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    Is this legal?

    KelRN215 replied to Nibbles1's topic in Private Duty

    You know, we had a situation with a home health aide who was trying to be nice. The family constantly told their tale of woe about how they couldn't even afford the basics so the nurse bought milk...
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    Is this legal?

    KelRN215 replied to Nibbles1's topic in Private Duty

    I know of NO home health agency that would allow a nurse to transport a child in her own vehicle. The nurse is being paid to nurse the child, not to be a chauffeur. If the child needs a nurse to...
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    Is this legal?

    KelRN215 replied to Nibbles1's topic in Private Duty

    Any nurse with a half a brain should be able to figure out that taking a child out of the environment she is being paid to care for the child in to her home is wrong. Anyone who can't figure that out...
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    LPN vs RN home health nurse

    KelRN215 replied to samirish's topic in Home Health

    $3/hr is more than $6000 a year for a full-time employee. That's 2 vacations for me. You will be limited in your role as an LPN. I don't hire LPNs at all to do visits for me. Our admitting nurses...
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    Dealing with difficult families:)

    KelRN215 replied to Mommytracknurse's topic in Home Health

    Well, if you tell a patient you will arrive between 10-11 and you arrive at 1:05, you are 2+ hours late, no? I don't see how that's an unreasonable thing for them to say. If I'm running that late...
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    Dealing with difficult families:)

    KelRN215 replied to Mommytracknurse's topic in Home Health

    "Difficult families" are a very broad category. I am a pediatric nurse and I would say the majority of my patients' families are difficult, but for different reasons. Some are difficult because they...
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    Help-Freaking out- seeing patients on my own!!

    KelRN215 replied to Mommytracknurse's topic in Home Health

    The antibiotic balls are literally the easiest thing ever to use. You flush the line, hook it up, unclamp and it infuses itself. Those things are designed for lay people to learn how to use. Other...
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    Becoming a transport RN right out of school

    KelRN215 replied to jcs27516's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    I don't actually think that's the same thing at all. ICU and ED are areas that sometimes hire new grads. I have plenty of classmates who were hired directly into ICU or ED right out of school (BSN...
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    Sex ed OMG

    KelRN215 replied to childcare1's topic in School

    Our teacher answered it. My post was in response to the OP saying she can't believe how much these kids know about various sexual acts. They may not know anything but may have heard the phrase used...
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    What is best private or state university for nursing?

    KelRN215 replied to Shrestha87's topic in General Students

    Were you denied for private student loans d/t lack of credit history? If so, you might be able to get approved with a
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    Does your facility ask you to sleep over when it snows?

    KelRN215 replied to oliveleaf's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I live in New England as well and the expectation is, simply, that you find a way to make it into work when it snows. If the only way you can do that is by going in the night before and sleeping...
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    Sex ed OMG

    KelRN215 replied to childcare1's topic in School

    Do they KNOW about these acts or did they hear someone talking about it and want to know what these phrases mean? I recall a middle school sex ed class where classmates convinced the smartest kid in...
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    Is this legal?

    KelRN215 replied to Nibbles1's topic in Private Duty

    Call your clinical manager in the office. It's up to him/her to deal with the situation. Such a nurse would be promptly terminated if such a situation was reported to me. A nurse taking a child...
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    Urgent Expiring License Question....

    KelRN215 replied to abundantjoy07's topic in General Nursing

    It means you need to go on the BoN's website and renew your license before reporting to your shift. Why wouldn't you have renewed it already? My next license renewal is Feb 2016 and I already have...
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    Do Male Nurses Get More Respect?

    KelRN215 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    No...
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    Nursing Pay Question?

    KelRN215 replied to Humaneclowninscrubs's topic in General Nursing

    klone didn't say that there are not other fields that pay as well or better than nursing. Your friend in computer science has a BACHELOR'S degree. If there is such a thing as an associate's degree...
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    Ondansetron.... iv or im ..... doctor's prescription....

    KelRN215 replied to 2bNurse_kinjal's topic in Patient Medications

    Add me to the list of people who've never, ever given zofran IM. If the patient has an IV, I don't see why you'd give IM anything, unless it was a vaccine or something else that can only be given IM....
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    Challenge at pedi floor

    KelRN215 replied to kkim119's topic in Pediatric

    Young children will cry every time, whether or not you get it in. You have to be able to zone that out, which will come with time. Do you not have an IV team at your hospital? I definitely worked...
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    "hard science" requirements for RN's

    KelRN215 replied to brownbook's topic in General Nursing

    "Getting in" to nursing school required that I had graduated from high school and scored well on my SATs. I entered nursing school (college) directly out of high school and anything that could...
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    Going into nursing school without any experience?

    KelRN215 replied to sl_94's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Everyone I went to nursing school with in Boston did it and every per diem aide I ever worked with while working in the hospital (also in Boston) was a nursing student with no CNA
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    As an RN would you ever take a job as...

    KelRN215 replied to melme's topic in General Nursing

    If you are not an LPN, you cannot work as an LPN. So you will be working as an RN for LPN pay. Nope, wouldn't do it. $18/hr is 1/3 less than I made at my first nursing job ever, I made nearly that...
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    Going into nursing school without any experience?

    KelRN215 replied to sl_94's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I, as well as all of my classmates, entered nursing school directly out of high school so my only "healthcare" experience was volunteering at the hospital in my town doing things like delivering lab...
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    Do you lie when they ask, "how long?"

    KelRN215 replied to delphine22's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've never considered lying to answer this question. I have been a nurse for 7 1/2 years. When people ask me, I tell them "7 1/2 years." I have been at my current job for nearly 3 years. When I'm...
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    Fell asleep at private case

    KelRN215 replied to emKayLPN's topic in Home Health

    This is grounds for immediate termination/ineligibility for rehire at my agency but we don't report nurses to the board for such
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    New Grad RN Job Questions!

    KelRN215 replied to NICUnurse21's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Now would be a good time. I applied for the job I eventually got in January of my senior of