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  1. Anyone go on to CSUDH MSN after completed CSUDH BSN?

    RNBSNxo posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    Hello- I completed the BSN program through CSUDH online. I am interested in the MSN program online now. Has anyone completed the BSN program at CSUDH and gone on to the MSN program, both online? I...

  2. Have you used ethics hotline?

    RNBSNxo posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is nosey but has anyone ever called the ethics hotline to complain about a nursing issue? I have never heard about it happening but some fellows nurses have talked about it because we have...

  3. Have you used ethics hotline?

    RNBSNxo replied to RNBSNxo's topic in General Nursing

    bothers me? It is about patient safety and providing proper treatment, there are rules for reasons,

  4. Have you used ethics hotline?

    RNBSNxo replied to RNBSNxo's topic in General Nursing

    Well hospitals have different policies, I know, but for ours there are certain meds they say MUST be on a syringe pump and cannot be put into the running IV fluid line-retrograded. The policy also is...

  5. Have you used ethics hotline?

    RNBSNxo replied to RNBSNxo's topic in General Nursing

    The policy says only medications in less than 3mL can be retrograded-put directly into the running IV fluid line and then you set a new rate on the secondary pump setting. So she goes in the room with...

  6. Have you used ethics hotline?

    RNBSNxo replied to RNBSNxo's topic in General Nursing

    Suesquatch The patient is lying in their bed and the parent at their bedside thinking their nurse is providing the best, safest care per policy. So...I consider it unethical for a nurse to be giving...

  7. Do you have to work everywhere in the hospital first?

    RNBSNxo replied to xInspiredx's topic in General Nursing

    You said "nurse starting out" read your own message. Not new nursing student or just interested in nuring. The title of "nurse" means something. Now you say pre-nursing student, good job. And I still...

  8. Do you have to work everywhere in the hospital first?

    RNBSNxo replied to xInspiredx's topic in General Nursing

    Altra, she said "as a nurse starting out," This did not say as a nursing student starting out. It said as a NURSE starting out. You wouldnt be concerned if a "nurse starting out" did not know these...

  9. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    RNBSNxo replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    No "ghost" stories but some of our pediatrics patients during their palliative care/dying process have said people were in the room who were not, one child said he saw angles, another girl said "god"...

  10. Do you have to work everywhere in the hospital first?

    RNBSNxo replied to xInspiredx's topic in General Nursing

    Are you a new nursing student because if you are a new RN then you should have learned these things. As a nursing student you went to different areas. When you are hired for a floor no they do not...

  11. maybe I wasn't being nice.....

    RNBSNxo replied to hearthelper's topic in General Nursing

    Well they need to know what to do, patient safety is the concern. It can be an issue of competence. I know in emergecny situations some of us lose our heads and thinking skills. Maybe your hospital...

  12. Will filing bankruptcy make it hard to get a job as a nurse?

    RNBSNxo replied to stacey914's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have to tell them? If not, don't. It isnt there business. I know I have heard about some employers going to start or are doing credit checks more now but I did not know it was that...

  13. Help with Major CNA Problems

    RNBSNxo replied to JSBoston's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We have issues to with cnas but just a few of them. There was multiple nurses talking about it and finally someone wrote a letter and it was directed to managers from the RNs as a group. If your...

  14. Lost and need some direction.......

    RNBSNxo replied to awise0003's topic in General Nursing

    Yes appeal. Tell them all you have done like you did in this post. Hopefully you do not have past issues/unexcused absences or tardies/emergencies. Do you have any medical proof- Was your son take to...

  15. blood cultures after antibiotics

    RNBSNxo replied to wishiwereanurse's topic in General Nursing

    you do blood cultures at first spike and then start antibiotics but you dont stop there. here, every 24hrs a culture is redrawn when a patient spikes IF they have a central line. maybe the current...

  16. Nursing school is too easy!

    RNBSNxo replied to Maghunter's topic in General Students

    Nursing school is not easy, your school is corrupt. Some schools do lose funds for low pass rates. Is there an ethics board to report these things to anonymously like there is in hospitals? In the end...

  17. Why such a difference in pay????

    RNBSNxo replied to Sl1011's topic in General Nursing

    Who is per diem? Here per diems get a little more pay because they do not receive the benefits-medical/dental like the full-time or part-time. If your friend is per diem then that explains her higher...

  18. applicant who tested positive for thc

    RNBSNxo replied to Devastated's topic in Nurses Recovery

    This is funny and confusing. People cannot test positive unless they did the drugs. You say you were told you should have done a flush, strange. No one ever told me that nor would i have though of it...

  19. Heparin - syringe to use?

    RNBSNxo replied to pistolchick's topic in Patient Medications

    syringes are not measured in gauges or '', wish I could see the book. For PIV we have to draw up the heparin ourselves and it is a 1mL syringe, for CVC they are prefilled

  20. BSN vs. ADN

    RNBSNxo replied to collegegirl209's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    BSN is not required as the entry-level for hospitals in California. I live and work here. Which hospital were you referring to? Some hospitals may prefer BSN but ADNs are hired all the time. I know...

  21. Nursing Diagnosis

    RNBSNxo replied to healthstar's topic in General Nursing

    Just ideas...I do not remember much about nicu/newborn rotation and I do not remember the proper nanda but nicu/newborn ideas: look into temperature regulation issues, feeding issues, knowledge...

  22. still in school and need a job for experience

    RNBSNxo replied to hitz9245's topic in General Students

    While I was in nursing school I worked as a nursing assistant. I was not a certified nursing assistant but the hospital did not require this. I would find a hospital that does not require a...