KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    have bach in biology, adn nursing can I go right to FNP?

    KatieMI replied to Joy16Sarah's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    There are plenty of MSN programs accepting non-nursing Bachelors' but, unfortunately, their requirements vary. Only one way to figure it out is to copy/scan your transcripts and shop around, reaching...
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    The taste of crow in the morning......

    KatieMI replied to loveschoolnursing's topic in School

    I once had to wait for quite good few minutes in line in hotel lobby in order to present the "desk administrator" with the fact that there was a woman in one of receptions' wing restrooms, half...
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    Coming out with mental health... or not?

    KatieMI posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    One of my previous NM had quite special sense of humor. For example, he liked to call me on my days off somewhere around 6 A. M. to ask if I got his email regarding being fired the day before. When I...
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    Would you live in a rural community for nursing?

    KatieMI replied to thenursehopeful's topic in General Nursing

    This is what my family is doing, and not only for nursing. General cost of living, excellent schools, low-cost colleges, NO TRAFFIC, kids playing on streets well into darkness. And if we feel like...
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    Have any of you ever left a tourniquet on a patient after an iv start?

    KatieMI replied to Mursechico's topic in General Nursing

    Once I've got a patient transferred from a main med/surg floor with mention that he is "an extremely hard stick and so you better keep the iv we just managed.... blah, blah". The hospital had "rapid...
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    No injections through a tattoo?

    KatieMI replied to cayenne06's topic in Patient Medications

    AFAIK, spinals and epidurals are done using stiletted needles and the stilet is not removed till the needle passes the skin. The technique was, again AFAIK, introduced after there were reported cases...
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    New NP Student Tips...Please help!!

    KatieMI replied to MayMSN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Each institution may be different but what you all are going to do after that is not. Advanced practice nursing is where all the babble about teamwork comes to its end. You are not going anymore to...
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    New NP Student Tips...Please help!!

    KatieMI replied to MayMSN's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I am really sorry but didn't it occur to you that on grad level 50+% of studies are expected to happen independently? It is very unfortunately if you BSN program did not give you opportunities to...
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    signs of a bad unit

    KatieMI replied to johsonmichelle's topic in General Nursing

    Dear Lord....that is very bad indeed. Especially as a sitter... how can you physically be in more than one place at
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    signs of a bad unit

    KatieMI replied to johsonmichelle's topic in General Nursing

    High turnover in ICU often caused by the fact that many new nurses only stay there for exactly as long as they need to go to CRNA school. My own 0.02 to the list of red flags: - core of "old" nurses...
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    First job & LTAC is not for me.

    KatieMI replied to Alex_RN's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    You can use the letters which brought you the job you currently have. You have professors from your school and preceptors from your last clinicals, as you are fresh from school. People from other...
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    First job & LTAC is not for me.

    KatieMI replied to Alex_RN's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    1). Stop playing guilty games. Every single thing in this world is good for someone, and bad for someone else. LTACH happens to be not your cup of tea... so what? 2). As now you kinda know what you DO...
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    RANT: You're an RN, suction them yourself.

    KatieMI replied to Alex_RN's topic in Long Term Acute Care

    "Already done, your vent is still beeping/guy is still purple. Would you go with me and see him?(smile)" Done. If the RT still refuses, report him same day. Sick Sensor Syndrome (constant ringing due...
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    Is it true all nurses get MRSA or C-DIFF?

    KatieMI replied to mzsuccess's topic in General Nursing

    Most of of us have C. Diff. living in our bowels as part of flora. See here, for example: CID 51% of LTC residents have it, without problems. It is named "asymptomatic carriage". Staph aureus in...
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    Question from a clinical instructor

    KatieMI replied to luv2quilt's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    Assessment and history pertaining to wound/ostomy care would be nice thing to teach. It is ridiculous how often patients go for weeks in specialized wound care clinic and end up in LTACH with critical...
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    Nursing higher studies or working in H4 visa

    KatieMI replied to SiniKuruvilla's topic in Nurse Registration

    You have to figure out how to change your visa status first, as with H4 you absolutely cannot work and study in any reputable college or university. Technically, you can start evaluation of your...
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    Low back pain. Help!

    KatieMI replied to juana15's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Shoes, shoes, shoes. If at all possible, get second pair and change mid-shift, especially if working double. It helps. Core yoga, choreography, pilates, pure barre or core strength, whatever you like...
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    Was my Professor wrong...

    KatieMI replied to loving2024's topic in General Students

    Well, your professors was wrong indeed. Because you were taught to treat NUMBERS, not the patient. Why he is here in ER? If it is CHF, then Lasix probably will be needed, sodium or not. If it is...
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    Least Favorite Things Patients Say

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

    - "why can't you just"... (do transplant of everything, get doctor/drugs/problem fixes right out of thin air, get some elixir of everlasting youth) - "somebody needs to do something about it"...
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    Drug seekers

    KatieMI replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    It is not even a question of being judgemental or not for me, just strictly practical matter: - is the pt clinically stable without obvious signs of pain or whatever he claims it to be (yes/no)? (if...
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    Very Low Dose Insulin Administration

    KatieMI replied to ILoveMyJobRN's topic in General Nursing

    We had situation like that a few times with patients super-sensitive to short-term insulin (yes, there are some of them who react on 0.5 units... insulin-dependent ETOH abusers well onto their way to...
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    2 days in not good fit

    KatieMI replied to Alongroadtorn's topic in Rehabilitation

    Absolutely. Right. After only two days, It is noy YOU who "should be given one more chance", it is THEM. So, if YOU feel like it, give them that chance and ask for another preceptor, right away. If...
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    Cruise Nursing????

    KatieMI replied to mandaf88's topic in Travel

    I knew one nurse who did it for the time her husband was an engineer on the same ship. By her, it was nothing relaxing at all. The ship was huge (plus the crew), folks from all walks of life from 2-3...
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    Flunked nursing school, any way to return?

    KatieMI replied to SlickSouthpaw's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You may try to re-take preqs classes in community college, going as slow as your health permits. Your goals should be 1) get accustomed to studying without awakening your mental health issues, and 2)...
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    Acute Care NP??

    KatieMI replied to valx92's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    1). Check the requirements of schools you are interested in, but in general one year of hospital bedside is enough. ICU, CCRN and such belong to CRNA schools realm, not ACNP. They are nice to have but...