KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Non-matriculated Online Graduate Courses

    KatieMI replied to bunkuski's topic in General Nursing

    According to what I found, no program will transfer outside courses on this condition, for the very obvious reason of wanting all your money for itself. Only one exclusion may be multi-campus...
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    Failed a class - should I appeal??

    KatieMI replied to ineedachange1's topic in Excelsior College

    If you received 70% for ANY class, it means that you do not get 30% of information. In other words, you do not know a good third of what you are supposed to know. Would you like to receive care from...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    -(me): are you allergic to any medication? - (patient): to adenosine - (me): - what happens? - (pt): it makes my heart stopping and I may die. Ok, fine. Admission paperwork goes by. When asking about...
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    Patient safety and narcotics

    KatieMI replied to jay082's topic in General Nursing

    One can be so exhausted from constant pain, plus other symptoms, that he falls asleep all the time and unable to keep eyes open for even 10 sec., and still be in pain 10/10, AEB non-changing vital...
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    Vent Training

    KatieMI replied to pacosgro's topic in General Nursing

    Unless you are left all alone with private care vented patient (and these are usually stable ones) you will have bare minimum to do with actual vent machine. In no places I was working nurses were...
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    I want them to keep me. What can I do to be the best Ob nurse I can be?

    KatieMI replied to Bellatrix.'s topic in Ob/Gyn

    klone, in my own time, I did it all and much more of it diligently, and I still live with the results of what those so-called "nurses" did with me. OP, I do not want to be a naysayer, but if there...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Anna Flaxis, We all know that. Now, what would you do if patient claims allergy to epi with typucal stuff "it makes my head hurt, my pressure up and my heart beating crazy", full code and very much...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Question to those who think that "an allergy is always an allergy": - what would you do if patient claims an "allergy" to a drug or even a group of drugs, with questionable symptoms, and this very...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I am not allergic to opioids but always had severe side effects like vomiting for hours. In my pharm profile, allergy card and MediAlert it goes like: "h/o severe prolonged vomiting. Please prescribe...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, I have to live this life as it is. Several years ago, our support group made a conference for patients/families and representatives of food suppliers so that we could find how make...
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    PLEASE help! What are my options???

    KatieMI replied to Upward_Bound's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Try either direct entry MSN or accelerated BSN in a place which has good quality MSN, some of them do a thing known as "advanced placement". This means that, having GPA above certain level, you will...
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    Rectal Dialysis?

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

    Nope, won't work. Epithelium of anal zone proper (the lowermost 8 cm or so) doesn't absorb or secrete anything at all, so there will be no exchange. The upper areas (up to the end of sigmoid) have...
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    Bad professor?

    KatieMI replied to KatFUTUREnurse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    JustBeachyNurse, been there, done that! People of Walmart are cool, too
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    Bad professor?

    KatieMI replied to KatFUTUREnurse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I know a phenomenally talented math professor who has the lowest rating on that cite, the reasons being her accent, her serious attitude to learning and that "she cannot make lessons fun". Lessons of...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Systemic anaphylaxis after ALCOHOL WIPE? Unless wipe contained something of latex in the inner layer of package, I just cannot see how it is possible. Ethanol is is one of the molecules which cannot...
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    53 y/o going back into LTACH

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

    Find a LTACH with adequate support system. I do not think it would be a good idea to ask directly on interview how many aids, COTAs, PTAs and others are on floor at any given day - or, rather I do not...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    (del)
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    Feeling Lost: Prestigious Nursing School Debt

    KatieMI replied to seekinghappy's topic in General Students

    Seekinghappy, I did my BSN in a place as ordinary as plain water, straightforward and dull as it could be. Nothing to "enjoy" for me or my much younger classmates. But it had NCLEX pass rate of about...
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    Feeling Lost: Prestigious Nursing School Debt

    KatieMI replied to seekinghappy's topic in General Students

    It doesn't matter that much where you got your BSN. Besides this, leadership and incredible research opportunities matter even less for BSN, as you are going to start as the lowest person on the totem...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Not yet, but if elimination works, then it works, supposedly. Although I personally kinda sceptical about things like "foggy mind" attributed solely to gluten sensitivity unless patient constantly...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    30 years ago if a child could not speak at 5 and did not meet development milestones, he was given "r" word as diagnosis and that was basically that. Now, the much younger baby can be given any...
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    What are the benefits of OGs verses NGs?

    KatieMI replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    OG tube is staying in a very wide place of oropharynx, and so can move a bit from side to side. It prevents pressure related injuries, which can happen quickly in nasopharynx. This injuries may be...
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    American Resident, British Trained: CGFNS help?

    KatieMI replied to Kabenn's topic in Nurse Registration

    From the nursing Board point of view, you are just an international nursing graduate totally equal with any other such grad from Philippines, China or Russia. Sorry but that's the truth. It doesn't...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, here we go: - "pure" anaphylaxis or primary systemic reactions. Rare, thanks God. Associated with food allergies and high circulating IgE. Without treatment, cause death within 3-5 min from heart...
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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    One cannot be allergic to iodine, as well as to any other chemical element. Iodine (as well as other chemical elements and other small molecules ) can make chemical complexes with certain proteins in...