KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    Blue Hills?

    KelRN215 replied to Yamamama's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    I love the Blue Hills... I go hiking there all the time. :) I know nothing about Blue Hills Regional Technical
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    Mass General

    KelRN215 replied to OUxPhys's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Boston has MANY nursing schools with BSN programs and the market is oversatured with new grads. New grads who were bred here have a hard time finding jobs at the Boston hospitals. Why are you...
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    PSA healthcare?

    KelRN215 replied to WannaBNursey's topic in Home Health

    PSA in my area does not do skilled visits, they are PDN only. Skilled visits as a new grad would be, IMO, harder than PDN because the parents are not always competent with the care for their kids....
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    Work Cell?

    KelRN215 replied to _NaturallyTee_'s topic in Home Health

    I have a work phone that my company pays for. Unless I am on-call, it goes OFF at 4:30P. I do give the number to my patients, in case they need to call me about setting up/canceling a visit, but I...
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    RN's in HHC, How much do you take home weekly?

    KelRN215 replied to mommycruz3's topic in Home Health

    I do not see how your cousin could possibly be bringing home $1500 per week based on the schedule you describe. If she does 10 visits/day x 5 days/week that's 50 visits/week so even IF she was paid...
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    Are nurses forced to assist abortions?

    KelRN215 replied to lookingintoRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This thread is not about one's personal views on abortion but, rather, if nurses can be forced to assist with the procedure. But, since you brought it up, are you interested in things like this...
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    the NEW No-No's in documenting??

    KelRN215 replied to LesaAustinPurdy's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    qd and qod were banned a long time
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    Annual Pay Raises in 2014

    KelRN215 replied to Havin' A Party!'s topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in the hospital, raised were cut to 0-2% when the economy tanked in '08 and stayed that way until I left in '12. At my current job, I got 4% last year and 9% this year. Life is
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    Research on catheter removal

    KelRN215 replied to crys1bigz's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What type of catheter are you talking
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    How do you move on to a leadership position

    KelRN215 replied to sourapril's topic in Nursing Career

    This principle definitely applies, in my experience, in healthcare
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    Sick of hearing "We don't want mom (or dad) to know"

    KelRN215 replied to TXRN44's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    OP, unless your patients have been judged incompetent by the courts or have specifically stated "share my diagnoses, test results, updates on my condition with my children and not me" then what your...
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    Nurses letting other nurses chart on their account

    KelRN215 replied to DQstatus's topic in General Students

    There are plenty of reasons why a nurse who is not assigned to a patient would need to look in his chart and it is perfectly reasonable for nurses to do that. Have you never helped a colleague? If...
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    Magnet Status

    KelRN215 replied to taffy_fl's topic in General Nursing

    YES.
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    False Facebook Health Messages

    KelRN215 replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    Any time I see something like this posted on facebook, I google the claim and instantaneously find either a snopes.com or urbanlegends link debunking the claim... and I have no qualms about posting...
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    mileage

    KelRN215 replied to nursehoagie's topic in Home Health

    I'm kind of confused about what you are asking about "putting limits on how far you drive" but, I get paid $0.40 per mile. Federal mileage reimbursement is $0.56 per mile so I deduct the remaining...
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    Blood clots & IV/central line tubing...When does this become a hazard!?

    KelRN215 replied to RN A's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Everywhere I've ever worked, you'd have to reclean whether or not you let go of the line. Policy is to scrub with alcohol for 15 seconds every time you connect or
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    Travel nurse abandonment question

    KelRN215 replied to love4nursing18's topic in Travel

    You are allowed to quit a job. There is no abandonment here. Recruiter doesn't know what he's talking
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    Dealing with calls from work

    KelRN215 replied to Katniss88's topic in General Nursing

    Or you could answer and say NO. Then they'll get the
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    Nurses desensitized to death?

    KelRN215 replied to Meeny's topic in General Nursing

    Death is a fact of life. Every life ends in death. I am a pedi nurse. 4 children who I worked with in some capacity have died in the last 2 months. I did not cry about any of them nor did I feel...
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    Dealing with calls from work

    KelRN215 replied to Katniss88's topic in General Nursing

    Don't answer your phone if you don't want to work. No reason to feel
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    Is this a common attendace policy?

    KelRN215 replied to Dazglue's topic in General Nursing

    At this point, I would be willing to burn my bridges with the hospital and would tell management to take their write up and shove it where the sun don't
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    Male pediatric nurses?

    KelRN215 replied to FutureNurseKyle's topic in Pediatric

    It's a Joint Commission
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    Can parents give medically fragile kids meds w/o Dr. order in homecare?

    KelRN215 replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Well the Mom has already been doing it based on what you said. Is the tube clogged? Nutritionists don't know much about the mechanics of G-tubes in my experience. Why would he be MORE at risk for...
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    On being a mandated reporter

    KelRN215 replied to KelRN215's topic in Pediatric

    Every experience I have with them is worse than the last. The agency is a disgrace. It's shameful,
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    Opinions wanted! Why did you leave acute care?

    KelRN215 replied to kd13rn's topic in Nursing Career

    Because my job sucked and I got an offer for more money, more room for growth and better