RNsRWe ASN, RN

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    Injury Preventionist? What's that?

    RNsRWe replied to Bortaz's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a partner job to "Infection Preventionist", which is a newfangled way of saying "Infection Control Coordinator". Why the change? Someone with more time to fill than tasks to do got...
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    Need NYC Sandy situation update, please!

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    You enjoy that nap, you've been a BIG help :) And determined? Sandy ain't no match for Me on a Mission, lol.......FIL IS getting to that danged appointment!
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    Need NYC Sandy situation update, please!

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    thanks for links.....actually found useful info at abc/accuweather nyc site. The willis ave bridge, according to the site, opened about an hour ago. Tappan Zee opened two hours ago. Been back and...
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    Need NYC Sandy situation update, please!

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Know anything about the Third Ave bridge.....think it's called Willis bridge? SIL tells me there's also a small one, hardly ever closes, north of GW bridge...near Columbia? We can go down 87 and...
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    Need NYC Sandy situation update, please!

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Pricey option isn't even an option, as the appointment is tomorrow and we can't get near there today. Or maybe not even tomorrow Dh is trying to fax out some of the info that we DO have that they'll...
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    Need NYC Sandy situation update, please!

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, understood. Not being critical at all! Just trying to see if there's a more recent update than the one's I've found, and....nada. I'm holding off on the phone calls to MSK (or the 53rd St...
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    Need NYC Sandy situation update, please!

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Good to know. We'd have to get over GW bridge....just realized I don't know if Tappan Zee is open. We'd have to get over that one first. Have kept family informed of as much as I can find--which, as...
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    Need NYC Sandy situation update, please!

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    DGTG: THANK you! So far, best I've found online on the transit situation is "it'll be open at some point". I'm going to the link
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    Need NYC Sandy situation update, please!

    RNsRWe replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    Have been all over the MTA site, PAuth site, etc, and no indications as to when GW Bridge will be open.....does anyone know
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    East Coast RN's-did you stay or go?

    RNsRWe replied to happyinillinois's topic in General Nursing

    Catskills NYS. No evacuation. Flooding and wind damage expected pretty much everywhere. Closed our ASC facility early (finished outpatient procedures) and are now closed tomorrow. High winds, power...
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    Hurricane Sandy - Wishing Everyone To Stay Safe

    RNsRWe replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    I'm in the Catskills, trees are trying like hell to uproot themselves and so far nothing has hit my property or house as yet. Afternoon drive home had to evade downed branches and political signs that...
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    Deficiency from a surveyor

    RNsRWe replied to eve5483's topic in General Nursing

    What Altra said
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    Stamps anyone?

    RNsRWe replied to Carefreeliving's topic in General Nursing

    I have to physically sign everything. And the century is quite current, I assure you We use EMR as a method of seeing what's already been scanned. No electronic signatures for the nursing staff....
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    LPN/LVN vs. RN?

    RNsRWe replied to Bess87's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    You already know the answer to this, if you know what kind of nursing job and setting you'd most like to have. In NY, the job market is tight and you're most likely to find work in a LTC facility....
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    LPN/LVN vs. RN?

    RNsRWe replied to Bess87's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    The OP is in NYS and most definitely does not need to become an LPN first, before enrolling in an RN
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    If you weren't a nurse, what would you have become?

    RNsRWe replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    Ah, that is a specialized line of work.....maybe go to SugarDaddy.com ?
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    If you weren't a nurse, what would you have become?

    RNsRWe replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    Is Queen of the Universe taken? No?
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    Good Samaritan laws in the US?

    RNsRWe replied to uRNmyway's topic in General Nursing

    Tough topic, with lots of shades of gray regarding who is willing to do what. Legally? You have no more obligation to stop and assist than any other person on the street. Being a nurse does not...
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    Problem in ER last night

    RNsRWe replied to justapatient's topic in Emergency

    What he SAID was, "a good majority of our pts lie". He did not say everyone. He SAID that it can jade our opinions. You changed his words. Beyond that, since you are not a nurse nor a nursing...
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    Problem in ER last night

    RNsRWe replied to justapatient's topic in Emergency

    Ok.
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    Two and a half week orientation?

    RNsRWe replied to Berkley, RN BSN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Not enough time, period. Honestly, 6 weeks is already the minimum; she's trying to throw you out on the floor faster because she doesn't have enough staff, is my guess. Which means you'll be working...
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    Nasty Parents and This Opportunity to Vent

    RNsRWe replied to bleemadden's topic in School

    To the OP: frankly, I think I'd be guilty of saying something regrettable to that miserable woman! There's always someone who takes her own guilt and blame and heaps it on someone else....hate that....
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    Is clinic nursing relatively drama free (does everyone get along)

    RNsRWe replied to lost4's topic in Ambulatory Care, Clinic

    My facility is an ASC, and while I think we're relatively drama-free, anywhere you work is going to have difficult personalities, drama queens, slouchers or moochers, gossipers, brown-nosers or...
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    Nasty Parents and This Opportunity to Vent

    RNsRWe replied to bleemadden's topic in School

    I'm genuinely surprised--and not happily--that there are school nurses who feel a lice infestation is NOT a reason to keep a child out of public school? Honestly? It isn't easily transmittable...
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    As a nurse, what does it mean to be in medicine?

    RNsRWe replied to BINOC's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, you're making an error in terminology. I have a license to practice nursing, not medicine. A physician has a license to practice medicine, not nursing. So no, you don't practice medicine if you...