. They know better that every their word or sentence can be used as a base for a lawsuit. Not that it happens often, but it...
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    Doctor stole my stethoscope

    KatieMI replied to ayejay09's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Next time: - buy it bright. The more neon, the better. - buy a yoke name tag - one side of the name tag, engraving of your full name AND title. Saying to the world "RN". - on the opposite side of the...
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    Am I the only nurse that... (Rant)

    KatieMI replied to Mhsrnbsn's topic in General Nursing

    First of all, if anybody would make a pic, selfie or video clip with me without my permission, they would have a choice to delete it now in front of me, or go meet security guys. Period. Second, it...
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    What Nurses really Want to Say When They Chart

    KatieMI replied to SICUshortCait's topic in General Nursing

    "No orders received": Doctor X, good evening, how are you doing? Sorry bothering you, yua 'now, that protocol... yep, nothing is going on, yep, have a good night!" (why on the green Earth I have to...
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    how to credit college class for license CEU

    KatieMI replied to EternalFeather's topic in General Nursing

    Ask about it as well. Again, I do not know about Florida, but in Michigan, if you take, say, pharm and it includes pain meds, then it covers State-required 1 CE unit in "pain management". In other...
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    how to credit college class for license CEU

    KatieMI replied to EternalFeather's topic in General Nursing

    Go to your secretary or clinical coordinator and ask. In Michigan, one just have to provide evidence of so many credits of "X" level taken (i.e. print the "running audit"). It may be different in...
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    Getting BSN in Philippines as U.S Citizen and come back?

    KatieMI replied to RinoDG's topic in International Nursing

    One of the Golden Rules for Any Immigrant: - should you EVER want, or have to, work in ANY occupation which requires professional licensing, you MUST obtain related education in the country where the...
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    Newly Licensed LVN , Victorville CA Trouble Finding Work .!

    KatieMI replied to SpecialBlackOps's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I really, truly hope you use different communicating style while job searching, to begin with. Not only caps, but the style you
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    LPN seeking more

    KatieMI replied to RickieTickie's topic in General Nursing

    Try to get friendly with nurse educators. They may already have, or think of, a creative project aiming to decrease readmissions, for one example. I know about one such program employing several LPNs...
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    New twist on the vaccine argument

    KatieMI replied to Rose_Queen's topic in Nursing Humor

    It is dammit
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    FREE Colleges?! & How it affects Nursing

    KatieMI replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    In addition to the above: Federal moneys are kinda not free for all, although it might look like it. The "free" (because they will be still payed, ultimately, by you and me, although indirectly)...
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    Seeking advice from all you Introverted nurses out there...

    KatieMI replied to jk2185's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The thing is, we introverts care about the issue just as much as you do or even more. We just do not show it, like we do not show our worlds to everyone. It took me years to stop paying attention to...
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    GFR 150

    KatieMI replied to nurselove757's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hey, I was standing here before you
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    Seeking advice from all you Introverted nurses out there...

    KatieMI replied to jk2185's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Another deep introvert is here. I do not mind occasional chat about life, but I go to work solely for work. I understand now that in the first three places I passed through that was a huge part of...
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    refusing assignment

    KatieMI replied to texas_rn11's topic in Agency Nurses

    The understaffing is not the fact belonging to an agency's nurse biography. It belongs to the facility run so poorly that administration cannot retain qualified staff. I would think twice about...
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    GFR 150

    KatieMI replied to nurselove757's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The cause of TRULY elevated GFR: hyperperfusion + elevated circulating blood volume + anabolic state. Classic example is pregnancy. The cause of (usually) FALSE elevated GFR: hypermetabolic states...
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    Pet Peeves with Doctors

    KatieMI replied to BeenThere2012's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When they only deal with what they deem their own area and pay no attention to anything else. Like, I'll give him some Tylenol for that fever, and call Neuro for stiff neck, Cardiology for HR of 120...
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    Question about fent OD?

    KatieMI replied to benmca13's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I am pretty much sure it is not fentanyl. Fentanyl metabolism is primarily hepatic, that's true, but it also means that if there is significant degree of liver failure, then it is the level of...