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    A Nurses Duty to act

    KelRN215 replied to Mellissa81's topic in General Nursing

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    A Nurses Duty to act

    KelRN215 replied to Mellissa81's topic in General Nursing

    I think there's a clear difference between jumping into the ocean attempting to save a drowning person vs calling 911 for someone choking or having a heart attack in your home. In the first situation,...
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    Buy your own laptop?

    KelRN215 replied to Hoozdo's topic in Home Health

    No way. It's the agency's responsibility to provide you with the equipment you need to do the job. I worked for a crappy home health agency and they still provided me with a laptop and a cell phone....
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    New to Home Health and Confused

    KelRN215 replied to deefizzle's topic in Home Health

    Lab draws (off central lines/port-a-caths for heme/onc patients) were one of my more common visits when I was a home health nurse. I always wrote on the lab req to "fax results to MD at XXX-XXX-XXXX...
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    Is late or lack of Documentation a reason for fireability?

    KelRN215 replied to EternalFeather's topic in General Nursing

    To answer your general question of is late or lack of documentation a fireable offense? The answer is a resounding YES. I don't think what you describe is really that level though. When I worked in...
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    How is drug testing done at your facility?

    KelRN215 replied to Janecollective's topic in General Nursing

    You will not be able to pass a drug test using artificial urine in the real nursing world. Most of my employers didn't do pre-employment drug tests but the one that did, the drug testing facility...
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    Can you give a lesser dose than prescribed without an order?

    KelRN215 replied to Faith1234567's topic in General Nursing

    This is what I was thinking the whole way through this thread. The fact that you cannot administer 2/3 of a tablet does not mean that you cannot administer 2/3 of a patient's dose. I easily can (and...
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    Requesting to be laid off?

    KelRN215 replied to nurseypants328's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. Your employer has to pay for your unemployment so why are they going to agree to lay you off when they know you want to
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    Cant decide what area to go to

    KelRN215 replied to iheartnursing91's topic in General Nursing

    If you want to be a peds nurse, I'd take the peds
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    Legalities in Flight Emergencies

    KelRN215 replied to MNRNBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I would assume so. Isn't all communication between airplanes and the ground
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    How soon is too soon to quit a new nursing job!

    KelRN215 replied to Nurse4evervdw's topic in General Nursing

    Most likely the hospital won't allow an internal transfer until you've worked there for a specified period of time so, if you want to stay with your current employer, you're bound by their rules. If...
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    Pediatric dosage calculation rounding rules

    KelRN215 replied to Jane24007's topic in General Nursing

    As far as weights go, for older children the standing scale we had typically weighed to 0.1 kg and the infant scale to 0.001 kg. We didn't round infant weights. If the scale read 2.593 kg, the...
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    Clinical documentation RN DMV

    KelRN215 replied to Lunasu's topic in General Nursing

    That's what I thought when I read DMV, too, and my state doesn't even call it a DMV (we say RMV). I have a former colleague who works in Clinical Documentation Improvement now. That's what she had...
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    BSN without an ASN

    KelRN215 replied to Joba7474's topic in General Nursing

    Having an Associates in Nursing is NOT a pre-req to a BSN program. I entered my BSN program straight out of high school and took NCLEX-RN following completion of that program. No kind of nursing...
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    SOON TO BE NURSE

    KelRN215 replied to lexibowen23's topic in General Nursing

    Agree. When I worked in the hospital, all new grads were hired into full-time positions. Mostly 40 hrs but some 36 (which was still considered full-time). I dropped to 36 hrs a year and a half in....
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    New grad struggling to find jobs

    KelRN215 replied to Tanny22's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Interesting that you say this because that is not at all what the market is like for new grads in my part of the country. If you don't have your job secured by March/April and you're a May grad, good...
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    New grad struggling to find jobs

    KelRN215 replied to Tanny22's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Yes. Say NOTHING about pediatrics when you are applying to adult med surg jobs. If you say "my passion is pediatrics but I am interested in med surg to gain valuable knowledge and experience", the...
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    Mini cath on peds

    KelRN215 replied to fromfaraway's topic in Emergency

    I always found the urine bags useless. They fell off more often than not and I bet I could count on one hand how many successful samples I got from them in almost 5 years of acute care. Lots of...
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    Can I succeed in nursing school with no previous medical experience?

    KelRN215 replied to oneday_nursepoundcake's topic in General Students

    I was 18 when I entered nursing school and my prior "medical experience" consisted of being a volunteer in my local hospital where I did things like find wheelchairs and deliver them to the floors or...
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    General nursing question?

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

    When I worked in the hospital, clinic nurses made about 20% less than the floor nurses and, at a private doctor's office, they would generally make even less than a clinic within a hospital. A primary...
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    Labor and delivery

    KelRN215 replied to Nadia33's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    No, not if you are in the US where all nurses are educated as generalists. Try to get your senior practicum in an L&D unit and that will be your in to finding a job when you graduated. Rionoir, it...
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    Is the online bls at American Heart Association hard to pass?

    KelRN215 replied to Steven11998's topic in General Nursing

    For me, the hardest part of any of those online modules is that the animation is generally terrible and I always think I'm the second of the two people walking along when one drops to the ground so I...
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    Interview Questions

    KelRN215 replied to Deborrah's topic in General Nursing

    You don't need nursing experience to answer these questions. Presumably you've held a job at some time in the last 57
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    Legalities in Flight Emergencies

    KelRN215 replied to MNRNBSN's topic in General Nursing

    HIPAA wouldn't apply in this situation since, as a volunteer on board on an airplane, you won't be billing the patient's insurance for any of the care you
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    New To Pediatrics

    KelRN215 replied to NurseC1986's topic in Pediatric

    This is a fact and truer than ever in my current role, where I work exclusively with children who were in state custody at some point on their lives. I have biological parents, foster parents and, in...