CaLLaCoDe BSN, RN

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    Does this sound like a good orientation?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Megsd's topic in General Nursing

    Hello OP!~ I think you may want to consider MED SURGE first after all, since this will help you hone your basic skills (which after graduating nursing school may be lacking) that when you do decide to...
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    Question... are we supposed to help? Good Samaritan.

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    Somedays I'll find myself at the park with my daughter and think to myself "holy bejeebers, if anything happens here--SBDY choke, MI, Stroke, Bloody trauma, etc etc ---I'm in charge, I'm it! And I...
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    Empathic part of nursing

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    my heart goes out to you. to have your empathic understanding of the patient's situation dashed to pieces by a cold hearted md is truely daunting to the merits of why we're in this profession. but...
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    Run out of nursing school - what to do?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Diahni's topic in General Nursing

    :wakeneo: Sometimes it does take being beaten up twice as a nursing student to be foolish and, I do mean foolish, to return (sans coward! and a male nursing student to boot!). Because not all nursing...
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    Showing up to work SICK

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I have never heard one call out sick. However, many a time someone will show up for work under the weather (why s/he shows up I'll never know!). Then during the shift, say at 0300, the shift leader...
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    Showing up to work SICK

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    i totally agree with your take on this topic, indigo girl! i just wish everyone at my place of work was of this same understanding. what bothers me is when your place of work encourages those that are...
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    have you ever lost it at work?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to lannisz's topic in General Nursing

    i still have those damned dreaded off days where nothing seems to go well; thank goodness for these days. why?... they give you good reason to be grateful when you have a pleasant shift. i still...
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    Run out of nursing school - what to do?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Diahni's topic in General Nursing

    Your episode of tragedy sounds a lot like what happened to me at a local university! Do not pass go! Do not collect 200 dollars! Get yourself a getoutofJAIL Card and move on to a better College. If...
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    I just love CODES!. . . Not!

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    Let's face it, I am not a glutton for punishment. I dread to hear the dreaded "code blue in room 302" overhead; I panic and loose all compass to the situation at hand, nurses scurrying and a doctor...
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    Take action, or not?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Works2xs's topic in General Nursing

    Warning! Warning! Will Robinson!!! Call the Physician's Board immediately...inappropriate professionalism...and yucky!!!!...
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    I just love CODES!. . . Not!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you TriageNurse... I truely plea for more understanding to handle codes with ease...and I envy your having a code expert in your family. Thanks for turning my vent around to a teaching...
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    I curse the Internet!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Sassy5d's topic in General Nursing

    Thank goodness, where I live, no offense, but the general public rarely give me trouble regarding my teaching or understanding of medicine. Perhaps, because they are too busy getting their next Meph...
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    Do patients rarely catch a cold?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to d'cm's topic in General Nursing

    They can become more frigid than frigid air, but rarely if never have I seen a patient catch a cold! They are too busy taking their cigarette breaks, requesting pain meds Q2, and dogging the cute...
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    do any of you like codes??

    CaLLaCoDe replied to ryanfocker's topic in Men in Nursing

    Even if codes are so amazingly otherworldly...they are not something I look forward to doing, EVER! Perhaps, because I just have trouble thinking well on my toes while everyone else is scurrying....
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    What is a nurse?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Tiwi's topic in General Nursing

    i would certainly be happy with this interpretation of what a nurse is by the general public -- highly accurate, without a lot of fluff!!! sometimes it takes a nurse to be that sees this "vision"...
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    Post-traumatic nurse disorder ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

    CaLLaCoDe posted a topic in General Nursing

    post traumatic nurse disorder/ or sleep deprived, you choose which… i really had a freaky situation happen to me when i first began working. i’m a nurse now, however earlier before officially...
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    Post-traumatic nurse disorder ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    :w00t: :thankya: :flamesonb By gosh and gee whilickers! I have been there, really I have! Especially working this night shift thingy...I swear I'll wake up on my day off after the night before and be...
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    Protonix - Why?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to rockermom's topic in General Nursing

    often times patients in the hospital suffer tremendous amounts of stress from family member's concerns and bouts of disfunctional episodes to new diagnoses of anemia, cancer, chf...and such and such!...
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    How long did it take you to get into nursing school?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to jewelsg627's topic in General Nursing

    i love echo heron...wow totally fantastic book intensive care!!! not just because she's beautiful, just look at the back cover of the first edition hardback (don't judge a book by its cover lol), but...
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    Post-traumatic nurse disorder ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    i was pondering to myself, there must be a solution, cure to this misery of post traumatic nurse disorder. now my thought that a little rest on a far off island would be swell, well that too has been...
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    new nurse on orientation,questions?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to fredyjen's topic in General Nursing

    I totally feel for you and know what you're going through. Because not too long ago, I too was in the same boat as you. Thinking to myself, wow these preceptors expect sooo much from me and here they...
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    orientation time lines?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to scrmblr's topic in General Nursing

    I can't help but think of the Travelers at my hospital and how they are given only one day on the floor for orientation and expected to function fine after that...LOL I think you understand yourself...
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    What do you do when CNAs dont work and just take breaks and watch TV?

    CaLLaCoDe replied to Bala Shark's topic in General Nursing

    I recall when I was a CNA talking to a fellow CNA and expressed my anger at how low we are paid in comparison to nurses. How tired I was at the end of a long shift! etc, etc.. A sympathetic nurse...
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    Scary!!!!!

    CaLLaCoDe replied to jill48's topic in General Nursing

    Torpedo 1! LOL But really now, the O2 tanks do resemble an article of war: color green, metal clamps on one end to hold the explossive gasses inside. Only time I heard of one being dangerous is during...
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    Lost in a sharps box

    CaLLaCoDe replied to MSN_Ed's topic in General Nursing

    Recently I had two other nurses assisting me with discontinuing an IJ. A time during the process I used my own scissors to undo some dressing. Medical scissors with the dull ends that don't scare...