KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    accessing a port for just one blood draw

    KelRN215 replied to Ted D's topic in General Nursing

    2 IV RNs stated this was untrue in another thread: https://allnurses.com/nursing-patient-medications/how-does-heparinizing-933831-page2.html I have never worked anywhere where we didn't flush ports...
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    accessing a port for just one blood draw

    KelRN215 replied to Ted D's topic in General Nursing

    I do this pretty much every day. Most of my patients (children) have ports because they're oncology patients. When we draw their labs at home, we access their ports to do so. I'm not doing a...
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    Mass General

    KelRN215 replied to OUxPhys's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    I suggest applying
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    Is My Thinking Flawed?

    KelRN215 replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    If it's taking 6 hours anyway, what is the point of mixing the drugs? Just run them separately and then you won't have this issue. You're not saving yourself any time by mixing them. What kind of...
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    If you werent a nurse, what other career would you do?

    KelRN215 replied to RNtobe23's topic in General Nursing

    Supreme Court Justice. I'd love to replace Scalia... or Thomas... or Roberts... or Alito... or Kennedy after last
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    Why are hospital television documentaries okay?

    KelRN215 replied to Semolina's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I worked at a hospital that was profiled on a show that was similar to NY Med but filmed in a different city a few years back. Several of our patients were filmed but none made the cut for the final...
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    Too tired to do anything on days off

    KelRN215 replied to j0yegan's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in the hospital, I could motivate myself to do little more than watch Maury paternity test episodes. Now, though I work Mon-Fri, I do something after work almost every day and am gone...
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    I dread going to work- not a new grad. Has this happened to anyone else?

    KelRN215 replied to Ativan's topic in General Nursing

    I could have written this post myself when I was working in the hospital. I'd been at my job for 4 1/2 years at the time. Handing in my resignation was the best decision I ever made. I am much...
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    Hours of sleep before work

    KelRN215 replied to j0yegan's topic in General Nursing

    I go to bed around 11 and usually wake up at 7:15 so around 8. When I worked in the hospital, however, and had to work weekend nights I would sometimes go Friday morning to Monday morning on 8 hrs of...
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    A little concerned

    KelRN215 replied to floridanurse1983's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting, I don't ever recall taking a color blindness test for any job I've had and guiaic tests when I worked in the hospital were done and read by nursing. We never so much as sent the samples...
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    Does your hospital or facility badge include your credentials?

    KelRN215 replied to icuRNmaggie's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    When I worked in the hospital, my badge said "RN, BSN" next to my full name and then underneath, it said Staff Nurse- (Department). My current badge just has my name and
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    A little concerned

    KelRN215 replied to floridanurse1983's topic in General Nursing

    I don't see why testing your own poop is any more gross than testing someone else's. You come into contact with your own poop on a daily basis, no? All we did was put it on the card and bring the...
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    Seeing your patient in the news

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

    I see my patients on the News all the time. I just saw one of my patients on TV about 2 hours ago, actually. A patient I saw earlier today in person. When I worked in the hospital, we got a lot of...
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    A little concerned

    KelRN215 replied to floridanurse1983's topic in General Nursing

    Just do what my nursing instructors did. Give all of them a blank test strip and tell them to collect a sample at home and bring it back to class for
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    What are the "rules" about being PRN?

    KelRN215 replied to itsdebraanne's topic in General Nursing

    Every facility is different. There are no international "rules" for PRN employees that the users of allnurses will be able to say apply to your facility. When I worked in the hospital, we almost...
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    Heparin Math

    KelRN215 replied to MarySnov's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    When I was in nursing school, a nurse at one of my clinicals told me to remember that in Ptt the tt looks like an H and that's how you remember that it's for heparin. It's always worked for me to...
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    Heparin Math

    KelRN215 replied to MarySnov's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    That's interesting because I have a lot of Jewish and Muslim patients. My primary population is pediatric oncology and ALL of them have some type of central access which is flushed regularly with...
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    Heparin Math

    KelRN215 replied to MarySnov's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    2 different drugs... they work in different ways. That's why you monitor PTT for Heparin and PT/INR for
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    One Day I Will Be Seizure Free!

    KelRN215 replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    It took years before my Neurologist acknowledged that I did the right thing by self-discontinuing my meds. Zonegran made me a walking zombie... I slept like 17 hours a day, it made me depressed, it...
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    Acetylcysteine

    KelRN215 replied to MedTrans68's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Is there a time in acute care when you're not expected to have suction ready at the bedside? This was part of our basic safety checks when I worked in the
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    Nursing salary and buying a home?

    KelRN215 replied to applesbananas's topic in General Nursing

    This is true too...because is OP isn't entering her BSN program until 2015, she will presumably graduate in 2019. Who knows how the economy will be then. And mortgage lenders want to see job HISTORY...
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    Nursing salary and buying a home?

    KelRN215 replied to applesbananas's topic in General Nursing

    An ARM is an adjustable rate mortgage. Sometimes lenders will give you a bigger loan if you go for an ARM but it's much riskier for the homebuyer. They also typically have lower rates than the rates...
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    Nursing salary and buying a home?

    KelRN215 replied to applesbananas's topic in General Nursing

    I do not contribute to a 401K. The government does not require that everyone contribute to a 401K, but they say that an employer can essentially require its employees to participate as long as they...
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    Nursing salary and buying a home?

    KelRN215 replied to applesbananas's topic in General Nursing

    I know she's in Canada, that's why I said "we" (as in we in the US) call that an ARM and why I said on page 2 that "In the US" interest rates can only increase if you have an ARM. For the most part, I...
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    Nursing salary and buying a home?

    KelRN215 replied to applesbananas's topic in General Nursing

    My interest rate is fixed. It is fixed for the entire duration of the loan- 30 years. What you are referring to sounds like what we call an Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM). THOSE interest rates can...