mrphil79

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1. Quiet Unit

   mrphil79 replied to PeachTea7's topic in General Nursing

   If you're considering a MSN or NP - use the down time at work to study and do school work.

2. Is looking at a patient's chart on your floor a HIPAA violation?

   mrphil79 replied to PrettyPeachyRN's topic in HIPAA

   I'm currently traveling to a very small rural hospital. we all get report in huddle on all of the patients, because at any point during the day you may be helping someone to the bathroom, passing meds, or doing any one of 6000 other things that re...

3. Any Nurses That Didn't Get COVID Vacc/Booster for Complio?

   mrphil79 replied to NoFly-4645's topic in General Students

   It's been my consistent experience that the people who refuse the vaccine due to stated fears of it being new and untested and unknown side effects are the same people who aggressively seek out anti-viral drugs for Covid the second they get sick. ...

4. EKG order

   mrphil79 replied to cepr4's topic in General Nursing

   At places where the ekg machine syncs automatically into the chart - you usually need an order in place to be able to tie the ekg to their chart. Some places you can sync it up later if you needed a stat ekg - pretty common in ERs where the patien...

5. Phasing Out ADN?

   mrphil79 replied to Candi Williams's topic in General Nursing

   No way - they've been pushing BSN forever. They somewhat successfully got rid of a ton of LPN/LVN options and hospitals nationwide stopped hiring them or required them to get their RN... But so many hospitals now are bringing back LPNs because the...

6. Being Too Slow

   mrphil79 replied to delrionurse's topic in General Nursing

   I know it wasn't exactly the point, but you do know you're lowballing the doctors' salaries, right?

7. Advice on BSN

   mrphil79 replied to Kaceyn428's topic in General Nursing

   My suggestion is to get it as cheap as possible - which may or may not equate to how fast it can be done. Spend as little as possible even if it takes 12-18 months longer.

8. What was she thinking?!

   mrphil79 replied to pharmanurse11's topic in General Nursing

   It takes about 3-4 seconds to pull an IV... I gotta agree with another commenter - pull it while you are there, it's gonna probably take more time to come back later just for this... But as for calling the police, it's absolutely standard if you...

9. Do you regret becoming a nurse?

   mrphil79 replied to jengood's topic in General Nursing

   The more you hear from management that "we are a family", the less you are going to be treated like family when anything goes bad. The hospital will protect itself every time, and only protect you if it benefits them in the process. Loyalty mea...

10. Do you regret becoming a nurse?

    mrphil79 replied to jengood's topic in General Nursing

    I'm always stunned at the people who pay $40-50,000 to get an RN degree in the name of being done 5 months faster than a community college program that will cost a total of $9,000. No matter how the school tries to sell it, that 5 months is not wo...

11. Couldn't Find Ativan Pt Threw in Trash

    mrphil79 replied to newgradlpn's topic in General Nursing

    If my employer comes after me in this situation, it's not a place I'm interested in working...

12. Mandated to Work 16.5 + Hours

    mrphil79 replied to Irving's topic in General Nursing

    Also... Im eating and Im peeing. If nobody's dying, I have time to pee. If nobody's gonna die in the next half hour - call lights be damned, I'm gonna eat. If I'm working at a place where this becomes impossible other than oddball days ...

13. Mandated to Work 16.5 + Hours

    mrphil79 replied to Irving's topic in General Nursing

    If I've said it once, I've said it 1000 times... You mandate me *once* and it's my last shift. I'm done. There WAY too many nursing jobs out there for me to care about quitting this one. AND the hospital wants to staff so thinly that a two...

14. Left the ICU after 1.5 yrs, where to next?

    mrphil79 replied to bdemismi's topic in General Nursing

    Well... you're not wrong. If nursing has a Wild Wild West, it's ER... You'll quickly learn why ER nurses don't know (care…) when the patient pooped last or what the brain bleed patient's skin looks like or why we didn't treat the 180 sugar.

15. HELP!! Cant figure out what I wanna do!!

    mrphil79 replied to Jordan1927's topic in General Nursing

    I mean you're working 5/8s or 4/10s and still feel just as tired and worn out... it really might be past time to see your primary - perhaps there's a physical reason you feel this way - thyroid, murmur, anemia, the list goes on. I will say if you'...