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    Parent Insists Nurse Brings Pt to the BR When SHE Uses It!

    Graduatenurse14 replied to SunnyPupRN's topic in Private Duty

    Disaster waiting to happen. Tell your agency that a plan needs to be made where the child is safe and you are not endangering your license, reputation, basically life as you know it. We all know it...
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    Should I report this nurse?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to laladeedee's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Does this nurse and the charge nurse know that they have could have called the RR Nurse to insert one since the IV Team wasn't calling back? That needs to be looked into as well. Why didn't they call...
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    Do nurse practioners round with doctors?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to RN to be soon's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Some of the surgeons round with the PA's/NP's who work in their specialty fairly often. They seem to see everyone equally not just the more complex cases. Also, the surgeons who round with them the...
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    Leaving Bedside Nursing

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Deebuzz's topic in Nursing Career

    AMEN!!! AMEN!!!
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    Help me feel better...

    Graduatenurse14 replied to PediRN913's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats on your new job! This is bittersweet time for you. It's a huge life change and there will be a time of adjustment. Tears and laughter may co-exist. You will go through a type of...
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    Short staffing incentive ideas???

    Graduatenurse14 replied to kms6417's topic in General Nursing

    COMPLETELY INSANE!! What do you think we are trying to do here: spend money to hire people to take care of sick people or save the money to spend it on signage to remind us all where we work??? If...
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    Question to Catholic nurses

    Graduatenurse14 replied to KatieMI's topic in General Nursing

    It's these type of things that also caused me to leave the Roman Catholic Church. I feel badly for the poor patient. From what I recall: During the Consecration the Priest breaks the Host in two...
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    40 yr old with GED. Is a MSN even possible?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to shamis's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You can totally do this!!!! People earn a GED for a ton of reasons so don't feel that you are less capable academically. I was a teacher and taught GED prep and it's a really difficult test so I...
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    Eliminating Physicians/Medical Schools

    Graduatenurse14 replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Doctors are necessary! An above poster mentioned neurosurgeons who are so intelligent and go to school the longest to do brain surgery!! I work in neurosurgery/neuroscience and see first hand...
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    BSN premium on the table.

    Graduatenurse14 replied to tokmom's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I worked for a non-union hospital system as a nursing assistant while in school where none of the hospitals were union and the BSNs got paid more that those with a Diploma or ADN/ASN and they own some...
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    Male graduate and pinning

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Rn 1979's topic in Men in Nursing

    I didn't go to pinning or graduation from nursing school. There were very personal reasons but one of them was that I already obtained a BS in Education in the early 90's from a university and had...
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    Inner City Children

    Graduatenurse14 replied to fawnmarie's topic in School

    I was a teacher for years before becoming a nurse and taught in two large Northeastern city school districts. In both I was in the inner-city part in rough, out of control, under-performing schools....
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    What is the drug of choice in your area?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Momma1RN's topic in Emergency

    I'm in the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast. 1. Alcohol 2. Opioids 3.
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    male nurses

    Graduatenurse14 replied to bonta's topic in Men in Nursing

    The most physically strong in my unit aren't the 3 male nurses but they are all great nurses and our unit wouldn't be the same without them we just happen happen to have a few girls who are tall have...
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    Is a fall occurrence of "zero" possible?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to nursidosis's topic in General Nursing

    We had a lot of falls on my floor and the hospital implemented a team to decrease them and they did but now when an alarm goes off, 5 people will dash to the room. They added to the bed alarm, a...
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    Secretaries who believe they rule the unit or hospital

    Graduatenurse14 replied to DesiDani's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thanks, Kooky Korky! Really good advice!! The nurses are union and the ancillary staff just voted to go union and are in negotiations now and the awful secretary is very involved them. Yes, all of...
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    Secretaries who believe they rule the unit or hospital

    Graduatenurse14 replied to DesiDani's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    We have 1 unit secretary who is AMAZING!!! She is excellent at getting things done (getting the patient's PIN number when family calls the desk), anticipates needs (hears an RN say a patient didn't...
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    FDA now requires 'black box' warning on IR opioids

    Graduatenurse14 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure where to put this. FDA announces enhanced warnings for immediate-release opioid pain medications related to risks of misuse, abuse, addiction, overdose and death What can we at the...
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    Would you report possible diversion?

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    ((((Emergent)))) You did the right thing. I've been in a situation (not as an RN) where I did the right but maybe not popular thing. It's a strange, conflicted feeling, isn't it? I think they are...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    The biggest reason I'm getting my BSN (it's online and I am a ADN) is so I can work away from the bedside. I want to combine my first career of teaching kids then adults (BS in Education) and do...
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    trauma call

    Graduatenurse14 replied to ledzep's topic in Operating Room

    When I came to work at my current Level 1 Trauma Center and found out that my unit took these patients at times, I was very scared but the Trauma Services takes patients that I wouldn't consider...
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    Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    Graduatenurse14 replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The nursing school I went made us wear them when we went in the day before clinicals to gather our patient information. One nurse on my unit wears a short white one over his uniform. One of my...
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    Nurses Performing Ultrasound

    Graduatenurse14 replied to xtymae's topic in Philippines

    Where I worked as a nursing assistant, we bladder scanned and told the RN the amount who took it from there. Not sure if there were standing orders or they had to call the MD. Where I work now as an...
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    Got the job!

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Serrano2886's topic in Case Management

    Serrano, I am sure the bilingual aspect helped a lot!! I was going to be a Spanish teacher K-12 but then switched to Elementary Education. I used to speak fairly well but use it or lose it took...
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    Got the job!

    Graduatenurse14 replied to Serrano2886's topic in Case Management

    Congratulations!!! I'm thinking about getting into the field so I'll be following this thread closely. I will ask you, how did you get the