Meeshie

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1. Ugh- helicopter/tiger mom!

   Meeshie replied to nmr79's topic in School

   Is it possible that she doesn't want her kid to talk to other kids with diabetes and realize that they have more autonomy over their disease care than she does? After all, it would be mighty...

2. Non-nurse midwives?

   Meeshie replied to cleback's topic in General Nursing

   CPMs have become popular in certain parts of Florida because the laws are not friendly for v-bac patients. You can't v-bac in a birth center - you need an OB and a hospital. However, a good portion of...

3. Help me out here....

   Meeshie replied to Aunt Slappy's topic in General Nursing

   It's reasonable. Those antibiotics are unlikely to impact the results and the fluid from the chest tube isn't the same as sputum but..... I thought Mexico vaccinated? If they have that vaccine scar...

4. New nurse staying way past 9:30 pm on day shift

   Meeshie replied to connecticut23's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Safe Harbor doesn't exist but here's the thing - every single state has somewhere in their laws that hospitals have to provide safe care. It's just one of those things. So when hospitals don't? You...

5. Advice for New Grad

   Meeshie replied to m0ckingbird's topic in First Year After Licensure

   My first two years nursing I've done three hospitals. I stuck a year out at a large organization that I hated. It was disorganized, the ratios were awful, management was difficult to work with, turn...

6. My DoN is a terrifying nepotistic bully. What do I do?

   Meeshie replied to Illmarinen's topic in General Nursing

   You mentioned a union at one point in all of that. If there is one - then you can request a rep any time your manager wishes a private meeting that could impact your job. Weingarten rights. However,...

7. Confused with new role as RN

   Meeshie replied to BeachLife_AKB's topic in General Nursing

   DNV is interesting. I worked for a hospital that had DNV as their regulatory agency. One of the more interesting parts of it is that it rounds yearly on the hospital instead of biyearly. That means...

8. New Grad Orientation Contracts

   Meeshie replied to Kaiyas's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

   My advise to you is that if you do decide to go with a residency and a contract - take the contract to a lawyer. Not all of them are actually legal or enforceable. If yours ends up being one that isnt...

9. Newly graduated RN job search

   Meeshie replied to awhite4's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Google the words "New grad rn residency job" and plenty of hospitals will pop up that are happy to take on a new graduate and train them.... for a contract with an obligation to work a certain amount...

10. Florida CEUs/CE Broker

    Meeshie replied to jessicaford1121's topic in General Nursing

    As long as the cite you use gives you something you can print out.. you can print it on your computer as a pdf and then upload it. Generally speaking, I use NurseCE4Less for all my CEU needs. It...

11. Overcounting valium in pyxis

    Meeshie replied to Paul78526's topic in General Nursing

    Often time over count discrepancies are caused by pharmacy. They stock and then update the count wrong or forget to

12. help! Is my job normal?

    Meeshie replied to Jl2389's topic in General Nursing

    That.... looks pretty normal. I wish it wasn't

13. Pro Life Beliefs and Nursing

    Meeshie replied to Tuzla99's topic in General Nursing

    If this is really an issue for you I'd avoid oncology, to be honest. I did women's oncology and ran into a few patients we scheduled for abortions, even later term ones.. knowing that you have a very...

14. Do you trust the organ donation process (after recovery of 'brain dead' boy)?

    Meeshie replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I read another article on this. It was pretty specific in that it said that the child had not yet been declared brain dead and that the final test would be done the next day prior to removal of life...

15. Nursing and overtime?

    Meeshie replied to fishguy909's topic in General Nursing

    I live in a tourist area so we have "season" above and beyond the flu season. During season we could live at work and no one would complain. I had a 137 hour biweekly paycheck a couple of months ago...