AbstracRN BSN, CNA, RN

RN critical care,traveler,critical care float,CNA5

It was never about the money but the money is an absolute necessity. 👩🏿🤷🏿‍♀️

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    RN nursing careplan

    AbstracRN replied to nurse2bmeow28's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I chose a patient with A-fib and CHF, because that's where lecture
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    Where can I get male only patients?

    AbstracRN replied to Firas5's topic in General Nursing

    But you are than doing the exact thing you don't like, imposing your values. Culture sensitivity is something that is currently emerging in our nation, if you feel something doesn't go against what is...
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    Asked about citizenship during triage

    AbstracRN replied to inshallamiami's topic in General Nursing

    Actually there was someone in a hospital that notified ICE about the parents of the child that needed emergency care. This makes me think of that situation. Border Patrol Arrests Near Safe Zones...
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    NO experience new graduate BSN student applying for MSN-FNP graduate school?

    AbstracRN replied to 2bABLE's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm planning on going directly into NP school after I graduate. My first choice NP school requires you to have a job as a nurse. Other schools require you to have a full-time position as an RN. By the...
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    Remove Foley catheter and IV when resident dies?

    AbstracRN replied to Ash0315's topic in General Nursing

    I work as a hospice aide and an aide on a med surg floor. For hospice we remove everything except; Mid, central and PICC lines. We have ME cases often, a few have been if the patient fell at a...
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    Inappropriate CNA behavior?

    AbstracRN replied to matcha-cat's topic in General Nursing

    As a CNA, you have to be careful that you don't lose your grace and compassion for the job. I disagree with telling a pt to wet their "underwear", but I also feel as though you didn't give all of the...
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    Using phones as a sitter-thoughts?

    AbstracRN replied to allinone's topic in General Nursing

    I call B.S I do it all the time and I also take care of my patients. I do their peri-care and I take their vitals. The nurses and the techs love me when I sit. And I watch on my phone as the...
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    To prenursing students

    AbstracRN replied to misspy's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Girrrrrrl , yes I have had so many hardships and personal life crisis's.Having said that, I haven't let that stop me and please don't let it stop you. Persevere and it will get better, people forget...
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    Does age matters,when planing to become RN?

    AbstracRN replied to Lovemy3boys's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am thirty one and my mom is fifty-four and we are both applying for nursing school, so nope I know you can do
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    Aspiring Nursing Student Dilemma

    AbstracRN replied to angelbaby26's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yes retake as many classes to bring your overall GPA up, and make sure your science GPA is phenomenal. Take fluff classes if your science GPA is where it needs to be. If not redo everything that is...
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    Question for nurses that are male...

    AbstracRN replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    Phew, after reading a few posts... I thought it was going to get ugly in here....:whistling:So proud of everyone for maintaining their
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    Do most of the students in pre-nursing/nursing programs already work in health care?

    AbstracRN replied to imblest11's topic in General Nursing

    I think that it helps, as far as I looked around one day and noticed that almost everyone in my pre-reqs were going into nursing. I was already a Hospice House Aide, so I applied at one of the local...
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    Need advice on marian university absn program 2016

    AbstracRN replied to anae533's topic in School, College Programs

    Hey did you go to this program? If you did can you offer
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    Why Can't She Stay Here? Getting Kicked Out of Inpatient Hospice

    AbstracRN replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I see this often as an aide, they take it so personally. I tell them that there is duality in this situation, on one hand they have gotten better,on the opposite side if they were allowed to stay they...
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    Keiser FastTrack BSN

    AbstracRN replied to NurseCMY's topic in School, College Programs

    Hey, congratulations can you give me some insight into this program, I am at South University and am looking into this program. What entrance exam did you have to take? What scores did they want you...
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    suicide? Is this a trend with new nurses that can not cope?

    AbstracRN replied to elysRN's topic in General Nursing

    What exactly is this person supposed to get used to? Just because this is the internet doesn't mean people should throw away their humanity and behave in an unbecoming
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    Why do you wear a white coat? (if you indeed do)

    AbstracRN replied to RNdynamic's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'm working with a staff nurse now that wears one, but she is in NP
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    Did you receive a politically biased education?

    AbstracRN replied to Guest910128's topic in General Students

    Yes it is horrible here, I live in a Red state and the local community college is so liberal. The professor will say something , hoping we disagree and look around the room waiting for a debate. It is...
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    Being Treated Poorly by an RN

    AbstracRN replied to msnikki05's topic in General Students

    That was not a task that needed delegating. I am an aide, and when we are watching the patient they usually don't want us to leave the patient's sight. It was unnecessary and rude, she was right...
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    Lavender?!

    AbstracRN replied to huffmannurse's topic in School

    Wow , i kind of feel like the odd man out here , but here goes we have a nurse at the hospice house that I work at as an aide, that made a bunch of ; smudges, and oils, mouth cleansing oils, and oils...
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    Reporting a grievance and fear of retaliation

    AbstracRN replied to Roggae's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I needed to read that , I had a similar situation happen to me is good advice, she sounds exactly like my
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    Irritating spouses/family that don't understand?

    AbstracRN replied to Eleven011's topic in General Nursing

    I had a pt (who's mother is dying in hospice care and has a fractured hip) complain about us re-positioning her, but didn't want us to cut her pj's up the back so we wouldn't have to lift her whole...
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    What's your side job?

    AbstracRN replied to thejetsetnurse's topic in General Nursing

    No license yet either,:cry:my side job is a hospice aide(love this job and it pays better) and my main gig is aide on med/surg floor at the local hospital(took this job so that I could start building...
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    Need reasons why becoming a nurse first, then becoming a doctor, is a bad idea

    AbstracRN replied to jeaux's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know I have been reading comments from others, but I know a nursing student who is becoming a nurse so that she can work her way through med school. Med school is expensive and if you look at...
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    Hospice Nursing: A Season Pass

    AbstracRN replied to jeastridge's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    This article describes, all the nurses that I work with. I love being a hospice house aide, I love that we don't so much as focus on dying but the care provided to bring comfort. You meet so many...