AliNajaCat

AliNajaCat

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  1. Prioritizing nursing diagnosis

    AliNajaCat replied to cjewert's topic in General Students

    Let me see if I can add anything to my previous thoughts. So often the ABC types of interventions are related to implementing the medical plan of care. That's fine, we have to do that anyway, and this...

  2. Help! I can't hear it!

    AliNajaCat replied to Cattylady98's topic in General Students

    All good ideas...but you have to be able to use the equipment properly first.

  3. Personal Professional Plan Help

    AliNajaCat replied to turbulent's topic in General Students

    Re the pt teaching: You could search for articles about patient teaching and see what constitutes a comprehensive job-- including things like getting the patient to teach back to you to validate...

  4. Interview with Nurse

    AliNajaCat replied to Purna94's topic in General Students

    If that's directed at me personally, well, it's not always all about you and you

  5. New male student in clinicals, all women, feeling isolated

    AliNajaCat replied to Matucm's topic in General Students

    Man bites dog. Golly. I'm sorry, I don't mean to belittle your feelings. But you know what, after years of life as a woman and now as an older one, I have had sooooo many opportunities to be...

  6. NEEDED: Tips, Tricks & secrets for a brand new nurse!

    AliNajaCat replied to Cayleebrook's topic in General Nursing

    When I did ICU, I took a top-to-tail SOAP approach: Subjective; Objective: Neuro/cognitive, cardiac, pulmonary, belly, renal, skin/ortho, pain, psychosocial; Assessment; Plan. Gosh, that sure sounds...

  7. For The Love Of All That Is Holy . . . .

    AliNajaCat replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Love

  8. Participating in Protests?

    AliNajaCat replied to wanna_be's topic in General Nursing

    Good to hear. Tell your friends.

  9. How do you deal with workplace drama?

    AliNajaCat replied to laurennnxo26's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    1) I would absolutely refuse to get into an conversation that is based in a drama-"worthy" topic. This will make some people try harder to rope you in, but just smile blandly and say, "How 'bout those...

  10. Favorite RN Position

    AliNajaCat replied to KT_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Legal nurse consulting at this stage in my life.

  11. Interview with Nurse

    AliNajaCat replied to Purna94's topic in General Students

    ::sigh:: Alternative facts are coming to rule the day. (The Socratic method IS a great way to develop critical thinking skills. Giving the answers ... not so

  12. School dosage math help

    AliNajaCat replied to nurse2bbetty1989's topic in General Students

    I often recommend the same sort of thing to take away the anxiety, often with M&Ms or jelly beans. But I think in this case I might go for, oh, maybe those little ice cream dots instead of...

  13. Help! I can't hear it!

    AliNajaCat replied to Cattylady98's topic in General Students

    The A-numbah-one reason people can't hear (blood pressures, heart sounds, fine rales, bowel sounds, bruits...) with their stethoscopes is embarrassingly simple: They aren't putting them in their ears...

  14. Nursing Students Looked at my EMR... HIPAA?

    AliNajaCat replied to femnursingstudent's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    It is permissible to look at patient records for the purposes of education, with the caveat that no information thus obtained can be disseminated in any form with personal identifying information....

  15. Am I too old??

    AliNajaCat replied to Sammy2013's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Quoting one of my favorite answers to this oft-asked

  16. Nursing Technology Questions

    AliNajaCat replied to EmxoRenee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Why aren't you going to a local hospital or clinic and asking the working nurses there? You'll learn a lot more if you can see this in action, and get extra credit for saying "I observed X,Y, and Z...

  17. Forced to resign after 7 weeks

    AliNajaCat replied to porkdumpling's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I don't know why people think that nursing school teaches you everything. NOBODY "gets to do" everything a nurse does while they're in school. This is why NCLEX isn't based on the totality of nursing...

  18. How much do YOU think nurses are worth?

    AliNajaCat replied to mystory's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, well, when you work for yourself you can set your own pay scale. I really did let my clients know that as of 1/1/17 I was raising my hourly rate by $25. Nobody

  19. etCO2 in sedation

    AliNajaCat replied to Xananne's topic in General Students

    See if you can reason this out. 1) What IS etCO2? What is it measuring? Where does that CO2 come from, and what path does it take to get from the blood to the monitor? 2) What causes exhaled CO2 to...

  20. Prioritizing nursing diagnosis

    AliNajaCat replied to cjewert's topic in General Students

    I'll give you a little hint: One of the reasons they ask you to prioritize items you deem needed in your plan of care is that they want you to have your ducks in a row, that is, be able to say why you...

  21. How to Leave My New Job for Another

    AliNajaCat replied to Stkrepp's topic in General Nursing

    Again I'm going to take a somewhat contrarian view on some points. Orientation is for both parties-- the employer, to evaluate the success of the new hire, and the new hire to evaluate whether this is...

  22. How to protect yourself from infections after work?

    AliNajaCat replied to NurseIAm0613's topic in General Nursing

    Nah. The worst thing that ever happened to my shoes was one of my cats left the remains of one of her kills in them. Perhaps if i'd left them in the garage.... Nah. My clothes went right into the...

  23. Need normality.. suggestions?

    AliNajaCat replied to justcuriousrn1's topic in General Nursing

    Yep. Fun

  24. Ethics help!

    AliNajaCat replied to KatieFRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's usually enough to get the seed planted. And whenever I have a patient ask me, "Do I have to do that?" I always tell him he can do anything he wants, I'll back him up, and ask what he's heard...

  25. Ask A Stupid Question . . . .

    AliNajaCat replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    OK, I"ll bite. I specified the educational background of the nurse in question because in her abbreviated education she had never had occasion to learn about normal airway anatomy. I mean it. She...