CaLLaCoDe BSN, RN

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    Ethics: Does it bother you when people are in nursing to make money?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Ok OK you have a very good point EG! We earn what we justly deserve in salary; some of us think otherwise...that MDs earn exponentially more than us and that's just not fair. Does it bother you when...
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    Don't want to become a nurse anymore...

    CaLLaCoDe replied to yawn's topic in General Nursing

    Having had experience in the retail world first hand, the reality is you can get promoted many times over at one place of employment and spend a number of years earning that status back at another....
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    flunking out of nursing school

    CaLLaCoDe replied to illbeanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Now, did you want that crushed in applesauce? I agree! Get yourself an NCLEX study guide and practice practice practice. I too struggled in maternity nursing. I studied my Saunders NCLEX prior to the...
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    OMG I just got fired...what now?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to NurseSarah86's topic in General Nursing

    I feel your pain. I am sure it had nothing to do with you. I am a slow learner; two weeks are not enough time to learn the ropes. Unfortunately employers can often do more harm with a quick release...
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    MD for DUMMIES

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    The other day I thought there must be a book to help the helpless. You know how much the MDs count on us to report issues with our patients, humbly take orders and attend to them pronto. Well, here's...
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    pre-employment exam from h*ll

    CaLLaCoDe replied to pedinurse05's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like a nurse boot camp. Pray to God your coworkers are as brutal to your person as this examiner "on steroids" was. Geesh, anyone's back inflamed and in pain from readng this OP's
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    Nursing and Chronic Back Pain?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to caringkat's topic in General Nursing

    Not to give anyone the wrong impression my being a nurse and all, however smoking has a benefit of relaxing the muscles somatically...but death from empazema/lung tumor/cancer/and the rest: a big risk...
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    Should the Title Nurse be Changed ? ? ?

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    today i was chatting with another rn who believes that the term nurse for our title is outdated and may not fully represent our field as well as it used to. and perhaps the title nurse turns men off...
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    Allnurses Hospital

    CaLLaCoDe replied to ebear's topic in General Nursing

    allnurses hospital, where there's an md on every floor 24 seven to be there for every code and every crashing pt crisis! where you don't spend half of your shift calling the doctor's exchange. page...
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    Anyone Else Experience Mobbing?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to WeakAnkles's topic in General Nursing

    Hazing/Mobbing gives me the willies. I am so grateful for not having been hazed/mobbed. Some tweaking, yes but never mobbed/hazed. Professionalism people! Give me dignity over a beafy paycheck any...
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    MD for DUMMIES

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I find this thought process by Tired MD to be ironic being that he thinks it cruel to bully the family of the patient, nonsense. It's truth telling. Patients undergo tremendous trauma (mostly...
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    A message to new grads: NEVER....

    CaLLaCoDe replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    remember to unclamp the secondary piggy back line while it's attached to the primary. Actually, truth is, leave the piggyback unclamped and when you attach the new piggy back bring it down and let the...
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    Lovenox

    CaLLaCoDe replied to kellyjean's topic in General Nursing

    I agree pinching is best and make sure the bubble is near the plunger. Patients tend not to complain after the shot if I pinch the
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    Do I still have a chance if I fail a semester?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Chloe8043's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Oh yes you do have plenty of hope of surviving nursing school, don't let this one failure dash all of your hopes of being the wonder nurse you always wanted to be! I failed twice at the university! D...
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    If you could go back, what would you change??

    CaLLaCoDe replied to philosophical's topic in General Nursing

    I have no regrets becoming the nurse at 44 I plan on retiring when I'm 92 to make up for
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    Do you now wish that you chose another career?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    i love nursing; even when it is hard and gritty and you are at your wits end at shift change. sometimes it feels like being in the trenches of a battlefield clenching ones teeth letting the enemy have...
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    Can we still be friends?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Jelli_Belli's topic in General Nursing

    i can totally jive with this hot topic. i too had good working relationships with my fellow nurse assistants prior to becoming their boss. orientation two plus years ago was a difficult hurdle to...
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    If You Could What Halloween Costume Would You Wear?

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    I think I'd be dressed up as "The unwashed hand" with diverse buggies tacked on top of my person. How about
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    Opinions spouted on religion and politics at nurses station

    CaLLaCoDe replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    [mouse] I just wondered if this would work, and it
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    What kind of LTC resident will you be?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to squeakykitty's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    i'll be the one who decides he needs to get up out of bed immediately wobbly legs and all and leaves a trail of loose feces plus some down the sides of his legs and dribbling over socks for extra...
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    Attention Telemetry nurses! ! !

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, TrueRN...the very same book! Perhaps my end price was closer to $45...I was just shocked at the cost of this paperback. Or perhaps I was considering the cost of the Latte needed to sooth one...
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    Attention Telemetry nurses! ! !

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    [evil] [color=white]i just wanted to share with you a find that really helped with my acls renewal and as an added bonus pointed to areas that a telemetry nurse aught to know! i've been looking for a...
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    Did you once feel uncomfortable with blood, needles,vomit etc?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

    i can remember as a child (third grade) on a field trip to the school of medicine (usc) and seeing all these various procedures on tv screens, having an md pull out a healthy and unhealthy lung out of...
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    Flu shots

    CaLLaCoDe replied to willie03's topic in General Nursing

    I got mine yesterday. My arm ached for the rest of the day. I was not familiar with this mandate LOL... This flew shot I got will not protect against Avian Flu Virus. Since all the cases so far have...
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    I have a Clinical check off and i need an insight on a few things

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Dabighawk79's topic in General Nursing

    Just as if you were an actor, write yourself a script and include all of the systems from head to toe. Memorize the script and preferably practice on someone while you go through the motions of...