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  1. Mitigating Implicit Bias and Microaggression in the Emergency Department

    offlabel replied to nancyEDRN's topic in Emergency

    Might that have been an opportunity for the new nurse to consider that this person had been in abusive environments his whole life and could have been suffering from traumatic injury that went back to...

  2. What to study or memorize before going into ED?

    offlabel replied to abouttodoit's topic in Emergency

    You might get a copy of your county's EMS ALS protocols. They're what a lot of you patients will have had started on them already or part of what you'll start soon after their

  3. Value-Based Healthcare and the Role of Nurse Practitioners

    offlabel replied to Joy Odafe's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Like any other fee for service billing. You can bill for what you capture. And it still sounds like healthy patients=profitable and sick patients, not so much. What am I missing

  4. Value-Based Healthcare and the Role of Nurse Practitioners

    offlabel replied to Joy Odafe's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    What does "the cost of delivering the outcomes" mean? It would seem there would be a lot of emphasis on seeking out and 'caring' for the healthiest patients with the fewest co-morbidities and care for...

  5. New York to Drop Masks in Hospital Facilities

    offlabel replied to Nurse Alexa's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Very rational decision to drop universal masking in NY. Surprising coming from there too. What's not surprising is the ideologic wooden logic of making people without the covid 'vaccine' continue to...

  6. Nurse Anesthesiologist Name Change

    offlabel replied to matthewandrew's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Not in supervision models/opt out states. TEFRA doesn't come into it at all. Can't speak to medical direction as I don't work under that model but as there have been several high profile fraud cases...

  7. Respiratory Nursing - new RT??

    offlabel replied to KetafolDNP's topic in General Specialties

    Where would they work and who would hire them? They'd surely be justified in asking for a meaningfully greater pay rate than standard RT's, but what hospital system would see that as a reasonable...

  8. UCSF Benioff Children's Oakland - Summit Unit?

    offlabel replied to VetmedtoRN's topic in Nursing Career

    It's not a unit. It's a building with different units in

  9. Nurse Anesthesiologist Name Change

    offlabel replied to matthewandrew's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Well...that escalated quickly. When a conversation becomes toxic and insulting, it's because someone that is wedded to a wooden ideologic position has become threatened. It also means that any further...

  10. Nurse Anesthesiologist Name Change

    offlabel replied to matthewandrew's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    So, you want to change the name to reflect the 'similar' training? Because the hours logged determines the title? Don't know what to do with that. I do know that I've been a clinical instructor...

  11. Do you wipe down IV lines to help prevent CLABSI in the NICU?

    offlabel replied to aepoisson's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Like the authors say, it's important to monitor infection rates long term. If nurses hands, for example, are exposed to CHG several times per shift, is this the reason for the fall in line infections?...

  12. Do you wipe down IV lines to help prevent CLABSI in the NICU?

    offlabel replied to aepoisson's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Whatever a unit does, it should be based on evidence from clinical trials, not stuff that just sounds like a good idea. More time consuming busywork has been thrust on bedside nurses because it makes...

  13. Questions about OR fellowship?

    offlabel replied to eah8y4's topic in Operating Room

    There is a national program called Periop 101 that is pretty popular. If it's anything like that, they'll present you with everything you'll need to know to walk into an OR for the first time. I...

  14. Newish Nurse opinion question

    offlabel replied to emtpbill's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sounds like your preceptor got it

  15. Damar Hamlin's Cardiac Arrest Has Health Professionals Talking About Commotio Cordis

    offlabel replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    CC is the conventional wisdom surrounding this event and there is no indication at all that is what occurred. If CC were such a probability, NFL players would be dropping like flies. Additionally the...

  16. Help me figure out fair pay rate

    offlabel replied to blackIrish's topic in Gastroenterology

    Endo centers are pretty chill. PACU is more complicated and stressful and bussing tables is way harder. All those pay scales sound about right if stress and 'at task' workload/effort are the variable....

  17. Air vent/filters for IV infusions

    offlabel replied to Cvicu5's topic in General Nursing

    This is a really good discussion to have because there is so much misunderstanding and confusion as to the whys of air filters. That said, IMHO the issues are a little different in peds/neonates...

  18. Pediatric ER Nurse

    offlabel replied to emmym's topic in Pediatric

    It's a training program based in a peds ER. It's a teaching hospital. They're assuming you don't know how to be a peds ER nurse. My tip? Don't waste any time brushing up on anything. Be enthusiastic...

  19. Student RN Scrubs

    offlabel replied to Brenwick2's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Black? Would pretty much conceal any color. But I can't let this go. It's obvious you're trying to do the right thing and do right by your students, and you surely will. You are making real time, on...

  20. Interesting Cocktails

    offlabel replied to AlwaysSunny's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Before you take your ball and go home, just consider something for a second. You say you've been there for two months. You're the new gal and you've assessed all of the existing group's skill and...

  21. Nurses Fired For Viral TikTok Video

    offlabel replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The answer to that question is

  22. Interesting Cocktails

    offlabel replied to AlwaysSunny's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Wouldn't call your question stupid, naive maybe...but you did clear up my

  23. Interesting Cocktails

    offlabel replied to AlwaysSunny's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I guess I'd ask why is it important that other people practice the way that you want them

  24. Nurses Fired For Viral TikTok Video

    offlabel replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to go all 'Dad' here, but the Judeo-Christian values and (positive) cultural influences that brought about what is good about Western Civilization (hospitals, human rights, public education)...

  25. Is 75k Worth it For a Big Name School?

    offlabel replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    The question of the utility of a DNP itself aside, IMHO, if this were your first advanced degree in nursing, then yeah, I think you could expect more for the price tag and differentiate yourself from...