KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Genuine question that I know is going to make me sound like a TERRIBLE nurse...

    KatieMI replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    Just letting you know: nurses are not sued for every little thing. In fact, they are not sued even for quite a big things. About 70% of nursing calls are, unfortunately, done without much reason. It...
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    Genuine question that I know is going to make me sound like a TERRIBLE nurse...

    KatieMI replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    For "wrong dose", there is a pharmacy, not you. For "missing an important order" - quite frequently patients do not need everything they had ordered at hospital to be reordered at discharge....
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    Genuine question that I know is going to make me sound like a TERRIBLE nurse...

    KatieMI replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    In american medicine, everybody providing direct patient care checks everybody else providing direct patient care. We are all people. Mistakes, conscious or not, are inherently human. By providing...
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    RN fired from ICU and not offered transfer to another floor.

    KatieMI replied to HansRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hoosier_RN, if an employee is given a choice to test for narks or resign immediately, it clearly means that he got a target on the back. If only one person and not a whole shift asked to test, some...
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    RN fired from ICU and not offered transfer to another floor.

    KatieMI replied to HansRN's topic in General Nursing

    And what could happen if that RN would not be an abuser? "Narcotics disappearing" is not an evidence by itself, and most people in sane mind would leave immediately after being presented with the...
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    RN fired from ICU and not offered transfer to another floor.

    KatieMI replied to HansRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was in precisely the same situation as the OP twice. Both times, they spent significant amount of time and effort to build paper trails and documented things according to which I should not be let...
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    What was your first AGACNP job?

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

    That's why I am going back to school. Docs couldn't care less, but formal policy is formal policy. The situation varies incredibly wide around the country and even within states (rural vs. metro areas...
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    COVID-19: Creepy or No?

    KatieMI replied to Toaster2k18's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If you are not usually talking with someone, it doesn't mean that someone is not aware of your existence. It is perfectly OK to just say "thank you" directly to the person who deserves
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    What was your first AGACNP job?

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

    I do not know... I started from running hospital floor with FNP, it was nothing "terrifying" except for number of nursing calls, out of which at least 70% were pure nonsense. Was working for two years...
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    To kill or not to kill... another person dream?

    KatieMI replied to KatieMI's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Thank you so much, but please no hugs... ribs still hurting
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    What was your first AGACNP job?

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

    Specialty adult practice where you will do both clinic and rounds in hospital. Nephrology, Cardiology, Neuro/strokes, Surgery, Ortho, whatever. You'll get hospital privileges this way, and after...
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    What can I do with my MSN-FNP that doesn't require much patient contact

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

    PAs are wastly preferred. Very difficult position for an NP to get in without specialty experience and personal connections. Plus, you can be pulled at any time for preops, postops, daily rounds,...
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    RN fired from ICU and not offered transfer to another floor.

    KatieMI replied to HansRN's topic in General Nursing

    You can always tell on interview that "the position was not a good fit for me" and stop at that. Everybody in medical world knows how things are run in some places, so if your license is otherwise...
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    Pathways to NP

    KatieMI replied to Sun1's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Cardiology NP - you can do FNP, Adult-Gero Primary and Adult-Gero Acute. It is more depending on where you want to work eventually (specialty clinic vs. hospital vs. research vs. procedures) as in...
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    To kill or not to kill... another person dream?

    KatieMI replied to KatieMI's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I am doing just fine ? Off oxygen, off most of the meds, back on floor full time on a new job which is the whole way better than the old one. Started to work on walking staircases up as I do not feel...
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    Issue at Union Hospital

    KatieMI replied to perfectzero01's topic in General Nursing

    1). make sure you are not breaking any rules (in some places trucks should use separate part of parking) 2) call your agency and tell them in very bright color with liberal amount of drama added that...
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    Did I make the wrong call?

    KatieMI replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    Davey, psychiatry is a quite separate world ? Patients on medical floor more frequently than not know it. Trazodone is not addictive by itself but being combined with IV opioids, apparently, sends...
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    Did I make the wrong call?

    KatieMI replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    In SNFs and even some hospitals apparently there are some schmolicies prohibiting splitting any pills at all. I lost count of how many times some little old lady or gentleman was carefully titrated...
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    Did I make the wrong call?

    KatieMI replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    "Unusually" high/low doses are common in Psychiatry. On the other hand, "half dose" was prescribed and we do not have to believe everything patient says about doses of meds. There are meds which do...
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    So H&H are 2 different labs: why only say one value?

    KatieMI replied to COVIDNURSE's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, yes... It drives me nuts - this argument "I just want to report/let you know/update you". I do not know what it might be, I do not know patient, I have no idea what is going on but I am doing my...
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    No Jobs For New Grads Despite RN Time?!

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

    Did you research job opportunities in your living place of choice before you started school? Before COVID? Re. feeling guilty toward prospective employer: it is one thing to get out of your head...
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    No Jobs For New Grads Despite RN Time?!

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

    1). Acute care NPs have generally less chances in "small communities". Small hospitals do not need many of them, and those which do frequently prefer PAs. 2). Hiring is down everywhere now. Whatever...
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    Home health nurse working as a maid?

    KatieMI replied to mzsuccess's topic in Home Health

    Heh, you never heard what a human being can tell you to prove himself having "emotional disability" and thus get a sheet of paper allowing him to take his pet everywhere free of charge. Especially...
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    Incorrigible

    KatieMI replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Davey, I do not know why you were terminated but I know for pretty much sure that whoever did that is an idiot not worthy any further attention. Congranulation with the new
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    Home health nurse working as a maid?

    KatieMI replied to mzsuccess's topic in Home Health

    It is a common story. Either her primary care provider is too lazy or "friendly and customer-oriented" and just signs off renewal orders for skilled nursing, or he/she and home care management "work...