KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Narrowing Down Schools for MSN Education

    KatieMI replied to NurseIndependa's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Any program which is not accredited should be off your list. It doesn't matter what components/other programs like BSN are already accredited there. Yes, accreditation is retrospective and, yes,...
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    Just Nursing courses?

    KatieMI replied to SteelGrey's topic in General Students

    I did that. My previous courses were all accounted for as "science" part but I still had about 10 or so credits taken as "electives". I re-did pharm because I just freaking love it, and covered the...
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    Want to be a NP

    KatieMI replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    If English is your first language and you did pretty well in math before and you can take two weeks off, you can prepare for GRE and get decent score. Math is easy, reading is not that bad as well....
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    Foreign medical graduate wanting advanced nursing

    KatieMI replied to superking's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You can go: - BSN, then graduate program for NP or CRNA. 3 +2-3 years, with work a couple of years in between for CRNA/better grad schools. - accelerated BSN, direct bridge to NP. About 3,5 years...
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    Getting a "W" on an unnecessary class right before applying to BSN programs

    KatieMI replied to oliviabw's topic in General Students

    Drop it ASAP. This way it will not affect your GPA, which is quite low as cumulative and doesn'the need suffering
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    total calcium , serum calcium and corrected calcium

    KatieMI replied to uae808's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Calcium in serum exists in two basic forms: protein-bound and free ionized. Only free (ionized) one is physiologically active. Total calcium= free (active) and protein-bound (inactive) Number is not...
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    I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

    KatieMI replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    ""OP, how do you not get anxiety when you're actually taking medications yourself for it?"" "Do you have diabetes?" "No" "Why are you taking insulin, metformin and Januvia then?" "Are they for...
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    I Don't Get the Anxiety Part of Nursing

    KatieMI replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    Dear OP, I'm just D*** (all letters capital) glad that you had an immense luck to be able to concentrate on one thing a week and thus get some mastery over it. You never had to work in place where...
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    Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

    KatieMI replied to RNDave's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I am sorry but i really have difficulties finding in my own posts any mentions of "all bedside nurses". I did mention that doing the same entry-level job for 35 years cannot be named a good career,...
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    Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

    KatieMI replied to RNDave's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Spending just a year or so in college and then pushing drug cart around for 35 years may be a good life for someone but it is definitely not an example of good career. If an ADN programs demand GPA of...
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    Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

    KatieMI replied to RNDave's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    When you're running 12 hours straight like a chicken with its head cut off, being responsible for everything and everyone and punching bag for anyone, without your voice ever heard and your opinion...
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    BSN to DNP-FNP, how long?

    KatieMI replied to ronrandallgabiola's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    With BSN, it is about four years full-time. Without it, add 16 to 24 months for accelerated BSN or 12 for the shortest bridge. This is about, that is to say, high-quality product done online, in class...
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    Nurses with asthma

    KatieMI replied to VampyrSlayer's topic in General Nursing

    I was eventually designated as permanent drug pusher for that very reason. BTW, it was not adrenaline, it was physical
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    Nurses with asthma

    KatieMI replied to VampyrSlayer's topic in General Nursing

    I am another nurse with asthma and it bothers me minimally as long as I keep it under control. I have my rescue inhaler in my pocket at all times. Sometimes I have to ask for a little additional help,...
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    Glucose Competency: testing your own blood sugar?

    KatieMI replied to kaylee.'s topic in General Nursing

    "Gee, I am just from one MRSA dressing change, and heading into another one....so can I poke you
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    let go during orientation, needs advice?

    KatieMI replied to sheepingarden's topic in General Nursing

    OP, you are in my former ICU, I guess. I had exactly the same thing done, with one lady having nothing else to do except to follow me and write down the words I, by her opinion, mispronounced. Just...
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    Nurse Practitioner Route: No RN Experience?

    KatieMI replied to meganec17's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    BostonFNP, totally agree. I have several coworkers who did not succeed in NP programs in spite of nursing since Florence was roaming halls. They are great at where they are, but they seem to be...
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    Nurse Practitioner Route: No RN Experience?

    KatieMI replied to meganec17's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    In all honesty, when you hear that MDs spend like 120 hours every week working during their residency training, you need to divide that by 3. Medical residency is awfully ineffective because teaching...
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    Allergic to alcohol?

    KatieMI replied to sneaky_des's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, but try different brands whenever possible when you are at work. Some of them are just more drying than others. Old-fashioned hand washing may work better, I prefer to just wash my hands for this...
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    From LTACH to Med Surg

    KatieMI replied to dadweeb's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Are you from LTC or LTACH? Where I am, LTACH normal ratio is 4 to 5:1 and, while we do not usually get more than one discharge and one admission per shift, all these 4 patients may be vented to begin...
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    Allergic to alcohol?

    KatieMI replied to sneaky_des's topic in General Nursing

    No, one physically cannot be truly allergic to isopropyl (as well as ethyl, methyl and other small molecule alcohols). There molecules are too small and too chemically inert to elicit immune responce....
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    Nurse Practitioner Route: No RN Experience?

    KatieMI replied to meganec17's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Yes, you CAN find such program, especially among for-profit schools. Although, it is probably not something you SHOULD do, in terms of quality of learning, job prospects or cost of your education....
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    5-year-old chooses heaven over hospital

    KatieMI replied to anh06005's topic in Nursing News

    It is not brave and smart. It is painfully desperate. When I came in hospital yet another time at the age of like 6 or 7 with yet another anaphylaxis, I'd read a fairy tale similar to "Sleeping...
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    5-year-old chooses heaven over hospital

    KatieMI replied to anh06005's topic in Nursing News

    I am pretty much sure that most of "ordinary" folks from the street have no idea about death and what "doing everything possible" really means. These parents quite obviously imply their beliefs onto...
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    Pescatarian, Vegetarian, Vegan diets in nursing school?

    KatieMI replied to chris21sn's topic in General Students

    You can freely follow whatever restrictions you imposed onto yourself as long as you keep it as your strictly private matter and do not bother anyone else with diatribes about reasons for doing that....