CaLLaCoDe BSN, RN

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    Please help me convince my wife that she needs to return to nursing school...

    CaLLaCoDe replied to NIGHTWOLF87's topic in General Nursing

    Oh my, I too had thought of CSR and even toured the private school. I just remember the man with the full white beard who gave me the tour of the school, all these folks with these machines plucking...
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    Please help me convince my wife that she needs to return to nursing school...

    CaLLaCoDe replied to NIGHTWOLF87's topic in General Nursing

    Tell her that this nurse attended the university for 1 quarter, failed a course, was out an entire year (meanwhile got a CNA certificate), returned and received a poor lab grade, had to ride out the...
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    Medical Marijuana?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to nicostaqui's topic in General Nursing

    How interesting an article is this! I was a fool to have spoiled my lungs for a years time using roll your own cigarettes, my cellular RNA of my lung tissue has been ruined forever. I am at higher...
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    Completely burned out

    CaLLaCoDe replied to tinderbox's topic in General Nursing

    Step down is an awfully hard lot to contend with. I worked on a Step Down unit with patient's on perpetual death row. We had a patient with multiple amputations and bed sores infected with...
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    Everyone Has Something Likable

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps my fatale flaw but I am one who tries to see something I like about my client/patien/resident Could be a grump:angthts:, but you have the sweetest family, you must have done something right!...
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    ethical question

    CaLLaCoDe replied to MO3BB's topic in General Nursing

    I hope nothing detrimental comes from this ethical dilemma OP! If I had been there and you'd asked me for my recommendation, I would have said to call the doc and plead for some Ativan, since you...
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    Everyone Has Something Likable

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you StrwbryblndRN for saving this thread from spiraling downward towards vulgarity. I was speaking earlier, at the beginning, of stinky personalities not stinky smells. Oh well, its a free...
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    I passed the NCLEX!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to NurseMarla's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    :beercuphe congratulations
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    Desparate to become an Rn--will my gpa allow it?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to WannabeRN2012's topic in General Nursing

    Make sure you've taken and passed Algebra before you even contemplate the prerequisites. I know this sounds silly, but some nurse wannabees stumble when it comes to the Algebra. GPA is one factor...
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    Things Change, People Change ;=)

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    Please don't get me wrong, the nurse I got report from yesterday morning is a darn good one. Described a patient of mine to a tee. The epidural, the dilauded 0.2 for threshold pain (that he called...
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    East Coast Going from 12 to Eight hour shifts?

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    Someone at my work mentioned that the hospitals in the east are trashing the twelve hour shift in favor of 8 hour shifts. Is this really the case, east
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    I m in big trouble! I think I failed my drug screen

    CaLLaCoDe replied to alex68's topic in General Nursing

    I believe smoking Pot 3x a month is very little indeed, however considering the consequences of losing an RN license, foolish behavior. The big worry for me about this pot business is the fact that it...
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    Things Change, People Change ;=)

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    i am glad that the night nurse gave me a heads up on a potential problem child rather than describe him as "wonderful." i remember getting report from a day nurse once, when i was working nights and...
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    Remember to exercise

    CaLLaCoDe replied to patrick1rn's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I agree with you patrick1rn, it's very important to exercise to revitalize oneself and improve energy levels! I am one who is into isotonic exercises, where I push with all of my mite door jams at...
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    PASSED!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to SonicnurseRN's topic in General Nursing

    :hpygrp::ancong!::urck:
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    Things Change, People Change ;=)

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.buzzle.com/articles/bariatric-surgery-why-coffee-must-be-avoided.html "...Caffeine increases gastric acids, which causes heartburn and gastro esophageal reflux. Caffeine also increases...
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    Knocking a Patient Out, a bad thing?

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    The other day I was hopping. Manic as ever, from room to room making sure everyone who was post up was in a chair using their IS making certain their diet had arrived on the cart and giving pain...
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    OUTrageous Expectations w/ OUTrageous Pt Loads

    CaLLaCoDe replied to dRkazN's topic in General Nursing

    I believe every day nurse who never had experience on nights and has the gaul to say such a thing should be mandatorily assigned night duty for three months. I hate any fellow day nurse that starts...
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    3 questions here (Please answere any you can) :)

    CaLLaCoDe replied to californiaRNstudent's topic in General Nursing

    #1..I would lock the IV before shutting off the IVF, you don't want blood in the line! Possibly the supervisor seeing blood in the line was the concern. Actually I would probably detached the IV line...
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    Are Men with Papilloma virus becoming more common

    CaLLaCoDe replied to walk2's topic in General Nursing

    Or woman with clamidia virus in the lungs...more
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    Knocking a Patient Out, a bad thing?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, I was in the room dealing with the neighbor patient nearly every hour. So, you can come to your own
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    Does "your" instead of "you're" drive anyone else nuts?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to *ac*'s topic in General Nursing

    Loose, lose Its it's whose who's there their you're your I plead guilty to all of the above
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    Knocking a Patient Out, a bad thing?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Yes that's is exactly it! Spot on! An MD told me once that he was in ICU post operative open heart, he'd been receiving 2mg of Morphine q 4 hours when along comes the night shift nurse who decides...
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    Where can we find jobs, warm weather, and a beach?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Dtower's topic in General Nursing

    Bakersfield California, if you can tolerate the heat and the air pollution is just an hour and a half's drive to the most beautiful beach, Pismo. And yes, they need
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    Knocking a Patient Out, a bad thing?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, indeed, the patient had probably requested the medications for pain. I did have the patient the following day and tapered the pain meds so I could have her up in a chair, alert to my...