carti BSN, RN

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   Is it illegal to date a patient's family member (parent)?

   carti replied to carti's topic in General Nursing

   you are right. I will ask to not to placed with that case again. Thank you all for the advice.
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   Is it illegal to date a patient's family member (parent)?

   carti replied to carti's topic in General Nursing

   I mean talking smack about a patient (literally hear that from ER nurses everyday) behind their backs is unethical but you don't see them getting in trouble with the BON. Would be unethical if I quit my case with this current patient if I were to pur...
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   Is it illegal to date a patient's family member (parent)?

   carti replied to carti's topic in General Nursing

   Interesting rule. But I would never risk my career dating a patient; I figured a patient's mother would be a different scenario LOL. And since I work PRN ( will probably be leaving to a different company next month anyways), I'm not even workin...
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   Is it illegal to date a patient's family member (parent)?

   carti replied to carti's topic in General Nursing

   I could see how it can be argued that it is unethical but why would I get in trouble with the BON? I am not messing around on my home health job; strictly focusing on my patient. Would it be against the rules if the mom were to ask me on a date and I...
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   Is it illegal to date a patient's family member (parent)?

   carti posted a topic in General Nursing

   Started working home health recently and I don't know if it's illegal to date your patient's parents. Obviously, if we were to date or have any relations, it would be outside of working hours when I am not on duty. I feel like their mother is coming ...
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   How to deal with nurses who don't listen during handoff?

   carti replied to guest1068752's topic in General Nursing

   how are your reports do you think? I try to make mine pretty simple and to the point by going down body system by body system. As a night shifter, I will update them of any overnight events as well as any morning procedures scheduled. like other...
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   Student Attempted IV 7 Times

   carti replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

   eh in the ICU, there is no such thing as having too much IVs especially when we have like 3-4 different IV antibiotics ordered with other stuff as well. A sedated patient maxed out on profofol probably won't even feel a pinch but 7 tries cmon thats ...
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   Leaving Work / Nurse Duties Incomplete Passing To Night Shift

   carti replied to coffeeandvendingmachines's topic in General Nursing

   aint no one giving PRN miralax cus aint no one wanna clean up doodoo LOL!
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   COVID-19: No PPE!!

   carti replied to BsnBull's topic in COVID

   I just wear an n95 respirator if I'm going inside their rooms to fix a beeping IV alarm or something minor like that. I don't see the point in wasting supplies if imma be in the room for <2 minutes & not touching the patient. I don't think any...
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    Nursing as a twenty one year old hispanic male

    carti replied to gabe55605's topic in Men

    way more guy nurses in the ICU/ER than medsurge, L&D(duh), OR and cath lab, at least in my facility. I think my ICU is like 70% dudes
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    Student Attempted IV 7 Times

    carti replied to ChickenHealer's topic in General Nursing

    When I first started in the ICU, I was pretty bad at IVs so common advice I got from other nurses was to try on sedated, vented patients LOL. So I can see why the nurse asked you guys to try. But if your school stricly allows no IV insertion, ju...
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    How is the transition between ICU to Nursing Home/Psych?

    carti replied to carti's topic in General Nursing

    It’s definitely about the money. She works for a crises agency so it’s probably why she’s making 10k biweekly...yes 10K. That is just a huge amount of money to pass up LOL. I don’t care if it’s hard or stressful tbh it’s worth the $$ LOL. I just want...
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    How is the transition between ICU to Nursing Home/Psych?

    carti posted a topic in General Nursing

    One of my old buddies from high school just got her LVN and told me she got hired by some travel agency to work at nursing homes & other psych places. The interesting part is that she is nearly making 3x as much as me as a new graduate LVN......a...
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    Baylor Scott and White Graduate Nurse Residency - Fall 2020

    carti replied to Shelana27's topic in Texas

    describe a time where you had a conflict with a co-worker and how did you find a solution, describe a time where a patient didn't have an expected outcome and what did you do, tell me about your self, etc, why are you interested in our unit.............
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    Are hospitals around the Austin-Tx area doing New RN Residencies?

    carti posted a topic in Job Hunt

    I am having a hard time finding anything online about Fall cohorts. I've already tried looking at St Davids, Seton and BSW (BSW closest location was at Temple for me). The St. David's page says they have an October cohort but I haven't seen anything ...