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    First-generation Penn student invents wearable light for nurses

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    I'm a bit confused because wearable lights have been around for a long time and quite common. This just appears to be the first light specifically marketed to
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    Covid-19, No Beds, Ugly Stuff

    MunoRN replied to Ado Annie's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As a hospital that critical access hospitals transfer their patient to, we've had the same issues earlier in the pandemic, although now we decline to accept most of these patients anyway since we...
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    House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The proportion of grocery store or restaurant workers that are under 20 years of age appears to be just over 10% based on the workforce demographics I can find, although workers under 20 already don't...
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    House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The purpose of a $15 minimum wage isn't actually to meet the median living wage of either Arkansas or San Francisco, and falls far short of the median living wage even in rural Arkansas. $15 is...
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    Arterial line caps

    MunoRN replied to RNMOM27's topic in General Nursing

    The transducer can be zeroed with the vented cap that the set comes with, and depending how you use your transducers that cap should not be replaced with one of the "dead-ender" caps that comes with...
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    House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Businesses that have been propped up by having others, including their competitors, subsidize their costs will lose that crutch, I would disagree that's a bad thing. The suggestion seems to be...
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    House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Exactly, the government (taxpayers) shouldn't have to get involved in supplementing a businesses cost of employees through food, housing, and other forms of assistance. Those are part of the basic...
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    House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The government doesn't "set' the basic costs of an employee, the market determines that. The basic costs of housing, food, access to healthcare, and basic necessities are determined by the market....
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    House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    They do a good job of not actually mentioning the specifics of what they are referring to as "negative impacts", which are primarily that many low-wage workers reduced their hours worked as a result...
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    Taped by a patient

    MunoRN replied to lauriepanther's topic in General Nursing

    None of what you are saying makes any sense. If the accusations are based on a supposed taped conversation, but you're saying the tape won't show what is being accused, then the tape can be easily...
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    Four 12s in a row?!?! ??

    MunoRN replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

    How many nights off in a row do you take
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    Four 12s in a row?!?! ??

    MunoRN replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

    My preference is actually for six 12's in a row (followed by 8 off). I'm curious how many people who prefer to work no more than 3 in a row work days vs
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    Taped by a patient

    MunoRN replied to lauriepanther's topic in General Nursing

    In 'two-party-consent' states, including Florida, an employer can't make audio recordings employee's conversations that are not work related unless both parties consent, but they can actually record...
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    Pelosi Blasts GOP Leadership's Underreaction To Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's Remarks

    MunoRN replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I'm not sure how this would be debatable, statistically there is little reason to doubt that most Trump supporters are Christian. Current data varies slightly, but generally they all put the...
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    House and Senate Democrats introduce legeslation to increase federal min. wage to $15/hr by 2025

    MunoRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    A healthy free market economy is based around the idea that those who can't keep up with the costs of doing business shouldn't be in business, keeping those businesses going through artificial means...
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    Continuous pulse oximetry monitoring and COVID

    MunoRN replied to macleod340's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I can't really say I've ever had an experience with continuous pulse oximetry that wasn't as you describe. They are extremely sensitive to movement, they work great on comatose patients, but on...
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    What constitutes an IV insertion "attempt"?

    MunoRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is a spin-off from this thread: Student attempted IV 7 times, alone - General Nursing - allnurses® The common rule to IV attempts is that each practitioner gets two "attempts", and once 1,...
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    Multiple doses in same syringe?

    MunoRN replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    Her concerns was 'off-label' use of graduated cylinders? I'd hate for her to see all the things we use plastic wash basins for (non of them are as wash basins). Or tourniquets for that
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    Multiple doses in same syringe?

    MunoRN replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    Certainly one of the frustrating things about regulatory requirements isn't so much the requirements, it's the wide variation in how well people understand what they are, including surveyors and even...
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    Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    MunoRN replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

    I've never known of a nursing school, including supposedly 'top-ranked' ones that have a clinical instructor to student ratio of 1:1. Usually 1:8 is considered about as good as it gets. This means...
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    Multiple doses in same syringe?

    MunoRN replied to LibraNurse27's topic in General Nursing

    The 'official' regulatory rule regarding "single-dose / single-use vials is that the "single" part refers to a single procedure, case, or administration. For instance, the process of recovering from...
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    Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    MunoRN replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

    I had mentioned before this could be it's own thread, although for some reason these actual practice issues don't get as much play as drama-based threads, but we'll give it a
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    Does floating kill patients?

    MunoRN replied to TKHnurse's topic in General Nursing

    You could reference Aiken's research on staffing levels and outcomes to support the need for appropriate staffing levels which are hard to achieve without some amount of staff redistribution to meet...
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    Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    MunoRN replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think this has any commonly agreed on definition, but in my experience students or new nurses will often deem repeatedly advancing the catheter as multiple "attempts". And in my...
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    Does floating kill patients?

    MunoRN replied to TKHnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be curious to hear the Consultant's reasoning behind this since it would seem the result would be units that are sometimes understaffed, and there is actual evidence to support the idea that...