Guttercat ASN, RN

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    What's your Myers-Briggs personality type?

    Guttercat replied to bekahinpink's topic in General Nursing

    Why are so many of us nurses here self-reporting as "Introverts?"It makes me wonder if we are not responding based upon how we feel at the end of a workday or week of clinicals and lecture. Anyone who...
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    What's your Myers-Briggs personality type?

    Guttercat replied to bekahinpink's topic in General Nursing

    I ran through the questions without "thinking to hard" so as not to skew the results (as much as is possible in a self-assessment quiz). I got INTJ as well (Acute Dialysis RN here--love a good...
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    Pros/Cons of dialysis nursing

    Guttercat replied to paramedic-RN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    LOL! :) Ten out of ten dialysis nurses have splattered this on their shoes at one time or another.
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    Does this feeling go away?

    Guttercat replied to MrsICURN14's topic in Critical Care

    Pretty normal. I think it will improve for you over time, but yes, you will usually need a day to recover after a
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    ANA petitions Feds (educ. funding) for 1.1 million more RN's within 8 yrs.

    Guttercat replied to Guttercat's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks for that, nursel56. Interesting take, and worthy of a closer
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    ANA petitions Feds (educ. funding) for 1.1 million more RN's within 8 yrs.

    Guttercat replied to Guttercat's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Indeed. And the data that I am trying to find via g00gling seems to be predominantly AACN or ANA
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    Essay help :)

    Guttercat replied to patty89's topic in General Nursing

    Now I am really going to insult you. :) I am going to chop it down even further (and edit punctuation and grammer): "When I was a girl, I wanted to become a singer or actress. But, when I turned...
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    Essay help :)

    Guttercat replied to patty89's topic in General Nursing

    Here. Let me help you begin to whittle this down to something much less self-indulgent. (I am not trying to be mean. I just know that writing for the reader is hard work!) All I did was chop out...
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    Essay help :)

    Guttercat replied to patty89's topic in General Nursing

    Is this an essay for entrance into a nursing program? There is a lot that is right about it, and a lot that is wrong. Start with length. Edit this bad boy into a third of its current content, and you...
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    New grad and struggling with it.

    Guttercat replied to kkrzewina's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Aw, man. I hear you loud and clear. What you need to realize, wait, more than than just realize but internalize, is what you are asking yourself to do (and be happy doing) is hard for nurses with even...
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    I cringe at the thought of work

    Guttercat replied to ALHRN11's topic in General Nursing

    Oy. You sound like me a loooong time ago. I went straight into ICU as a new grad myself. Talk about a wake-up call: 18 bed, neuro/cardiac ICU. They gave me >drum rollI think the first few years of...
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    My 8-month report

    Guttercat replied to Cobweb's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I don't know your story, but this post just made my
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    ANA petitions Feds (educ. funding) for 1.1 million more RN's within 8 yrs.

    Guttercat replied to Guttercat's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Esme, Know any reputable sites that track numbers of nursing schools nationwide and enrollment/graduation numbers by year? In my State, millions of $$ in State and Fed funding has gone to increasing...
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    ANA petitions Feds (educ. funding) for 1.1 million more RN's within 8 yrs.

    Guttercat replied to Guttercat's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The article mentioned using some of funds to increase instructor salaries. What bothers me (among many things) is throwing millions of $$ to increase a workforce by 1.1 million, when as another...
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    CKD, proteinuria, and waste products in the blood

    Guttercat replied to BryanRick's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Quick question: Are you a student? The questions you ask are interdependent on the multitude specific disease processes affecting the renal system, and the physiology of glomerular filtration...
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    ANA petitions Feds (educ. funding) for 1.1 million more RN's within 8 yrs.

    Guttercat replied to Guttercat's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I also would like to see this article posted in General and or Student forums, but I'm not sure that it wouldn't get moved. Nurses (and potential students) need to be aware of what the current...
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    ANA petitions Feds (educ. funding) for 1.1 million more RN's within 8 yrs.

    Guttercat replied to Guttercat's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Esme, I don't know. I'm still sitting here reeling a bit. This feels like deja vu all over again. Somewhere I had the statistical data saved on the number of accredited nursing schools that have...
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    The Docs Who've Got Your Back

    Guttercat replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Winner!
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    The Docs Who've Got Your Back

    Guttercat replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The docs work in an equally challenging environment in their practices these days. I think they (and we) realize we need each other to cover each others' backs. The evolution of health care has made...
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    What makes a COB crusty?

    Guttercat replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Amen and amen. I feel badly when I have to bug pharm for something I could easily do myself. And then I get annoyed that I have to spend fifteen minutes coordinating the administration of one...
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    What makes a COB crusty?

    Guttercat replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I never worked a tele/stepdown or MS floor where we had ten patients. (Well, there was that one place...nobody stayed there for long.) But anyway, 6-8 was the norm. Realize that up until ten years and...
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    Would you want your child to become a Nurse???

    Guttercat replied to myownboss's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. I would (strongly) encourage them to look at fields completely outside of healthcare. If they still were set on medicine or nursing, then I'd be behind
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    What makes a COB crusty?

    Guttercat replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am not "old" but have been a nurse a long time. I think I would call myself a COB at this point. I realized I was a COB when I asked a student nurse to run get us all lattes at lunch. And she did....
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    What makes a COB crusty?

    Guttercat replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Are you kidding me? This makes me
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    Any ER to Dialysis RN's out there?

    Guttercat replied to RU19's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Hospital/home health setting...eh? These two realms (no matter the specialty) are entirely different animals. Dialysis is more focused, yes, but you will still run until you can't run no mo'. I...