KatieMI BSN, MSN, RN

ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine

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    Medical Student to Nursing Student

    KatieMI replied to thatguy777's topic in General Students

    Among other things...PA school is, essentially, 90% of info given in medical school compressed into two years instead of four. Studying for PA was more than once compared with attempting to drink from...
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    Anyone been asked inappropriate interview questions?

    KatieMI replied to laKrugRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    ...but it is nobody's business to know what language I speak at home. Even if they "just curious". I put my linguistic skills in resume and let NMs know that I'm able and more than happy to care for...
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    Anyone been asked inappropriate interview questions?

    KatieMI replied to laKrugRN's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Had something "illegal" asked every single time. I am an immigrant, speak with noticeable accent and sort of don't mind - after all, folks may be just plain curious. But - something is here, every...
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    Can a debt cause my nursing license to be taken from me?

    KatieMI replied to Jillybean48's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Looks like a scam and stolen identity for me. In Michigan, the similar calls from Lansing, done with severe foreign accent, we're sort of epidemic a couple of years ago. FBI had to educate public...
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    HELP! TB test positive after 14 hours?

    KatieMI replied to somuchdebt's topic in General Nursing

    Your ID doc will just have to order Quantiferon Gold. That's another TB exposure test; it requires IV draw but gives "yes" or "no" answer with better specificity and it doesn't reflect BCG in the...
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    BCG (Tuberculosis) Vaccine

    KatieMI replied to BusyBee91's topic in General Nursing

    I was born in former USSR and at the place where TB is still epidemic. So I had BCG three times (one at birth, second when I entered medical field - that was mandatory b/o high possibility of contact,...
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    What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    KatieMI replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    Just in... our best CNA, a bright girl admitted to the BSN program, called late. The day after her 18th birthday she came to courthouse to fill paperwork to change her first name. Currently...
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    What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    KatieMI replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    A little bit regarding of what happens with bearers of unusual foreign names later on... In my former country, the female name "Milena" was not too rare and meant "the darling one". The problem is, in...
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    Ten Tips for New Grad Nurses

    KatieMI replied to JayPeacock's topic in Nursing Career

    Same here. One thing everybody seems to look for in new grad RNs is ability to conform to the place's rules, however stupid they might be, and to follow the prescribed lines of action. Representing...
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    Ten Tips for New Grad Nurses

    KatieMI replied to JayPeacock's topic in Nursing Career

    In LTC volunteers are much more acceptable part of the whole picture than they are in acute care setting. They are allowed to do more things, interact more with clients, make bonds and therefore...
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    Ten Tips for New Grad Nurses

    KatieMI replied to JayPeacock's topic in Nursing Career

    1). Volunteers never, ever allowed to do anything "medical" or "nursing", much less something with "ventilators, tubes and medically intensive areas". In fact, they are usually not allowed even close...
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    Doctor and nurse

    KatieMI replied to nnadozieogechi's topic in General Nursing

    - physicians working within US medical system are trapped within EBM as the system and culture understand it. Both do it wrongly, making people who have 12+ years of intense training a little more...
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    BON approval and accreditation

    KatieMI replied to aeris99's topic in General Students

    So, the school is question: - has accreditation level which will make problems if any of its grads wants to study further, seek employment in place like VA system or just move across state line; - is,...
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    Nurses are Not Doctors

    KatieMI replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    SDN is a place for medical students and residents, mostly. These guys feel their $$$$ school debts literally as red-hot iron against their skins. They are actively afraid, because, for example, urgent...
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    Nurses are Not Doctors

    KatieMI replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    The article is a typical example of a doctor's point of view. We are the only ones, our years of training = quality, just give us more money because we're not getting what we think we're entitled to...
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    Warning Signs Associated With Degree Mills and Scam Schools

    KatieMI replied to TheCommuter's topic in School, College Programs

    Two more cents ? - school refuses to give prospective students its curriculum (or it is given, and looks very different from the one from local community college/university program, with overabundance...
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    A good resource for herbals?

    KatieMI replied to kakamegamama's topic in General Nursing

    Independent Analysis on Supplements & Nutrition | Examine.com Everything there is supported by published citations, although level of research
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    Not a test taker

    KatieMI replied to quirkystudent's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Test taking is not like turnout in ballet. It is not something one is born with. It is skill, and everyone of average intellect can develop it with time and effort. Take any NCLEX book and do...
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    Part time

    KatieMI replied to Room4me's topic in General Nursing

    Well, nursing is in fact more "accomodating" than, for example, many areas of human medicine. Problem is in finding the precise place, but after that "there is the will, there is a way". One of the...
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    Part time

    KatieMI replied to Room4me's topic in General Nursing

    From personal experience: - get your doctor's note with your DS and clearly stated limits of what you can and can't do. - with it, go to the Dean's office or to the highest administrator in school...
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    Medical terminology according to patients

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

    Smilingbabyjesus (pronounced as a single word) - spinal meningitis. Fell at the Lord's face - fainting while attending Sunday service. Peeing diabetes or water diabetes - diabetes insipidus. Wheeshing...
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    KatieMI replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I grew up where what is called "unnatural" food was simply unknown. Farm like one of XIX century, even without "chemical" fertilizers (old good manure did the job pretty well). Was near all sort of...
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    Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition in the United States

    KatieMI replied to TheCommuter's topic in Pediatric

    8 year-old girl cooking is pretty standard for most of the world beyond The Great Seven, poor and middle class alike. As my grandma used to say, "a girl must sift her first flour before she starts to...
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    Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition in the United States

    KatieMI replied to TheCommuter's topic in Pediatric

    1) Most of them shop for groceries in Walmart or Aldi (where all basics for balanced diet are available). Some get "almost all the things" in local pharmacies, which puzzles me because it is way more...
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    Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition in the United States

    KatieMI replied to TheCommuter's topic in Pediatric

    The family discussed in the article supposedly lives in apartment, although "crowded" one. Living in motel would be much worse, but still OK for an electrical skillet, 1-burner electrical stovetop...