SHGR MSN, RN, CNS

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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    I decided to just stop
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    Oh, easy there. Shadow me for a day and see if you think I am
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    Best algorithm
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    Nobody is talking about refusing to help you if you have a patient "crashing" or any emergent situation. They explicitly mention questions the preceptee has for the preceptor. As in, non-emergent...
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    Patient Education in Nursing Care

    Could you please tell your friends over at Medicare and Medicaid that since there are good outcomes for self-measuring blood pressure, that a home BP cuff should be covered for these patients? We do...
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    "Many of your classmates will not be nurses"

    Well-put.
  7. If you conveniently leave things like previous colleges off your application, that is considered fraud. Don't do
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    I don't have that third button, only the Reply and
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    The death of nursing

    Yup, and now they're whining about the shortage of nursing faculty, publishing white papers like "Blowing Open the Bottleneck" because there aren't enough instructors for the glut of nursing students....
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    Consider that there is currently a thread entitled Fired for posting on face
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    I do this hitting the quote button on the post I'd like to quote, and then cutting and pasting the opening code in brackets and the closing code to open and close each portion. Easy if you are doing...
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    That is so cute it
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    I've looked all over on AllNurses and can't find the answer to this. But I am sure that my situation is unique and special. How old must I be to be a COB? Must I be invited? If I'm not old enough,...
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    I remember it well! Good times, now with a cringe of guilt over some of what was posted
  15. Yikes, I'm glad I don't work where you
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    Student Nurse "Help me!" Threads

    Amen. I love an engaged learner. Ask a followup question, show appreciation, anything. I helped someone with a resume here and it took me a little while- maybe 20 minutes. The member never...
  17. Based on my experiences running reports via EMRs, I wonder if this is a non-clinical person running a report that isn't quite right, not checking it adequately, and then people are making assumptions...
  18. If this person worked in an outpatient department- as MA's do- if the weather was that bad, it was likely that most of the patients either called in at the last minute to say they weren't coming in,...
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    Shoe or not for diabetic with small wound

    One reason people with diabetes have special shoes is to avoid pressure- a well-fitting pair of shoes would not put pressure on the toes. Shoes do protect the feet- but checking the feet daily is...
  20. So why can't night shift's charting count for that day? E.g, night shift...00-0700 on 2/4, days 07-15 on 2/4, pm's 15-23 on 2/4. Then nights comes on and STARTS the Medicare charting for 2/5....
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    Lessons From the Super Bowl

    I'm not a football fan at all- usually if there is a football/sports analogy at all I get totally lost (eg, the phrase "more skin in the game"?? what does that even mean?). But I loved this post....
  22. There ARE??? I'm working in the wrong place,
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    Frustration...

    I read this three times, but I don't understand what you are trying to
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    Thoughts of a Student Nurse

    Children with chronic conditions. Type 1 diabetes is difficult enough for an adult to understand and manage; tiny bodies need 1/2 units of insulin, constant monitoring, vigilance (I don't know how...
  25. Thanks, Meriwhen! I always like to read your posts. You are very insightful and I learn a lot from what you have written