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    help

    KelRN215 replied to michellemarie's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This is not true. Duty to warn applies in very specific circumstances. If your patient tells you "I have a gun and I'm going to kill my neighbor, Joe Smith, tonight at 5:42PM when he comes home...
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    Teaching High School students about STI barriers

    KelRN215 replied to Murse91's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Are you talking about pregnancy prevention or STI prevention? Because if it's the latter, you should not be discussing birth control pills as a means of prevention since, you know, they do nothing to...
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    IVs and CVADS

    KelRN215 replied to NUNS2016's topic in General Students

    Why would you need to stop for 10-15 minutes prior to obtaining your sample? Blood is flowing through the SVC rapidly, there's no need to wait 10-15
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    travel time

    KelRN215 replied to dkozlowski's topic in Home Health

    OP, this already IS a federal requirement:...
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    Process 485

    KelRN215 replied to Yayamaya's topic in Home Health

    OASIS is only REQUIRED by CMS for patients who have Medicare or adults with Medicaid as primary. It is not a universal requirement to do OASIS assessments on adult patients with private insurance....
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    Have you ever convinced yourself...?

    KelRN215 replied to RN403's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The only thing I've ever contracted from a patient was strep. This winter, about 5 days after this child was sitting on my lap putting his hands all over me (didn't know he had strep until a few days...
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    When being a patient...

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

    I don't bring it up, if I am asked I will admit to it. But even if my doctors don't outright ask, they figure it out within 5 minutes of starting to talk to
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    How should An AZ graduate to apply CA license

    KelRN215 replied to LuckyLA's topic in California Nursing

    When you take NCLEX, fill out your paperwork for California licensure. You should be able to download the application for licensure by exam from the CA BoN website. You pay the fee and when you pass...
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    Too much stuff behind ID badge!!

    KelRN215 replied to NurseEric81's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    When I worked in the hospital, I think I had like 15 cards. Safety crap, fire codes, Pediatric pain scales, JCAHO requirements, emergency med doses by weight, I can't remember what
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    If you could go back and choose....

    KelRN215 replied to Ndnrnbsn's topic in General Nursing

    I entertained the idea during college of dropping out and opening a bakery or an ice cream store. Some days (basically any day that involves me dealing with DCF) I wish I'd done that. Otherwise,...
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    Unhealthy Habits of Nurses

    KelRN215 replied to lynns75's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I work in pediatric oncology. I've NEVER counseled a patient on weight loss. Most of the time, I'm trying to get my patients to GAIN weight. And I'm not my patients' role model, I'm their
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    Unhealthy Habits of Nurses

    KelRN215 replied to lynns75's topic in Health, Stress Management

    "Being overweight" is not a habit. There are many factors which influence one's weight and, no, I don't have any concerns about the weight of my health care providers. Smoking is another story but it...
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    Holiday Scheduling - how to make it fair

    KelRN215 replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in the hospital, we had six big holidays that caused scheduling issues- Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years (including the eves) for winter and Memoral Day, July 4th and Labor Day for...
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    How you do that?

    KelRN215 replied to garciadiego's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    You must have syringes that are sterile that you can drop into the field. When I worked in the hospital, we didn't have sterilely packaged saline flushes so we dropped a sterile syringe into the...
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    Dealing with a dying family member during nursing school

    KelRN215 replied to motay68's topic in General Students

    My grandfather died (3 days after getting sick) my junior year of college. It was my first semester of clinical. I took a few days off to attend his funeral, dried my eyes, went back to school and...
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    My patients would be horrified...

    KelRN215 replied to Kitkat1212's topic in General Students

    I can guarantee you that your patients would NOT be horrified because what you do at home is of no concern to them. Most patients barely even understand who the nursing student is or what she is...
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    Visit Frequency

    KelRN215 replied to NurseBeefcake's topic in Home Health

    I don't see how the frequency necessarily has anything to do with how many medications the patient is taking. I might have a patient who is only on one medication who I see WAY more often than the...
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    Withholding Pay

    KelRN215 replied to Tigerlily8's topic in Home Health

    I dunno, I think it goes back to Nursing 101- if you didn't document it, you didn't do it. If you don't do your paperwork in the hospital, at least other people saw you there and know you worked that...
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    Soma or Enclosure Beds... Cruel or not?

    KelRN215 replied to Paws2people's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I've known of a few patients over the years (children) who have these beds even at home. They look like cages, but sometimes they're
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    Mental health

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

    This is the kind of stuff I was talking about in the Robin Williams thread. NO ONE would ever come on here and say "I want to be an Oncology Nurse because I think cancer is funny" yet it's somehow...
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    Medical Math Help

    KelRN215 replied to ADalton's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    The question that you posted doesn't say what they are looking for. If the question is how many mg/min and you are giving 2,000 mg over 30 min, it's simple division to get to that
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    Just ONE CNA on night shift?

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

    That was pretty par the course anywhere I worked acute care. I don't see the big deal with nurses doing their own vitals. Even when I had a CNA, I did my own vitals. If I was already in the room...
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    Teaching about Epilepsy

    KelRN215 replied to AmberBradford's topic in School

    Ugh when I was working per diem at a school, we had a student with epilepsy whose mother didn't want ANYONE other than the school nurse to know. I wasn't the full time school nurse and didn't have...
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    How does it all work?

    KelRN215 replied to itsximenaa's topic in Travel

    You need to be an experienced nurse before you can be a traveler. Right now, your focus should be on finishing high school and keeping your grades up to get into the college of your choosing. Coming...
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    Teaching about Epilepsy

    KelRN215 replied to AmberBradford's topic in School

    The Epilepsy Foundation has a ton of programs specifically for this. Check out their website. 6th-8th grade is old enough to understand. Explain to them what epilepsy is, what kinds of seizures...