Katillac RN

That's not a pic of me. That's Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest for you young pups.

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About Katillac

Katillac has 18 years experience as a RN.

Comedienne Brett Butler says of her devotion to her second husband, "You let one dog get away, you're gonna build a taller fence and put better food out."  Translated to nursing, that means employers need to provide attractive opportunities including some combination of compensation, benefits, scheduling, training, and workplace environment and culture. Then, equally importantly, they need to prioritize retaining the staff they hire by actively showing they respect and value the commitment, knowledge, caring and experience of their staff, both seasoned and newer.

It's kind of that simple. There is no nursing shortage, there's a shortage of attractive opportunities for nurses.

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  1. Katillac

    Texas Hospital making nurses resign or take care of COVID patients

    Katillac replied to Rex Sanchez's topic in Disaster Preparation

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    Texas Hospital making nurses resign or take care of COVID patients

    Katillac replied to Rex Sanchez's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No. If they ask you to take an assignment in a unit you're not trained for (ICU, peds, L&D) and you refuse and they fire you, you can likely collect UI. In that case they would be firing you...
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    Texas Hospital making nurses resign or take care of COVID patients

    Katillac replied to Rex Sanchez's topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://wehavins.com/nv-nurses-legal-handbook/chapter-6-nursing-responsibility-and-the-law/ This citation concerns Nevada, but the laws are similar in many states. Nurses face serious potential...
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    How to deal with Nosy Co-Workers?

    Katillac replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Here are my two favorite ways of responding in these situations, when someone doesn't get polite hints that I am not sharing personal information. 1) When asked something you don't want to get into,...
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    Homemade masks

    Katillac replied to Kitiger's topic in Disaster Preparation

    For those who may be wondering, home made masks (which should really be called just face coverings) are primarily meant to stop virus-carrying large droplets from being spewed from the mouth of the...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    Katillac replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    This is truly reprehensible. Corporations have masks in supply, so they are reporting no shortages. Yet they are refusing to use them supported by poorly defined contingency level guidance from the...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    Katillac replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Included in the people talking about nurses' social contract and their duty to care is the Oregon State Board of Nursing. If the BON suggests a social contract is binding on nurses so should the...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    Katillac replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thank you so much for this! I looked into it, and by God Oregon actually has a plan ! The following is from Oregon Crisis Care Guidance: "The professional “duty to serve” must be balanced with the...
  9. Katillac

    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    Katillac replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Does anyone have a credible reference to support that any state's BON would take action against a nurse who refused to work because of lack of appropriate PPE? I don't mean they might, or they could,...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    Katillac replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Good heavens. Here I was thinking the inadequate PPE was because these places couldn't get masks etc. because of shortages, not because they were too stingy. I'm so
  11. Katillac

    Acute COVID, What We're Seeing

    Katillac replied to MunoRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    ICU One
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    What happens if you quit?

    Katillac replied to ghillbert's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I did a search in the PDFs of the nurse practice regulations for PA, and didn't find the word mandate, disaster or crisis. They are the folks who would censure your license. PA Act 102 specifies that...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    Katillac replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The CDC is saying - responsibly, I think - that in the absence of an approved mask a scarf, a bandana or (by inference) a home made mask is better than nothing. The Deaconess post makes it seems there...
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    Refusing Care of a COVID-19 Patient Due to Inappropriate PPE

    Katillac replied to BiscuitStripes's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I couldn't agree more. Being treated as a necessary but inconvenient cost burden hardly inspires selflessness and sacrifice. That makes, in my eyes, those who choose to stay and take the informed risk...
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    Homemade masks

    Katillac replied to Kitiger's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think you should try several different designs if you have material and skills! The critical piece that home made masks won't have is a special filter that's heat spun? heat formed? (can't remember...