KelRN215 BSN, RN

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  1. Perhaps. I am not savvy on the technology of the fax machine. It kind of baffles me when I think about
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    Selling products to Patients?

    Well who are you in relation to this
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    Dr. orders for OTC meds

    If you are going to administer it or do teaching on it then yes. If I admit a patient and they tell me they take Tylenol or Ibuprofen PRN, I just put it on the 485. The patient is, of course, free...
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    What did you get for nurses week?

    The worst week of my career. A whole bunch of people not doing their part and expecting me to move Heaven and Earth to fix it. My employer did accidentally send me 2 gift cards instead of one,...
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    12hr days vs 12hr nights in a hospital

    I think there's a big difference. On days, your manager is there bothering you. Social Work, PT, Nutrition, OT, Nursing Students, Residents, Fellows, Med Students, etc. are all fighting over the...
  6. We provide postage-paid envelopes for our nurses. There are also fax machines in most private duty patients homes and the nurses who do intermittent visits can be given a fax machine for their home...
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    Bringing home notes on pt. care??

    If something happens on your shift and it crosses your mind that the case might go to court, you BEST write a thorough nursing note IN the patient's chart/legal medical record, not on a scrap piece of...
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    Interventions without MD orders

    It's not true at all that you "can't do anything without an order." I do things without orders all the time. If I go to one of my patient's homes and I see that his central line dressing is falling...
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    PLEASE HELP!!! Pediatric Dosage Calc.

    All I see is this: I'm
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    Who's the Best TV Nurse? - allnurses in the news

    Carol Hathaway is pretty much the reason I became a nurse. I wanted to be her when I was
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    Ethics

    Any time someone makes a comment about how people should need to learn English to live in the US, I ask them what our official language is. The vast majority of people I ask this do not know that...
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    Ethics

    Did the MD decline to call a consult BECAUSE the patient was undocumented? Because I'm not getting that from your post. Perhaps a consult really was unwarranted. The Social Worker's comment was...
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    Question on filling out FMLA papers

    FMLA IS a law. The Family Medical and Leave Act of
  14. You are not going to find any nurse on here to give you her real name, address and phone number. Your best bet will be to seek out a nurse for a live, in person
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    Disgusted

    Or how about not getting pregnant while you're on drugs? There. I said
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    What cracked me up today

    Not working in a school any more but today I went to give one of my patients chemotherapy which involved accessing his port. He is a toddler so naturally freaks out a little with the whole process...
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    Leaving a hospital job

    Leaving the hospital was the best professional decision I ever made. I manage a pedi home visit program now and I LOVE it. I never thought I wanted a Mon-Fri but it's actually really nice to have...
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    mileage reimbirsment in home care

    You can if you are being paid less than the federal reimbursement rate. I get reimbursed 40 cents/mile so I claim 16 cents/mile on my
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    help with drug calculation

    It doesn't actually matter what that statement means. Whether there are 1 mL or 2 mL in a single dose or multi dose vial, you still need to administer 50 mg/1
  20. I don't hate nursing but I'd rather just get paid to travel the world. Definitely had that happen to me when I worked in the hospital. I put in my requests to arrange so I could go away for...
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    mileage reimbirsment in home care

    It depends on the agency. The federal rate is 56 cents/mile but the employer might offer you less than that. I get 40 cents/mile and I claim the rest on my
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    Heparin Math.....HELP

    Ok, first step- how much heparin do you administer for the bolus dose. Your patient weights 187 lbs- what is that in kg? Then you need to administer 80 u/kg- so what is your dose? From there, you...
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    rude nurse

    If I didn't know better, I'd think you were one of my former co-workers. You just described every aide I ever worked with, other than the nursing students working as aides who wanted to get hired as...
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    What was your GPA?

    What the OP describes is precisely how my experience was. I applied to college directly out of high school and selected the School of Nursing on my undergrad application. There were no pre-reqs to...
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    Please help - program expulsion

    Well, certainly you are not being expelled for your A average and volunteer or work experience so there is most definitely more to this story that you haven't shared and I doubt any one of us can...