KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

Member

All Content by KatieMI

  1. KatieMI

    Why is there a Bully on the Playground?

    KatieMI replied to Ahvegas's topic in General Nursing

    One bullying boss in top Power = bullying will spread down to the bottom all over the place. I told it before, and gonna to repeat: it will end, when there will be the law making PROVED incident of...
  2. KatieMI

    Question to Catholic nurses

    KatieMI replied to KatieMI's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks guys! (looks like I'd met another someone who got his head filled with policies instead of brains
  3. KatieMI

    Pendulum Swinging too Far on Pain Meds?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Anonimous865, I really would like to know which state took it upon itself to change federally approved drug schedule to its own "needs"? (So that I would never, ever entertain an idea to move there...
  4. KatieMI

    How is sepsis treated in a patient who is on comfort care only?

    KatieMI replied to joseyjo's topic in General Nursing

    Comfort care = care to relieve unpleasant symptoms. Therefore, the symptoms of sepsis that bother patient (fever, thirst, restlessness) are treated with symptomatic meds. Main reason, which is...
  5. KatieMI

    Pendulum Swinging too Far on Pain Meds?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Well, find another doc. Better yet, ask for ortho pain clinic referral (NOT your next strip mall one). They are few and far between, but people there really know their drugs and other things like...
  6. KatieMI

    Worst/Best thing a nursing instructor ever said to you?

    KatieMI replied to CryandNurseOn's topic in General Nursing

    Said more that once that I woudn't make it, and even if I do, I'll never find work, because "nobody like people who speak with a foreign accent" and "such people make facility look bad". Another...
  7. KatieMI

    How did you decide your specialty?

    KatieMI replied to Irish_Mist's topic in General Nursing

    I "knew" I wanted critical care, but after first year horrendous experience there (yes, NETY) I found myself working agency in med/surg, ICU, LTC and LTAC, all at the same time. I always loved...
  8. KatieMI

    study abroad? (I know, I know....)

    KatieMI replied to GraceAbounds's topic in General Nursing

    I once met an NP who wanted, from the beginning, to do Peace Corps and healthcare related mission work. She graduated from some BSN program and then did her graduate in Eastern Kentucky University....
  9. KatieMI

    what's your pet peeve?

    KatieMI replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    "If 500 or over, give X units, call provider". Called AFTER giving that X units and not rechecking. Provider ordered 2X more units, which were immediately given. Rechecked in 15 min, it was still over...
  10. KatieMI

    Nurse forced to work as a CNA

    KatieMI replied to hillbillienurse's topic in General Nursing

    They can do it. As long as they pay me as an RN, that's fine. In my place it is usually a sitter duty with a $5 or so+/hour differential, so most people would love to do this for more money than to...
  11. KatieMI

    Resignation in lieu of drug test? Is random testing the answer?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    1). Make rules that make diversion hard and HIRE ENOUGH STAFF TO MAKE THEM FEASIBLE! (I worked in one place where all the remains of narcs and empty amps had to be collected in individual lockboxes...
  12. KatieMI

    what's your pet peeve?

    KatieMI replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

  13. KatieMI

    Resignation in lieu of drug test? Is random testing the answer?

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    The problem is, random test is essentially a screening. All screenings generate false positives in large amount, that's the law of statistics. Therefore, mass random screens will generate a whole lot...
  14. KatieMI

    atheism religion and religious hospitals

    KatieMI replied to CalicoKitty's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    From my own and others' experience, religion-based hospitals are hotbeds of bigotry and some other things that much worse. Although I am sure there are some exclusions, overall one better fly under...
  15. KatieMI

    What do you hate most about your job?

    KatieMI replied to PancakeSaturdays's topic in General Nursing

    Policies' kissing to the point of losing common sense. That documenting "call light within reach" q4 because there is policy for that, and not doing anything when the same patient (a half-century old...
  16. KatieMI

    Offering your nursing skills to help?

    KatieMI replied to KatieMI's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Honestly, I do not know how to answer. I have computer access and went through student orientation. I have contract between me, my preceptor, school and the facility. But I am obviously not paid, do...
  17. KatieMI

    Nurse Manager fabricated report

    KatieMI replied to ptrad's topic in General Nursing

    Get outta there ASAP. Year of your only one life doesn't worth this sort of
  18. KatieMI

    what's your pet peeve?

    KatieMI replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    We just must be in the same ER lately. Whatever I told, nobody could get that 100/60 is my perfect
  19. KatieMI

    Is there Hope for me after 21 yrs???

    KatieMI replied to Momtotjmatt's topic in General Nursing

    Tele tech, phlebotomist or unit clerk, to begin with. Not that much physical effort as CNA, sometimes can be trained on the job and pays not much but still more than minimal wage. Then - see how...
  20. KatieMI

    40 yr old with GED. Is a MSN even possible?

    KatieMI replied to shamis's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Came there first at 36 with no GED. Just a foreign diploma from another country. BSN @ 39, going to MSN. Take a couple of hard science classes which would count as prereqs, like A&P and chem lab...
  21. KatieMI

    what's your pet peeve?

    KatieMI replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    Even better one. In one place I was once, every single 10 cc saline syringe had to be sign out as "charge". The person who was kinda obscessed with that particular issue threw herself into a room...
  22. KatieMI

    what's your pet peeve?

    KatieMI replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    We have a form of "patient education" in which something needs to be written every 24 hours as per corporate policy. As far as I know, I am the only one who refuses to chart anything in there if...
  23. KatieMI

    Proactive Rounding and Family Initiated RRT

    KatieMI replied to Pprwrk's topic in General Nursing

    Family initiated rapid responce... please do not do it. Just PLEASE. Families are not able to notice, understand and analyze the clinical situation, period. Not only they will call incessantly for...
  24. KatieMI

    what's your pet peeve?

    KatieMI replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    1. Babies and toddlers visiting. Who, in his or her right mind, would ever let a baby crawl on the floor just cleaned from C. diff and washed with hypochloride? Who will allow an "exploring" toddler...
  25. KatieMI

    Is there such thing as financial aid for graduate school?

    KatieMI replied to Nursing pursuit's topic in General Nursing

    If you are not going to CRNA, it is totally possible to find a grad school which costs that much for the whole