NurseLatteDNP MSN, DNP, RN

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    Charge Nurse Orientation

    NurseLatteDNP replied to jessicaleeweaver's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    We provide leadership classes, annual competencies and a formal orientation with the
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    Question about pay!?

    NurseLatteDNP replied to ashley0511's topic in General Nursing

    My paycheck is also spent on payroll deduct lunches and giftshop snacks. Trust me, they add
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    Job Satisfaction: Can it be real in this field?

    NurseLatteDNP replied to thelittledoe's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I have not had a job I hated as a nurse yet. Sure there were days I went home feeling like I wanted to quit, but the feeling passed as soon as I got home. My feelings were always triggered by working...
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    Name the hospital and its Starting Salary!!!

    NurseLatteDNP replied to amadime1's topic in New York Nursing

    That seems extremely unsafe to me. I work in Texas and at my hospital they just raised the nurse to patient ration on med-surg to 1:5 on days and on nights 1:6. Before that, we never went over 1:4 on...
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    Weston Florida

    NurseLatteDNP posted a topic in Florida Nursing

    We live in Texas, but my husband will be taking on a job in Weston. I was looking up Weston online and it seems like a good place to raise kids. I currently work as a nurse educator in a Dallas...
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    Weston Florida

    NurseLatteDNP replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in Florida Nursing

    Thank you for your
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    Can a TPAPN nurse charge or precept?

    NurseLatteDNP posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    I tried searching on several sites and could not find any info on that. I found that they can not handle narcotics, count pyxis, float, work night shift and work overtime. Nothing was found on charge...
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    Spouses being asked to leave the room

    NurseLatteDNP replied to Indenial's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I always ask for everyone to leave the room during transfers due to space issue, but when I am assessing my patient, I ask if it is ok for the person in the room to
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    In need of advice, I watched a movie that is making me think?

    NurseLatteDNP replied to Ibukishim25's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    As stated above, needle sticks happen, but the risk is very low if you are following safety protocol and common sense. And even if you ever get stuck, the chances of you getting anything from it, is...
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    Calling Code Blue in ED

    NurseLatteDNP replied to becca001's topic in Emergency

    We are a trauma 2 hospital and we call ALL codes in the hospital. Our code blue team is the ED. But the reason we call the code, because this will alert CT to empty their suites and lab techs to head...
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    I'm a nurse...for animals?

    NurseLatteDNP replied to trauma_lama's topic in General Nursing

    I guess here in Texas we are more strict. According to the Nurse Practice Act, “Nurse” means a person required to be licensed under this chapter to engage in professional (RN) or vocational...
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    Nursing staff discouraged now

    NurseLatteDNP posted a topic in General Nursing

    The morale of some of our nurses is really low and they complain about how horrible this job is for them. This keeps repeating every day and nobody is adressing it. It gets to the point that the rest...
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    Nursing staff discouraged now

    NurseLatteDNP replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

    You are right about that. I just hate to see what the griping does to the morale of others. We need to get together as a team and do great nursing care, no matter what's going on down in...
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    Nursing staff discouraged now

    NurseLatteDNP replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

    You know some complaints are valid, because our facility is undergoing a lot of changes. Most of the changes have been negative (cutting staff, cutting pay etc. ) It hasn't been a joy for the most of...
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    giving report

    NurseLatteDNP replied to melisgood's topic in General Nursing

    Don't be intimidated by a bully. I always tell my new grads, you have to find your inner shark. You are doing great, just believe in
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    Targeted by psychotic, manipulative patient

    NurseLatteDNP replied to HM7380's topic in General Nursing

    I would file charges and also start looking for another
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    Precepting a role transition student

    NurseLatteDNP posted a topic in General Nursing

    I usually work as a primary preceptor on my unit for new nurses. For the first time I have been assigned a BSN role transition student that has finished all of her lectures, but has to complete...
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    Precepting a role transition student

    NurseLatteDNP replied to NurseLatteDNP's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all for the responses. They have helped me recognize many things I was not aware
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    Relocating to Cincinnati

    NurseLatteDNP posted a topic in Ohio Nursing

    Hi Everyone! I am a nursing student from Texas and I want to move to Cincinnati with family after I graduate. Can anyone tell me about the good vs the bad parts of the city? Which hospitals are good?...
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    Flight Nursing

    NurseLatteDNP posted a topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Do we have any flight nurses in here? I would like to know how you can become one. Somebody told me you need to be a paramedic and a RN to be a flight nurse, is that true? Do I need ER experience or...
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    New Grads after 6 months: How do you feel?

    NurseLatteDNP replied to RNcDreams's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I feel the same way. I have already figured out that the unit I am working on is not what I want to do for the rest of my career. I hate the feeling of going to work and dreading it. But I only have 7...
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    "Are you an RN OR LPN ????"

    NurseLatteDNP replied to notsosupernurse's topic in General Nursing

    An
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    The Doctor said WHAT?

    NurseLatteDNP replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    This is why most of the doctors get the "I am God" attitude. I think of a doctor-nurse relationship as a
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    Change of shift admissions

    NurseLatteDNP replied to kittymom's topic in General Nursing

    That's how our ER is. Right before they finish their shifts, they decide to send all the admits at one time. We don't have any policy regarding the hours of admission, so it is very common to get them...
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    Have you been charge yet?

    NurseLatteDNP replied to JadeNurse1980's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I was told twice that I had to be charge in my unit, but I have refused. I don't have any trainining and I don't consider that to be safe. It would have been only me and 2 more PRN's who don't know my...