~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    You know you're in nursing school when....

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Valasca's topic in General Students

    When you go to the lab for a blood workup and UA and the lab tech tells you,"you have the best looking pee I've seen all day" and you take that as a
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    Failed Lab today...

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to morningland's topic in General Students

    That is great to
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    Could impaired breastfeeding be a primary Nanda for a c-section patient?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NewBeee's topic in General Students

    *sigh* "Anyway, I'm getting way off topic in trying to defend how to breastfeed after a csection." I don't know where I got the defensive thing from. I never ONCE said to place a baby on an incision...
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    Could impaired breastfeeding be a primary Nanda for a c-section patient?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NewBeee's topic in General Students

    Yikes, not sure why you are getting so defensive, I was giving my experience no different then you giving yours. I can assure you, breast feeding a much older baby, that is bigger and weighs more then...
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    Have you ever cheated?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to JustYouWait's topic in General Students

    That's the only way to
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    Have you ever cheated?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to JustYouWait's topic in General Students

    She didn't, she was replying to someone elses post, she was being a smart
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    Concorde

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to tanner98's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Well nothing now, but 2 days before second semester started I started the True Blood series which is 9 books, the 10th comes out in May LOL I have no self control when it comes to reading. (of course...
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    Concorde

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to tanner98's topic in Colorado Nursing

    That is so awesome that they offer clinicals in the evening now for first semester!!!! Well if I don't end up passing this class I might end up in yours LOL I will never ever get hooked in a series of...
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    Could impaired breastfeeding be a primary Nanda for a c-section patient?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NewBeee's topic in General Students

    Well first, a scar would entail it's healed. it wasn't healed, one of my abdominal surgeries I had, my baby was 4 months old, much older and bigger then a new born, but my incision was well protected...
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    tired of hearing it, nursing students PLEASE answer

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to ChervRN's topic in General Students

    I don't remember the OP post or exact situation, but I have to completely disagree with this dependent on a few things. Some of these "guys" may be husband and Dads. When you agree to step into a long...
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    Could impaired breastfeeding be a primary Nanda for a c-section patient?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NewBeee's topic in General Students

    I managed to nurse my child just find after having abdominal surgery either upright or semi upright. The football hold never worked for
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    Could impaired breastfeeding be a primary Nanda for a c-section patient?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NewBeee's topic in General Students

    I got the mobility thing from the person
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    Could impaired breastfeeding be a primary Nanda for a c-section patient?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NewBeee's topic in General Students

    I am not new to BF'ing, I have breast fed 4 babies and sitting semi fowlers or fowlers was the most comfortable for me, I also have had major abdominal surgery and know the positions you can take, my...
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    Could impaired breastfeeding be a primary Nanda for a c-section patient?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NewBeee's topic in General Students

    What about something dealing with the risk of ripping open her sutures by not splinting or something, I am having a blank of the spelling of the exact
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    Could impaired breastfeeding be a primary Nanda for a c-section patient?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NewBeee's topic in General Students

    I am having trouble seeing the correlation, the mom wouldn't have to roll over to feed the baby, and you can sit up if you have had a C-Section. In fact, someone shouldn't just be laying flat being...
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    OB ... please help!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to JessicaMarie's topic in General Students

    Our public library website or at the library has a data bank where you can put in your subject and criteria and as long as you have a library card you can access it. Asking them would be a good...
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    Inappripriate things you've seen a CNA do?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Silent Prayer's topic in General Nursing

    After doing clinials in a LTC facility I have to agree that CNA's are overworked and
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    Dosage calculations

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to dcRn2b's topic in General Students

    This is why I can never answer these questions on here, I am more like, grab a pencil and a piece of paper and I will show you and explain to you. To try and do math problems on here and have it all...
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    Nursing Home Clinical, I'm having a very hard time

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Mell Bell's topic in General Students

    Just get through it, I found our first semester LTC clinicals to be extremely frustrating and I felt like I learned nothing. The assessments were nothing like we were being taught in school because it...
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    I have to vent - nearly expelled for 'inciting a riot'

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to delilas's topic in General Students

    That is so flipping absurd. Glad you will be graduating in a few months and be done with
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    Possible ethical question about Clinical experience...

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Studying24.7's topic in General Students

    Sorry I didn't read through the rest of the posts yet and just posted a lot of what you just
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    Possible ethical question about Clinical experience...

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Studying24.7's topic in General Students

    I thought about that also, I know we are expected to pretty much take care of our patients at my clinicals and this is our first semester at the hospital. Our nurses must be present to pass meds with...
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    Student nurses do the darndest things

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to NurseNinaFla's topic in General Nursing

    So apparently I posted to soon. I fell tonight in a patients room in front of my co nurse, the patient and his visitor. It's a very good thing I can laugh at myself. He was very down and after they...
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    Things you would love to say to your fellow nursing students!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to Faeriewand's topic in General Students

    Do not be rude to me because I quietly asked my neighbor for clarification on something when you sit on your IPOD the entire lecture goofing off online and playing games. Seriously, I am distracting...
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    Magnet - What Do You Think?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    My local hospital and the one I do my clinicals at is a Magnet hospital and they pride themselves on their customer service pretty much. But talking to all the nurses I know and Co Nurses I have...