KalipsoRed21 BSN, RN

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    Bill Approved to Limit Treatment for Transgender Youth

    KalipsoRed21 replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I really don’t think treatments to change or enhance one’s appearance should be allowed to be offered to persons under 18. Only caveat is disfigurement r/t accidents or congenital malformations....
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    I need advice. I work PRN for a Home Health Company who has not been able to make payroll on time twice now. What should I do?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to guest825264's topic in Home Health

    Quit. They are having financial problems if this is happening. Gets real messy when a company is about to go under. Just put in your notice and move
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    Nurse Accused of Taking Naked Photos of Nursing Home Patients

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    You are scary and need a therapist. You don’t know the whole story from this article, thus murder is a bit extreme....and ignorant if you ask me. I read the petition. But like I said. I feel like in...
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    Does Being a Nurse Remove Your Constitutional Right to Free Speech? The Carolyn Strom Case.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to steven007's topic in Nursing News

    Totally wrong. The BON was not the appropriate place for this case to be handled. This is an issue of defamation which should have been carried out in a court of law. This is not professional...
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    Arrgghh!!!! Coworkers!!!!!

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in Home Health

    Short story: Had a new patient come home Thursday. Bed bound, wound vac, PICC line, hadn’t had a BM in 6 days. Daughter is the main caregiver and overwhelmed. Admission night I spent 2+ hours...
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    QOL vs Preservation of Life

    KalipsoRed21 replied to MBar1's topic in General Nursing

    So I think this can only be answered by the people in the situation. Personally I have seen the many futile attempts of patients in attempt to ‘be there’ for their family allow their quality of...
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    Arrgghh!!!! Coworkers!!!!!

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in Home Health

    Eakin ring finally sealed it. We aren’t allowed to carry anything but wet to dry dressing supplies in our car....basically due to costs. I work Missouri/Illinois and I did 2 years infusion before...
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    All these nurses writing articles

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    To me this is the problem. To me the mere fact that the hospital only has to follow their own policy regarding staffing is a problem. The fact that JACHO even mentions shareholders in their mission...
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    All these nurses writing articles

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in General Nursing

    To you advanced degree nurses that like writing all the articles on here, I have a request for an article. I want to know if accrediting agencies actually help healthcare facilities. For example...
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    Sorry nursing

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I like you nursing....almost love....but the constant emotional abuse kinda prevents me to getting to the point of saying, “I LOVE my job.” The most I can muster is, “Well, I like taking care of...
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    Millennial Nurses Have Issues

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Nurse Yoni's topic in General Nursing

    This piece is a bit vague on what it intends to accomplish. I am technically a Millennial, on the cusp of being a Gen X. My husband is Boomer. The work ethic between is is not very different, but the...
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    I Was Fired...for Being Abrasive and Having Attitude

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    “Old school” does not mean it is not evidenced base. True, as stated in my original post “....nurse was practicing ‘old school’ BUT NOT ‘evidence based’ was to let her show me what...
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    Referral Fee/Bonus?

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in General Nursing

    So my sister in law is harping on me. She works with a lawyer who does Mesothelioma cases. She tells me that this lawyer will give me 100K for every referral that ends up being a case he can do...
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    Help...need AWAY from bedside but don't know where to go...

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Nursey103's topic in General Nursing

    Read Dave Ramsey’s “The total money makeover.” Revamp your budget and learn to live off of half of what you make (yes it is possible). Then your need for money won’t take over your desire to
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    I Was Fired...for Being Abrasive and Having Attitude

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Well as poopy as it must feel to get fired, it is better to be let go than struggle to fit in where you don’t. But for the next year it is SUPER important that you quit telling people what you know...
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    Why we need unions...or to get out of medicine

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have spent 11 years as a nurse. I have had the experience of floor nursing, tele, cardiac step down, emergency, travel, infusion, and now home health. I wish I could tell you I felt the $47,000...
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    Nurses Charged in Deaths of 12 Nursing Home Residents

    KalipsoRed21 replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    More than 100 years ago, state and territorial governments established BONs to protect the public's health and welfare by overseeing and ensuring the safe practice of nursing. BONs achieve this...
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    When Should I Retire? My Struggle

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    “I lack enthusiasm for the Flavor of the Month. I zone out if someone starts saying they want to “move the needle” or do or don’t have the “bandwidth” to “pick the low-hanging fruit”....
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    Nurses Charged in Deaths of 12 Nursing Home Residents

    KalipsoRed21 replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    I don’t miss understand their mission. Their mission is not accomplishing anything worthy of having them exist in their current
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    Nurses Charged in Deaths of 12 Nursing Home Residents

    KalipsoRed21 replied to J.Adderton's topic in Nursing News

    That’s just a lot of excuses not to act if you ask me. Very basic things will get missed and I highly doubt as retarded as judgments that I have read by several BONs are that they would rule in the...
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    Legal obligation for disaster relief

    KalipsoRed21 replied to kardz30's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Interesting paper I just read:https://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/resources/disasters/Anderson.pdf But it is about officers during Hurricane Katrina (as nursing is most definitely not the only career...
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    What city do you work in and how much do you get paid hourly?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Mortaaaay's topic in General Nursing

    Home Heath - 11 yrs experience - closest big city is Saint Louis, MO but the job is in Illinois. $29.71/ hour (I do not get mileage as they provide the car and the gas.) Required to work every 3rd...
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    Save yourself; get out of medicine.

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Personal opinion. I have spent 11 years as a nurse. I have had the experience of floor nursing, tele, cardiac step down, emergency, travel, infusion, and now home health. I wish I could tell you I...
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    Legal obligation for disaster relief

    KalipsoRed21 replied to kardz30's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Agree with you wholeheartedly. Nursing is not more important than my life, my family, and my needs. I would need A WHOLE lot more pay and/or benefits for me to consider it to be. Also I don’t think...
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    Legal obligation for disaster relief

    KalipsoRed21 replied to kardz30's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Wow, so insightful. Thank you for posting your experience. I agree that so much needs to be done to strengthen a nurses’ power to say no and to force hospitals to be more appropriately prepared for...