KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Chiro To FNP?

    KatieMI replied to chiro13's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    MidAmerica Learning appears to have their own rules. They can admit you without BSN if they want; RN license required to take clinicals and thereafter, whether ADN or BSN. License says nothing about...
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    Chiro To FNP?

    KatieMI replied to chiro13's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    The wast majority, if not all, MSN programs require RN license. That means you need to be a Registered Nurse, and preferably with Bachelor's, to be considered for admission. They won't bulge about...
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    Help me with compassion fatigue

    KatieMI replied to Raviepoo's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    That's the truth itself... the problem is where these boundaries actually are. I actually love to work with chronic pain patients, at least with those who seem to be at least minimally concerned about...
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    Pre-Nursing Student With Pacemaker and ACHD

    KatieMI replied to risser's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I had a classmate with somewhat similar history. He had MediAlert bracelet, and we and all instructors were told never, ever let him be near MRI scanner, lift anything heavy, do compressions during...
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    How to not Fail/Get kicked out/Get bullied?

    KatieMI replied to happyinmyheart's topic in General Students

    From my personal experience, there is NO way to prevent negative events. You may be the sweetest, smartest, most compassionate, most helpful person in the world and be hated precisely for that or...
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    graduate 2009, wanted to take NCLEX RN. Dont know which state i am eligible. pls help :(

    KatieMI replied to riynlyngale's topic in General Nursing

    Three ways possible: 1). Go as any other international nurse graduate, through CGFNS. You will remain "foreign grad" with all the sequela. Total cost probably will be comparable with option 2, as you...
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    The Worst Hospital Visitor I've Ever Seen

    KatieMI replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sorry, but what is so outrageous about it? If family thinks that a ceremony of a sort might somehow help patient, in this world or another, why don't let them do it providing they do not disturb...
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    I am the wife of a male student nurse and having trouble coping.

    KatieMI replied to Theotherone's topic in Health, Stress Management

    OK, I'll bring some
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    I am the wife of a male student nurse and having trouble coping.

    KatieMI replied to Theotherone's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm a wife of a guy who routinely works 60-70 hours/week while studying for another (his third) advanced degree and whose job obligations include international travel on short notice. We have kids and...
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    Fired and Devastated

    KatieMI replied to SweenyG's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't advise LTACH as well. Contrary to what many people think, nurses' clinical skills has to be top notch for this type of facility to manage patients who are more like "stable" ICU population...
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    Most annoying reason for admission?

    KatieMI replied to HakunaMatata<3's topic in General Nursing

    Because nowadays every single provider has to think first and foremost about covering his or her back, butt and other parts of the body and only after that about everything else. I cannot find this...
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    PICC dressing change nurses notes

    KatieMI replied to lindygirl's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    "PICC line dressing (optional - loose, soiled), changed according to orders using standard aseptic technique (optional if your place's policy requires any of them: CGH dressing applied, stockinette...
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    Ethical question-WWYD?

    KatieMI replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Sublingual way of meds delivery works by bypassing liver portal circulation (also known as "first bypass"). It works well enough if there is no collapse in systemic circulation. Anaphylaxis is a...
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    Ethical question-WWYD?

    KatieMI replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Theoretically, touching someone without the person's consent constitutes a battery, which is a sort of crime which at least in some states leads to pretty much automatic revocation of nursing license....
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    Ethical question-WWYD?

    KatieMI replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    NutmeggeRN, I am a member of a rather large support group for people with severe allergies and as far as I know most of us carry "double" supply of two adult doses plus two Juniors just in case EMS...
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    Ethical question-WWYD?

    KatieMI replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    I have severe allergies, used Epi countless times and know that one appropriate for age SQ dose can kill only someone with heart/main vessels already in pretty bad shape. So I was not that scared, and...
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    Ethical question-WWYD?

    KatieMI replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Been there, done that (my Epi Junior, which is standard dose delivery device for children before age of 12, for a child of 10 stung by a bee in the middle of a national park trip; the child swell...
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    Yes, hospital accommodations are luxurious Bed and Breakfast.

    KatieMI replied to Joe V's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Cosmetics and bath products can contain cocoa butter and components normally manufactured from it, and those were one-time use small packs without ingredients' list. I was not in mood to risk it all...
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    Yes, hospital accommodations are luxurious Bed and Breakfast.

    KatieMI replied to Joe V's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was in just such hospital once... by a pure chance, was on vacation in that VERY posh place on East Coast. Still was pocked at 3 AM and got chocolate cake as a "our hospitality team gift" - BTW, I...
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    Low GPA

    KatieMI replied to mdsrgnrs's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    It is possible but probably will be expensive. Start from the place where you did your BSN, admissions department. Tell them that you are accepted in that geared to teaching program but your personal...
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    Increase in Autism Diagnosis

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I thought it could be so but still... I work in inner city, and among this population ETOH (and other substances' abuse) is still very much a problem among women of childbearing
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    Increase in Autism Diagnosis

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    conviniently, Data & Statistics | FASD | NCBDDD | CDC So, estimated prevalence of alcohol fetal syndrome fell from estimated up to 1.5/ 1000 kids to 0.3/1000 in some 25 years. Do American women...
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    Increase in Autism Diagnosis

    KatieMI replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Ok, just from personal experience: I gave birth to hardly 30 weeks, 1 pound 2 oz premee about 12 years ago. While she was in NICU (in a huge, very much academically-associated center), we were told...
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    Cost of Nurse Residency Program

    KatieMI replied to Butterfly922's topic in General Nursing

    The place on link also requires the happy chosen ones to get their own malpractice insurance...for premium comparable with CRNA
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    Cost of Nurse Residency Program

    KatieMI replied to Butterfly922's topic in General Nursing

    I never heard of "certification" in using glucometer, it takes couple of times at worst to master the skill. "Certification" in IV is unclear - are they want you to be able to work as phlebotomist or...