celeste7767

celeste7767 specializes in CVICU, PICU, ER,TRAUMA ICU, HEMODIALYSIS.

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1. Do you see a generational gap in nursing?

   celeste7767 replied to egglady's topic in General Nursing

   I am 61 and have been unable to work for 2 years due to physical disabilities which I partially attribute to my very anal personality as welll as one that is very detail oriented. I first noticed a change in the way my colleagues worked on our very ...

2. Done, can anyone relate and share?

   celeste7767 replied to Zookeeper3's topic in General Nursing

   I left nursing because I became disabled. I'd been a nurse since 1975 when 8 hour shifts were the norm. Then the advent of the 12 hours shifts began around 1980 and after 24 years of 12-14 hours on my feet, mostly without any breaks, because I wo...

3. That Crazy Old Lady Did It!

   celeste7767 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   This was an interesting post. I do have a question. Why did this graduate nurse not have the skills to insert an NG or foley and had to rely on the hopefully adequate and accurate training from a soon to retire LPN?? I graduated from Indiana Univers...

4. Nurses with felony records

   celeste7767 replied to CPUREINSTINCT's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, am I ever behind on what's going on!! I thought that most state boards wouldn't even allow someone to take the NCLEX if they had more than a traffic ticket on their criminal record. Personally, with the exception of some white-collar crimes tha...

5. Did Hillary really say nurses are glorified sitters ?..... No fact to support

   celeste7767 replied to time4meRN's topic in Activism

   I definitely remember Hilary making a derogatory remark regarding the nursing profession several years ago during the period in the 90's when hospitals were laying off RN's and lived to regret their decision when morbidity and mortality rates climbed...

6. Hello, & CEU's

   celeste7767 replied to kansastoto's topic in Kansas

   I got more than 60 free Contact hours from various sources and once one gets your name you get offers from others. Check out the following which you can do online, download the material if you want and some will even send you monthly free ceu offerin...

7. Anyone else not get CEU's for 3-day AMA, CREST Basic & Adv. Disaster Classes??

   celeste7767 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Last Sept. 12, 13, 14 in Socorro, NM I took Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support Classes sponsored by the Univ. of New Mexico Center for Disaster Medicine and for which I was supposed to get 21 contact hours Cont. ed. Well, after the classes conc...

8. RE: Pt. disch. No teaching, No instructions, No nothing!!!

   celeste7767 posted a topic in General Nursing

   My husband was recently hospitalized for 11 days for placement of urostomy via ileal conduit for bladder cancer with bone mets. Although I may sound like supernurse, in 32 yrs of nursing I have never had any experience with stomas. I do remember that...

9. Nurses pushing a PCA pump for a patient?

   celeste7767 replied to rn undisclosed name's topic in General Nursing

   When is it OK for the nurse to push the PCA button?? When you just got the patient up in the chair and he number and positioning of the infusion pumps, pleurevacs, O2 tubing etc. and the arterial line and CVP poles are separating the patient from be...

10. Who took the NURSE out of Nursing?

    celeste7767 posted a topic in General Nursing

    WARNING: THIS POST IS REALLY LONG. BUT I HOPE MANY OF YOU WILL READ IT. I THINK IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR ALL NURSES. I haven't written a post for quite some time. My husband learned today that he has a "high grade invasive bladder cancer" fro...

11. Are you allowed to wear Makeup ?

    celeste7767 replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    Geez, I almost had a stroke when I first read the question! My first reaction was, "Oh God, no, Please don't tell me that employers are regressing 50 years into the olden days when nurses wore long sleeved starched uniforms that were mid calf length ...

12. Why Do Nurses Allow Understaffing?

    celeste7767 replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

    I'll tell you one thing you can do but unless you want to get fired like I did, you better get most of the nurses on your unit to do the same thing. After I explained what would work to the other nurses, I was let go the next day I came back to work....

13. what do you all think about 12 hour shifts?

    celeste7767 replied to emmycRN's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated in 1975 and in 1980, started working 12 hour shifts in Critical Care, ER, CVICU, PICU, hemodialysis. After 30 yrs total, my body is wrecked , ruined. I have chronic vasculitis of both feet and ankles, arthritis of both feet, hands, knee...

14. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    celeste7767 replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'll start right off telling you all that I am probably the most CYNICAL nurse that is a member of this forum. When I started nursing school in 1971, I had no idea what the starting salary was; it was what I wanted to do so I didn't care. In 1975 in ...

15. What kind of bed is this?

    celeste7767 replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a Circolectric Bed, used primarily in the early 1970's to 1980 for the quadraplegic patients to prevent skin breakdown and to change positions gradually to avert some of the autonomic problems associated with this class of patient. This w...