KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

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    Please don't call me Dude

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    ... as well as honey, hon, cookie, bunny, kiddo. Either name if you know it, or just "nurse", which is what I am, after all. We are in professional enviroinment, not onto your porch
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    Do NP schools care about where your BSN came from?

    KatieMI replied to Lori215's topic in General Students

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    NP or MD/DO????

    KatieMI replied to CoeKohawk11's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    The subject was discussed here just slightly more than ad nauseum but the summary looks like this: - MD/DO: longer schooling (and please mind the fact that EM residency is currently...
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    Massachusetts and NP restriction

    KatieMI replied to gospa's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    How to Become a Nurse Practitioner in Rhode Island - RI | APRN Certification and Jobs Unless I do really miss something, there is nothing in particular about online or distant learning programs. It...
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    Do NP schools care about where your BSN came from?

    KatieMI replied to Lori215's topic in General Students

    Smartnurse82, When you apply, you need to give college transcripts from every place you studied, including your ADN. Then it is up to the school to consider your coursework or not. Accreditation of...
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    Do NP schools care about where your BSN came from?

    KatieMI replied to Lori215's topic in General Students

    Lori215, If you do not care that much where you want to go for your Master's OR you are not sure that, for whatever reason (academical, financial, moving away from family, etc., etc.) you will be able...
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    MICHIGAN MIDWIFERY - U of M or Wayne State?

    KatieMI replied to s_yaldoo's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    One rule of thumb applicable to this and many other life situations: -would you like to associate for at least a couple of years with people who apparently are not studious and smart enough to satisfy...
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    Do NP schools care about where your BSN came from?

    KatieMI replied to Lori215's topic in General Students

    42pines, Sorry, it is not always like this. I did very extensive research of the subject due to my unique situation (part of coursework/credentials are foreign). FNP programs cannot care less where a...
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    What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

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

    A family member tried to convince my NM to cancel my very carefully planned and QUITE expensive vacation because he liked me caring for the patient. When facing outright refusal, he threatened to sue...
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    Do NP schools care about where your BSN came from?

    KatieMI replied to Lori215's topic in General Students

    My (top ten nationally) school had nothing against my BSN from middle-of-nowhere state university and even allowed some course transfers from there. They make it very clear, though, that they do not...
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    Do NP schools care about where your BSN came from?

    KatieMI replied to Lori215's topic in General Students

    My (top ten nationally) school had nothing against my BSN from middle-of-nowhere state university and even allowed some course transfers from there. They make it very clear, though, that they do not...
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    Would you be willing to do this?

    KatieMI replied to CocoaLoverFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm like 99% sure that the doc has a whole lot of overdue paperwork. I've seen some cheap guys offering international medical grads looking for "American" recommendations just such "valuable...
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    What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

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

    Here.I.Stand, :roflmao: when things like this happens in our times, it means that the whole place is rotten through and reeks of bigotry and xenophobia, starting from the very top and including HR...
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    What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

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

    That's what happens in real life: Nurse sues Flint's Hurley Medical Center over claim she was barred from treating infant because of her race |
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    What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

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

    NursesRmofun, the problem is, one virtually cannot figure out the atmosphere of the unit until working there or at least having an old and very trusted friend as an insider. I found couple of...
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    What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

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

    NursesRmorefun, Your instructor and yourself were rather fortunate not to be in a place where everything begins and ends with "customer service". One such hotspital (intended: hotel/hospital) I made a...
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    What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

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

    - I am an American and I want to be waited (yes, WAITED he said) by an American nurse! - me, shocked but polite: sorry, sir, but I got my nursing degree here in the US. - responce: with the way you...
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    150 meq of NaCl?

    KatieMI replied to veggie530's topic in Emergency

    One bag of standard 0.9% NaCl contains 9 grams of Na or 155 meqs. Here is how: Molecular weight of Na 23, Cl 35, NaCl 58 Therefore, 1 mole of NaCl = 58 g, 1 mmole= 58 mg = 1 meq, providing 100%...
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    Unwanted 'diagnosis'!

    KatieMI replied to WinterLilac's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly, you can spot untreated and somewhat advanced hypothyroid from another door, especially if you'd been seeing this person for a while. The thing is, I look exactly like this after doing 3...
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    Has anyone else "sensed" when something was wrong with a patient?

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

    I do it all the time. I went through a very different sort of medical training abroad where we were actually taught techniques to do this because right after you graduated you were often all alone in...
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    Nursing loans really that bad? 120K

    KatieMI replied to nursequery1's topic in General Students

    Still wondering: Is $120000 about median price of accelerated BSN in New York city and near it? Mine non-accelerated BSN in mortar-and-brick 4 years State university AND MSN in a top-10 nationwide...
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    Nursing loans really that bad? 120K

    KatieMI replied to nursequery1's topic in General Students

    The only one way to stop this insanity is NOT to go to schools which value their education, which is, while great, is not in any way superior to one delivered by hundreds of other similar schools for...
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    Help Please (:

    KatieMI replied to drea.says's topic in General Nursing

    CENA = nursing assistant. Nursing informatics specialists fresh out of school usually work in places using electronic medical record, which is pretty much everywhere nowadays, helping others to...
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    Why PVT is UNRELIABLE. Please read.

    KatieMI replied to RNsRWe's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I just imagine some low-level IT guy whose job is to review how the program runs and make list of all possible glitches and bugs coming to his boss's office with very long printout and saying "gee,...
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    Nursing in Russia?

    KatieMI replied to Parakeet's topic in International Nursing

    OP, I just cannot stop to wonder why wouldn't you like to serve poor populations in your own country to begin with. I had to drive through the city of Flint, Michigan yesterday and had to take off...