AliNajaCat

AliNajaCat

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  1. How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    AliNajaCat replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    I just put out my rate sheets for this year. I got a $25/hr raise. Yep, I sure

  2. Interview with Nurse

    AliNajaCat replied to Purna94's topic in General Students

    You too,

  3. Interview with Nurse

    AliNajaCat replied to Purna94's topic in General Students

    Aw, river, we know you mean well and it's your first post and all, but we really try hard NOT to do students' homework for them. We want to help them learn, so we try the Socratic method, which, as...

  4. Mental Health Clinical

    AliNajaCat replied to katyq82's topic in General Students

    Don't do what we did, which was to pack up half the ward in our own cars with no staff or faculty and drive them into the city to see the Planetarium show at the Museum of Science. Nobody stopped us,...

  5. NP preceptor Bay Area,CA

    AliNajaCat replied to ceet13's topic in General Students

    Have you looked up at the top of the page to Specialties and checked the NP

  6. nnursing administration

    AliNajaCat replied to Hams Ali's topic in General Students

    Homework? Sorry, I don't write other people's papers or do their research for them. I already have my degrees. Two choices, not mutually exclusive: Go talk to some live nursing managers for their...

  7. Should Obama care be repealed?

    AliNajaCat replied to luv2's topic in General Nursing

    What people tend to forget (and other people eagerly want you to forget with "alternative facts") is that health insurance in the US was not stable and universally user-friendly before the ACA was...

  8. How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    AliNajaCat replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    Aside: No, that's the definition of those folks who are so fond of "alternative facts." Seeing way too much of that lately, too.... and no way to block it,

  9. How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    AliNajaCat replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    As long as AllNURSES admits non-nurses or non-nursing students to full participation, no. And this is what we get, just as in real life-- many tiresome opportunities to explain to argumentative,...

  10. Injured nurse, out of work a year, feeling lost

    AliNajaCat replied to lostinjurednurse's topic in General Nursing

    My therapist used to say there's nothing like feeling better to make you feel better. :) She meant that feeling better is a process that builds on itself. It sounds by your description that the SDA...

  11. Should Obama care be repealed?

    AliNajaCat replied to luv2's topic in General Nursing

    We can already do that. That's why I have insurance from Tennesse while living in WA.Not if you understand how insurance regulation by the individual states' insurance commissioners works. Of course,...

  12. Advice needed; SNF v. Hospice decision

    AliNajaCat replied to dogmom2016's topic in General Nursing

    Mmmmm. This makes me wonder. Once we start thinking how very special we are, we are usually headed for a big, big fall. I hope one of the psych nurses here will chime in on this. Davy? Meanwhile, I...

  13. Has anyone seen application Withdrawn on CA Rn

    AliNajaCat replied to Mcsalinas214's topic in General Nursing

    If you applied for the "standard RN application" and you don't have a record of passing NCLEX, that would certainly 1) give the BoN staff a good laugh to get their day started, and 2) cause your...

  14. Participating in Protests?

    AliNajaCat replied to wanna_be's topic in General Nursing

    You are a US citizen and have the right to protest peacefully, just like anybody else. You can wear nursing clothing (scrubs, whites, lab coat...) and identify yourself as a registered nurse...

  15. Scope Of Practice

    AliNajaCat replied to amysnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Aha. The answer lies in the billing-- if the physician does it himself, it's billed as if he "collected a sample," and he gets paid more. Hell, I did nasal swabs for culture when I was a student, and...

  16. Just got new job, but just got better opportunity?

    AliNajaCat replied to skydancer7's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, take both per diem positions in OP Surgery, lose the crazy-making m/s position, and over the next couple of months figure out which day surg place you want to see more of. One of them is bound...

  17. Ask A Stupid Question . . . .

    AliNajaCat replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh. My. God. Please tell me that she at least made a decimal error and only gave the poor SOB 3 cc ... (trying to work out in my head what IM Milk of Mag would do to muscle

  18. I start clinicals on monday, my friend warned me about the instructor, advice please

    AliNajaCat replied to Matucm's topic in General Students

    Were you in my clinical group? I knew you guys were gonna turn out ok.

  19. Ask A Stupid Question . . . .

    AliNajaCat replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oooh, that reminds me of the first job I ever had, PACU. We got people in with oral ET tubes in place, breathing OK; when they woke up enough to not like it being in there, we extubated them....

  20. Severe anxiety

    AliNajaCat replied to Socrates12358's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Don't wait for the insurance. Schedule that visit stat. This is an emergency. If you can't, see the nearest ER that provides stat psych

  21. How to figure out VTBI?!!!

    AliNajaCat replied to ital91's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    No real prescription would be written in that way, none. Reading comprehension

  22. Questions for all nurses!!

    AliNajaCat replied to aveonurse2b's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Go find a real nurse. They're all over the place-- just make a phone

  23. Paramedic to RN program(Online?)

    AliNajaCat replied to Racer1600's topic in General Students

    There is no real paramedic-to-RN ladder; totally different professions even if there are some overlaps in some psychomotor skills. They may have created this program in part as a marketing thing. If...

  24. How to get an A in medical terminology course? (Merced College)

    AliNajaCat replied to forevermn's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The best way to learn terminology-- and to prepare for new terms you'll encounter later-- is to pay attention to the DERIVATION of the words. Most are from Latin or Greek, but there are a lot of...

  25. GPN working under an RN license

    AliNajaCat replied to Dogozaly's topic in General Nursing

    This would seem to say that the person must practice under the direct supervision of an RN (which means if you're not at work when he makes an error, you're off the hook). Also a difference between...