Calm and collected

Calm and collected has 48 years experience and specializes in Psychiatric, hospice, rehab.

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1. Shift Nurses Post-Pandemic

   Calm and collected replied to Aaron Smith's topic in General Nursing

   What a ridiculous article obviously NOT written by a nurse! I don't understand if the purpose of the article was to entice people to enter nursing or to encourage nurses that they have got it made-LOL. What the heck is a "shift nurse" anyway?

2. Arguing Over a Patient Assignment

   Calm and collected replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

   I find this disturbing. I worked LTAC for a few years and I get the problems associated with multiple room changes. Honestly, I can't blame the residents getting upset at having to move. As I am sure you know, we are to consider the SNF their home an...

3. I Want Decent Health Benefits! Is That Too Much to Ask?

   Calm and collected replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

   Just wow! I usually love your posts but this seems to blame procreation for unfair health coverage rather than the horrible system. Why nurses get despicable healthcare coverage is beyond my understanding. So is your post.

4. Bad idea to quit after 6m as a new grad for DNP school?

   Calm and collected replied to Theanxiousnurse's topic in General Nursing

   I think it is a huge disservice to the nursing profession to allow anyone to enter advanced nursing programs without significant experience as a general nurse. I worked with wonderful NPs while working in hospice and they all had YEARS of experience ...

5. ER and schedule VS hospice and schedule?

   Calm and collected replied to justanurse19's topic in General Nursing

   I worked hospice for 13 years. I loved most of it but the on call wears on you. You can work a full day, start your on call at 5 and it is possible to be called out all night. As I got older, I found working 16 hours straight was too exhausting. It i...

6. What was your motivation that made you become a Nurse?

   Calm and collected replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

   So, so long ago I watched Dr. Kildare and also my next door neighbor was an RN and was always called upon when kids, pets, you name it, got hurt. I admired how calm she was no matter what. However, when I went to college, I chose psychology as a majo...

7. Hoping They're Not the Last Words

   Calm and collected replied to JBMmom's topic in COVID

   Your heartbreakingly beautifully written narrative touched me. It shows a nurse who, despite seeing the constant illness and often death, still holds on to compassion. I thankfully retired just before the pandemic hit but I am proud of colleagues lik...

8. NEED CAREER ADVICE!

   Calm and collected replied to NurseChristinaB's topic in General Nursing

   I followed a similar course as you CNA-LVN-RN. I took a break while my kids were little ( after working as LVN for 3 years) I went back to get my RN at 36 and that worked just fine. I worked another 20 years as an RN. So being 27, you have lots of t...

9. Nurses, invent what you want.

   Calm and collected replied to x4livin's topic in General Nursing

   Back in my days as a charge nurse in LTC/ Medicare rehab unit, we were always pushing Ensure, milkshakes, etc on the poor little patients who just didn't want them. I always thought that if they put Ensure in beer bottle lookalike containers, some of...

10. LVN to RN Bridge

    Calm and collected replied to Texasoklahoma1985's topic in General Nursing

    As an LVN who enrolled in an RN bridge program in California, that would never happen. Not sure about Texas but highly unlikely and unsafe!

11. Went to inactive license

    Calm and collected replied to londonflo's topic in General Nursing

    I am about to do the same. Received my LVN in 1977 and RN in 1991. Practiced until 2016 and then quit work but kept my license active. I know I need to go inactive but I also feel sad about leaving a career I loved. I feel your loss.

12. Rapid response

    Calm and collected replied to Calm and collected's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all for your comments and condolences. I have been busy with plans to lay my WW2 vet dad to rest with military honors. I now realize he was in a gray area when rapid was called. The nurse who callled was in her late 20's I would guess. I to...

13. Rapid response

    Calm and collected replied to Calm and collected's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone for your comments.

14. Rapid response

    Calm and collected posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay- I have a question for my very highly educated fellow nurses. I took my 98 year old father to the ER 10 days ago for respiratory distress. He was previously ambulatory, able to walk with a rolling walker, alert and oriented x4. He had severe whe...

15. Questionable actions that make you go hmm?

    Calm and collected replied to Snatchedwig's topic in General Nursing

    One of my favorites- during my stint in SNF as RN charge had a medical records clerk write : masculine degeneration every.single.time when coding diagnoses ( days of paper charts and books as reference) instead of macular. Got mad at me when I tried ...