WestCoastSunRN MSN, CNS

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    Seeking Advice: Direct Entry Blues

    WestCoastSunRN replied to mk989's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I hear you but an ICU RN -- or most acute care RNs, by necessity, must have a deeper working knowledge of the three Ps. This is why that particular experience is relevant to future NP practice. But I...
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    Seeking Advice: Direct Entry Blues

    WestCoastSunRN replied to mk989's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yes, APNs are RNs by every legal definition and, as I stated also, share the same undergrad education with bedside RNs. When I point out the issue of DE APNs not sharing a common, individual history...
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    DNR Turning Into Do Not Treat?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to EllaBella1's topic in General Nursing

    DNRs are not one-size-fits-all. What everyone needs to be on the same page about it what each individual patient's DNR means to/for him/her. If a patient does not wish to be intubated under any...
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    Seeking Advice: Direct Entry Blues

    WestCoastSunRN replied to mk989's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Some really good thoughts here. As a non-NP nurse who has watched my profession change and morph over the last couple of decades, I'll be honest and say one of my concerns with DE is the *idea* of...
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    clinical instructor versus didactic instructor pay

    WestCoastSunRN replied to poopylala's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    As nurses, we are expected to teach/precept undergrad nursing students for no compensation or preceptor fee. But I know this is different from APN precepting -- in that a vast majority of clinical...
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    Starting in a CVICU

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Toadd35's topic in Critical Care

    I would jump on it. I've worked in ICUs like you describe -- with no docs on duty. You hone your skills quick and you learn when to call the attendings. What will make or break the experience, IMO,...
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    Reducing CLABSIs by prohibiting blood draws from line?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to fartjohnson's topic in General Nursing

    I work in ICU. In fact, I work in a burn ICU (a very challenging place, vascularly and immunologically speaking). We have a very low rate of CLABSI. While I appreciate that CVCs need to be handled...
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    Burnout after 8 months in ICU

    WestCoastSunRN replied to nursing8889's topic in General Nursing

    So many thoughtful responses here. I think there is not an ICU nurse alive that hasn't struggled with the darkness in our work. It is hard hard work. If you're not a nightshift person by nature,...
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    Training pathways in ICU

    WestCoastSunRN replied to LibertarianNurse's topic in Critical Care

    I was one of those "sticky wicket" nurses who was recruited into ICU from tele. But so was everyone else. We didn't have residency programs (or much of any kind of "orientation" for that matter)....
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    Life in burn / trauma ICU

    WestCoastSunRN replied to BadAszFannyPak's topic in Burn

    Our program also accepts new grads into a residency program. We see peds and adults and so if you're gonna hang with us you have to be able to do both. That said, I know there are burn centers that do...
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    Clinical Rotations for Online CNS Program

    WestCoastSunRN replied to NurseSam84's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

    Can you reach out to any CNSs in your institution? Another idea is to check out professional organizations like Aacn in your area or if there are pediatric nursing organizations. I think if you can...
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    Help me choose the days I work/schedule

    WestCoastSunRN replied to ajaxgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Can you try it one way and then change it later? I hear you about not having worked 12s before and that is why you are questioning the two in a row. I have only ever worked 12s and I can tell you...
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    pro vax=spawn of satan??

    WestCoastSunRN replied to mmc51264's topic in General Nursing

    Well golly, this was discussed in that "big" thread ad nauseam. I see people are still adding to it, so if you'd like to get in on the action I'm sure you can get some responses there. I did...
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    Full time non-clinical & per diem clinical for a new grad? Advice needed

    WestCoastSunRN replied to PAnurse94's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure you will be able to get any per diem bedside job as a new nurse. Maybe at a nursing home? That said, if you are not ever wanting to go into acute care then you are probably fine taking...
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    Icu nursing just not for me

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Wvurn15's topic in Critical Care

    You are still a newbie ICU nurse. It is going to take you years to feel like you have a handle on things, and even then you will always realize the need for continual study and the reality of the...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you. I'm not a warm cuddly person myself, I just play one at the bedside. It's been frustrating, though, to try to engage in this thread. As JKL33 stated earlier, there are nuances to those...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It matters because there are pages and pages of angst-laden rhetoric against all of these supposed anti-vax nurses. And it has been said, more than once here, that anti-science will be the undoing of...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    You didn't answer the question. How many here do you count as
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I know I said I left this thread. Morbid curiosity brings me back, I guess. But please respond to the point I made several times here, but continues to be ignored..... who are the anti-vaxers in...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    You all are up in arms about ONE nurse on here, AN.... this thread specifically, which is a very narrow slice of the nursing population as a whole. I'm sorry that you don't think I've contributed...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm unclear about what you are trying to say here. Are you asserting that MY desire is to get rid of all vaccines? And run lavender oil on people? Lol. Even though I have said over and over I am...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry wbtCRNA said
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    What?
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Oh Boston. Conspiracy Theory is just a subcategory of Paranoia. We've certainly seen some paranoia (with a touch of drama) from the pro vaccine side, for example... "Antiscience will be the undoing of...
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    Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

    WestCoastSunRN replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    We've witnessed that with one or two posters. I'm not sure that can be extrapolated beyond this very limited forum and audience. I'm going with it's a complex issue. You go with anti-science -...