applewhitern BSN, RN

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    Dealing with Students in Clinicals: What would you like to see?

    applewhitern replied to bsf312's topic in General Nursing

    Don't be disrespectful to the nurses. Don't take up their space they need to get report and chart. I've seen students come into the report room and sit in all the chairs, then don't get up to allow...
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    CERNER

    applewhitern replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I liked Cerner a lot. Now I have to use CPSI. I would LOVE to have Cerner
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    Is this discrimination?

    applewhitern replied to eacue10's topic in General Nursing

    One patient who had a bleed and a few off-hand remarks is not enough to claim discrimination, in my opinion. If doesn't sound like YOU are being discriminated against. I, along with others, speak...
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    Pay cuts

    applewhitern replied to KSjo88's topic in General Nursing

    I have never received a "weekend differential" at any hospital where I have worked. Always regular pay on weekends, and regular pay on holidays, period. I do get a pittance for working nightshift, 3...
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    Lidocaine w/ Epi SQ injections post sheath removal

    applewhitern replied to Yackinthebox's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We cannot use lidocaine to start iv's, Offlabel. Actually, nowhere I've worked have we been allowed to use it. But I agree with
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    % infants in Peds? Male RN in Peds?

    applewhitern replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Pediatric

    I worked for years in Pediatric ICU in a teaching hospital. We had one male RN. He was a great nurse and most parents had no issue with him being male. That said, there were a couple of instances...
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    Med carts with no drawers

    applewhitern replied to Astral Walker's topic in Patient Medications

    We can't use a med-cart, or even a linen cart for that matter. We have to administer meds by going to the medication machine, then to the patient's room, scan the meds by lugging the huge, clumsy...
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    Alternative sites for peripheral IV access

    applewhitern replied to MacDSlim's topic in General Nursing

    We aren't allowed to use the feet without an MD order, ESPECIALLY if the patient is diabetic. We do use upper arms, axilliary, and breast veins
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    When did being pregnant become a disability?

    applewhitern replied to guest940422's topic in General Nursing

    When I was 7 months pregnant, years ago, I helped my husband move a huge refrigerator off the back of a pickup truck, in the rain, and into the house. Didn't think anything of it at the time! Now,...
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    The sloppy image of nurses today

    applewhitern replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have waist-length hair, and many of my female co-workers do, as well. We are required to put our hair up, or in a ponytail, if your hair is below shoulder length. I can't stand to see a nurse or...
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    Accomadating patients racist request?

    applewhitern replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    I live and work in the deep south, and I never have anyone refuse a nurse based on their race. I have seen more racial discrimination in areas OTHER THAN the deep south! I do have the occasional...
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    Am I a woosy for feeling 5 patients is too much on a medsurg floor

    applewhitern replied to PaperPushingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Every hospital I have worked in, the med-surg floors took 8 patients each. I have had 9 on med-surg before. That said, I almost always work in ICU, and at one hospital, the ICU was required to take...
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    Where Were You...9/11

    applewhitern replied to Daisy4RN's topic in General Nursing

    I was at work in ICU. Walked into a patient's room and there it was, on the
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    Waste of time/money to earn extra certifications?

    applewhitern replied to Summers3's topic in General Nursing

    There are hospitals in my area that do not care about a BSN, but do expect you to have a certification in your
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    Working conditions

    applewhitern replied to wayemika's topic in General Nursing

    Less pay, less benefits (medical insurance costs at LOT more than in the past), less respect from both middle and upper management. More respect from doctors, however. They no longer talk down to us...
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    Big DILEMMA - Take NCLEX after 25 yrs OR Take a $2500 course to reactivate?

    applewhitern replied to zibtherealnurse's topic in Retired Nurses

    If you took the NCLEX and passed, would you still be able to perform well on a job? Even if it is a desk job? Just asking, because things change constantly in the medical/nursing
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    Am I allowed to push the button?

    applewhitern replied to Kayceee's topic in Patient Medications

    I certainly wouldn't "push the button" or attempt to re-set an IV pump! Would you even know or recognize if there was a medication in that IV fluid? I would leave that up to the licensed nurse to...
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    Old nurse won't retire

    applewhitern replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Every time I read or hear someone ask, "Am I too old to become a nurse?" I tell them that ageism is alive and well. Most of the old nurses I've worked with carried a wealth of knowledge and...
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    Student Body Odor

    applewhitern replied to AzElemNurse's topic in School

    I really wish they would teach a basic health/hygiene class in middle school or at least by 8th or 9th grade. Kids need to learn more about their bodies, signs and symptoms of common ailments, etc....
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    Best/Worst EHR

    applewhitern replied to ICUMatthew's topic in General Nursing

    CPSI is what we have, and it is awful. Time-consuming, too many steps to navigate.
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    Michigan hospital sued after honoring woman's request for "white nurse only"

    applewhitern replied to klone's topic in Nursing News

    I live in the heart of Dixie, and in all my 30 years of nursing, I've never had a patient say they didn't want a black person to care for them. If they did, I doubt seriously we would accommodate...
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    Boomer Nurse no longer able to do bedside nursing

    applewhitern replied to Cwiema's topic in General Nursing

    This is why we have social security disability payments. Consider applying for disability, and you can still make around 15k per year in addition to your monthly ss payments. You can also eventually...
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    LPN to Paramedic

    applewhitern replied to KimStrohl's topic in General Nursing

    I am an RN. We used to be able to intubate and place I&O caths, but my facility no longer allows nurses to do this. Once upon a time, it was included in ACLS, but most of the respiratory stuff...
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    Choking Hazard

    applewhitern replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    THIS is why we no longer use the Joint Commission. Why PAY them to tell us everything they think we do wrong? We use state,
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    Choking Hazard

    applewhitern replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't read all the comments, but what about the little red caps we cap off IV tubing with? Or the end caps on any type of IV or catheter, for that matter? Or a pea on their supper tray?...