Certifiable BSN, RN

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About Certifiable

Certifiable has 5 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Oncology/hematology.


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    Trouble conceiving

    I can't do the basal temp measurment because of the shift work... If i'm racing around at work my body temp will be elevated regardless of my cycle. Cervical fluid is the next step. I just don't know if that is putting too much pressure on myself af...
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    Trouble conceiving

    I've been trying to conceive for 5 months. Now, i know that it's only "trouble" if it's been over a year. But nurses are not your average textbook patient! I do two nights and two days\evening shifts a week (8.5hours each) in a high stress BMT unit. ...
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    Night shift and mandatory meetings

    I work 8 hours shifts and the monthly staff meeting is always scheduled at 13:00, everyone is expected to show up - but if the nurses from the previous night shift don't - no one says anything. They read the minutes printout that get sent along with ...
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    rituximab infusion rate (calculation)

    Exactly as written in "Cancer nursing: Principles and practice 7th edition" :)
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    15 Minutes in the Life of a Nurse

    I disagree. If I get a call from the lab about crazy electrolights or dangerous CBC, it's much quicker to intervene. I can immediately stop a drug that can be causing more harm, open fluids, check vitals and then... I call the doc and notify him of t...
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    How common is chemo through peripheral IV?

    Very common.
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    Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    When a senior doctor refused my request for a urinary catheter in a patient with Breast CA + mets to the brain (=every position change was painful) who was receiving mannitol and chemo (=lots of cytotoxic urine to come in contact with) and the new re...
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    I want a social life

    Misery loves company: I totally get the loneliness behind this post! I'm more alone now than i've ever been in my 20+ yrs of life, curtesy of 8hr hospital shifts (i do them all-morn/noon/night). My close group of friends have broken up and moved to d...
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    Anatomy of a Code

    Wow, that's a lot of people in one room. You have a pharmacist who draws the meds? cool. Our patient's rooms are so small (all for neutropenic isolation) that it gets extremely crowded as soon when the ventilator is plugged in. When a patient codes (...
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    New Nurse Having Panic Attacks!

    It's been a few weeks since your post so I hope everything is alright. I'm a new RN, 9 months into the job. I vividly recall trouble sleeping, nightmares (based on true and false patients/situations) and sometimes a horrible, heavy anxiety. Once I co...
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    Starting on the bone marrow transplant unit - help!

    Thank you all for the great advice. A little update: i'm 6 months into working on the BMT unit, and my heart still pounds whenever the charge nurse writes the patient assignments on the whiteboard -gulp! the problem is, during my month-long orientat...
  12. I'm a new grad, on my first job in a specialized unit. It's extremely stressful work (I dream about it quite often), the patients are really ill and we also get a lot of patients from other departments when they are full (which somehow happens durin...
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    Any good "nurse" shows on tv? Netflix?

    ER will always have a place in my heart for the most well depicted nurses--- always overworked, fighting with management about staffing, dealing with idiot docs and knowing their stuff. People here keep talking about Grey's Anatomy--- the only time t...
  14. Hi, I'm two months into my first job as an RN on a highly specialized unit. The patient to nurse ratio is fairly low due to the complexity of the work (mornings - 3 or 4, evenings 4 or 5, nights 6 patients). All shifts are 8 hours. The low ration was...
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    Starting on the bone marrow transplant unit - help!

    Thank you, this was reassuring.