Celia M ASN, RN

Celia M has 26 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in M/S/Tele, Home Health, Gen ICU.

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1. Liverpool Women's Hospital

   Celia M replied to Celia M's topic in International

   Liverpool Jane, Thanks for all the info and good news regarding LWH. The situation is not so good for the MIL as it now seems that surgery is off and she will have chemo. Thanks to your info I did manage to get her a television/phone console for her ...

2. Liverpool Women's Hospital

   Celia M replied to Celia M's topic in International

   Thank you for your replies. My MIL is now in Southport Hospital following a PE being discoverd on CAT scan that took 1 week to be read, so everything is still up in the air. They will decide tomorrow whether to transfer to LWH. The staff in Southport...

3. Liverpool Women's Hospital

   Celia M posted a topic in International

   My 76 y/o mother in law is to have a TAH BSO and possible colostomy for Ovarian CA at LWH on July 5, 2010. Since we live in California we are concerned about her and are making plans for my DH to be with her, but trying to do all this long distance a...

4. Have you ever seen a seizure for hypoglycemia?

   Celia M replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Nursing

   Yes, several times, and one was with a confirmed serum BS of 8!!!! Celia

5. You know you've been in Nursing TOO long when...

   Celia M replied to Mike RGN's topic in International

   When the "new" title for a nurse was RGN. (Used to be SRN). When we mixed all our IV meds including chemo (don't worry we wore gloves and a plastic apron). When you taught to stand up for the Doctors and Sister had tea with the consultants in the bre...

6. Scared to go back to work

   Celia M replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

   I am sorry for your loss, your Dad was lucky to have you at his side. Sometimes it is difficult being a nurse in these circumstances. I have not lost a parent but had several miscarriages while working as a nursing sup and one of the duties was to at...

7. Take your boss to work day..........

   Celia M replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

   So true, most nurse managers work very hard and floor nurses would be amazed at everything they need to accomplish in a day. You can impact patient care without actually being hands on. I find it very frustrating that the perception is if you sit beh...

8. Troubled RN...Need advice please!!

   Celia M replied to TamponadeTim13's topic in General Nursing

   I agree follow your heart, you will still get some great expereince in a smaller hospital. I moved from a 1000 bed hospital to a 48 bed hospital 21 years ago because of my husbands job and I loved every minute of it. If the smaller hospital is savvy ...

9. How do you deal with a rude co-worker?

   Celia M replied to MobileNurseSara's topic in General Nursing

   This physician should be reported to the Medical Staff office, there is a Joint Commission regulation dealing with this. no one should be treated in this way. At my facility there is a Physician Well Being Committee for this purpose. The Medical staf...

10. Not sure how I'm going to survive

    Celia M replied to BabyLady's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so sorry you are going through this. I do not know if your employer has an employee assistance program (EAP) we do and it provides free financial counselling as well as 5 free personal counselling sessions. i think that you might benefit from tha...

11. Got an interview for a med-surg position, current employer holding on tight.

    Celia M replied to TreehuggerRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a manager and whenever one of the outstanding nurses in one of my units interviews for another job or leaves I do get that awful "OMG, how am I going to replace them" knee jerk reaction. This is probably the reaction your DON had and is a complim...

12. Fearing a Flu Vaccine and Wanting More of It

    Celia M replied to indigo girl's topic in COVID

    Got mine (shot d/t asthma) and had the kids (10 and 6) take the mist last week. No side effects, except I fell asleep during a class the next day, but it could have just been really boring!! I'd prefer a little discomfort to being really sick or resp...

13. I just need some moral support...

    Celia M replied to ilovenursing2009's topic in General Nursing

    There are night shift openings at my facility on med/surg/tele if you are willing to relocate to Kern County. PM me. Celia

14. Enemas in the ER

    Celia M replied to Jaloc's topic in Emergency

    Enemas are ordered in the ER, however because of privacy issues they are done wherever a free bed exists in the hospital, usually on an inpatient floor, tying up nurses and beds. it is a problem in aour small community hospital, especially since it i...

15. Dilemma: Should I settle? Is it worth it in the long run?

    Celia M replied to Mariposa2009's topic in General Nursing

    I am the nurse manager of a med/surg/tele floor and an ICU. I have in the past few months hired new grad RNs and LVNs, LVNs with LTC exp only and RNs with only HHA experience. SO if you need the money go with LTC, as a manager I would take that exper...