KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    911, This Nurse Needs Help ASAP

    KatieMI replied to Jnateman's topic in General Nursing

    Ok,
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    questions about suicide

    KatieMI replied to tothopic's topic in General Nursing

    To answer "the only question you want to know" - your license is safe in any case. As it was said, there is no legal obligation on you as a nurse to report to anyone some other person's suicidal...
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    911, This Nurse Needs Help ASAP

    KatieMI replied to Jnateman's topic in General Nursing

    Private
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    911, This Nurse Needs Help ASAP

    KatieMI replied to Jnateman's topic in General Nursing

    Check
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    Quiz Me. Test my Knowledge.

    KatieMI replied to HeavenBound'17's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    With all due respect.... It is most wonderful to sit and think about implications of something. But I once saw a poor soul who, after having a bulbar stroke with minimal disruption of speech and...
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    Quiz Me. Test my Knowledge.

    KatieMI replied to HeavenBound'17's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Okay... Let's begin from a few simple things: (the following are not about real patients): - you got your AM assignment, and the departing shift RN tell you that the patient had stroke and now is...
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    Examples of times you have been bullied in nursing profession

    KatieMI replied to luvmyyorkie24's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I was in so-called "nursing residency", the NM responsible for it called me in his office every second or third shift and for a couple of hours communicated approximately like this: - I was...
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    911, This Nurse Needs Help ASAP

    KatieMI replied to Jnateman's topic in General Nursing

    It is sure about money... that's why it is up to you to convince the program that it is better to take you for 4 courses only and get some of it, vs. seeing you walking through the door and getting...
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    911, This Nurse Needs Help ASAP

    KatieMI replied to Jnateman's topic in General Nursing

    Jnateman, just make absolutely, 110% sure that coursework you do will cover coursework for your PREVIOUS NP Master's degree. (in other words, if you do, say, MSN in Education, make sure that it 1)...
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    911, This Nurse Needs Help ASAP

    KatieMI replied to Jnateman's topic in General Nursing

    Roser13, I had this problem too, but I continued to shop around and eventually found a program which accepted my credentials (from abroad and some of them over 10 years old) as prereqs for otherwise...
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    911, This Nurse Needs Help ASAP

    KatieMI replied to Jnateman's topic in General Nursing

    Did you try to speak with any other school' admissions? If you really only have 3 or 4 more classes, then maybe you can convince other program to only take what you need? What if you do one of these...
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    Would more nurse aides solve the problem of always feeling short-staffed?

    KatieMI replied to Lemon Bars's topic in General Nursing

    The problem is, in order to notably unload nurses we will need to give aides (and other support staff as well) more training and more knowledge, and I am not sure it would be good. Physicians already...
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    questions about suicide

    KatieMI replied to tothopic's topic in General Nursing

    There is no federal law, and no law in any state that I know about requiring anyone to be a "good samaritan" and punishing for not doing so, whether the person in question had knowledge and capability...
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    ABSN vs BSN: How Much Cost to GPA?

    KatieMI replied to Heizenberg's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    To begin with, you need to decide what you want to do in this life. PA, CRNA and NP (which one, btw?) are all too different things. TOO MUCH different, I would say. If GPA is something which bothers...
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    Question ladies...

    KatieMI replied to zacofalltrades's topic in General Nursing

    Unless students were informed beforehand and had an option not to participate, it is not appropriate. Teaching correct 12 lead placement on a living human is definitely more effective than on...
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    Unprofessional charting

    KatieMI replied to Nurse131382's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Where I work, techs do narrative notes only in cases when anybody who enters the room has to write down everything what was said, heard, smelled, seen or done. Thanks God, it happens rarely, either...
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    Unprofessional charting

    KatieMI replied to Nurse131382's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The first thing that needs to be changed, IMH (umble)O, is requirement for PCAs to write down hourly observations. The person in question is a tech. She cannot do assessments in the sense nurses or...
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    4/16 What I learned this week: POD2 and I want my button back

    KatieMI replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Hugs... just go on... one day, one hour in the life. It is not an end... it is something new to
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    Patient privacy and pelvic exams

    KatieMI replied to cphillipslpn's topic in General Nursing

    The short answer for OP is: yes, absolutely. For the patient's needs as well as one's of provider. A long, long time ago I'd seen a career of new Ob/Gyn physician almost destroyed by a patient who...
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    Some nurses have PTSD symptoms

    KatieMI replied to db2xs's topic in Health, Stress Management

    While the article really describes problems related mostly to work-related stress, my therapist says that 70% of his female clients are nurses. This guy specializes on treatment of work-related
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    Reasons to lose nursing license?

    KatieMI replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    cjcsoon2brn, I would like to LOVE your post 1000 times! I do not know how many times I heard justifying everything from pure laziness to refusal to accept failure by "I don't want to lose my license"...
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    Scrubs: Are Colorful Ones Unprofessional?

    KatieMI replied to purplegal's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The thing is, color policy was developed to aid patients/visitors (i.e. "customers") in recognition of staff but in reality effect is directly opposite. 1). If the aforementioned "customers" know who...
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    Is it ever okay to follow up with a patient you've cared for outside of work?

    KatieMI replied to Momma1RN's topic in General Nursing

    When my little one eventually went home after 3.5 months in NICU, quite a few nurses and neonatal NPs gave me their phones with permission to call whenever we need it, as well as to give those phones...
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    Smoking helps the COPD patient with pneumonia

    KatieMI replied to La'sBlueSky's topic in General Nursing

    Well, when FDR was a kid, he had asthma, and the treatment he was subjected to was sitting in a room full of cigar smoke to submaximal dencity. When it did not work, he was sent to Long Island... and...
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    Life, death, and dying.

    KatieMI replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    I like, if situation permits, to let families read a small and little known story by Mark Twain named "Captain Stromfield' visit to Heaven". In short, it is a brilliantly written piece about a happy...