psu_213 BSN, RN

psu_213 has 16 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

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   Telemetry issue Safe and Sound

   psu_213 replied to Nurse Pompom's topic in General Nursing

   First, any time the system does not register the patient correctly or deletes the memory, I would enter a safety occurrence (I'm totally blanking if this is the correct word--whatever your reporting...
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   How do I ask for multiple recommendation letters?

   psu_213 replied to A980's topic in Nursing Career

   I guess that as a clinical instructor, she has been asked before for letters of rec, so I don't think that asking is 'needy.' I would go to her in person rather than asking via email. Compliment...
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   How to address a lazy nurse who continuously makes mistakes?

   psu_213 replied to Vee D's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   No HH experience here, but I, personally, would refrain from calling out a person by name in a shared document. In an email to your supervisor(s) sure, but I feel like if you use the nurse's name in...
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   How do I document A&O status of nonverbal patient?

   psu_213 replied to taragarofano's topic in General Students

   The 'A' part of A&O should be pretty easy to figure out. As for the O part--is he able to communicate in any way? If so, would you be able to test him on the various spheres of orientation...
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   Giving False Bad Reference

   psu_213 replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in General Nursing

   I added numbers so you could more easily see what I am referencing.... 1. If this happened, obviously it is totally inappropriate. However, unless you actually witnessed her lie about her...
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   Guns at the Bedside

   psu_213 replied to rnrazzil's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Uhh...no. He can not bring it inside in the first place, or he can hand it to security. Any delay would be his fault. But it is very American of him not only to have a misguided view of the 2nd...
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   Speakerphone

   psu_213 replied to Jkrisko's topic in HIPAA Challenges

   Yeah, that's what I don't understand. I do agree it is not appropriate (in any situation) to have a phone conversation on speaker phone without all involved parties knowing it is on speaker phone....
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   Epic HIPAA violation

   psu_213 replied to EmNightShamala's topic in HIPAA Challenges

   Perhaps it was flagged in the system that this person was opening a bunch of charts of people who weren't active patients in her unit. That caused IT/informatics/etc. to dig
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   When Delegation is Unsuccessful

   psu_213 replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

   First, to the OP, no reason to feel guilty about having a day off. Exactly what I was thinking. Just looking at it from a process stand point--why was it delegated to 6 people? This is sounds...
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    New nurse struggling

    psu_213 replied to ddrn97's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Is your hope to move to a permanent unit in this hospital or to move to another facility all together? If they are serious about this "verbal contract," they might be fairly unlikely to let you leave...
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    I'm a junior in high school and I want to be a nurse....but I've never been vaccinated. What can I do?

    psu_213 replied to sasha91's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Of course many of use earned our antibodies the old fashioned way for that one.
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    HIPAA breach

    psu_213 replied to ForeverYoung018's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    I don't have any words of wisdom about this particular situation, and I hope it works out well for you. However, let this be a warning to others--just don't post anything at all about work. Period....
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    How do you take blood pressures for 90 people?

    psu_213 replied to wandwaving's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Is this LTC. It has been a while since I worked in LTC, but do you take everyone's BP every
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    Children's Heart institute putting kids in danger

    psu_213 replied to HaggardRN's topic in Nursing News

    Don't take this as a defense of the hospital, merely a statement about this particular article. I'm not saying the article is wrong, I'm not saying that this actually is a good hospital. I am not a...
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    PTO

    psu_213 replied to SidyJean's topic in General Nursing

    180? Yikes! So glad I can accrue more. I think it stinks that your cap is so low, but it seems to be and easy problem to work around. As others have said, plan you time so that you have to use...