FolksBtrippin BSN, RN

Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice

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    Psych medication resources

    FolksBtrippin replied to CommunityOB's topic in Psychiatric

    I work in the community also, in a similar program to you, OP. Inquisitive APN made a great post. I just have a little to add. In the community you will be using a lot of long term injectables,...
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    Sign A Consent Without Witnessing Actual Signature

    FolksBtrippin replied to knotizer12's topic in General Nursing

    You are not being prideful. You are correct. The MA cannot assess patient knowledge. You can and ought
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    Sign A Consent Without Witnessing Actual Signature

    FolksBtrippin replied to knotizer12's topic in General Nursing

    Doing a risk / benefit analysis of the procedure is outside of our scope. Assessing whether the patient has given informed consent is in our scope. The "informed" part of the consent is the part where...
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    Pagan in a Catholic Hospital...

    FolksBtrippin replied to Kaelsdream's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    You must be from the South. Catholics don't give a rat's ass about saving you. Get over
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    Where Were You...9/11

    FolksBtrippin replied to Daisy4RN's topic in General Nursing

    Deleted. Could not bear to read it. Don't know why it has me so upset 17 years
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    Fear of failure?

    FolksBtrippin replied to Swirl531's topic in General Students

    A little bit of anxiety is actually helpful for learning. Minor anxiety makes you more alert, more attentive to detail, and faster at processing things. Science backed info right there! However, too...
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    Sign A Consent Without Witnessing Actual Signature

    FolksBtrippin replied to knotizer12's topic in General Nursing

    Not exactly. You are assessing your patient, for whether or not they consent to the surgery. You are not assessing the doctor for whether or not he explained the surgery. Edited to add: It makes sense...
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    SANE pay. Time and a half or per case

    FolksBtrippin replied to Sabadudu's topic in Forensic

    In my state, SANEs are employed by the county sheriff's department. They go out to any hospital in the county when
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    Sign A Consent Without Witnessing Actual Signature

    FolksBtrippin replied to knotizer12's topic in General Nursing

    Ideally I would be there while the surgeon explained the procedure and answered patient questions. But I doubt that is always possible. Alternatively, I would be okay with signing as long as I talked...
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    surrender vs hearing

    FolksBtrippin replied to ToolDrum's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    You were not convicted? Charges were dismissed? I would not surrender my license for that. Dismissed charges means not guilty. So why should you
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    Checking vitals on staff

    FolksBtrippin replied to kelsie*bear's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I took the NCLEX in 2017. There was nothing about assessing "non-patients" whatsoever. Did it
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    NP student needing help with case study

    FolksBtrippin replied to jh206043's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    What is contributing to her fall risk? Think diagnosis, symptoms, medications. Disclaimer: I am not an NP yet, but I have taken advanced health assessment, advanced pharm and advanced
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    Volunteering as a TA?

    FolksBtrippin replied to ADN2DNP's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    With the shortage of clinical and academic instructors, I do not think volunteering is necessary. You should be able to get some credit and a stipend in the very least. But I fully and wholly...
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    Mandatory Uniforms

    FolksBtrippin replied to StudentRNmt's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I found that the patients did not have a clue who did what based on color of uniform. But I did, which was helpful. Nurses were navy blue in my hospital across the board. Lab and respiratory...
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    Should a new grad go into med/surg or into the specialty that they would love to be in?

    FolksBtrippin replied to StudentRNmt's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Go for what you want. You want NICU, so go for it. If you can't get into the NICU go somewhere close, like mother-baby. If you've tried for 6 months to get into mother baby or NICU and can't, then...
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    Nurse-Patient ratios

    FolksBtrippin replied to jsonger's topic in General Nursing

    I love that you can't have more than 6. There was only one time when I had only 6 adults. I remember thinking how much better the care would be if it was always like that. Once I was charge nurse...
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    VA pay/ benefits or Pediatric Emergency Dept RN

    FolksBtrippin replied to Alexgreat1's topic in General Nursing

    My bad. I just looked it up. Looks like FNP is all ages. I was thinking of acute care
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    Nurse-Patient ratios

    FolksBtrippin replied to jsonger's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked inpatient psych I was comfortable with up to 7. I usually had more than
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    VA pay/ benefits or Pediatric Emergency Dept RN

    FolksBtrippin replied to Alexgreat1's topic in General Nursing

    Not sure why peds ed would help your future goal of FNP. You will only take care of patients 13 and older as an FNP. I.would jump at the chance for a VA job. The nurses I know who work for the VA are...
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    OTC medications for parents?

    FolksBtrippin replied to nursegirl2017's topic in General Nursing

    Broughden, A parent of a patient on a peds unit is not a
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    what to expect at a psych inpatient setting?

    FolksBtrippin replied to flwrrn89's topic in Psychiatric

    We did not have IVs on any of the psych inpatient units I've worked on. We had lab techs come up and draw our labs. The only technical stuff we did were IM and subQ injections, EKGs, finger sticks for...
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    Nursing video game?

    FolksBtrippin replied to Lexi256's topic in Nursing News

    I had a simulation thing to do in nursing school that was kind of like a video game. You had to go in and assess the right stuff and do the right intervention. I'll never forget it because my patient...
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    What is up with these Sickle Cell Patients?!

    FolksBtrippin replied to BrandNewbieNurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm so very, very sorry for how you have been
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    Old nurse won't retire

    FolksBtrippin replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    No. They can't do that. That's why it's so sad, IMO. It's just one of those sad things that isn't anyone's
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    Torn between jobs

    FolksBtrippin replied to Vmurill1's topic in General Nursing

    My vote for urgent care is mostly based on the fact that your end goal is to be a family nurse practitioner or whnp. This isn't a CNS position folks. The title is nurse specialist. That's what I'm...