KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    Immunizations Advice

    KelRN215 replied to Meow278's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Some states set a minimum amount of time that records must be kept for but that doesn't mean records are necessarily destroyed beyond that point. What would living in a different state do have to do...
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    Immunizations Advice

    KelRN215 replied to Meow278's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Don't you know who your pediatrician was as a child? Start by calling that office to get the
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    'My Patient died' Facebook post

    KelRN215 replied to miladaniels's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I'm part of the "no posting about work" on facebook club. I don't even list where I work on facebook. I have LinkedIn for that. There was a Child Life Specialist who worked at the same hospital I...
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    Rant. Questions are killing me!

    KelRN215 replied to broughden's topic in General Students

    You need to remind yourself what you said in the first line of your OP: I said nothing in the post you are responding to about searching for the patient's emergency contact information in the chart...
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    Torn between two specialities for preceptorship.

    KelRN215 replied to taylor925's topic in General Students

    Neither experience as a senior practicum student will exclude you from working in the other as a nurse. Your senior practicum experience is really only relevant to helping you secure your first job IF...
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    Question

    KelRN215 replied to Khushi123's topic in General Students

    What?
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    Question

    KelRN215 replied to Khushi123's topic in General Students

    1 GRAM of water = approximately 1 mL. 1 liter of water weighs approximately 1
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    Community College or MGH?

    KelRN215 replied to Actioncatt's topic in General Students

    If you want to work in Boston, you need a BSN. Philadelphia I imagine is a fairly competitive area as
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    How do I quit nursing school after the census date?

    KelRN215 replied to Maimaikittymeg's topic in General Students

    You can quit whenever you want. It being past the census date, if that's what your school calls it, likely just means that it's passed the point where you could get any money
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    Am I allowed to have tattoos as a Pediatric Nurse?

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

    I have worked with plenty of nurses over my 11+ year pediatric career that had visible tattoos- on the wrist, on the back of the neck, behind the ear, for example. It's been a non-issue everywhere...
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    First clinical. Forgot to document vital signs.

    KelRN215 replied to Fullmetaljacket96's topic in General Students

    When I worked in the hospital, nursing students were usually on the floor from 7am-1pm-ish. If, after they left at 1pm, I noticed that there were no 12pm VS documented, I'd take 2 minutes to do a set...
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    Rant. Questions are killing me!

    KelRN215 replied to broughden's topic in General Students

    Lots of people have given good feedback but, I just want to add, that answer D is not correct. A competent adult has the right to refuse medication and treatment and refusing recommended care doesn't...
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    Is this discrimination?

    KelRN215 replied to eacue10's topic in General Nursing

    English, while the most widely spoken language in the United States, is not "THE" language of the country. The United States has intentionally never declared an official national
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    Medical Response?

    KelRN215 replied to firedupnursing70's topic in General Nursing

    There are times when you would. In babies, for example, with severe bradycardia and signs of poor perfusion despite oxygenation and ventilation, it is recommended to initiate
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    Medical Response?

    KelRN215 replied to firedupnursing70's topic in General Nursing

    Why is the HR low in this scenario? The problem is neurological and CPR isn't going to fix that. I'd guess, based on the information given, that this is sinus brady caused by increased ICP and...
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    documenting a chart check?

    KelRN215 replied to ddrn97's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, this. We did 24 hr checks to make sure all orders got transcribed onto the MAR or CarDex when I was doing my preceptorship and the hospital wasn't fully electronic. By the time I was a nurse on...
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    New Grad RN: Struggling With Finding a Job

    KelRN215 replied to nurse_bri's topic in General Nursing

    The Northeast is saturated with new grad nurses. Your OP doesn't say if you have your BSN or not but I agree with the poster who said if you don't, it's likely not going to happen in
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    Wants PACU But Doesn't Want to Just Sit

    KelRN215 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    This was my thought too. I don't think I've ever seen a PACU nurse sitting when I've gone down there for whatever
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    Would this hurt my chances at getting a new grad position?

    KelRN215 replied to floatingrib's topic in General Nursing

    The job at the smaller hospital may help you but I doubt that it will hurt you to not have it, if that makes sense. Aide experience is aide experience, the care you do is relatively similar regardless...
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    Nursing certifications going away??

    KelRN215 replied to Jvgrek0126's topic in General Nursing

    Just wondering where you heard this? It certainly hasn't been true anywhere I've ever
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    How did you get out of bedside nursing?

    KelRN215 replied to abnormal_saline's topic in General Nursing

    1) This has not been my experience, at all. The year I left my bedside nursing position, by the end of the year I made $20k more than I did been the previous year. I will say that year was a bit of an...
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    Nursing student in need of advice

    KelRN215 replied to Morelaur288's topic in General Students

    What kind of NP do you want to
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    Shockingly low NP pay !

    KelRN215 replied to Jm0136's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That is crazy. I made more than that as a new grad RN and I make more than twice that as an RN now. Even the lowest paid RNs in my state make significantly more than
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    Giving insulin late patient request

    KelRN215 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    Who timed the insulin for 9am? It very well could have been an arbitrary time assigned by the computer system. You said the med was ordered TID- TID at my hospital was automatically scheduled for...
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    New nurse help

    KelRN215 replied to btf4's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have a child on my caseload right now who has such a random combination of illnesses that everyone thinks she has an underlying syndrome or genetic disease but no diagnosis has ever been made. The 2...