SoldierNurse22 BSN, RN

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    New Onco RN struggling to adjust

    SoldierNurse22 replied to RNewbie22's topic in Oncology

    Not sure if this will help, but I made up an example "brain" that I make for myself to keep track of my patients. I make one of these for every patient I have, usually on the back of the MAR I print...
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    NURSING...the to die for career...hmm

    SoldierNurse22 replied to lkulmann's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Sure isn't, and we're about to lose a lot of our retirement benefits,
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    Bill would require nurse-to-patient ratios in Michigan hospitals

    SoldierNurse22 replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    You're right--the out of pocket costs initially would be higher for hospitals in the sense of hiring and training more employees. But long-term, the number of problems avoided (falls, infection,...
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    SoldierNurse22 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

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    Bill would require nurse-to-patient ratios in Michigan hospitals

    SoldierNurse22 replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    This would be awesome. By the time I got home, I could be seeing ratios similar to those I've had in the military if this
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    Loan Repayment-National Health Service Corps

    SoldierNurse22 replied to midwestFNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Make sure this isn't getting cut with sequesteration. Lots of this payback type stuff is going to change
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    New grad feeling left out

    SoldierNurse22 replied to lovelylady3's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Y'know, this is an interesting topic. Personally, I am looking at a very challenging workplace with sequesteration hitting us hard in April. Military members will be working 60-80 hours a week to...
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    SoldierNurse22 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Some people are like this, yes. But based on the sheer numbers of posts on this forum of young grads describing their first experience in the workplace as "abusive" and looking for new places of...
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    New Onco RN struggling to adjust

    SoldierNurse22 replied to RNewbie22's topic in Oncology

    Hey RNewbie, I was an unwilling Onc recruit when I started out, too. I know it's a little more terrifying than some other specialties because our patients can be so sick. But like Orange Tree said,...
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    Can a Nurse do a Respiratory Therapist's job?

    SoldierNurse22 replied to cumberbachtRNtobe's topic in General Nursing

    RT is a prime example of yet another ancillary service that was birthed by nursing when nurses decided we were too busy to worry about certain aspects of patient care. In exchange for all the help,...
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    Overbearing family members

    SoldierNurse22 replied to mindyjo15's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If the patient is A&Ox3 and in charge of their own care AND it appears that they are being overshadowed by their family member, I will say "OK, thanks" to the family and address the patient with...
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    SoldierNurse22 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You know some of what your mother has experienced, but you really can't know what someone else has experienced in their life unless you've lived it yourself. Especially considering you were a child...
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    SoldierNurse22 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If new grads will really go for ANY change, then this profession is in more trouble than I thought. Really? You're going to lecture experienced RNs on "how hospitals work" and the ins and outs of...
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    Army LPN?

    SoldierNurse22 replied to J4865's topic in Government, Military

    Bonuses? Especially with sequesteration about to go into effect? Ha! If
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    Young, Thin, and Cute New Hires

    SoldierNurse22 replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Another superb example of
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    Anti-intellectual & hyper-sensitive. WHY?

    SoldierNurse22 replied to mclennan's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree with everything above, especially the point about you having a distinct advantage in this situation. If her behavior / job performance doesn't change, I'd do exactly as psu_213 suggested and...
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    Looking to connect with other Christian nurses

    SoldierNurse22 replied to SuzieF's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Hi Suzie, I'm a Christian nurse as well. I was raised in the faith, left it in my teenage years only to have it come roaring back in Spades in my young twenties about when I joined the Army. The...
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    New Grad Traumatized After First Interview

    SoldierNurse22 replied to rollieem's topic in First Year After Licensure

    You never
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    Are you in it for the money?

    SoldierNurse22 replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Really? Sarcasm, I hope? If not, you haven't looked too
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    Why can't nurses intubate?

    SoldierNurse22 replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

    You know cooler people than I do. Most people I meet still think nurses "serve" doctors and are lost without direction from the
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    Why can't nurses intubate?

    SoldierNurse22 replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

    That entirely depends on what they end up doing. Let's face it--most of the time, when we save lives, it isn't in the TV drama fashion that people think it is. It's a nurse noticing that something...
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    Why can't nurses intubate?

    SoldierNurse22 replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

    When I was in my EMT-B class, the paramedics used to get at nurses by saying things like, "Yeah, you can do x and y and z...but you can't intubate." It was their favorite dig against RNs. I used to...
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    Running PRBC concurrently with NS?!

    SoldierNurse22 replied to nurseap's topic in General Nursing

    Oh man, we used to do this all the time! Hem/Onc, y'know? Sometimes, there were days where we'd have orders for Mg, K, Blood, NS, TPN and chemo. That was always a challenge! Thank God for triple...
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    Peds & active duty military nursing

    SoldierNurse22 replied to patoyia's topic in Government, Military

    Big Army hospitals (I came from Walter Reed) have dedicated peds units (Peds Onc, PICU, general Peds, etc). Smaller hospitals (MEDDACs) will probably either put you on a clinic or on a med-surg floor...
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    New to chemotherapy...concerned about exposure risk...

    SoldierNurse22 replied to SYNURSE's topic in Oncology

    Follow protocol. I am also a WOCBA (woman of childbearing age). Plenty of my coworkers are also WOCBAs. The risk of exposure is essentially eliminated if you take the proper