Maliffy

Maliffy has 6 years experience and specializes in Oncology, Palliative Care, Hospice.

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1. Surgical Oncology question

   Maliffy replied to neverbethesame's topic in Oncology

   I know this may be too late to really benefit you neverbethesame, and I hope your clinicals went well. I would be itnerested to hear what your experience was like. I work in outpatient oncology, with both medical and surgical oncologists, in a VER...

2. Mandated Flu vaccine?

   Maliffy replied to mol42's topic in COVID

   The hospice that I work for is also considering mandating the vaccine for all clinical and social service staff in direct patient contact. I can see the logic in it, but there are some other things that employers are not considering. Every year I ch...

3. The Patient I Failed

   Maliffy replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Relations

   I read your article aloud at the end of our IDG meeting. You made an entire room full of hospice nurses cry. That's not an easy thing to do. Thank you for a poignant reminder to all of us, to think about how we care for others, and how we would ...

4. need advice...50k for an ADN?

   Maliffy replied to lolwut's topic in California

   I recently graduated from a California Community College. I waited a year and a half on the waiting list to get a spot. I heard from some people who work in administrative positions at the college that they have EMPTIED the waiting list because so ...

5. $100,000 in student loan debt?

   Maliffy replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   $100,000 seems like a lot, it can add up fast, but it takes far longer to pay off. Isn't that always the way it is though...it takes a lot longer to earn or save money than it does to spend it. Many schools offer their own need based grants, in addi...

6. Test question, just wanted your thoughts

   Maliffy replied to RNnTrainin''s topic in General Students

   Daytonite- That makes a lot of sense. I always tend to jump the gun and want to address symptoms first and then treat the underlying cause, ie... stop the coughing, THEN cure the coughing. I doubt that working in hospice has done anything to break ...

7. Graduation Gift Idea?

   Maliffy replied to SimonJester's topic in General Students

   I graduated in December. Money was super tight...so I didn't get a graduation present until AFTER I started working. In fact...it just came today. I got a Littman Master Classic II stethescope, the black edition. Very sleek, and very stylish (dar...

8. Test question, just wanted your thoughts

   Maliffy replied to RNnTrainin''s topic in General Students

   Personally I'd start bugging our medical director for tylenol with codine (2 birds, 1 stone). I'm guessing the right answer is Codine. It addresses BOTH the pain and the cough. I'm interested in other people's perspectives. Do you have the "ri...

9. skin protection before incontinence

   Maliffy replied to Amy2005's topic in General Nursing

   Calmoseptine is one of the best products I have ever seen used. I'm not sure exactly what they put in that tube...but I'm pretty sure that "fairy dust" is one of the primary ingredients. I swear that stuff is magic.

10. Advice with Nclex RN Questions

    Maliffy replied to Someday2bRN's topic in NCLEX

    Remember your ABC's before anything else, then look for expected versus unexpected outcomes...what would you expect to see or happen and what would you not? Your patient with an infection is probably going to have a fever, that would not constitute a...

11. In praise of LVN's

    Maliffy posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, this is kind of a vent...but it's a positive one. I graduated from nursing school with my ADN in December 2008, top of my class, and passed the NCLEX-RN in a half hour and 75 questions. That being said there are a lot of things that only experie...

12. Crazy Weight Gain? or not?

    Maliffy replied to NurseHotFlash's topic in General Students

    It seems like an excessive amount to me. I would question one of those numbers for sure...correct my math if I'm wrong but that's a gain of 36 lbs, and a pint is approx one pound, so she's retaining 18L of fluid? Is she THAT edematous? Are her lung...

13. NCLEX Prep Course -- can you make it without them?

    Maliffy replied to la bellota's topic in NCLEX

    I graduated in December 2008 and took the NCLEX-RN on January 9th, a month before the Kaplan review that my school PAID for. I don't know why they thought anyone would want to wait a month and THEN take a 3 week review and THEN take the NCLEX. :ang...

14. Some Honesty

    Maliffy replied to ccstudent's topic in General Students

    Wow! What a downer! I think the job market varries a lot by location. In southern California the job market is not THAT bad. I graduated in December 2008. To the best of my knowledge all of the graduates in my class who wanted to be working (we ha...

15. ATI

    Maliffy replied to DianaRNBSN's topic in New Nurse

    I graduated in December 2008, took the NCLEX in January, passed with 75 questions. Personally, I felt that the questions that the ATI predictor test had were significantly easier than the NCLEX. I also felt like most of the questions on MY NCLEX wer...