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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    Wrong. You are not getting the point. The point is not who works harder, and no one is putting CNAs down. We are stating facts, facts that CNAs and MDs alike should know. One reason that nurses...
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    If you have read Nursing Against the Odds

    UM Review RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'd like to share my experience with how this book has affected my thinking. Ms. Gordon talks about how nurses are not even identified as nurses in hospital publications (page176) so as I read our...
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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    You're joking, right? Again, IMO this is not a discussion about semantics, this is a discussion that has its roots in the "invisibility" of nursing. Even MDs have no clue as to what we do or why RNs...
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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not amused, I'm more than a tad annoyed that the work that nurses do has become so invisible (to borrow the phrase from Gordon). How can we ever hope to educate the public about what nurses do if...
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    Fluid & Electrolyte effects changes in ECG

    UM Review RN replied to bt92019's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Hyperkalemia: Tall Tenting Twaves. :) Hope that
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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    And one more thing: To the OP, I would suggest offering this website to the CNA first mentioned. Notice that they refer to themselves as "Career" CNAs, not "professional" CNAs....
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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    No, it's understanding one's position and scope of practice in the chain-of-command. CNAs are supposed to know this stuff because they are under the authority of the RN. In other words, CNAs are...
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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    It's not "a nurse" telling you; it is the accepted definition of the word "RN." Yes, I am a professional nurse because I went to college and passed NCLEX. Your failure to understand this is only...
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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat:
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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    I do not understand why you are taking offense. By definition, the nurse is a professional. No emotions connected, just fact. I've been a CNA and was taught that from the get-go. Could you please...
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    Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act (THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT!)

    UM Review RN replied to BethAn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks, I
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    NA's not professionals

    UM Review RN replied to Jabramac's topic in General Nursing

    I am a licensed professional nurse. The LPN is the licensed technical nurse. The CNA is the certified nurse's aide. I have met career CNAs who are quite happy to be CNAs and who are excellent at what...
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    So I'm fired. Again.

    UM Review RN replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in General Nursing

    Did you read the entire thread? She answered all those questions and more. Sue, as you have noted before .... Consider the
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    Anyone Else Experience Mobbing?

    UM Review RN replied to WeakAnkles's topic in General Nursing

    One place I worked started out great and then turned toxic after a couple of years. I got out, but Love My Cat is so right -- it does do some damage to your psyche and it takes time and patience to...
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    A message to new grads: NEVER....

    UM Review RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    * un-spike the old IVF's with 100 mls left in the bag while it's still hanging * say the word "quiet" in reference to your hopes for the shift * say you've never had a patient ________ before * take...
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    Patient's Demanding Family *Vent*

    UM Review RN replied to Ms Kylee's topic in General Nursing

    Kylie, when I have that problem with a family, I will go into the room and say: "Hi, I'm Angie. I'm your nurse. I'll be taking care of giving you medications, your IV pump and line, and the doctor...
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    Silliest thing you ever did after a long shift...

    UM Review RN replied to elizabells's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, I was still at work. I borrowed a Sharpie from the Tele monitor to date a 60 cc syringe for a tube feeder, my last task of the day. Ten minutes later, I'm turning the place upside down...
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    I can't wait to "lose my loser" preceptor

    UM Review RN replied to anfe's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Our hospital asks us if we want to be preceptors, we get trained, and then they give us a fair patient load because the student/new grad is not counted. We also do get a little extra money for it, but...
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    Disabled, Retired Inactive RN want to work from home

    UM Review RN replied to ravn's topic in Retired Nurses

    How about Parish
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    Holidays: Here We Go Again

    UM Review RN replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I volunteered to work all the holidays this year because everyone's been so great about my having to take a lot of time off this year for things. But surprise! they gave me one of them off anyway....
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    Is there anything else I can do for you? I have the time. (new hourly rounding sheet)

    UM Review RN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yet another way that the hospital can scapegoat the nurse if hospital policy to round q30 minutes is not adhered to. I have to say that I'm not surprised at the hospital administration's legal tactics...
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    Crash course in quick responses

    UM Review RN replied to poppy07's topic in General Nursing

    :down:In that case, you go to your Manager with a written two-week notice. They're trying to blame the failure of their "orientation program" on you. Wrong and bad. But better you leave this place...
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    Crash course in quick responses

    UM Review RN replied to poppy07's topic in General Nursing

    Poppy, I sure don't mean to sound harsh, but if you're off orientation and you're on your own and you don't know the answers to those questions and there is no one to mentor you on your home unit...
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    Why are nurses so angry?

    UM Review RN replied to cmo421's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Great. Now nurses are supposed to adopt Grandpa's values in order to maintain the status quo of the broken healthcare system that we find ourselves in. I'll say this gently: I'm not a maid, not a...
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    Video on Iv push please....

    UM Review RN replied to CrystalClear75's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    We have a lot of geriatric patients who have the smaller IVs. If you try to aspirate from a #22, you probably won't get a return. Not because the IV's in the wrong place, but because the cannula is...