caroladybelle BSN, RN

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    Noob Question: HIV/AIDS and Injection Practice

    caroladybelle replied to Noob_to_Nursing's topic in General Students

    Same
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    Attacking a Doctor Makes News; Attacking a Nurse is Business As Usual

    caroladybelle replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Okay RubyVee, I have to bow to your wisdom given the header on the opinion column in the Baltimore Sun. While the article does discuss "all healthcare workers" the header only lists keeping Doctors...
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    nursing salaries in florida

    caroladybelle replied to micheboo97's topic in Florida Nursing

    Niceville/Destin/Panhandle area, I believe pay runs low - for new grads $17 - 22/hr, roughly. The panhandle tends to pay less than SFL or Orlando. The big problem, though will be finding a nursing...
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    What's with the drug shortages?

    caroladybelle replied to Scooty Puff Jr's topic in Emergency

    For one reason w/bactrim, compazine and phenergan - there is little profit and high risk. They are generics, and all are associated with law suits related to side effects, or in the case of phenergan,...
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    What's with the drug shortages?

    caroladybelle replied to Scooty Puff Jr's topic in Emergency

    For us, we are short lasix, and IV Bactrim cannot be had to save a life, no pun
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    New Grad why can't I get hired???

    caroladybelle replied to RNBuckeye's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Because there are few available, and many people with experience seeking
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    Anybody going to the 10/02 "march" on Washington?

    caroladybelle replied to whodatnurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Correct me if I am wrong - but doesn't this belong in Allnurses
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    Attacking a Doctor Makes News; Attacking a Nurse is Business As Usual

    caroladybelle replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    MD tells pt's son bad news - son shoots MD.....I think that kind of provides us with a
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    cruelest thing I heard a nurse say

    caroladybelle replied to work67's topic in General Nursing

    A patient is dying of terminal cancer. She is alone. No matter how much pain med that she gets, she moans and cries when she sleeps. Nurse Sanctimony says, "She must have lived an awful life, and...
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    Attacking a Doctor Makes News; Attacking a Nurse is Business As Usual

    caroladybelle replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    the facility in question actually has some of the better security and some of the more personable, protective management that i have dealt with. due to the general area of baltimore, the reputation...
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    Attacking a Doctor Makes News; Attacking a Nurse is Business As Usual

    caroladybelle replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    First, making a statement like that is just as bad and unfair as when management/public blames nurses for getting hurt - "you must have DESERVED it". Second, while normally I am kindred with RV's...
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    H1B Visa sponsorships?

    caroladybelle replied to Carla_RN's topic in Maryland Nursing

    If you have doubts in my knowledge/veracity, please review the substantial threads on this very topic throughout this BB. Other references for this data would be Ghillbert, Silverdragon102, and...
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    Nursing career and Crohn's Disease

    caroladybelle replied to twois's topic in General Nursing

    I have had UC for 22 years. I have been a nurse for 17 years. When I was in nursing school, I had one instructor that tried to fail me on clinical, because she felt that having UC shoud bar me from...
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    H1B Visa sponsorships?

    caroladybelle replied to Carla_RN's topic in Maryland Nursing

    An H1B visa is strictly for a specialist nurse - and only issued if the specialist position cannot be filled by a citizen. It does not matter how much you are willing to learn, or how much unpaid OT...
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    Newer nurse and I cant find a job!!!

    caroladybelle replied to cowgirlnik22's topic in General Nursing

    This is not necessarily true. I know plenty of of University hospitals, and they are often as picky or more so than community facilities. Add in that there are few University hospitals in the local...
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    is it safe to jog after night **** work?

    caroladybelle replied to haruna's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on where you work and where you
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    So tired of crappy treatment by seasoned nurses!

    caroladybelle replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Several monthes back, the OP participated in number of discussions, about the dangers and risks posed to attractive nurses in home health, advantages in hiring for the young and attractive, and how...
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    So tired of crappy treatment by seasoned nurses!

    caroladybelle replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Part of it is that many experienced nurses hear nonexperienced nurses say that they get eaten for "being too cute - being too young - being too nice - being too helpful" etc. When there are actually...
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    Please give this nursing student some answers...

    caroladybelle replied to PinkRocksLikeMe's topic in General Students

    To the OP: I am sorry to hear of your situation. There are many things that will effect your pay as a nurse. Where you live, what shift you need to work(childcare issues), what sort of nursing work...
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    Please give this nursing student some answers...

    caroladybelle replied to PinkRocksLikeMe's topic in General Students

    I hate to break it to you but Salary.com is often way
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    Diagnosis permanent veg state can you donate organs

    caroladybelle replied to Lizarddp's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Unfortunately, that is an issue that cannot ethically be gotten around. The hospital cannot "hasten" death to preserve organs, even in a pt in a PVS state. Once tubes are removed, nature takes what...
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    Hep A - will I still be able to be a nurse?

    caroladybelle replied to Diddledi's topic in General Nursing

    I've had Hep A and it never was remotely considered an
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    Diagnosis permanent veg state can you donate organs

    caroladybelle replied to Lizarddp's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    My regrets - I made an error in the highlighted passage. It should read "Barring that, I don't believe that you can consent for your PVS loved on to be a "living"
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    How do I clear my FBI Identification/Rap sheet?

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

    The OP indicates that the charges are 16-18 years old As the OP is 39, these would not be "juvenile" charges, but charges as an
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    Diagnosis permanent veg state can you donate organs

    caroladybelle replied to Lizarddp's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    My thoughts are with you, at this time. You will find that few nurses will respond to this, because we cannot do so with any accuracy. Because there is just no way, given the data presented, that we...