caroladybelle BSN, RN

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    Will clinics most likely deny me work because of 2 misdemeanors?

    caroladybelle replied to Riley21's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Honestly, how many times are you going to post the exact same issue? You have posted this repeatedly. And we have answered to the best of our ability. You must contact the BON/employers to get an...
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    Is moving out the country a solution to job finding difficulties?

    caroladybelle replied to cogath's topic in General Nursing

    First, serious problem obtaining licensure. In most places, you will have to be completely fluent in the language and deal with a different scope of practice. Second, serious problems trying to get...
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    Why doesn't anyone ever reply to my post? this decision could change my life

    caroladybelle replied to Riley21's topic in Nursing Career

    We do not answer because we do not know. We have no magical insight to whether an employer may find this out or allow it to keep them from employing you. To find the answer for that, you would have...
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    Things you'd LOVE to tell coworkers...and get away with it!

    caroladybelle replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If you are going to nitpick every freaking' assignment, and demand to change pts around, get yourself here on time...... (as far as I am concerned, if you show up late, you lose your 'right' to
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    Gave experimental UK drugs

    caroladybelle replied to *Posh*'s topic in Patient Medications

    You are crushing meds that you have no knowledge about. If they are hazardous, that could pose danger to others through aerosolization. This situation needs to be clarified
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    Questions regarding DWI and getting your license...

    caroladybelle replied to DatMurse's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    The DWI is bad enough, but the hit & run really took it up a notch. Even if she wasn't drunk, the hit & run demonstrates behavior that would be seriously called into question by the BON. This...
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    Patient hygiene-How far is too far?

    caroladybelle replied to derikajames's topic in General Nursing

    It is not nor has to my knowledge ever been "a basic tenet of hygiene". There are some (few) cultures that do so per their belief. There are people that do so as a personal preference, or due to...
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    Help! ideas on getting along with a MD who dislikes NPs

    caroladybelle replied to westcoastgirl's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Some young MDs are threatened by midlevels. They have had it drilled into them that y'all have a lesser education, did not have the same grueling residency, nor the high student loans to repay. A...
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    How much time to study for exams 1-8

    caroladybelle replied to RN-DC's topic in Online Distance Learning

    You might want to correct the title of the thread.....though it does provide a few giggles, at first
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    Grey's Anatomy? Scrubs too?

    caroladybelle replied to Sugar-Phosphate's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Don't like the show, and cannot wear the scrubs. (they are sized for someone "less curvy" than I
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    Who is a professional nurse?

    caroladybelle replied to jmqphd's topic in General Nursing

    Color coding, in the places that I have worked, made not one bit of difference in recognition of who is a nurse and who is not. Those that are sick can rarely keep track of all the colors. And I have...
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    Rude Nurses

    caroladybelle replied to (**!!needaname!!**)'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wish that they would hand out to the precepting nurse, a list of what is expected, what the students are expected to be capable of, and any pertinent rules or directives. Part of it is just a...
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    Rude Nurses

    caroladybelle replied to (**!!needaname!!**)'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I believe that you mistake what I meant. I did not say that my students were not helpful. I also did not say that they were bad. In the majority of cases they tried to be helpful to the extent that...
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    Rude Nurses

    caroladybelle replied to (**!!needaname!!**)'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Part of the problem is in how schools and hospitals arrange clinicals. In around 80-90%, the nurse walks on the floor, finds her assignment and then finds that she has student(s). No advance warning,...
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    descrimination in nursing

    caroladybelle replied to reginachanana2660's topic in General Nursing

    Please do a search. There are ample threads on this topic. You have already burned a few bridges here, and do not know that you can overcome that. getting serious replies when you have already...
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    Nurses at Disney

    caroladybelle replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    Having been an employee at Disney World (in shows) , I suspect they are very scripted as pretty much all "cast members" are. You also could not pay me enough to work as a nurse
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    GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    caroladybelle replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    Just like other nursing students that don't get paid for their clinical hours - no
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    i WANT to know why this Suzanne's Plan isn't available for us strugglying grads.

    caroladybelle replied to aaaa's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Suzanne is a poster that was/is very popular and knowledgeable regarding international nursing and immigration. Unfortunately, as retrogression started to deepen and immigration to the US became near...
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    Experienced nurse wanting to go to Florida

    caroladybelle replied to emerald0827RN's topic in International Nursing

    All nurses that work in the USA now must have passed the NCLEX. About ten years, they did allow Canadian nurses to get licensed in some US states having passed the Canadian licensure tests. However,...
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    Failed Physical Test For CNA Today!!Now What??

    caroladybelle replied to mammaoftwo's topic in General Nursing

    Several issues: Health conditions rarely get better as a result of becoming a nurse, because work/stress issues. And many are aggravated by nursing school, new job issues. And age/ weight issues...
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    friend had great pay and decent experience

    caroladybelle replied to 4hams's topic in Travel

    And yet you returned and continue
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    A Nurse CAN be both sexy & smart

    caroladybelle replied to Katie5's topic in General Nursing

    There is a difference between attractive and beautiful, and sexy or sex object. There is also a difference between being sexy or a sex object in real life/personal relationships and being sexy or a...
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    Dad just doesn't understand...

    caroladybelle replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Respectfully, Dad really doesn't know what he is asking. Med school - 10 years of premed, med school and residency just to start. Add in fellowships and speciality training. Graduating 100s of...
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    new drug-Avastin for ROP

    caroladybelle replied to babyNP.'s topic in NICU, Neonatal

    It is wretchedly expensive, and unreimbursed/underreimbursed by most insurances for cancer treatment. And for many cancer pts, unavailable for that reason. I suspect that the intraocular doses for...
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    Infected Cancerous abscess

    caroladybelle replied to blimkafam's topic in General Nursing

    Your best source would be the MD. Having said that, I have seen plenty of cases where chemo is started while the pt has an infection. If the lesion is a necrosis mass, and aggressive, it will often...