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    Verbal Hand-off Reports - Are they no longer necessary?

    MunoRN replied to yr.pedsnurse's topic in General Nursing

    From AHRQ: "The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal also contains specific guidelines for the handoff process, many drawn from other high-risk industries: interactive communications "...
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    Verbal Hand-off Reports - Are they no longer necessary?

    MunoRN replied to yr.pedsnurse's topic in General Nursing

    The chart contains the various bits of data that fit into the more complex understanding of a patient that an RN is expected to formulate. If a (short) interactive conversation about the patient...
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    What would a single payer system look like?

    MunoRN replied to Xlorgguss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    One of the main things the ACA did was to tell private insurers that they can't refuse as much coverage as they have been, so between the government and private insurers it's hasn't been the...
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    Administering Tylenol to a friend

    MunoRN replied to Em31200's topic in General Nursing

    I really hope you just misunderstood your teacher because that's a level of ignorance that really should prohibit someone from being a nursing
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    What would a single payer system look like?

    MunoRN replied to Xlorgguss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I'm curious where you're getting that info from. I've worked at a hospital that frequently traded patients with BC. We'd get Canadians who were down here visiting in our ED who would go to the cath...
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    Verbal Hand-off Reports - Are they no longer necessary?

    MunoRN replied to yr.pedsnurse's topic in General Nursing

    And that's great and all but I'm not sure where in there you as the nurse handing off the patient is confirming that the nurse you're handing off to received and understood the report. I get...
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    Verbal Hand-off Reports - Are they no longer necessary?

    MunoRN replied to yr.pedsnurse's topic in General Nursing

    The JC is not a regulatory body so you can fail on a number of points and still pass the overall survey. Under the communication safety section relating to handoffs, the person receiving the patient...
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    What would a single payer system look like?

    MunoRN replied to Xlorgguss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You believe that regardless of how well a person manages their diabetes their risk of stroke, DKA, etc is exactly the
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    What would a single payer system look like?

    MunoRN replied to Xlorgguss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How do you think that would be different than how it already works? If someone doesn't adequately treat their "diabeetus" and ends up needing treatment for DKA, for heart attack, stroke, etc, who do...
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    Scope of Practice - alternative approaches + RN?

    MunoRN replied to ivyxgrvce's topic in Holistic

    There is absolutely nothing that prevents a nurse from practicing
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    Where are all of the holistic nurses?

    MunoRN replied to PaleoNurse's topic in Holistic

    If you're licensed as an RN then you don't have "conventional" credentials, you already have holistic credentials, that's what an RN license
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    What would a single payer system look like?

    MunoRN replied to Xlorgguss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In the UK, hospitals are operated at the Federal level, in Canada they are generally operated by local public entities (province or "health authorities"), but are still non-profit publicly operated...
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    Verbal Hand-off Reports - Are they no longer necessary?

    MunoRN replied to yr.pedsnurse's topic in General Nursing

    How does the receiving nurse ask a question of a faxed piece of
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    Verbal Hand-off Reports - Are they no longer necessary?

    MunoRN replied to yr.pedsnurse's topic in General Nursing

    In my state that would be considered patient abandonment by the BON, handoffs must include a verbal component. It's also a Joint Commission requirement. If it's really true that nothing is lost by...
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    What would a single payer system look like?

    MunoRN replied to Xlorgguss's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Single payer only refers to how we pay our healthcare costs, it doesn't change who we receive care from. I think sometimes it gets confused with "government run healthcare" which is much different....
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    Why understanding the difference between medical diagnosis and nursing diagnosis important

    MunoRN replied to Patrick Villamor's topic in General Students

    You need to learn the difference as a nursing student because it's part of the hazing/initiation process. Other than that, no, there's not much purpose. The difference between how medicine...
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    Woman Died After Being Arrested fo Refusing to Leave Hospital

    MunoRN replied to herring_RN's topic in Nursing News

    It's always hard to determine right and wrong in these stories since there's always so little to go on, but I don't actually think there is any clear evidence the hospital was clearly in the wrong,...
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    Ethics: Brain bleed sign out AMA

    MunoRN replied to Kbig2's topic in General Nursing

    Are you talking about the hip or the brain
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    Negative Post on Facebook About New Nurses - I'm Fired Up!

    MunoRN replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't understand how we're supposed to know what this facebook conversation
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    How many grams of sugar are in benedictine?

    MunoRN replied to Alnitak7's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Generally counting carbs is a more accurate method anyway and there are 5 carbs per 1 oz serving. Something can have no "sugars" and still have carbs that need
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    Health Insurance

    MunoRN replied to dani_mcb's topic in General Nursing

    Value Penguin is a good site for comparing multiple insurers at once. I'm not sure what county in Michigan you're in, but in Wayne county for instance a Humana catastrophic plan is $108/month, a...
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    Reinfusing gastric residuals

    MunoRN replied to Rach4231's topic in MICU, SICU

    We only check residuals in tube feeds that aren't beyond the pyloric sphincter. We use a syringe to remove the residual and it's placed into a graduated container and measured. Either the full amount...
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    What does "Benefits Ineligible" mean? Good/Bad for New Grad RN?

    MunoRN replied to JPChi's topic in General Nursing

    You should look into what your true costs for employer-provided benefits would be compared buying on your own with the money you wouldn't have to put towards an employer-provided plan. Where I work,...
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    Saline infusion vs. pressure bag for Arterial Sheath Patency

    MunoRN replied to tonyrn21's topic in General Nursing

    In general, all arterial access should be continuously transduced primarily for safety reasons; to have an alarm for if the line should become dislodged, disconnected, etc. When hooking up a NS...
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    Saline infusion vs. pressure bag for Arterial Sheath Patency

    MunoRN replied to tonyrn21's topic in General Nursing

    Every IR doc I know if would tell you to ask a nurse. IR docs don't generally or really ever deal with transduced lines, only an anesthesiologist, an intensivist, or an interventional cardiologist...