KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Nursing Graduation Party Help

    KatieMI replied to Andrea Testroet's topic in General Nursing

    Buy your sister a good quality stetoscope (Littman's is one suggestion) with personalization, a cute nurse's tote bag and let her choose two pairs of the highest quality walking (not running) sport...
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    NP's how are you these days?

    KatieMI replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Where I am, multiple urgent care clinics all send patients to outdoor triage and testing centers associated with larger hospitals if there are any suspicions. Initially, provider's note from urgent...
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    DNP NECESSARY????

    KatieMI replied to TheFuture09's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Until either a state's Board make DNP a mandatory prerequisite for licensure, or a facility makes decision to hire DNP only, it won't be mandatory. Schools may push DNP as much as they want because of...
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    Covid-19 Nurse Practitioner

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

    1). There is no such thing as "coronavirus clinic" or "COVID nurse practitioner" so far, AFAIK. Patients who stay at hone are managed by their primary care providers. Those who are in hospitals are...
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    CEU FOR AANP

    KatieMI replied to TheFuture09's topic in Advanced Practice

    AANP has their own CE center https://aanp.inreachce.com/Mobile (for mobile devices), otherwise look under "education" tab. The whole thing is not free but has more than enough units to choose from....
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    I don’t fit in, and my coworkers think I’m an idiot

    KatieMI replied to Newbie4567's topic in General Nursing

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    Overcharting as new grad?

    KatieMI replied to baby.icu.nurse's topic in General Nursing

    From the provider's point of view, overcharting leads to a lot of problems: - when a nurse writes down 25 notes like "patient repositioned", "patient transported on Xray with...", "patient is...
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    Scared of being successfully sued

    KatieMI replied to nursing90504's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    He can threaten you all the way he likes. His chances to even get it to some degree of legal movement, providing will be HIS business to secure legal representative (read: to tell a lawyer the whole...
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    Night Nursing School

    KatieMI replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Students

    There are such programs, but most of them are "evening" rather than nights. It is likely too much logistics, resources and HR problems to support a "true" overnight program. I know several programs...
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    COVID-19: NCLEX Changed!!

    KatieMI replied to Clover123's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Goodness. It almost 2 minutes per question, and as minimum only 60 of them. C'mon, you're given SAME exam on EASIER
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    Forced Quarantine

    KatieMI replied to Chris11's topic in Disaster Preparation

    And 90% of them infected at once... but, oh, when a SNF administration ever let an idea to slip through about such minor thing? "It is your job to care about client's condition. It is my job to care...
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    Forced Quarantine

    KatieMI replied to Chris11's topic in Disaster Preparation

    For all honesty, if I were you, the next thing your DON would see from me on such condition would be good-bye note. With another note from the nearest urgent care with doctor's order to stay away from...
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    NP's how are you these days?

    KatieMI replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Powers that are think about remdesivir and chloroquine, with or without azithromycin (the latter one being used anyway for ICU patients with COVID19). Unfortunately, things still need to go through...
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    NP's how are you these days?

    KatieMI replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Is there anything around nowadays that doesn't provoke anxiety? Just wondering ? Healthy anxiety coping skills can be no less valuable than "social distansing" in the process of living through this...
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    NP's how are you these days?

    KatieMI replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2020/03/17/08/59/hfsa-acc-aha-statement-addresses-concerns-re-using-raas-antagonists-in-covid-19 Evidence so far is more theoretical but it says "do...
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    NP's how are you these days?

    KatieMI replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Acute care/hospital: - ER is somewhat calmer. People seem to finally get that it is not the best time to go there for bumped toes and back pains x10 years. But quite possibly it is calm before the...
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    SINGLE STATE LICENSE

    KatieMI replied to KaforeignRN's topic in General Nursing

    For the clearness' sake, I did not read anywhere that the OP had "experience that occured so long ago". As far as I understand, she lives in Texas, did not have experience required by Texas BON,...
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    SINGLE STATE LICENSE

    KatieMI replied to KaforeignRN's topic in General Nursing

    The funny thing is that from the Boards point of view one can be U.S. citizen, born or naturalized, but still remain "foreign-educated nurse" with all the sequela. This is, actually, quite a common...
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    SINGLE STATE LICENSE

    KatieMI replied to KaforeignRN's topic in General Nursing

    We all here are anonimous users, and each of us is worthy of every other's advice. This is what allnurses.com is
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    SINGLE STATE LICENSE

    KatieMI replied to KaforeignRN's topic in General Nursing

    KaforeignRN, As another foreign-born individual, I strongly advice you to follow your state BON rules. You may not imply or do anything illegal, but it will be up to you to prove it if someone (and...
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    Why is the abdominal assessment different than the rest?

    KatieMI replied to Dani_Sanchez777's topic in General Nursing

    Because: Everything else, we need to make sure the thing is really there and if we need to adjust our auscultation as appropriate. It doesn't make any sense to auscultate the heart if it is not where...
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    Are you supposed to check a boy's foreskin during a physical?

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

    The evidence of usefulness of manual breast exam is controversial, whatever ACOG wanna say: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4974039/ (this is far from the only one) Better to spend time...
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    Are you supposed to check a boy's foreskin during a physical?

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

    I never do it unless there are relevant complains/other relevant indications. Too many individual variables and too little chance to find something warranting any further action if there is no other...
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    On Your Own

    KatieMI replied to 2beAnurseR0's topic in General Nursing

    I was working with several Navigators and all of them had decades of specialty experience in a particular place. All of them became Navigators after they had to switch to M-F 8- 5 for some reason....
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    On Your Own

    KatieMI replied to 2beAnurseR0's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse Navigator is a well-known branch of nursing. They are mostly employed by centers providing highly complex care which can be overwhelming for patients, like advanced oncology. I personally know...