K9lover ASN, RN

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    Case Study: Can You Prevent This Medical Error?

    K9lover replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in Critical Care

    Checklist is great if someone has one stable patient all night to thus take 35 minutes per
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    Politics in the Nursing Work Place: When Conflicts Arise

    K9lover replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    Why would they feel ashamed? I would surmise you have same belief system as current POTUS or why would you vote for him? I am fairly certain people attribute certain characteristics about my being an...
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    Politics in the Nursing Work Place: When Conflicts Arise

    K9lover replied to jeastridge's topic in General Nursing

    I generally stay out of politics. Once @ the time this POTUS was elected I walked into break room with only my Filipino colleagues there, they immediately stopped talking but I heard enough. I let...
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    3 Signs it Might be Time to Leave Bedside Nursing

    K9lover replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    As for options I'd add occupational and corrections. Like hospital nursing jails are open 24/7 and I have found it to be safer than bedside nursing. Should a pt decide to take their wrath out on the...
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    3 Signs it Might be Time to Leave Bedside Nursing

    K9lover replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    I knew it was time when I just started telling it like it is, e.g. pt asks why Foley being pulled so soon and I told them that timeframe is dictated by the CDC, not their doctor. They would ask...
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    "You made a mistake."

    K9lover replied to CharleeFoxtrot's topic in General Nursing

    That is my most common one. Another is the dream that I am the only nurse on the floor with 18 call lights a buzzing. When I was a young waitress would dream I was only one in a full restaurant; this...
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    "You made a mistake."

    K9lover replied to CharleeFoxtrot's topic in General Nursing

    I wake up at 3:30 AM for work, lately I have been waking up at 5AM thinking I am late for work and cannot possibly get there by 05:30 AM, I start thinking I better hurry then I realize it is not a...
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    "You made a mistake."

    K9lover replied to CharleeFoxtrot's topic in General Nursing

    I have had that exact
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    Nasty/aggressive patients

    K9lover replied to Kugrad2018's topic in General Nursing

    That does not always work, I have worked at county hospital. people who ran low on heroin or money knew just what to do; feigning symptoms of TB bought them 3 days in iso and Dilaudid (amazing, they...
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    Nasty/aggressive patients

    K9lover replied to Kugrad2018's topic in General Nursing

    I went to a store after work as a new grad. I was already stressed beyond capacity, exhausted all of the time and being eaten as a 'young'. A woman thought I took her parking spot and said "I am going...
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    Nasty/aggressive patients

    K9lover replied to Kugrad2018's topic in General Nursing

    You should not have to 'get used to it' but I guarantee the hospital will expect you to and not back you up. I realize people in the ER do not feel good but they never have, we have become a much more...
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    Gave medications too early is this an error?

    K9lover replied to daniela095's topic in Patient Medications

    Used to be more standardized until whichever agency regulates Heparin making it a stat thing for the 'insta-DVTs' patients will be thought to get upon landing in the hospital...among the zillion and...
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    'My Patient died' Facebook post

    K9lover replied to miladaniels's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Not posting anything more specific than what I do for a living is what I post on FB. Given I live in a small town I have seen people I know in passing being booked in; I never mention in social media...
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    Help! Tested positive

    K9lover replied to Jaybird82's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It is pricey because they are paying themselves. It is not unlike police seizures; they get to keep the
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    Help! Tested positive

    K9lover replied to Jaybird82's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Amoxiciilin can cause a false positive for cocaine. This was news to
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    Help! Tested positive

    K9lover replied to Jaybird82's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Get a job in the meantime so you will have money for a lawyer and, as has been mentioned, get a hair follicle test. It would not be from coming in contact with meth at your sisters' house, did sis use...
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    The Unwritten Rules Of Dating As A Nurse

    K9lover replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I am still married and have been throughout my career so dating was a non-issue. I had a friend whom, upon her license being suspended for other reasons, had the BON dig through her entire life and...
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    documenting a chart check?

    K9lover replied to ddrn97's topic in General Nursing

    I remember back in the dark
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    New Grad RN: Struggling With Finding a Job

    K9lover replied to nurse_bri's topic in General Nursing

    You mentioned BLS but not ACLS, if you do not have both I would highly recommend getting your ACLS. You may not need it if hired onto a M/S unit but at some point they'll want to float you
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    Scared to Seek Help

    K9lover replied to NurseNurseNurseNurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Don't disclose that you are a nurse and cast your net wider to include AA as there are not as many SMART meetings but remember we share in a general way. People believe what they see on TV shows and...
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    How did you get out of bedside nursing?

    K9lover replied to abnormal_saline's topic in General Nursing

    I left for corrections a few years ago and my only regret is not doing it sooner. I treat everyone with common courtesy as I did @ bedside nursing with difference being they actually have to treat me...
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    Swastikas & Nursing | Refusing care based upon moral objection?

    K9lover replied to guest042302019's topic in General Nursing

    I don't refuse care but when I did bedside nursing and patients used racial epithets I just flat out tell them I had a right not to hear it and the slurs were unwelcome. I am white; if I don't say...
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    Is this discrimination?

    K9lover replied to eacue10's topic in General Nursing

    If hearing a colleague state that everyone should learn English is the most ignorant thing you have ever heard you have led a very sheltered life. Strangely enough my husband, a now naturalized...
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    Dealing with Students in Clinicals: What would you like to see?

    K9lover replied to bsf312's topic in General Nursing

    Assured it will be taken personally; "instructor nurse was mean to me!!!!!!!!!!!!" Have had this happen, was just having a bad day unrelated to student, she went as far (as) stating I'd said I did not...
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    Shift Report: Listening, no writing...

    K9lover replied to mtmkjr's topic in General Nursing

    Couldn't think of any other way to dis the float