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    Positive pre-employment drug screen! What will happen?

    Asystole RN replied to Pmb's topic in General Nursing

    "Accidentally" taking the wrong med is just like the excuse of "I fell and it accidentally got stuck in my butt!" Not the best excuse but likely explained by one of the several other theories posted...
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    Positive pre-employment drug screen! What will happen?

    Asystole RN replied to Pmb's topic in General Nursing

    Well you do petition the state for the opportunity to serve the public at it's pleasure with reservations... You know the whole application, hundreds of dollars, and taking a test
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    Asystole RN replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    You are operating under the assumption that these interventions were accidental in nature. From the bits and pieces of the story this sounds like a palliative sedation program that lost touch with the...
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    foley ballon placement wrong?

    Asystole RN replied to moonshawdow's topic in General Nursing

    Usually even if you start to inflate the balloon slightly in the urethra it will pop into the bladder. A rule of thumb when inserting anything into anyone for any reason, this goes for sexy time as...
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    Denver Weatherman Loses Job over Twitter Remarks about Nurses:

    Asystole RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in General Nursing

    I understand your sentiment and even somewhat agree. To be fair though, no one lost any sleep or even protested that I am aware of. People were slightly offended so took slight action such as...
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    Denver Weatherman Loses Job over Twitter Remarks about Nurses:

    Asystole RN replied to SmilingBluEyes's topic in General Nursing

    The dude has a public facing job where his primary responsibility is to make people happy and to be like-able, yes I said primary...the weather is strictly secondary. Regardless of how people reacted...
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    $200,000 salary as a RN, it's true

    Asystole RN replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I worked with a nurse who had an unusual per-diem schedule of 1 week on and 3 off. He lived in Georgia and worked on the West Coast. He said that it was so dirt cheap to live in Georgia that he could...
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    $200,000 salary as a RN, it's true

    Asystole RN replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I should have said "high-performing" schools. Modesto is worse. Coming from someone who graduated from Sac City High
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    $200,000 salary as a RN, it's true

    Asystole RN replied to guest416560's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Keep in mind that the mortgage is only single part of the COL. Taxes and other factors in the COL make living in Northern California far more expensive than other areas...I know I lived in Sacramento...
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    J tip - Anyone using this?

    Asystole RN replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Are you employed by or have financial ties to
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    let go from job

    Asystole RN replied to tinybbynurse's topic in General Nursing

    At-Will: Employee or employer can severe their work relationship at any time for any legal reason. Right-to-work: Employee's right to work without being forced to join a labor union. In some union...
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    Workplace Violence - What's the Law?

    Asystole RN replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I get what you are saying but again, in every state of the union assault or battery can be classified as a felony depending upon the circumstances. Usually things like bodily harm, weapons, the...
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    Workplace Violence - What's the Law?

    Asystole RN replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    To clarify for everyone, there is not a state in the union where assault or battery is legal. There may be specific circumstantial laws that define assault or battery in different ways or penalty...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    Asystole RN replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I am glad you brought this up. I had to laugh when everyone went crazy over the nurse in Tennessee but nurses being criminally charged for a negligent action is far more common than many assume. I...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    Asystole RN replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    Unfortunately, "the doctor told me" is not a suitable defense in any state. States may slightly vary but if a reasonable prudent nurse in that situation should have expected or suspected patient harm...
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    Black woman wearing puff pigtails to work

    Asystole RN replied to HoopNurseMomo's topic in General Nursing

    I personally do not think it would look unprofessional but it might highlight your youth. Nothing wrong with that but since you mentioned age I am guessing you are also attempting to project more...
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    Relocating to North Carolina

    Asystole RN replied to Cboyerrr's topic in General Nursing

    Out of curiosity, why North Carolina? Family? If you love to camp consider that the farther west you are the more open dispersed camping there is with California being the exception. The Eastern...
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    Disappointing Interview

    Asystole RN replied to JSB2018's topic in General Nursing

    Be polite and professional always. The fact that they sent on your information is a great sign, people do not do that for people they do not like or see no value in. I would personally reach back...
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    let go from job

    Asystole RN replied to tinybbynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work retail many moons ago, like many, but also served in middle management for a time. It is not uncommon to let employees go over small value mistakes. Few reasons; 1) Employee turnover...
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    Ohio Hospital Fires 23 After Fentanyl Overdose Deaths

    Asystole RN replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    This sounds like someone blew the whistle on a palliative sedation program. I highly doubt these were mistakes made by bypassing existing safety measures, these were likely deliberate interventions....
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    Why would this be used vs. usual?

    Asystole RN replied to T-Wave's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    You will hear "angio, angiocath, angiocatheter" from time to time. It is a genericized trademark which meaning varies from region to region. Typically it refers to a single lumen, round bore hub,...
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    Not being paid anything for overtime hours worked during orientation. Is this legal?

    Asystole RN replied to GbabyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Being a new employee I would bet money this was not a malicious incident but rather an administrative mistake. Sometimes the manager (or whoever is in charge of time cards) will have to manually...
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    Poll: do you have professional liability insurance?

    Asystole RN replied to SDANG's topic in General Nursing

    LOL. You need new lawyers then. Lots of case law where the nurse did everything 100% correct and still lost the lawsuit. My favorite is when a nurse took an alert and oriented patient to the...
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    PICC Line Dressing Change Question

    Asystole RN replied to AgMPLGRL's topic in General Nursing

    (Scope question aside) Technically, I do not think there is anything that prohibits someone from conducting a dressing change during an active infusion but doing so during the infusion of a vesicant,...
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    Trump's 'religious conscience'

    Asystole RN replied to PediatricMA's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly, which is why this thread is somewhat silly. Just because laws exist does not mean it is an actual issue. This is purely media hype. Everyone is freaking out over essentially non-existent...