KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    Need help finding next career

    KelRN215 replied to alexamasan's topic in General Nursing

    You need help finding a new job, you sound settled in nursing as your career. Pay is highly variable based on your area of the country. Do you have any sense of how your hospital pays compared to...
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    Worried sick that I may have caught MRSA?

    KelRN215 replied to 8Lovenursing8's topic in General Nursing

    Well, in your OP you
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    New Grad Resume

    KelRN215 replied to HeatHuddy's topic in General Nursing

    ABSOLUTELY NOT! You cannot claim to be an RN until you have passed NCLEX and been issued a license by the state that you intend to practice
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    Does the exhaustion go away?

    KelRN215 replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Is the D line really any better in the winter? Is ANY line of the MBTA really better in the winter, actually? Annie, do you have a plan for the winter? The MBTA sometimes shuts down completely in bad...
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    What happens if you put water on ketone stip?

    KelRN215 replied to Avill's topic in School

    We had a kid like this in our program. He was in state custody. He turned 18 a few months ago and basically said screw everyone and everything who's trying to help me. We found out he'd passed away...
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    What happens if you put water on ketone stip?

    KelRN215 replied to Avill's topic in School

    My diabetic 5 year old has a blood ketone meter. Blood ketones are more reliable per his Endocrine team. That's actually the standard for this clinic. They teach to check urine ketones as a back-up if...
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    Termination - Need advice

    KelRN215 replied to calpatel's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I Googled CLPNA and it came back as College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta so I'm going to assume you're Canadian. I'm not familiar with Canada's labor laws but, in the US, a probationary...
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    IV FLUID BOLUS

    KelRN215 replied to RNSAINT41's topic in Pediatric

    0.1 mL is a completely insignificant amount of fluid. You're going to flush the IV with way more than that once the bolus is done. We had 150 mL bags of normal saline when I worked in the hospital so...
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    Does the exhaustion go away?

    KelRN215 replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    There's no way the Longwood Tower is worth the price nor any of the huge apartment buildings down by Fenway. I live 5 1/2 miles from there and my mortgage for a 3 bedroom house including taxes and...
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    Fired for taking vacation

    KelRN215 replied to cyc0sys's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with everything you said here. You might be my spirit animal. Boundaries were difficult for me when I worked inpatient. I used to check my email on my days off on the regular. I always...
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    Worried sick that I may have caught MRSA?

    KelRN215 replied to 8Lovenursing8's topic in General Nursing

    I was surprised I was negative for both MRSA and VRE the last time I was hospitalized. That was 8 years ago, though, so I may very well be colonized with both by now. While we're on the subject of...
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    Fired for taking vacation

    KelRN215 replied to cyc0sys's topic in General Nursing

    I had a colleague at the same job I referenced earlier who had planned a trip to South America and arranged coverage for herself. We were clinical managers at a pediatric home care agency, it was...
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    Does the exhaustion go away?

    KelRN215 replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Aren't you taking the commuter rail from one terminal to the other and it's therefore impossible to miss your stop? I'd try to sleep on that part of the commute and then be awake for the subway...
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    Worried sick that I may have caught MRSA?

    KelRN215 replied to 8Lovenursing8's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing? I'm a little confused. You were at work but said you were "visiting"? Even still, if you were at work, did you not perform hand hygiene before entering and after leaving the patient's room?...
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    Giving insulin late patient request

    KelRN215 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    Is the insulin based on her blood sugar value alone or blood sugar + the amount of carbs she's going to eat? If the latter, you definitely don't want to give her the dose if she's not going to eat. I...
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    Giving insulin late patient request

    KelRN215 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    It sounds like that was the patient's morning/breakfast dose insulin and she wasn't planning on eating breakfast at 8am. I don't think requesting the breakfast dose when she's about to eat breakfast...
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    Clinical site has a bad history for me

    KelRN215 replied to poweringthrough's topic in General Students

    Does your school have counseling services you can seek out? My university had free
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    I'm freaking out about getting a failing grade! Need advice

    KelRN215 replied to DH1234's topic in General Students

    It's one week's assignment. Do better on every assignment for the rest of the semester to get a decent grade for the course. I was a straight A student in high school and graduated 6th in my class. I...
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    Fired for taking vacation

    KelRN215 replied to cyc0sys's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, this. Sometimes letting them being the one to pull the trigger can work out for you in the long run. I think most reasonable employers would be fine with this termination once the OP explains...
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    Lazy RN looking for a gig

    KelRN215 replied to Alex_RN's topic in General Nursing

    A couple months ago my fiance was laid off. I thought about getting a 2nd per diem job doing peds private duty (which I know I could literally walk into an agency and get hired on the spot, one called...
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    Fired for taking vacation

    KelRN215 replied to cyc0sys's topic in General Nursing

    It doesn't sound like an employer that you want to be working for anyway. I once had a 2 week trip to Africa booked MONTHS in advance that my manager knew about. The trip cost several thousand...
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    Ataxia s/p Brain Tumor

    KelRN215 replied to LockportRN's topic in Neurological

    Headache, lethargy, vomiting would be the early signs. Yes, a shunt malfunction needs emergency attention. Does he have a programmable shunt? Shunt failure can be abrupt or it can be gradual....
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    % infants in Peds? Male RN in Peds?

    KelRN215 replied to Lemon Bars's topic in Pediatric

    The number of infants on a pediatric unit is highly variable and depends on a number of factors. At the pediatric hospital I worked at, 2 floors probably had a higher percentage of infants than other...
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    CNA to RN

    KelRN215 replied to Millshel's topic in General Nursing

    Where is "here"? I don't know of anywhere where it's difficult to enter an RN program without being an LPN. Most RNs were never LPNs. Also, just going to leave this here from your thread about...
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    Neonatologist

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

    You know ultrasound technicians do way more than fetal ultrasounds, right? And that it's possible to be an ultrasound tech and never look at a fetus or touch a pediatric patient in any way, depending...