CaLLaCoDe BSN, RN

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    IV's, piggybacks, IV machines.....help!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to brookorrn's topic in General Nursing

    if you could find someone kind at work to help you briefly figure the iv machine out...take good notes! and provide the nice coworker a fine candybar for the help! it's no big deal for a coworker to...
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    Do your co-workers see you here?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to MA Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    i couldn't help but share with many coworkers the value of this website, how it feels like a family after awhile. really. some at work know my handle but that's ok ;-)...i trust that whatever i post...
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    What we say and what we do....

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    [mouse] [/mouse]DITTO leslie earle...you have been reading my mail. I could not have expressed my contentment with this sight and its people any better than you. From the bottom of my web space...
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    How would you handle this?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to labbio's topic in General Nursing

    I think it was inconsiderate on their part however not out of the
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    ANGRY! There's no place to eat or drink 'round here!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    [evil] [/evil] True, true...however sometimes I do find myself lacking in available reserve to even take a break or even a lunch break at night. You see, sometimes it is very busy and hectic at...
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    ANGRY! There's no place to eat or drink 'round here!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    :barf01::barf02:Yeah that! LOL Geez, talk about a real concern manifested! One time our hospital infection control nurse cultured the sink in the ICU break room, the ICU phone, the ICU nurses station...
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    pacify or orientate? Alzheimers...

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Lfransis's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Superb thread, I learned a plenty
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    What we say and what we do....

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    great post op, really outdid yourself! i found this latin term recently and it is very apprapo to your disfavoring personal jabs when arguing a point. it is called argumentum ad hominem (arguing...
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    Took NCLEX today!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Lauren07's topic in General Nursing

    Hi and welcome to the board room of all nurses chitty chat! Anyway, when I took the boards I had 150 questions and thought OMG, really OMG!! When the screened closed after the final question...perhaps...
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    Alternatives to Pajam...I Mean, Scrubs

    CaLLaCoDe replied to NursingAgainstdaOdds's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with your viewing scrubs as rather unbecoming for the important role we play...as we are perceived by the public appropriately enough by dressing soooo casually. Recently our housekeeping...
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    ANGRY! There's no place to eat or drink 'round here!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I've thought about solutions to this dilemma of having to break the rules by sneaking food or bottles of water, hiding them behind my computer monitor is handy but not entirely perfect, for if I can't...
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    Worst Day of My Life Turned Out Good!!!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Clarence Nightingale's topic in General Nursing

    You DID it! Now make Mdm Nightengale hilariously proud! * (did she ever
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    dr won't call back.. grrrrr ..vent

    CaLLaCoDe replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    [MOUSE] [/MOUSE] Bravo! Better than Shakespeare to
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    dr won't call back.. grrrrr ..vent

    CaLLaCoDe replied to ohmeowzer RN's topic in General Nursing

    one key to possibly putting a twist in the mix regarding paging the md is to add a brisk reason for the page to the exchange: patient on the verge of respiratory failure, patient hemorrhaging call...
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    Disgusted with my behavior, need help

    CaLLaCoDe replied to RNcDreams's topic in General Nursing

    i remember when i became a nurse after having been an aide. some of the aides would get on my case regarding my doing this or my not doing that. now these were my peer group and now i was in another...
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    Non smoking hospital: What is this?!!!

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    recently my hospital, the one that wants to be ahead of any other healthwise in the central valley, has instituted, or will institute a policy of no smoking anywhere not even smoking areas provided to...
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    Nurses roles in healthcare

    CaLLaCoDe replied to msdobler's topic in General Nursing

    Welcome to all nurses! You may want to put a search through google on this site...like for example: definition of nursing... I know we've milled over this question again and again. Fact there was a...
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    lazy co-workers

    CaLLaCoDe replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    good question! perhaps we should go by the business owner rule. when i was younger i worked for a industrial supply company and when the boss showed up you'd have to wait, say 30 minutes before...
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    lazy co-workers

    CaLLaCoDe replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    [mouse] [/mouse] oh yeah! go team! now, all we have to do is a majority of us see the other side of the spectrum -- the mds as part of the team too! treat the mds as part of the
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    Staph Infection, I don't know what I'm talking about!!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to kwagner_51's topic in General Nursing

    bravo for defending your cause to practice your skill of school nursing and not buckling to the will of your supervisor! having someone who is not trained in nursing and determined to practice it (ie....
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    nervous about starting

    CaLLaCoDe replied to dkrooster's topic in General Nursing

    i don't normally recommend a book on these forums but this one takes the cake! echo heron's intensive care, the story of a nurse has to be one of my favorite books of all time. long before i began...
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    lazy co-workers

    CaLLaCoDe replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    you paint a sad sad picture of problems we can face within our hospitals. have you considered bringing this up to management. perhaps management could make a night time visit to catch anyone sleeping...
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    I'm taking the NCLEX-PN on Wednesday. I thought it'd never come!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

    You bet, a lightning bolt of positive energy is zooming your way! Heal a leg! (I couldn't say break one, why that would be
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    Old School Nursing

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    i was having a conversation with my sister recently. my sis is not a nurse by the way. however she's spent many a day nursing her kids back to health whenever they fell ill, she has two. well, we...
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    Old School Nursing

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    yelowfinchfan, you write about the stories of your two patients sharing their tales... this brings back a fond memory of mine. an elderly grandmotherly type was my patient, she was originally from...