KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    Certified Child Life Specialist?

    KelRN215 replied to southerngirl92's topic in General Nursing

    Off topic but I find this interesting because, where I'm from, the CF patients NEVER leave the pediatric hospital. Literally never. People with CF in their 30s, 40s and 50s continue to be treated at...
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    Certified Child Life Specialist?

    KelRN215 replied to southerngirl92's topic in General Nursing

    What meanmaryjean says is true. Child Life Specialists are fantastic but their job prospects are rather limited. They can work in pediatric hospitals and some pediatric specialty clinics (I have...
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    Been there, done that RN Students: Rent or Buy

    KelRN215 replied to besrey's topic in General Students

    Buy online at half.com. Sell the book after the class is over for a profit. I once bought a book for $8 and sold it for
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    Cost of your RN degree??

    KelRN215 replied to SML456's topic in General Nursing

    Mine was just a little less than that. If I recall correctly, freshman year $36k, sophomore year $42k (took a year off between freshman and sophomore year, so that year probably cost $39k), junior...
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    rant.. "4 weeks notice"

    KelRN215 replied to misyan's topic in General Nursing

    This is absurd. Staffing the unit is the manager's/hospital's responsibility. It's not the responsibility of the departing employee to ensure that her shifts are
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    Granualized vs epithelialized vs not healing?

    KelRN215 replied to nurse2b013's topic in Home Health

    http://www.nursingcenter.com/cearticle?tid=1241490
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    GoFundMe Thoughts?

    KelRN215 replied to singwithme123's topic in General Nursing

    Like anything, there is a time and a place for sites like gfm and, like anything, people will find a way to try to abuse it. I have seen these sites appropriately used to raise money for, for...
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    GoFundMe Thoughts?

    KelRN215 replied to singwithme123's topic in General Nursing

    Yup, someone I went to high school with tried something like this. Her kid supposedly needed a T&A. They both had Medicaid. There are no out of pocket costs for people with Standard Medicaid in...
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    Why do nurses seem to have a bad reputation?

    KelRN215 replied to unbrokenx3's topic in General Nursing

    You started nursing school a month ago and already feel like nurses have "a reputation for sleeping around." In your first month of nursing school you probably haven't even set foot in any kind of...
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    Pay per visit home health

    KelRN215 replied to luv2shopp85's topic in Home Health

    It's good if you can do a lot of visits that are simple and the patients are close together. It's bad if the patients are complex and live far away from each other. In my opinion, you make out...
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    ADN vs BSN Battle

    KelRN215 replied to Mommy_RN1211's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I disagree with this statement. I have been offered many an interview because my resume caught the attention of the person hiring because of the school that I went to. I have been a nurse for 8...
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    Observed an Unconsented surgery performed

    KelRN215 replied to mochilover's topic in Operating Room

    Sometimes the surgeon doesn't know what he's going to find when he gets in there and when he opens the patient, the situation is different than was originally
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    Unwanted 'diagnosis'!

    KelRN215 replied to WinterLilac's topic in General Nursing

    My cousin did the same thing. And, yeah, most symptoms of hypothyroid can't be seen. How does one "look"
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    Are there NPs who work as RNs in Massachusetts or NH

    KelRN215 replied to chincka's topic in General Nursing

    I know several NPs who continue to do staff nurse work per diem. I don't understand why you'd go through an entire MSN/ACNP program and NOT use your degree/training though. That would seem like a...
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    Flushing with Sterile Water

    KelRN215 replied to BonnieSc's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    I saw the same thing when I did medical work in Tanzania 6 years ago. IV were flushed with sterile water, if at all. I cringed every time I saw it. They also threw dirty needles right in the trash...
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    what form of license to expect

    KelRN215 replied to 01khakizz's topic in General Nursing

    Most of my providers have their degrees hanging on their office walls, not their
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    New nurse under pressure

    KelRN215 replied to google addikt's topic in Home Health

    I agree. And especially PDN, where you can usually max hope for 1 or 2 shifts of training. The lack of training in PDN is really appalling when you consider that the kids, while true that they are...
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    what form of license to expect

    KelRN215 replied to 01khakizz's topic in General Nursing

    That's weird. What do you do with it? Do you hang it in your home? Do they send you a new one with each renewal? I have a little paper card that I don't even know where I put. In 2015, having a...
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    what form of license to expect

    KelRN215 replied to 01khakizz's topic in General Nursing

    I've never heard of a nursing license being granted as a wall
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    does every rn out there hate their job? sonography/x-ray tech instead?

    KelRN215 replied to Bailando's topic in General Nursing

    Ok. First, unless anyone here has also worked as an X-Ray tech or Sonographer, we can't tell you if those jobs are more or less stressful than nursing. Anyone who tells you that they get thrown to...
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    AS or AA ?

    KelRN215 replied to Alexandrasmiles's topic in General Nursing

    This poster is asking about getting a general AA or AS. My university's BSN program would not have accepted someone with an associate's degree into the junior year of the nursing program because they...
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    AS or AA ?

    KelRN215 replied to Alexandrasmiles's topic in General Nursing

    Neither. It is better to just go for the
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    License with wrong spelling of middle name

    KelRN215 replied to Vkearn's topic in General Nursing

    Call the BoN of whatever state you are licensed in and tell them to fix it. I have never known anyone to have their middle name on their license
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    NCLEX-RN question

    KelRN215 replied to kmchandler's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    If you get 75 questions, you either passed by a lot or failed by a lot. If you get 265 questions, you either passed by a little or failed by a little. That's all that it means. Pay the $8
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    Contacting facility about employment opportunities?

    KelRN215 replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    It may be somewhere that advertises on websites such as Indeed or Monster or Career