KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    You are NOT allergic to...

    KatieMI replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh. Adenosine -"my heart stops". Do you prefer external cardiovertion? Steroids: " make my blood sugar go high and I grow fat in no time" Aspirin: "my ears ring". After eating half a box of it, you...
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    Additional US education required for foreign educated murse

    KatieMI replied to Natashavp's topic in Nurse Registration

    AFAIK, most Russian nursing schools are deficient in Ob/gyn, pediatrics and psychiatry. You may ask about these courses just to start things up. They are all clinicals and therefore more difficult to...
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    Additional US education required for foreign educated murse

    KatieMI replied to Natashavp's topic in Nurse Registration

    If you have another Bachelor's, then you can go through accelerated BSN program. These programs are designed for adults and so more commonly accepting students from different countries and different...
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    Additional US education required for foreign educated murse

    KatieMI replied to Natashavp's topic in Nurse Registration

    HouTx, did you know any such program existing anywhere in this country? If so, it would benefit many if you could post it on this forum. I researched the question in all the deep I might and only...
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    One time, nurses in my unit made collective request for code lock for break room, citing a diappearance of someone's cell phone as a reason. The breakroom was door-to-door to a room where a patient...
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    Blood transfusion: troubleshooting

    KatieMI replied to Aneri J.'s topic in Medical-Surgical

    I assume you use Y-type tubing. Then you can dilute the PRBC with saline before transfusion to decrease viscosity. Here is how: 1. Prime the whole thing with saline. Close both upper clamps. 2. Hung...
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    I handled this poorly. What would you do?

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

    I am sorry you have to go through this. You handled it just right, in my opinion. In my experience, this sort of folks want your reaction. Pretty much of any sort, but something. Not giving them what...
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    Scared to apply to grad school

    KatieMI replied to Rnfortuna's topic in General Nursing

    All of the yeah-saying is good but if you need a reality boost, contact one of your former professors with whom you were on the best terms and ask to sit in a graduate class for a few times. I assume...
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    What do you guys like to do in your free time?

    KatieMI replied to PianoTiles's topic in General Nursing

    I have my kids, and my husband to take care of. I love to read, and belong to couple of groups which meet regularly. Support for people with severe allergies and a small community of amateur...
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    IcuRNmaggie, this is what drives me crazy. SLP doesn't care for a second if a patient wants to eat that awfully looking, tasteless goop. All they care for is "preventing aspiration"... as if it could...
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    Ixchel, Last HCAPS scores, as we are told, 95+% "positive. How it comes to be this way - well, in this environment you just learn to do it all Telling the truth, most patients either come while still...
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    In where I am, SLP never does diet orders. They claim that their area is only type of diet (pureed, soft, etc.), everything else like low sodium, carb counts, the likes, belongs to registered...
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    New to Agency Nursing...is this a red flag?

    KatieMI replied to mmccool719's topic in Agency Nurses

    The LTACH near you can just be severely short at this time and recruiters paid top if they find a new body to send on floor there. You cannot always control your "job diversity" while working for...
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    Need some ABG help please!

    KatieMI replied to vaneasy's topic in General Students

    How about stopping to memorize and beginning to think? Resp. ACIDOSIS: ACID made from... yes, carbonic acid, which comes from... right, NOT breathing. Now, when a human being does not breathe, in that...
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    ICURNmaggie,
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    This is why I go back to school to become an NP. Patient's RR is 36? Do we have critical care on board? If no, get a consult, call me back with what they think.... hey, doc, I was going to tell you...
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    Conflict with fellow nurse regarding Dilaudid administration, please help!

    KatieMI replied to NYCRN21's topic in Pain Management

    Patients like described may have low BP precisely because their high respiratory rate. That (plus increased intrathoracic pressure due to fluid collection, plus respiratory alkalosis) decreases venous...
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    Grade Forgiveness for nursing school

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

    Your only real chance to speak with each program's adviser in person with your transcripts on the table. Do not forget to ask about median GPA of the program. If it is 3.0 official cutoff and median...
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    What is the stressful part of informatics?

    KatieMI replied to Julius Seizure's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Janet496, what, in your opinion, is crazy? I do not care, even for a second, if IT somewhere have some problem. I care for human beings who are barely holding it here. This is not a bank, Wall street...
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    ... and my all time favorite: - I need to do (task), would you like to help me? - no, sorry, I actually don't. One needs to see the shock this innocent phrase
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    What is the stressful part of informatics?

    KatieMI replied to Julius Seizure's topic in Nursing Informatics

    I am trying to enter the system "X" time in a row. The comp is slow as usual, and every time after a minute or so I got the message of "you cannot use this application, please call your system...
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    and yet... a poor soul with very, very chronic pancreatitis just agreed to eat "just a piece of something" after me talking him into it for a good half an hour. He is on low-fat diet, has to be taken...
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    Other departments trying to skip on work with RN's "blessing", aka lazy people wanting som

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

    Yeah, happens all the time and if nursing, God forbid, stops to control it, the famous stuff of "but we ALWAYS do it this way here" and blah about teamwork, cooperation and "we're all one family here"...
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    How to learn to start IVs?

    KatieMI replied to Momma1RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would second with dudette10 but if you really itching for it, try to get friendly with one of IV team nurses. I bet one of them would like to teach you secrets of the
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    What is your dream unit?

    KatieMI replied to guest769224's topic in General Nursing

    I am actually in one this present time. Acute LTACH, complexity, authonomy, tons of things to do, longer stays so you see the results of the good job (or lack thereof) for very real... if only there...