KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    BSN student looking for suggestions for future global health volunteer opportunities

    KelRN215 replied to aring1's topic in General Nursing

    MSF placements also require a 9-12 month commitment. There are short-term international volunteer opportunities you could do. My college offered many opportunities for international service trips and...
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    Heart health awareness month

    KelRN215 replied to Buckeye.nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think chemo's affect on the heart is usually a late effect- like years later. I have met a few heart failure patients in my current job who are young adults who survived pediatric cancer 10-15 years...
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    How has nursing changed you?

    KelRN215 replied to thoughtful21's topic in General Nursing

    The longer I've spent in the working world, the truer and truer the Peter Principle seems to me. It is alive and well at my current
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    Mutt-ernity Ward

    KelRN215 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Emotional Support Animals would not be allowed to accompany their owner to the hospital. They can only live with their owner and travel on airplanes with
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    Homelessness

    KelRN215 replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    I wasn't suggesting you were. Just saying that if you search craigslist for roommates, there are other options than living in a van. This guy's ad said that his personal assistant would "run errands,...
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    Stuck in an unfulfilling position

    KelRN215 replied to RockinNurse2018's topic in General Nursing

    I would say think outside the acute care box. There are many opportunities in nursing that aren't SNF or acute care. Home care is almost always hiring. LTAC would get you closer to acute care than a...
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    Promptcare Home Infusion

    KelRN215 replied to thrboymom's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    I don't work for them but for a competitor and not as a field nurse but as a liaison, so take my opinion for what it's worth but I feel that all national home infusion pharmacies are basically the...
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    Homelessness

    KelRN215 replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    I searched craigslist in my city for roommate postings in response to this OP and found an extremely creepy post from a 48 year old man looking for a "fun young lady" to live with him for free to...
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    How has nursing changed you?

    KelRN215 replied to thoughtful21's topic in General Nursing

    I am more jaded, cynical and an Atheist
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    Mutt-ernity Ward

    KelRN215 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    A service animal is not a pet. They perform a service to an individual with a disability and, by law, they go wherever their owner goes. It's not a sense of entitlement, it's needing the service the...
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    Mutt-ernity Ward

    KelRN215 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    If the benefits outweigh the risks, yes: Service Dog Sniffs Out Girl's Disease, Even in Operating Room - ABC
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    Raises

    KelRN215 replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with this. The last time I changed jobs, I got a $15,000 per year pay increase. But it came at a price. My benefits are not nearly what they were when I was working for a hospital and I am...
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    Homelessness

    KelRN215 replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    This was my thought reading the OP, too. You could have a PO Box to use as your address but where are you going to park said van regularly? And where will you shower? If you plan to work in a large...
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    Nursing essay due!!! HELP!!

    KelRN215 replied to helper2018's topic in General Students

    Your friend has had an average of 15 surgeries (I presume shunt-related) per year for life? She needs a new neurosurgeon. I was a pediatric neurology/neurosurgery nurse for 5 years and we definitely...
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    Math Tests at Interviews?

    KelRN215 replied to Cathyy105's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    You will most likely have to take a math test during orientation to prove your competency but I've never had to take one during an
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    Bored on weekdays!

    KelRN215 replied to cblue152's topic in General Nursing

    Sign up to be a substitute school nurse so you can work the same hours that your kids are gone for some extra money a few days a
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    How to confront a disrespectful professor

    KelRN215 replied to MamaNanii's topic in General Students

    I don't really see how you being 37 with 6 kids is relevant to your professor. You chose to have 6 kids and then you chose to attend nursing school while parenting them. I am 33 with no kids, a...
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    Job Offer Details

    KelRN215 replied to Freedomsong's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm not an NP but I make more than that as an RN and no way would I accept a position that involved 24 hr on-call with no extra pay. That's one of the reasons I left my last job, actually. When we...
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    Biological Monitoring of Onc Nurses

    KelRN215 replied to OccHealthNurs's topic in Oncology

    None of the above in any of my jobs- 5 years inpatient and 3 years of home care administering chemotherapy. I do not know if they did any of this on the Pharmacy staff that mixed the drugs but I doubt...
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    Any thoughts on my idea.

    KelRN215 replied to tmg4me's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Presumably the patients who would need this service would either be on Medicare or Medicaid. You would have to open a Medicare/Medicaid Certified Home Health Agency to be able to bill for these...
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    Appropriate patient discussion

    KelRN215 replied to amtisdale's topic in General Nursing

    I imagine that this is a small hospital? I can't imagine anything like this happening at any of the adult hospitals I ever did clinical at in school (I've only worked pedi my entire career) because...
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    Advice on quitting

    KelRN215 replied to joytrann15's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have another job offer? Unless you are independently wealthy or don't need to work, I would advise against quitting a job without another one lined up. When you are ready to give notice, tell...
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    Homebound and skilled requirement s

    KelRN215 replied to Cjhays's topic in Home Health

    Medicare will not pay for home health services unless the patient is homebound. This doesn't mean that the patient cannot ever leave the home but that it has to be a taxing effort for them to
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    Morphine continuous infusion in home care?

    KelRN215 replied to megpillow's topic in Home Health

    I have sent many patients home on morphine or dilaudid PCAs as a home infusion liaison. These were end of life patients. I once was asked about it in a non-end of life patient but, as it is in no way...
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    If I graduate from nursing school in Ohio can I be licensed in Georgia?

    KelRN215 replied to grey374's topic in General Nursing

    So long as your program meets all of Georgia's requirements for licensure, you can attend school wherever you please. You simply submit your application for initial licensure to the Georgia BoN when...