Kooky Korky BSN, RN

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    Is this discrimination?

    Kooky Korky replied to eacue10's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps it's time to re-think that. If you do more than rare translating, if translating is taking up a great deal of your time, if the nurse whose patients you're translating for isn't helping you...
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    Vitamins

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

    Thank you. I have never seen this information before. By any chance, do you know of a reference or 2. Thanks
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    Is this discrimination?

    Kooky Korky replied to eacue10's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think they can require one nurse to do a job that other nurses don't have to do, even if the reason is that the others don't have the skills. OP should be compensated for having more skill,...
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    Is this discrimination?

    Kooky Korky replied to eacue10's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not a lawyer, but I think your patient might have a case for "missed opportunity" to have avoided that bleed. Or medical negligence or malpractice. Very quietly, if the opportunity presents...
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    Is this discrimination?

    Kooky Korky replied to eacue10's topic in General Nursing

    The comment about the plane was very rude. I doubt this was a case of medical tourism, given the rest of OP's
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    Calling Report to ER from Urgent Care

    Kooky Korky replied to misdetermined's topic in General Nursing

    But plenty of ER nurses have told me I needn't have bothered calling Report when sending pts from nursing homes or Rehab/Skilled Care. So I started just letting Paramedics give Report when they got...
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    I can't do it all (mom rant)

    Kooky Korky replied to missmollie's topic in General Nursing

    A couple of thoughts: Your hub doesn't know how to do homework? Don't you just sit down and do it? Or is there a special process to follow? Maybe he and your son could focus on it better at a...
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    Left job to safeguard my license - what "reason" to add on new applications?

    Kooky Korky replied to KatiejonD's topic in School

    Seems like it's speaking negatively of the staff who refused to call 911 and the other similar issues. Truthful and pertinent, yes, but still speaking negatively, isn't
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    So TIRED OF IT

    Kooky Korky replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    Now that you are an LPN, do you understand that a nurse has duties that might need to come before answering a
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    Shift Report: Listening, no writing...

    Kooky Korky replied to mtmkjr's topic in General Nursing

    I write what I consider important, what I need to check on/address. Some people write EVERYTHING. I just write what I consider highlights. The more senses and abilities I utilize - like listen and...
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    Minor Vent

    Kooky Korky replied to imaneedmycoffeefirst89's topic in School

    Someone must think it's
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    Anyone Else have to Sub in classrooms??

    Kooky Korky replied to rnknsn's topic in School

    You need to consider SPEAKING UP and telling the Principal, nicely but firmly, that you are confused because you thought you had been hired to be a nurse. Add that you are not able to get _____ done...
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    Left job to safeguard my license - what "reason" to add on new applications?

    Kooky Korky replied to KatiejonD's topic in School

    Why is it such a problem for Admin, Principal, other non-nurses to need and use 911? Is it an embarrassment? Expense? record-keeping issue? Does it make them somehow Look bad? It sounds like...
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    funny charting errors

    Kooky Korky replied to hello_nurse_mel's topic in Nursing Humor

    Maybe he didn't know "testicles" or "scrotum". Maybe he wasn't a real doctor. Or was awake too
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    Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation - Can I be Forced to Work?

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

    How come those pregnant women didn't
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    Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation - Can I be Forced to Work?

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

    I wonder if each medical director was on site or had he/she evacuated? Can you post the
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    Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation - Can I be Forced to Work?

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

    Why did they NEED to remain
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    Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation - Can I be Forced to Work?

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

    I understand at-will employment. I still don't understand how a policy manual can override a mandatory evac order from the Governor. And how is it that some medical facilities are allowed to stay...
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    Co-worker Impersonating a Nurse - Am I obligated to report this to the BON?

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

    I don't know where you looked and you might even be right, given the insane world we live in. If someone told me he was a nurse, I'd want to know what type and other things, just to make conversation...
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    Forced resignation?

    Kooky Korky replied to ThatBear's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Have you considered a nursing home or Psych? Correctional Facility? OR? Doc's office or clinic? Try the charting in the room, charting as you go approach. Ask for 1 more week, just 1 more, tell...
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    RACISM IN NURSING

    Kooky Korky replied to dddubbu's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The only real racism I have ever seen at work was against white workers. Back when Black folks first began to have some civil rights, supervisors became afraid to discipline them, however badly...
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    RACISM IN NURSING

    Kooky Korky replied to dddubbu's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Was her name Genene Jones? She killed patients, some pediatric, with Heparin and succinylcholine. Hopefully she is still in prison in Texas. Charles Cullen? Insulin I think he used. I hope...
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    What happens if you put water on ketone stip?

    Kooky Korky replied to Avill's topic in School

    what was the cause of death? We can do only so much to try to help. We each have to decide for ourselves how we are going to
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    Reportable BRN incidents

    Kooky Korky replied to Wrestler133's topic in General Nursing

    Of course, another problem is that you dosed the pt incorrectly, didn't report it to the doctor, didn't do an incident report. On top of the error itself, which would likely not have been a real...
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    Fired for taking vacation

    Kooky Korky replied to cyc0sys's topic in General Nursing

    I know this is a sensitive topic - death of a loved one. What I say will be with fear and trembling of the beating I will likely get. However - having lived 3000 miles away from family I know that it...