carti BSN, RN

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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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    COVID-19: No PPE!!

    carti replied to BsnBull's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    Nursing as a twenty one year old hispanic male

    carti replied to gabe55605's topic in Men in Nursing

    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%
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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...
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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...
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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...
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    Baylor Scott and White Graduate Nurse Residency - Fall 2020

    carti replied to Shelana27's topic in Texas Nursing

    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,...
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    Are hospitals around the Austin-Tx area doing New RN Residencies?

    carti posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    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...
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    Baylor Scott and White Graduate Nurse Residency - Fall 2020

    carti replied to Shelana27's topic in Texas Nursing

    So I had my interview July 22nd and haven't heard anything on my email which surprised me. So I go into my phone history/voicemail and I just saw that I had a missed call from my recruiter on the 27th...
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    Baylor Scott and White Graduate Nurse Residency - Fall 2020

    carti replied to Shelana27's topic in Texas Nursing

    got an ER interview tomorrow. Any idea what type of questions to expect? The recruiter told me up to 12 people could be in our meeting. 12 people for one interview???? Sheesh
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    Baylor Scott and White Graduate Nurse Residency - Fall 2020

    carti replied to Shelana27's topic in Texas Nursing

    submitted my digital interview this past weekend and got an email from a recruiter yesterday about looking out for a message in the upcoming 2 weeks. Other than that, haven't received
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    Will it be hard for me to get a Girlfriend during this Pandemic since I am dealing with sick people?

    carti replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in Disaster Preparation

    your 22, never had a gf and your name is Dribble King. Covid is the last of your worries regarding a
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    Should I start nursing school this May?

    carti replied to joe090909's topic in General Students

    Not necessary man, shoulda just stuck with school. Mostly everyone in my school had no clinical experience prior to enrolling and they all turned out to be fine nurses. There may be more than 2nd,...
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    Medical professionals counter coronavirus lockdown protesters

    carti replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    LOL. Only in America will people politicize a virus. To Trumpers, you are considered a libtard because you support lockdown and data set by epidemiologists, doctors, researchers,
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    Due to the Coronavirus, are freed prison inmates going to malinger their way into psychiatric hospitals?

    carti replied to A Hit With The Ladies's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I see what your saying but inmates being freed right now aren't murders or child rapists. Those people are still locked up. People being freed right now are small drug dealers as well as other menial...
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    Due to the Coronavirus, are freed prison inmates going to malinger their way into psychiatric hospitals?

    carti replied to A Hit With The Ladies's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Let's not act like America doesn't has the biggest jail population on this planet for a huge margin and a huge chunk of it isn't because of non-violent drug offenses. There is no reason why someone...
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    Should I start nursing school this May?

    carti replied to joe090909's topic in General Students

    there ain't no telling what will happen next year. Experts say this may last until 2022. If I was in your shoes, I would go for it and stick with your ABSN route. If you aren't allowed at clinical...
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    Has ATI Testing helped you during Nursing school?

    carti replied to guest798886's topic in General Students

    Passed my NCLEX in 75 questions in about 1 hour & 30 minutes. Did ATI help me? Absolutely not. It is a waste of time and my instructors had us to assignments on it every semester as busy work....