Valerie Salva BSN, RN

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    Obama's health plan

    Valerie Salva replied to futureRNJaz's topic in General Nursing

    Source,
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    VENT.....this really sucks

    Valerie Salva replied to WildcatFanRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Very good advice on this
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    Leave the phone at home !!

    Valerie Salva replied to disney158's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I posted about this same topic recently. I worked with a tech who held his cellphone to his face with a surgical mask while caring for pts. Being able to wipe poop and talk on his phone at the same...
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    What can you do with a MSN?

    Valerie Salva replied to ThePrestige's topic in General Nursing

    I remember reading that nurse practitioners will be required to have a doctorate
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    Mandated

    Valerie Salva replied to nsaids_nurse420's topic in General Nursing

    Veteran's hospitals and nursing homes have
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    WHY ARE NURSES SO RUDE to CNA's?

    Valerie Salva replied to nurse2be123's topic in General Nursing

    I was a CNA for several years, and the nurses were almost always wonderful to me. Only other CNAs were nasty to
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    New RN not safe

    Valerie Salva replied to SunnyAndrsn's topic in General Nursing

    I think the so-called nursing shortage serves to attract a bunch of people into our field who really don't give a damn about nursing- and for mgmt to accept them. I think this nurse and your mgmt are...
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    Fed Up With Understaffing

    Valerie Salva replied to justmanda's topic in General Nursing

    Great advice on this thread, Manda. Been there, done that. Hope you find something better. You don't need to put up with that crap. I think mgmt waits for nurses to be so demoralized, that they don't...
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    Opinions on this job offer?

    Valerie Salva replied to Brownie58's topic in Home Health

    I agree with the above poster. Also, it depends on the cost of living where you are. In my neck of the woods, some RNs working 40 hrs a week don't make $40K, plus, many of the employers around here do...
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    I guess they grow better in acidic
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    Imagine the $$$ our government could make by taxing the heck out of it, if it were legal. We'd be in the black in no time,
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    everyone is afraid

    Valerie Salva replied to gonzo1's topic in General Nursing

    You stripped for a stranger in a public place? Now I think I've heard
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    flightnurse2B- I think Steph is a hospice nurse? Correct me if I'm wrong. And about this kid, sounds like he has developed mental/emotional
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    I remember a short film I saw years ago- there was a musical number in it sung by a girl looking for a job. The song she sang was called "I Don't Do Windows and I Don't Pee in Cups." I remember in one...
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    That is AZ girl speak, too.
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for
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    Help! Dig error, accused of lying?

    Valerie Salva replied to queenjane's topic in General Students

    ((((queenjane)))) It sounds a lot like my program was. I'm sorry you're going through
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    Unite nurses, don't divide us

    Valerie Salva replied to klbackus's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    In a few short years, the CNA has accomplished more for nurses than all other nursing organizations combined have in the last 100 years. I wish I could join the
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    You didn't think they had a legit reason to use it, but you don't know they didn't. Did you exam them or look at their X-rays? It could be that they didn't have a legit reason, but you can't just...
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    As I said, I do not partake of marijuana. I just find it kind of rediculous that people are so horrified of it, when ETOH is so much more dangerous, and causes so many more societal ills. (I'm not...
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    Student nurse gave IV pot, patient died.

    Valerie Salva replied to cheshirecat's topic in United Kingdom

    Only one lecture on IV drug administration, and it wasn't mandatory? In my program, we studied IV drugs for three months, plus I had a full semester of pharmacology. I also had to take a semester long...
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure it happens occasionally, but I'm also sure that marijuana induced violent acts and car accidents are
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    Nurses who smoke marijuana

    Valerie Salva replied to e4c5's topic in General Nursing

    If there are so many people in CA smoking pot legally, with an RX, then why isn't there a big problem with them getting into car accidents and beating their wives? I'll tell you why, because pot...
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    they say my school is WEIRD!!!!!

    Valerie Salva replied to HartfordSPN's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    My school was like boot bamp. The instructers were absolutely hateful. I would love to have gone to a "weird" school like