K9lover ASN, RN

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    Chris Christie in charge of Trump's Opioid Commission

    K9lover replied to Emergent's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    The thing is people who have lost children to addiction want to blame someone and addiction is a disease (IMHO) not a blame game. I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child and my adult son is not...
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    Chris Christie in charge of Trump's Opioid Commission

    K9lover replied to Emergent's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    No one wants to own their own addiction and after decades at making any difference in street drugs the DEA found doctors a nice, soft target. They don't shoot back. Only hurts chronic pain patients, I...
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    When to report to BON, authorities, and/or HR (workplace harrassment & threats)

    K9lover replied to jfrederickson80's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You should present your case to a workplace rights attorney. IMHO all the rest will brush things under the rug and HR exists only yo suck-up to the
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    why can't nurses get safe staffing laws passed

    K9lover replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And we had an ally in democratic governor Gray Davis at the
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    Tell on yourself, if you dare...

    K9lover replied to audreysmagic's topic in General Nursing

    I did that as a new nurse, spiked the blood bag too forcefully. It DID look like a crime
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    Need some tips avoid panicking when pt condition declines/need immediate intervention

    K9lover replied to mugs's topic in General Nursing

    My best suggestion would be to take it one item at a time and not overwhelm yourself with the whole picture. Patient may have 100 issues but you can only address one in that instant; start with ABCs,...
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    Don't flame me for this

    K9lover replied to future_RN, CNA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Being forced to take a phone everywhere including breaks and having no break cover; two of the 1000 other reasons I fled acute care. My only regret is not having done it 10 years
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    why can't nurses get safe staffing laws passed

    K9lover replied to lee1's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    @ hppygr8ful, I remember it well and it was not Schwatrzenegger who signed staffing ratios into law 1999, it was Democratic governor Gray
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    other side of the coin. again.

    K9lover replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    The BON/ That is a little over the top. Telling the hospital new grad does not know how to give Insulin would
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    When Your Patient is an Addict...How to Deal

    K9lover replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Well
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    When Your Patient is an Addict...How to Deal

    K9lover replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Indeed regs did increase Heroin use, I saw that coming. Now they could always make it illegal to alter ones mood...Wait we already do with everything except alcohol. The drug scheduling laws were...
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    Orders from hell...

    K9lover replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Shame, it sounds like a fabulous order to me! When I worked in an outpatient chemo-infusion center one of the docs really wanted to be able to have a candy dish with Ativan in the waiting
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    Ever experience violence at work???

    K9lover replied to aoguagha's topic in General Nursing

    Did the survey
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    Ever experience violence at work???

    K9lover replied to aoguagha's topic in General Nursing

    Had a classmate who I grew-up with. He moved post-graduation to Washington. He LOVED ER; he was in great shape, rock-climber, avid hiker. One day he leaned over the gurney of a patient he thought was...
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    Ever experience violence at work???

    K9lover replied to aoguagha's topic in General Nursing

    Indeed I have; as a new grad nearly had a lil lady with advanced dementia try to bite me, 0300 am, I was straddling her in the bed holding her wrists while she kept leaning forward attempting to chomp...
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    Confused

    K9lover replied to jenal77's topic in Emergency

    I agree on that 'license on the line.' I hear that in the most minute error or omission, if this were the case scarcely any one of us would make it through 1st year as an RN with our license
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    Don't do the physicians work!

    K9lover replied to ModernRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    When I last worked in acute care it was 72 hours but it would not surprise me if this has changed; when patients asked "why" on meds expiring, Foley, Heparin shots etc... I was quite honest with them...
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    Do you think nurses get special treatment?

    K9lover replied to NurseLife88's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely, I was stopped by a CHP officer driving home from work; there was also a hospital in direction I was headed. He asked me if there was an emergency and the moment I said "no" I realized he...
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    Vitamins are a controlled substance?

    K9lover replied to Volley88's topic in Patient Medications

    I noticed this as well when I worked acute care; given they are not controlled drugs the general consensus, I was told, was that the hospital thinks the nurses' will remember they forgot an AM vitamin...
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    other side of the coin. again.

    K9lover replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    I know....Has anyone really ever suffered a stunning setback from being given a
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    other side of the coin. again.

    K9lover replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    @gemmi999
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    other side of the coin. again.

    K9lover replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    That is quite the list of things you don't do and, wow, you will not give a patient you do not know a BLANKET? Even with your endless rationales of thinking you have covered all your bases with adding...
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    Is nursing school really "the hardest thing you've ever done in your life"?

    K9lover replied to cn4207's topic in General Students

    Not even
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    3 medication-related errors in 6 months. Is this a sign I should quit?

    K9lover replied to hnnrgh's topic in General Nursing

    Too true in that it is a system problem but as we all know they will throw the nurse under the bus every
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    Drug testing in Nursing Programs? (Anoka Ramsey CC)

    K9lover replied to sillycracker456's topic in General Students

    A commenter stated " would you want a doc or nurse who smokes themselves into