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    Non-patient care nursing jobs

    KelRN215 replied to Ashley.edwards26's topic in General Nursing

    It's still patient care but what about post-partum home visits? It's mostly weighing babies, assessing feeding and providing
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    Voluntarily Surrendering My License

    KelRN215 replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in Nursing Career

    Talk about blowing something completely out of proportion. First, the audit isn't in California as I understand it so just take the necessary CEUs (which you can do in under an hour on Medscape). Is...
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    What is your opinion on calling in "sick"

    KelRN215 replied to Goofaroo's topic in General Nursing

    Because, outside of California, there are no legally mandated nursing
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    Aveanna Health

    KelRN215 replied to RobertJo's topic in General Nursing

    Aveanna is the result of the merging of several large pediatric private duty agencies (PSA, Epic, Pediatria). Personally, I do not think these are good positions for new grads. There is minimal...
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    Trying to find my first job

    KelRN215 replied to alblake3's topic in General Nursing

    When did you start applying? Most people graduate in May and most new grad programs are geared towards their timing. When I worked in the hospital, new grad programs ran in July, September, November...
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    IM for infants - skin bunch or taut?

    KelRN215 replied to nursequestions852's topic in General Nursing

    Parents have probably seen skin pinched for subq injections before. That is not proper technique for an IM
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    Dosage calculation question

    KelRN215 replied to RNSAINT41's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes, this. The patient weighs 3.778 kg so we can assume it is an infant. You cannot administer 2.3 mL IM to an infant in one injection. I've also never seen ampicillin ordered IM in 11 years of...
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    Rounding IV drip calculations

    KelRN215 replied to myknucklehurts's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This thread is 4 years old but you can draw up half way between 1.4 and 1.5 mL and that's 1.45 mL. We certainly did that every day when I worked in the hospital
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    Blood Drive

    KelRN215 replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    Not as a school nurse but in college, I organized 5/year. What was expected of us as the organizers was to staff volunteers and schedule appointments for donors. Volunteers either sat at the...
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    BSN or RN

    KelRN215 replied to mdavis2018's topic in General Students

    Yes, yes and yes. Also, the title of this OP isn't really sound. A BSN is a degree, RN is a license. BSN is one path to obtaining your
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    Academic adviser says I'm selling myself short by going into nursing.

    KelRN215 replied to Wannabenurseneko's topic in General Students

    I won a scholarship my senior year in high school that was sponsored by a doctor and only available to Italian-American students who lived in a certain section of our town. I wrote my essay for this...
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    Just grin and bear it!

    KelRN215 replied to mi_dreamin's topic in General Nursing

    Of course there is, but there's no 98 year old knocking on death's door whose family refuses to let go. Or worse, the family who insists from afar that Grandma would want everything done but never...
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    Yet another ethical question...

    KelRN215 replied to BishopLPN's topic in General Nursing

    Well DNI means "do not intubate" it doesn't mean "do not use other means of respiratory support." I am not familiar with this product so I Googled it and the brochure says "The Philips Respironics...
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    Is it possible to work as an RN on an L&D unit as a CNM?

    KelRN215 replied to gingerxautumn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Why would you want to spend all the money to get a CNM/Master's degree if your goal is to be an L&D staff
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    Advice on how to pair-down a resume?

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

    I've been a nurse for 11 years and have 5 nursing jobs on my resume back to 2007. It's one
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    How common are competency tests during interview process?

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

    I've never been asked to do it, in 11 years as an
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    Just grin and bear it!

    KelRN215 replied to mi_dreamin's topic in General Nursing

    My in-laws refer to each other as "Mommy" and "Daddy." It's so weird. Threads like this make me so happy I'm a pediatric
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    Night Shift & Eating

    KelRN215 replied to iheartnursing91's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in the hospital and worked nights, I did bring food and tried to (but of course it didn't always happen depending on what was going on with my patients) eat dinner at 10pm, a snack at...
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    RN tells my mom that I don't need to take pre-requisites to become a nurse

    KelRN215 replied to Wannabenurseneko's topic in General Students

    I agree with the nurse. 4 year BSN programs do not have pre-reqs because the courses that other programs consider "pre-reqs" are built into the curriculum. Personally I don't see the point of spending...
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    First injection mistake

    KelRN215 replied to Newstudent4's topic in General Students

    The statement you quoted bothered me too but I also have to wonder why a student is giving injections independently without any kind of
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    Complaint

    KelRN215 replied to Tabakb19's topic in General Nursing

    There are 51+ BoNs in the United States (I'm not entirely sure what US territories do) and they all probably operate completely
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    Maddening T1D non-compliance

    KelRN215 replied to pedi_nurse's topic in School

    This is a child protection case. A middle schooler is still a child and it's the parents' responsibility to make sure blood sugar checks are being done and insulin taken. This actually reminds me of a...
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    Working under expired license

    KelRN215 replied to caseylriley's topic in Nursing Career

    This is what happened at the hospital I worked at too. They kept track of everyone's licenses and, if you showed up to work after your license expired and hadn't renewed it, you were sent
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    Terror at the Boston Marathon Finish Line - Jessica Kensky's Tale of Survival and Hope

    KelRN215 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    2013 was the first year I ever watched the marathon from the finish line. I'd gone to it every year since 2001 (grew up not far from the start) but I'd always either watched it at the start, or at...
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    Nursys record is forever?

    KelRN215 replied to TexasNurse1097's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Was there discipline taken against your license? Then yes, I would say it would appear for quite some time. My state's BoN publishes disciplinary action taken against nurses back to