KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    When a patient signs out AMA...

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

    Modern medicine is not able to do brain transplants just yet. And, in any case, you wouldn't give up your own brain to someone else. This someone else got his own and has right to use it as he sees...
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    Odd finding (Concerning genitalia)

    KatieMI replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    This is how some men and women are made
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    Reporting Asperger's Syndrome to Manager/Preceptors

    KatieMI replied to purplegal's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    No, she or anybody else must not volunteer such information. There is powerful bias against mental health issues in health care industry. Giving out this sort of knowledge can, with good probability,...
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    Allergic to my job?

    KatieMI replied to Hopeful1003's topic in General Nursing

    Well, ok, then they might know about some other fragrance-free soap they recommend for parents. They won't take money for one question. We were recommended this one (fragrance and now also triclosan...
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    Allergic to my job?

    KatieMI replied to Hopeful1003's topic in General Nursing

    Every bottle of every soap and pretty much everything else in this country has a small writing somewhere near the bottom: "questions? concerns? please call #" Call this number and ask company rep to...
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    Allergic to my job?

    KatieMI replied to Hopeful1003's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, What, exactly, are you allergic to? Not "soap" or "lotion", but exact component. Was it identified? If yes, you need to go through things used in your unit and eliminate everything with it and...
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    BSN-CRNA

    KatieMI replied to ccarroll1992's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Re-take undergrad, NOT grad courses. CRNA, as most of high-rank grad programs are selective and with good probability will not accept grad courses from "outside" (yes, they have transfer credit...
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    Advice with severe vascular leg wounds

    KatieMI replied to garnetgirl29's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    This is what is done in my place, and we have tons of patients like this: 1) optimize what still can be optimized. Perfusion (meds), diabetes control, etc. 2). If patient has diabetes, consider...
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    Max dose for humalog?

    KatieMI replied to Michelle King's topic in Patient Medications

    The maximal dose of pretty much of any insulin, including humalog, is " just enough of it". Read about insulin resistance and why it happens. Yes, human pancreas normally makes close to equivalent of...
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    Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    KatieMI replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    The problem is, being a member of ANA (or any other nursing professional organization, for that matter) matters only in a narrow circle of nursing politicking and academia, leaving outside...
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    I was happy once. Then I became a nurse

    KatieMI replied to ebart03's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You cannot take care of others if you do not take care of yourself first. Get to your PCP first thing after you sleep in on your first day off, tell all that and tell, directly, that you need FMLA...
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    Lessons Learned From A Decade Of Nursing

    KatieMI replied to Surg-OncRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't cry, don't trust, don't beg, don't fear. (A. Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag
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    Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    KatieMI replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Not lenghtly at all... i just, with all due respect, disagree with it and feel that quiet and respectful disagreement is the only one thing that makes sense
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    Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    KatieMI replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Well, now, with all that being said... Are there any more people around who disagree with the fact that bullying, harassment and such do indeed drive fair number of otherwise good nurses with...
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    Personal safety at work...question.

    KatieMI replied to ReadyToListen's topic in Patient Care Technician, Assistants

    I would call for a break, and schedule appointment with your primary care next day. What you may feel or perceive as panic attack, may or may not be one. There are other conditions with the very...
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    Placed on Performance Improvement Plan - What should I do?

    KatieMI replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I tried to do, not once but twice, precisely what is suggested above, and those actions only escalated situation. When people want others to do what they want, they got to explain, clearly and fully,...
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    what to do if you are told not to come back to clinical site?

    KatieMI replied to HoneybadgerFTW's topic in General Students

    From my personal experience, people never will honestly answer questions like these. "Attitude", while can be a problem, is more common a general covering of something that cannot otherwise be said in...
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    NP Programs

    KatieMI replied to Karamia0x's topic in General Students

    I am in online program which is highly ranked both locally and nationally, has median GPA of >3.7in my class and whose grads are highly sought for. The classes are demanding and workload is high,...
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    I hate group projects

    KatieMI replied to LPNtoRNin2016OH's topic in General Students

    One thing I found working is to associate with students of approximately my age (i.e. with family and kids). We kind of understand each other better and things go much smoother. One of the questions...
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    what to do if you are told not to come back to clinical site?

    KatieMI replied to HoneybadgerFTW's topic in General Students

    So, did you sit because your legs hurt too much, or because the census was low and there was just nothing to do, or you were doing something you might do sitting or standing and you were sitting at...
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    looking to take np classes early before being accepted into a program

    KatieMI replied to Joy16Sarah's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You sure can do it if you like it. Especially for-profits like Davenport who would just love to get your $$$. There are few things to consider. For one, which course from which place to accept as...
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    Alternative ways to get into a provider role?

    KatieMI replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    First of all, I hope you were not quite serious about writing stuff before provider verbalizes it. Primary care in community clinic may look like piece of cake but in reality it is nothing like it....
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    How often did YOU see the school nurse?

    KatieMI replied to SnugglePuggle's topic in School

    My kiddo went to office every day from 2 grade to 4 because she was on special diet and felt embarrassed by eating what was essentially baby food. Also, for taking her meds, for any symptoms...
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    Has anyone ever created a poster presentation?

    KatieMI replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    In my BSN school, we were required to do them gazillion of times. Get a cardboard in Walmart, make PowerPoint with as many slides as will comfortably stay on it. It is easier to count on standard A4...
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    nursing students with degrees in other areas

    KatieMI replied to theuer's topic in General Students

    Good things about it: - you probably will take less, if any, electives/pre-reqs. Program-dependent, but it usually happens and saves you time and money once you are in. Nobody cares what your...