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    preterm baby

    KelRN215 replied to juezulzara's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    What about preterm babies? That is a VERY broad topic. And pre-term babies can be anywhere from the 23 week 500 g baby who ends up with a 4 month NICU stay and ends up on a vent, PN, etc to the...
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    Work Tablet

    KelRN215 replied to CLUVRN's topic in Home Health

    I have a laptop. I'm not so sure I'd love a tablet, I'm a fast typer, I'd rather just type my
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    Might loose another job...I'm suicidal

    KelRN215 replied to VAC's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Please call 911 now if you cannot be safe at
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    Living will question

    KelRN215 replied to combinate's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I think you missed the point of this thread. The OP wrote an alternate answer to the question posed by Potter and Perry because the answer they give is factually untrue/poorly written and had her...
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    Living will question

    KelRN215 replied to combinate's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    No, that's not true at all. A terminally ill patient who does not have a living will can refuse food and fluid. Again, terminally ill does NOT equal unable to make decisions for oneself. When the...
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    Living will question

    KelRN215 replied to combinate's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Well that is a bad definition of a living will and factually/legally untrue. It's not either or. Living wills and other forms of Advanced Directives ONLY apply in the event that the patient is not...
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    Living will question

    KelRN215 replied to combinate's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I disagree. Someone may have a terminal condition and still be cognizant enough to make their wishes known and current wishes may conflict with those in the living will. Say, for example, someone...
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    IV catheter changes..

    KelRN215 replied to RNnewbie2014's topic in General Nursing

    You have to trust that no matter where the blood comes from, right? A floor nurse can mislabel specimens just as easily as, say, a home health nurse could. Having previously been a floor nurse and...
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    Another practice question help!

    KelRN215 replied to ChooSoul's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    It is a 25% chance to inherit the trait from BOTH parents, two copies of the trait = disease. There is a 50% chance that each child will inherit the trait from one parent and be a carrier and a 25%...
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    Need advice- whats good or bad about working second shift!

    KelRN215 replied to bruiised's topic in General Nursing

    When I was working as an aide while in school, I almost exclusively worked 3-11. It sounds like the perfect shift- there's so much of the day before you have to go into work where you can get things...
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    MD Falsifying Charting

    KelRN215 replied to annie.rn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Working in the hospital, I never once saw a Neurosurgeon carry a stethoscope. But, without fail, their progress notes always said things like "LSC, HRR" under their assessment. The residents also...
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    For BSN or higher RNs, need help for assignment.

    KelRN215 replied to uninspiredluck's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Question 1 assumes there is a nursing shortage which there isn't. Question 4 is awfully personal. Also how can you ensure that any of the people who will answer your questions on here (of which you...
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    Can we all just get along: Communicating through 4 generations of Nurses

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

    I AM busy this
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    number of doses/24 hours? help!

    KelRN215 replied to sassyann85's topic in Patient Medications

    Also, this is the second thread you've started about maximum doses not matching with the ordered frequency of PRNs. It sounds like the pharmacy in your facility needs to start rejecting MD orders...
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    number of doses/24 hours? help!

    KelRN215 replied to sassyann85's topic in Patient Medications

    Precisely. The order should be Q8h if the MD doesn't want more than 3 doses in 24 hours. Because if you give it q 6hr x 3 doses (say at 0800, 1400 and 2000) the patient will have to go 12 hrs...
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    need advice from you all I've been charged with a felony but not convicted

    KelRN215 replied to BAP2013's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I think it's pretty standard that candidates get fingerprinted before NCLEX so if you don't disclose you run the risk of being found out. And every nursing job I've ever had required a background...
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    Moving reimbursement

    KelRN215 replied to kejRN88's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I would not expect anything, as previous posters have said. Savannah is a city, I doubt they need to offer these kind of incentives to get people to move
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    Homeless working the system, multiple admissions

    KelRN215 replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Psychiatric

    I'm still having a hard time believing that patients in ANY hospital are "treated like kings". If we discharge an oncology patient home and he bounces back later that day with fever we don't think...
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    Patients want to bring port and IV supplies home...???

    KelRN215 replied to skydancer7's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yeah, that's why I said they teach the patient to reconstitute the fluids himself and add the additives. I've taught patients/parents to do it with TPN. There is a clinic in Houston- The Burzynski...
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    Homeless working the system, multiple admissions

    KelRN215 replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Psychiatric

    Or they really are so ill that the only place that they are safe is in the hospital. Group homes and nursing homes don't have the same kind of structured milieu that inpatient units have and, to be...
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    didnt get consent signed?

    KelRN215 replied to txrnswthrt's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    When I worked in the hospital, the MD was responsible for obtaining the surgical consent and the Anesthesiologist was responsible for obtaining the Anesthesia consent. It was part of the nurse's...
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    Patients want to bring port and IV supplies home...???

    KelRN215 replied to skydancer7's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I access ports and give IV meds every day in home care so that's not an issue. Patients can be taught to self-administer IV fluids- I have patients at home on all kinds of IVs, antibiotics, fluids,...
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    Need opinions

    KelRN215 replied to blams2004's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If you are quoting a patient in documentation, you are supposed to quote him
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    What do you think of 11 am- 7 pm shift?

    KelRN215 replied to Seas's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with this as well. In theory you could get stuff done BEFORE work but when I worked eves, I never did and then you get home too late to do anything after
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    Virtual Vacation

    KelRN215 replied to Brian's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I don't see why nursing students don't have time for "real life or vacations". I had plenty of time for both in