KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    Death of a student

    KelRN215 replied to missnursejodi's topic in School

    I sense that this was a suicide. For those left behind, suicide is the hardest thing to process because there will ALWAYS be "what if?" questions. In my professional life, I haven't had to deal with...
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    Hyperkalemia

    KelRN215 replied to geokaravasili's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Not always. In most types of renal tubular acidosis, you'll find hypokalemia with
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    Possibly Odd Question

    KelRN215 replied to want2b3's topic in General Students

    If a patient is bleeding, I know where to apply pressure. I have
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    difference in getting PCT AND LPN

    KelRN215 replied to unimesh15's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    No they are not the same and I have no idea what you mean by "lpn is little vast than pct." A PCT is a patient care technician. Everywhere I've ever worked, PCT was a fancy name for a nurse aide role...
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    Help me understand the stigma Acute Care Vs. "The Rest of Them"

    KelRN215 replied to SNBTaylor's topic in General Nursing

    You thought, or were told, wrong. Hospitals in my area have been having hiring freezes and lay offs off and on for the past 7 years since the economy first
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    How do you get over the fear?

    KelRN215 replied to Mommytracknurse's topic in Home Health

    I work primarily in the inner city and routinely drive around neighborhoods where there are shootings at 2PM on a Tuesday. Many of my patients live in shelters or the projects. On an average day,...
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    Lab Values Help

    KelRN215 replied to kh2013's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Do you know what a CBC is? Every test you mentioned is included in a
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    About U.S. vacation time..

    KelRN215 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    One was a long weekend, two were 15 days each (though for both it took a day to get there and back so actually 17 days I guess), the last was meant to be 11 days but ended up being 13 when I got...
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    Which nursing specialty has the most autonomy/independence? Apart from nursing practioner

    KelRN215 replied to Zyrv's topic in Nurses Rock

    I feel pretty autonomous working in home health. Except when insurance companies disagree with my decisions. Then I want to punch people in the
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    About U.S. vacation time..

    KelRN215 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    It's not an opinion piece. Research shows that productivity increases as workers use PTO. It also contributes to the economy. So your statement that the US has the biggest economy in the world...
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    School Nurse thinks I'm fat mom...

    KelRN215 replied to Spidey's mom's topic in School

    I don't work in schools anymore and I never worked in an elementary school but that kid looks perfectly healthy to me. I did have a four old patient (Oncology patient, ALL, gets steroid pulses q 3...
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    Peds Hospice

    KelRN215 replied to kwoerne1's topic in Pediatric

    Also want to add- many dying children end up dying in the hospital. Many parents can't bear the thought of them dying at home. When I worked in the hospital, we had a room on the floor that doubled...
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    Peds Hospice

    KelRN215 replied to kwoerne1's topic in Pediatric

    There are very few purely pediatric hospice programs around. I knew of one in my city and it went under relatively quickly. We currently work with another hospice that has a pediatric program but...
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    Did you leave bedside nursing to try something else?

    KelRN215 replied to MA Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I left the beside almost three years ago and I have NO thoughts of going back. I manage a program for pediatric home visits now. Mon-Fri 8-4:30. I NEVER thought I wanted a Mon-Fri (I abhor the idea...
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    About U.S. vacation time..

    KelRN215 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    Really? It's Proven That You'd Be More Productive If You Took More Vacations I take every hour of PTO I'm given. I've taken 4 international vacations in the last year. And I'm plenty productive at...
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    Pediatric "Venting"-Gastric Decompression- Procedure Questions

    KelRN215 replied to itnursingguy's topic in General Nursing

    Pop the plunger out of a cath tip syringe, hook it up to the extension tubing, unclamp and let the gas flow. There's nothing time consuming about it, it literally takes seconds. I hate Farrell
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    Anyone dating a med-student?

    KelRN215 replied to allilop's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I know of very few successful nurse-doctor or nurse-med student relationships. I honestly have no interest in dating a med student who has no money and is going to mooch off me and has no vacation...
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    Time spent in one home

    KelRN215 replied to lashuna1028's topic in Home Health

    I'm confused. How can the patient have been on service for multiple cert periods with no SOC or 485? How is your agency getting paid for the services you're providing without any plan of...
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    Explanation of care

    KelRN215 replied to kidzcare's topic in School

    Are every single one of your classrooms so full that there are no extra chairs anywhere? I don't see the problem with a student elevating his injured leg on a chair that he places next to his
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    Time spent in one home

    KelRN215 replied to lashuna1028's topic in Home Health

    Average 30-45 minutes. Can be as short as 15-20 min for simple subq injections and as long as an hour and a half if there's a first dose of IV antibiotics or my patient's mother is in the middle of...
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    What if you can't get thru to a drs office??

    KelRN215 replied to Mommytracknurse's topic in Home Health

    How did you get this referral? If the patient came from the hospital, you should have received orders for at least the initial visit. And, as far as I've always been told, cases are supposed to be...
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    Do you ever feel like you aren't *really* a nurse?

    KelRN215 replied to live2bRN's topic in Home Health

    No, I really never do and I don't know why I would. I manage very complicated patients who wouldn't be at home if it weren't for the presence of nursing in the
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    Is it best to sleep or after a night shift?

    KelRN215 replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    If it were me, I'd have her come after the night shift. I could easily wake up at 7-8AM on my first night, stay awake/do normal things all day, go to work and work 12 hrs but when I got home, I was...
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    Displaying credentials

    KelRN215 replied to jetMA96's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This is clearly false. There are still diploma programs out there and MANY nurses who obtained their RN before obtaining their BSN
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    How to calculate for "how much remains after X-Hours?"

    KelRN215 replied to ChooSoul's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The formula you are looking for is subtraction. You figure out how much has infused and then subtract that volume from the total volume and you get the remaining volume. Ex, if you have 1,000 mL D5NS...