Kooky Korky BSN, RN

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    Is disclosing a mental health record that awful of a thing to do?

    Kooky Korky replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Nursing Career

    Keeping your private life private is key. There might be a good reason to tell all to your boss, but I don't see it that way at
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    Despite High Demand For Nurses, Colleges Aren't Keeping Up

    Kooky Korky replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It seems that no one goes into Nursing today to stay at the bedside. Everyone wants to be an NP, CRNA, Manager, clinic, school, or doc's office nurse, or Midwife. Nothing wrong with having a desire...
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    I don't know if I should call out or not r/t snow storm

    Kooky Korky replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

    Take it, leave it, do whatever you like. Continue to dis Night shift if you think that's right. It matters not to me. You have shown your true view, truth has been pointed out to you, you refuse to...
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    I don't know if I should call out or not r/t snow storm

    Kooky Korky replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

    People often say here that we knew what we were getting into before we went into Nursing. I can honestly say that I did not. And I think there are likely others who also didn't realize that...
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    I don't know if I should call out or not r/t snow storm

    Kooky Korky replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

    It ranks right up there with giving the vaccine to Administrators, who sit in offices and conference rooms, before giving it to true frontline
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    I don't know if I should call out or not r/t snow storm

    Kooky Korky replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

    You should have said the first time exactly what you meant, not led with an incorrect
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    New job. Got injured. Fired for unexcused absences during new hire probation period... what did I do wrong?

    Kooky Korky replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think I would have fired you if I were your boss. Especially if the preceptor gave you a good rating. Who knows if she really did? Fascinating that she mentioned that you avoid gossip....
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    I don't know if I should call out or not r/t snow storm

    Kooky Korky replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

    As a Supervisor, it was my job to make sure no one ever called off for weather. I had to get very tough and make all kinds of write-up and firing threats if someone tried to call off. One CNA...
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    I don't know if I should call out or not r/t snow storm

    Kooky Korky replied to SoNan's topic in General Nursing

    Night shift is not necessarily quieter. This is a common and erroneous stereotypical ASSumption and it makes me
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    Is This Unusual Treatment?

    Kooky Korky posted a topic in General Nursing

    My patient had fallen and hit the back of the neck against a piece of furniture one week before she came to our practice. She had begun experiencing right arm and hand weakness shortly after the...
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    ADN program starting now vs my aspirations towards and MD or DO: What do you think I should do?

    Kooky Korky replied to MDBoy's topic in General Students

    What is the upper age limit to entering the Navy or other branches of the military? Maybe you already said what you have been doing since high school but would you repeat it here if you don't...
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    ADN program starting now vs my aspirations towards and MD or DO: What do you think I should do?

    Kooky Korky replied to MDBoy's topic in General Students

    I could be wrong, but I don't think you were being made fun of. I don't know you but my impression, from what you have written, is that you are perhaps grandiose. Also perhaps somewhat immature...
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    Patients not allowed to shower after accident

    Kooky Korky replied to Emmeline22's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    And as usual, quitting is the answer -
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    Med Surg nurse being given Tele Patients

    Kooky Korky replied to Morning Glory's topic in General Nursing

    Every one should get his/her fair share of pts they don't know how to care for? This defines Nursing today. You must be a
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    Med Surg nurse being given Tele Patients

    Kooky Korky replied to Morning Glory's topic in General Nursing

    no doubt, huh? You must work at Dreams Fulfilled Medical Center, LOL. I think OP is perfectly justified in feeling she has been badly used, by both the job and by her employer. OP, get the...
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    Med Surg nurse being given Tele Patients

    Kooky Korky replied to Morning Glory's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe there is no "Tele Room" where a monitor tech watches the monitors at all times, which frees the nurse to go see the patient and verify VS, heart rate and rhythm via auscultation and checking...
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    floating medications in water to administer

    Kooky Korky replied to jailnurse#1's topic in Correctional

    Seems more like it would be disintegrating, not putting meds
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    Ethical Dilemmas of Correctional Nursing

    Kooky Korky replied to guest1054874's topic in Correctional

    Much of what you say is right on. However, I have seen inmates "abused" by the mere fact of how many inmates there are. For example - if there are 100 inmates per pod and there are 25 bunk beds,...
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    Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    Kooky Korky replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes. However, the appropriate time might never come because some people really do go to work to work, not to discuss things unrelated to the job. The focus is on actually working, not on making...
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    Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    Kooky Korky replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I am truly sorry and sad that you and others in your community feel regularly such ugliness from others. The trouble is that others outside your group find the ways of your group to be either...
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    Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    Kooky Korky replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    True. But would you want them cared for by a worker whose focus is on him/herself/itself the way this poster has described? No insult is intended re: the pronouns/adjectives above. I just...
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    Polite way to deal with AWOL CNA’s?

    Kooky Korky replied to Beepbeepbeep's topic in General Nursing

    I see your points. But sometimes a nurse has some time in on the job, some seniority. Or he/she needs the insurance and can't just up and exit. I know that it is vital for Management to back...
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    Ex-Nursing Assistant Pleads Guilty in West Virginia VA Medical Center Insulin Deaths

    Kooky Korky replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    And if they did report, did the people to whom they reported take appropriate, swift action? Genene Jones, LVN in Texas back in the 80's/ '90's was giving heparin to people in ICU. They would...
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    Ex-Nursing Assistant Pleads Guilty in West Virginia VA Medical Center Insulin Deaths

    Kooky Korky replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    someone who is mentally ill or angry or who is curious about what it feels like to be so powerful as to cause death or be stealthy and evade detection or ??? Someone might think he is doing a favor...
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    Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    Kooky Korky replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    On a public forum like this, you really can't demand that people with views differing from yours not comment. What do you expect others to do when your mouth is running about what you think is...