akulahawkRN ADN, RN, EMT-P

akulahawkRN has 9 years experience as a ADN, RN, EMT-P and specializes in Emergency Department.

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   How can I balance nursing school and working full-time?

   akulahawkRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   While I'm being both discouraging, I'm also trying to be challenging too, though probably not as well as I'd like. I think the point I'm making is, ultimately, there is no way to really balance EVERYTHING while doing school on the schedule that was g...
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   How can I balance nursing school and working full-time?

   akulahawkRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Going to school 10 hours/day, 5 days/week and trying to work full time is going to be basically impossible to balance. You're asking yourself to work and go to school 90 hours per week NOT including travel time, NOT including study time, NOT includin...
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   LPN or RN school?

   akulahawkRN replied to Yadayada's topic in General Students

   I would say that it would greatly depend upon a lot of factors as to what paths I might recommend. One of those things is money. Generally speaking, if there's an LPN-BSN pathway, that implies starting as an LPN. That's about a 3 semester course of s...
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   CA 1st Time RN Renewal Help Please!

   akulahawkRN replied to mind04's topic in General Nursing

   The wording is a bit odd but it just means that if you're fresh out of school, you don't need to do the 30 hours of CE for the first 2 years. If you've obtained your license elsewhere and subsequently applied for a California license, they're going t...
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   Stable Vtach

   akulahawkRN replied to Matthew89's topic in General Nursing

   VT isn't inherently stable. Your patient might be asymptomatic but that's going to be temporary. My only real concern in this is having only a 1/2 dose of an antiarrythmic onboard before cardioverting. If the patient is asymptomatic, I'd want that fu...
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   The Kamala Harris Thread

   akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in Talk Politics

   Yeah, understandable. Biden isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed now. Kamala is younger, has more stamina, and she is a good speaker. She gave the Dems a fighting chance to retain the Presidency. What's not energizing about that?
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   The Kamala Harris Thread

   akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in Talk Politics

   What I find interesting is that in Kamala's pick of Walz over Shapiro is that by doing so, she is cementing herself as being, at the least, more left-leaning and not so much a moderate. Yes, I know that Kamala's husband is Jewish. So is Shapiro. By c...
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   Where does the public get the idea that nurses make a ton of money?

   akulahawkRN replied to edogs334's topic in Relations

   The public does get the idea that nurses do make a "lot of money" simply because nurses DO make a lot of money... but it's all relative to local markets. Nurses make more than most, less than many. It's not a bad gig and it pays decently well. The va...
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   Can a RN legally supervise BSN's and MSN's?

   akulahawkRN replied to cosmicjustice's topic in General Nursing

   I'm going to pretty much echo the above. An RN, regardless of possession of an academic degree, is an RN. An RN may clinically supervise another RN unless that other RN possesses a higher level license in addition to the RN license. Please do note th...
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    The Trump Thread

    akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in Talk Politics

    While his injury may have been caused by debris, I haven't yet seen evidence of the teleprompter to Trump's right being shattered. It well could have been, but had it been shattered, I would further expect there would be additional injuries other th...
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    The Trump Thread

    akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in Talk Politics

    Ideally scientists use the scientific process, but they can very much be swayed by politics and/or public opinion to shape their output. They're only human. However, Congress does delegate certain rulemaking authority to agencies like the FDA and HHS...
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    The Trump Thread

    akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in Talk Politics

    Justice Amy Coney Barret didn't file a concurrence nor did she file a dissent on this case. She joined the 6-2 majority, Justice Jackson recused herself on this.
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    The Trump Thread

    akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in Talk Politics

    I would prefer that scientists and experts be largely divorced from determining interpretive gaps in regulations because scientists and experts are only human and can very much be influenced by politics and personal whim. This leads to agencies redef...
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    The Trump Thread

    akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in Talk Politics

    It actually takes away executive branch influence because the "established precedent" took some power of interpreting law (a judicial function) away from the judiciary and gave it to the executive. If there's any vagueness in a law that Congress writ...
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in Talk Politics

    I do agree with Ted Cruz (and a few other people) on this: Do NOT underestimate her. She can be very articulate and coherent. She can be exactly the opposite too. Politically, she's an excellent tactician and strategist. Within the Dem circles, she d...