KelRN215 BSN, RN

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    Health insurance that restricts employees from receiving care outside of employer owned ho

    KelRN215 replied to floatRN's topic in General Nursing

    My out-of-pocket costs for my annual MRI/Neuro-Onc follow up this year vs last year: $50 vs $2100+. That alone makes changing jobs worth it. When I resigned from my last job, I was honest and said...
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    Travelling before or after NCLEX

    KelRN215 replied to vdabrooke's topic in General Students

    Why are the options only January or April? I'd take NCLEX as soon as possible after graduation. I took mine 2-3 weeks later and still spent the whole summer traveling before I started working. You...
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    Health insurance that restricts employees from receiving care outside of employer owned ho

    KelRN215 replied to floatRN's topic in General Nursing

    Those options would definitely have me looking for another
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    California New Grad taking job out of state, what are my chances of getting back to CA?

    KelRN215 replied to sunflow3rz's topic in General Nursing

    Once you have the necessary experience, you could consider travel nursing as a way to get your foot in the door somewhere. I actually knew a nurse (from California, we met in Peru) who took 13 week...
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    Health insurance that restricts employees from receiving care outside of employer owned ho

    KelRN215 replied to floatRN's topic in General Nursing

    Is that the only plan you're offered? My hospital system offers 3 options for health insurance. The first option, which is free, only covers care within the hospital system and emergent care...
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    Working on More than One Floor?

    KelRN215 replied to GentheRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I doubt the hospital would let you hold 2 different positions (full time on one floor and part time or per diem on another) because that would essentially guarantee that they'd have to pay you OT...
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    Inappropriate instructor/student relationship?

    KelRN215 replied to Elven_RN's topic in General Students

    Me
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    Medical Assistant vs. RN

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

    Of the 5 nursing jobs I've held, 4 of them have been Mon-Fri 8 hour days (varied start times between 7:30-9am depending on the environment, school starting the
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    Inappropriate instructor/student relationship?

    KelRN215 replied to Elven_RN's topic in General Students

    This is what I'm wondering too. Or OP, could this trip have been related to the nursing club they're all involved with? I traveled to Nicaragua with 2 nursing professors over winter break my senior...
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    Is it wise to specialize right after nursing school if you know that's what you want to do

    KelRN215 replied to Ptntcrgvr's topic in General Students

    What would ER prevent you from doing if you want to change specialties down the road? I think ER is more broad than Med/Surg and I definitely went to school with people who went right to ER out of...
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    Nursin intervention

    KelRN215 replied to kaylawhite95's topic in General Students

    Yes and also there's at least one other thing she's at risk for that you definitely want to
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    Nursing judgement in the community setting

    KelRN215 replied to yinit9278's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Yes, you can hold meds per nursing judgment but I agree with BostonFNP to call the prescriber if this is something that's happening regularly. I have a patient with CF who has intestinal...
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    What's considered acute care experience?

    KelRN215 replied to lschultz777's topic in Case Management

    When I see job postings that ask for acute care experience, I interpret that as hospital
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    Do hospital CMs work during holidays?

    KelRN215 replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Case Management

    Plenty of employers outside of healthcare close on that day and make it a paid day off. My fiance and brother, for example, have both always had that day off. I would expect that many companies will...
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    Should prn get weekend or holiday diff???

    KelRN215 replied to rechell1215's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. If you are per diem and your hospital isn't paying weekend, night or holiday differentials, make yourself available for weekday days
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    Nursin intervention

    KelRN215 replied to kaylawhite95's topic in General Students

    You don't want her to experience any further skin damage, what do you want to happen with the existing wound? What do you want to prevent with the existing
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    withholding medications ethical dilemma

    KelRN215 replied to WILLTHEMURSE's topic in General Nursing

    It may have been a typo but more than once, OP lists the lorazepam dose in grams. We're trying to prevent DTs here, not kill a small horse. I also have the same questions you have. When I worked in...
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    Should prn get weekend or holiday diff???

    KelRN215 replied to rechell1215's topic in General Nursing

    I would just like to add that the question posed on the title of this thread "Should PRN get weekend or holiday differential?" and the question posed in the OP "can a hospital legally refuse to pay a...
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    Home health rn, does this sound right?

    KelRN215 replied to ZandZmommyRN's topic in Home Health

    The simple solution to this is to turn your phone off on Thursday at 5pm and leave it off until Wednesday at 9am. In your voicemail message you say "this is ZandZMommyRN, I work Wednesdays and...
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    StressedNewlyqualified nurse career advice

    KelRN215 replied to Newlyqualnurse's topic in United Kingdom

    I have the same question as the previous poster. It's difficult to advise you without knowing where you are and what the healthcare system in that country
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    California New Grad taking job out of state, what are my chances of getting back to CA?

    KelRN215 replied to sunflow3rz's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, my fiance moved from NJ to MA 4 years ago for a job. I don't know if he even knew what his plan was at the time. He was laid off in July and if he was still single probably would have moved back...
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    Should prn get weekend or holiday diff???

    KelRN215 replied to rechell1215's topic in General Nursing

    There's no law that requires shift differentials in the first place so yes, of course they can do this. They can also take away these differentials for regular staff if they so
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    Friend is sending FB requests to all ICU/ER nurses

    KelRN215 replied to NurseSince2014's topic in General Nursing

    Does OP's friend remind anyone else of a certain past poster who was obsessed (unhealthily so) with getting a CVICU
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    My plan

    KelRN215 replied to Flossy73's topic in General Nursing

    That would depend on how long you can afford to be unemployed for. If you resign before your surgery, do you have health insurance outside of this job? If not, can you afford to pay COBRA? How long...
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    withholding medications ethical dilemma

    KelRN215 replied to WILLTHEMURSE's topic in General Nursing

    I would want to hear the nurse's point of view before I make any judgment as I know, when I was working as an aide and was in nursing school, I sometimes sat with patients and had no idea of the whole...