CaliLvr000 BSN, RN

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    Need advice Please- Call Center RN job?

    CaliLvr000 replied to ORRN0808's topic in Telephone Triage

    That is great! I too am considering making a change. I have been in the operating room for 7 years and I just had my second child. I am just dreading going back to work and it is not a good feeling!...
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    Prepping with Chlorhexidine

    CaliLvr000 posted a topic in Operating Room

    The new facility I am working for did away with betadine scrub. They still have paint. Most of the surgeons use Chloraprep stick and I notice nurses just painting it on. The instructions say to...
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    Learning about Sutures

    CaliLvr000 replied to lnp0205's topic in Operating Room

    Can this be a
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    OR nurse in U.S.

    CaliLvr000 replied to gcruzRN's topic in Operating Room

    1circ, 1 scrub. Unless it's a bad trauma and there's extra staff around to help out. In
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    When surgical tools get left behind

    CaliLvr000 replied to lockheart678's topic in Operating Room

    My first hospital I worked at/learned OR nursing, almost got shut down. General surgeon left in a huge blue fish :-\ (he closed so fast and would not wait for counts). Around the same time they...
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    OR Nurse in Scottsdale Az

    CaliLvr000 posted a topic in Arizona Nursing

    I want to move my family to Scottsdale AZ area asap. I currently live in Sacramento ca and make 50.00 an hour. I'm an OR nurse with 2.5 years experience, how big would my pay cut be by moving to...
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    Dallas TX area Surgical RN 2 years experience...?

    CaliLvr000 posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    Hello, my wife and i are planning on moving to Allen Texas area in June. We currently live in Roseville Ca. She works for Suttter Roseville here. She is getting 60.00 an hour plus night diff. Cost of...
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    OR Nurse in Scottsdale Az

    CaliLvr000 replied to CaliLvr000's topic in Arizona Nursing

    Sacramento is cheap to live at rent, utilities is a nice place in Roseville ca is only 1200 a month. California taxes are a tad bit higher but not much. Sounds like California is the best place to...
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    Sutter Health RN pay scale

    CaliLvr000 replied to Cammack, RN's topic in California Nursing

    Yes what pp said. You can just call HR they should tell you. The follow the CA nursing union pay scale. It's based on years of
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    Anyone near Sacramento area?

    CaliLvr000 replied to hellokitty916's topic in California Nursing

    Nothing against LVNs but just get your RN!!! I can not stress
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    Looking for RN Job in california.

    CaliLvr000 replied to roop18's topic in California Nursing

    You can find a job. You just have to go to a hospital in an undesired area. Look into very small hospitals, I'm talking 40 beds. My friend just got hired in Gridley, CA at a small hospital in...
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    St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka CA

    CaliLvr000 replied to krazievi3t6url's topic in California Nursing

    I hope you like rain!! I lived there for 3 years, recently moved away. When I was in school I lived in Arcata. There's cute places to live there, everything is walking distance pretty much, full of...
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    What's Cali. life like?

    CaliLvr000 replied to DFRAZIER25's topic in California Nursing

    Expensive!! We are moving out of state soon
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    Dallas TX area Surgical RN 2 years experience...?

    CaliLvr000 replied to CaliLvr000's topic in Texas Nursing

    Hey sorry everyone. I meant "or" if that makes a difference. But allen texas is were we are defiantly going, maybe plano tx. She has 2.5 years
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    Pregnancy and work hours

    CaliLvr000 replied to Ilovethe80s's topic in Operating Room

    Congratulations on your pregnancy!! I just had a baby boy in December, I worked up until a month before due date and went into afib on my last night and was admitted!! Anyhoo, we are okay but everyone...
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    Axillary rolls

    CaliLvr000 replied to shaomai's topic in Operating Room

    We don't even have ax rolls. They roll up egg crate foam in a towel... I think it's strange that a large hospital/trauma center does not have
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    Call pay?

    CaliLvr000 replied to lovey0830's topic in Operating Room

    I think I get around 15/hr standby. Time and a half for getting called in min 2hrs paid. I'm in CA Sacramento
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    New OR nurse here

    CaliLvr000 replied to ALORNurse's topic in Operating Room

    Congrats RN SAM!! The OR is a great place to be. I just read through this thread and saw my posts from when I first started. A full year later I still love the OR but I still learn a million things...
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    Eating right as OR nurse

    CaliLvr000 replied to GMSinCA's topic in Operating Room

    Why does the OR make me so HUNGRY??? I am always starving at work even after my
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    Mid Shift Blues

    CaliLvr000 replied to bsktballmom's topic in Operating Room

    Get a new job. Yes they taught you everything you know and you are thankful, but hospitals are a BUSINESS. I left my first job after a year and it was hard, but life goes on and they just hire someone...
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    Mid Shift Blues

    CaliLvr000 replied to bsktballmom's topic in Operating Room

    You have to do what will make you
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    cloth scrub hats in the OR

    CaliLvr000 replied to luv2scrub's topic in Operating Room

    Our hospital recently stopped allowing us to wear cloth hats. We now wear the hospital disposable ones. They say it is because there is no way to know if staff is laundering them regularly and to...
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    Working in the OR during pregnancy

    CaliLvr000 replied to maraORRN's topic in Operating Room

    I am 6 weeks. So far I have avoided cases with c-arm but I fear it will be unavoidable do the shift I will be working soon (nights). A general question for everyone, how does your facility go about...
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    Masks in OR

    CaliLvr000 replied to Toni Walker, RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, at our facility we are not allowed to leave the department with masks on. Masks around the neck are not allowed because it shows reuse of the mask (we were sited for this as well). So either...
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    Abdominal Vaginal Preps?

    CaliLvr000 replied to kpoguern2960's topic in Operating Room

    How do you perform abdominal lady partsl preps? AORN came out with an article this month but they were not positively set on one way or the other. Abdomen, then lady parts? Or lady parts, new prep...