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  1. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    kaylee. replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    I read your article and there was no doubt in my mind what your message was. I started to tense up when reading some replies that seemed to miss the point. Lets face it, allnurses is can b a very...

  2. Has anyone made a medication error and *not* get fired for it?

    kaylee. replied to pinkiepieRN's topic in Patient Medications

    I noticed you said you called the family. Not sure what your specific circumstances were, but I was just curious if that is pretty normal at everyone's facilities to call the family for a med

  3. Blue Pigtail on Nasogastric Tube

    kaylee. replied to mikeynizm's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I wasn't referencing tubing specifics in the OP...I was just relating to the OP's experience... My post was in response to the turn of events in the OP's story: At change of shift the doc found...

  4. Lvn RN the same as BSN RN??

    kaylee. replied to 2k15NurseExtern4u's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    LVN stands for 'licensed vocational nurse' which is a separate nursing track from RN. There is no title of "LVN-RN". BSN means you are an RN who received a 'bachelors of science' in nursing. Basically...

  5. Blue Pigtail on Nasogastric Tube

    kaylee. replied to mikeynizm's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I had a situation once that kindof relates - it involved a patient with a pigtail to wall suction that was disconnected and not reconnected by a coworker: Pt had an order that he can be disconnected...

  6. New Nurse Mistakes

    kaylee. replied to Mabesma's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I definitely see the value in starting a new thread, if you have something to share that you would like specific feedback on. But "mistakes" is one of the ones where I would just search and read old...

  7. Missed clinical! :(

    kaylee. replied to tbear1206's topic in General Students

    The charging of $400 for an accidental sleep in is robbery to me! I mean that is incredible! I actually did this as a new grad, i work nights and woke up an hour into my shift. I was mortified, but...

  8. Pt. Falls

    kaylee. replied to Nursingluv101's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I salute the support that pp gave, but unfortunately in this situation it always comes back to the nurse not making sure the bed alarm was back on and they were safely in their bed after xray. I know...

  9. cover letter critique

    kaylee. replied to cc8671's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Its good, just a couple suggestions: you should not mention things in your cover that are listed on your resume, unless you discuss an example or experience or valuable thing you learned from the...

  10. Med error and disciplinary action

    kaylee. replied to Trolleydoll's topic in Patient Medications

    This is not entirely your fault! They should have a name alert! Its the same concept as meds with sound alike names being placed in completely different areas of the pyxis--to make grabbing the wrong...

  11. Confidence shaken/looking 4 a new job

    kaylee. replied to Cisl4him's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    i take tons of notes, they help me. once i got a snarky comment about them, like they are a flaw, (still mot sure why) but i still take as many notes as i need, not gonna change how i do things bc...

  12. When does it get better?

    kaylee. replied to RNBuggers's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I can't believe they gave you two high risk drips and two pca pumps on your first night alone! where i was as a new grad, cardiac stepdown, they started with a light load, and started assigning high...

  13. How Do I Apologize to Professor?

    kaylee. replied to Valr's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Just for the purpose of understanding the situation, how come you have a meeting scheduled on a clinical day? If the meeting was planned prior to the clinical schedule, then the meeting should be...

  14. Epic Training - Pros and Cons

    kaylee. replied to RN_Fan_Club's topic in General Nursing

    In regards to the epic training process, the classroom sessions were moderately helpful, bc they were the real intro. however, we had to complete 12 hours of "playground" in 3 sessions prior to...

  15. Nurses Who Harm Patients

    kaylee. replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    The OP describes violent sociopaths, a small subset of sociopaths, or those with antisocial personality disorder. Its estimated that 1 - 4% of the population are sociopaths. Of these, only a tiny...

  16. Please critique my cover letter

    kaylee. replied to luckyberries's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I wouldnt cut the part about your clinical experiences, but i would gear them towards the unit you are applying to. if you worked as a nurses aid this is a very significant thing to talk about, bc it...

  17. please critic my cover letter

    kaylee. replied to brittney1890's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    When you mention a strength, you have to back it up with an example or experience, some way to demonstrate it. You need to pick a few and elaborate. For example, how did working with the sick animals...

  18. Feeling like a failure

    kaylee. replied to asix1961's topic in General Nursing

    This is an intro to "mindset"

  19. Feeling like a failure

    kaylee. replied to asix1961's topic in General Nursing

    I like what Ayvah posted. Critical thinking requires metagognition, which means, "thinking about your thinking". Primary cognition is the thinking you are doing in situations, secondary cog. Is...

  20. Please stop! Little things that are just bad practice.

    kaylee. replied to JBudd's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Someone mentioned old IVs: It is annoying when a nurse tells me the IV site in report, and when I get there to use it realize that the site no longer worked at all. So then I have to stop insert a...

  21. New Nurse Fired After 3 months (cant find another job)

    kaylee. replied to silentwolves's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I know this post is a little old...but wow... Your patient was a fall risk, you had them with a bed alarm, which is your main secondary prevention, but they fell anyways and the alarm failed to...

  22. On Negative Feedback

    kaylee. replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The experience I had as a new grad was not 5:1 pos to neg, or 3:1. It was more like, 4:1- with 4 neutral interactions to 1 negative. By neutral i mean my preceptor would simply concur with my care,...

  23. At the End of my Rope.

    kaylee. replied to laKrugRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm so sorry you are going through this! The documenting of her behavior is definitely good. When you talk to your manager about your progress, try to take the focus off this horrid preceptor....

  24. At the End of my Rope.

    kaylee. replied to laKrugRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    What type of nursing are you doing? Outpatient? Bedside. Just wondering bc i had a very very similar preceptor experience in an outpatient setting. Was run out after 2 weeks. I ask what field because...

  25. Kudos board

    kaylee. replied to sistrmoon's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We have a board like this too. It has always kindof bothered me. I am less than a year as a nurse. And i get many verbal words of gratitude from patients, which makes me remember why i do this. One...