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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    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...
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    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
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    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...
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    What happens if you quit?

    Katillac replied to ghillbert's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Allowed to quit? Do you mean can you be forced to stay? In my state there is nothing in the Nurse Practice Act that would allow the BON to censure a nurse for quitting during a pandemic. Technically,...
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    Well, At Least They Tell You Up Front

    Katillac posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is from an ad for a dialysis nurse in Syracuse, New York. The pay range quoted is $17 to $31, far from competitive in the market. I mean, maybe given no access to narcotics they will work with...
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    Is asking too many questions to other nurses a problem? (new nurse)

    Katillac replied to joytotheworld21's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think most good nurses have times when they say to a colleague, "Got a sec to walk this through with me? This just happened, so what I think I should do is this, and then this. Am I missing...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    Katillac replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You're kidding, right? Hospitals don't have a "bank of temp nurses" even now, when they aren't Covid-19 affected. Nor do most devote enough resources to provide safe staffing. The money it would cost...
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    I feel unsafe and unsupported

    Katillac replied to jdstga's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Possible that HR or corp ignores it, of course. That happens sometimes, especially in smaller companies. But if the employee then complains to the EEOC (federal) and they investigate and find the...
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    I feel unsafe and unsupported

    Katillac replied to jdstga's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is a terrible situation to be in. Classic blaming the victim for the perpetrator's behavior. My heart goes out to you. Best of luck as you move through it. This isn't just harassment, it's...
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    Well, At Least They Tell You Up Front

    Katillac replied to Katillac's topic in General Nursing

    Yup! And when you think about it, dialysis nurses in an acute setting are typically sole practitioners in that there's nobody else immediately available that knows the specialty. So if something goes...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    Katillac replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Lube will not be helpful in getting a handle on most things. Makes it harder.
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    How to give a 2 week notice

    Katillac replied to penny186's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Of course they would like to have more notice and in fact would probably prefer you not leave at all. But a resignation letter isn't asking for permission to leave, it's informing your employer you...
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    Which job is better?

    Katillac replied to moonunit1130's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I'd take the caseload of 10. The other situation sounds really ripe for the list of "other duties as assigned" to grow by the week, and you have no idea how effective as team members the LPNs are....