KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    New Grad Terrified of Choosing Wrong Job

    KelRN215 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    There's also option C- apply to other peds positions. I knew I only wanted peds and when I was a new grad, was prepared to move if I didn't get a peds position in my city. I got offered a position...
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    Soon to be new grad looking for advice

    KelRN215 replied to Jdknittle's topic in General Nursing

    It's theoretically possible but it will be difficult and it will limit your future prospects if you have no acute care
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    Is it worth going back to get my rn when I make 57,000 a year?

    KelRN215 replied to LPNTORN704's topic in General Nursing

    Not all RNs are in management. I am a care manager currently but I do not manage employees so am not considered to hold a management
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    Places with most demand for RNs??

    KelRN215 replied to Aliens05's topic in General Nursing

    There always seem to be ads for sign on bonuses for North Dakota. Someone on another thread mentioned Wyoming recently
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    Is it worth going back to get my rn when I make 57,000 a year?

    KelRN215 replied to LPNTORN704's topic in General Nursing

    Well I'm an RN and I make about $40k a year more than your listed salary if that's all you're considering. When I was a manager in a pediatric home health agency with a large private duty population,...
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    Employer used my photo without my permission on social media

    KelRN215 replied to Guest915876's topic in General Nursing

    This is my thought, too. Personally I'd let it go if I wanted to remain employed there, lest I be seen as a difficult
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    financial donation to a needy patient

    KelRN215 replied to bounjour's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely not. Refer to social
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    Job Application-Asks for info on current supervisor.

    KelRN215 replied to JJKTY's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I agree. I always check "no" to this question when I fill out job applications and yes, it is quite a common question. I've never had anyone ask "why don't you want your current supervisor contacted?"...
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    Trans Patient

    KelRN215 replied to Neo Soldier's topic in Psychiatric

    If the patient self-identifies as female she should be treated as female, regardless of whether or not she has a member. I don't understand why the presence of a transgender woman would make other...
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    Facing a dilemma! Help!?

    KelRN215 replied to ns808's topic in General Nursing

    This is excellent advice. You can make a career in nursing without acute care experience but it will be more difficult as many of the non-acute care jobs people leave bedside nursing for want acute...
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    Nursing student reaching out to the OG's

    KelRN215 replied to chichimel's topic in General Nursing

    Does your school offer tutoring at
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    Taking a sleep aid when on call?

    KelRN215 replied to boquiabierta's topic in General Nursing

    This is an MD's office where they have nurses take the on-call? I have had 2 jobs where I had to rotate on-call. In my experience, people rarely call in the middle of the night and when they do, it's...
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    RN's are you happy with your career, why or why not?

    KelRN215 replied to anjoku13's topic in General Nursing

    Hating your job is not the same thing as hating your chosen career. I have never actually hated any of my jobs but have grown to hate many of my past employers. When that happens, I move
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    Is this appropriate?

    KelRN215 replied to SuperMomBob88's topic in General Nursing

    As a community based case manager, I call my patients all the time to reschedule appointments because of snow. I do have a work cell phone, however, and have for all of my last 3 jobs. Facilities...
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    Shoplifting , can I get into nursing school?

    KelRN215 replied to nikiiii123's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    If you never went to court/were charged then you were never convicted. Answer no to that question and move
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    Rounding IV drip calculations

    KelRN215 replied to myknucklehurts's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If the calculated dose is 1.44 mL, measuring slightly less than halfway between 1.4 mL and 1.5 mL is closer to the calculated dose than if you round down to 1.4 mL. And if you're off by 0.01 mL,...
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    Resume advice for experienced RN

    KelRN215 replied to cw.sea's topic in General Nursing

    1) Should I have an objective? I didn't use one when I applied for my position 2 yrs ago. IMO, no. I think objective statements are stupid and just take up unnecessary space. Everyone knows your...
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    RN, ADN being obsolete

    KelRN215 replied to lovewaves's topic in General Students

    The majority of Americans don't even own a passport (only 42% do according to a BBC article from January of this year) and even fewer actually leave the country even for vacation annually. Most...
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    New nurse job

    KelRN215 replied to sunny12345's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I worked at as a new grad ONLY hired new grads into the new grad program. If you were a new grad, you had to go through the program. You couldn't just get hired onto the floor and not go...
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    Best Job Board to search for Entry Level Registered Nurse Position.

    KelRN215 replied to tatyfreedom's topic in General Nursing

    Sites like Indeed and LinkedIn feed from other sites but the best thing to do is go to the individual hospitals'
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    RN, ADN being obsolete

    KelRN215 replied to lovewaves's topic in General Students

    The RN license is most certainly NOT becoming obsolete. A BSN enables you to take NCLEX-RN. BSN prepared nurses are RNs. BSN is a degree, RN is a license. That said, in some areas of the country,...
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    I didn't wake up on time and was too late to come for AM shift?

    KelRN215 replied to Surgonconurse's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in the hospital, I always set 3 alarms for the day shift- 5:15am, 5:30am and 5:45am. I did one time copy the schedule into my calendar incorrectly. I almost never worked Tuesdays. I...
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    Aveanna Health

    KelRN215 replied to RobertJo's topic in General Nursing

    Really no 2 nurses are the same. I know PDNs who work for 2 agencies and work 60 hours/week with the same patient (but, as I mentioned before, that = no income if the patient is hospitalized) and then...
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    Yes on 1! Yes on Ratios!

    KelRN215 replied to DannyBoy8's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    My impression, based on things I saw my former colleagues post, is that they were successfully scared by their employers into thinking that units would close or that (in pediatrics, for example)...
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    Sick of managment but need 9 to 5

    KelRN215 replied to Ashimaly's topic in General Nursing

    Mon-Fri jobs I have held: *Home Health/Clinical Management *School *Clinical Liaison *Case