~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    Not prepared for clinical!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to beatrice1's topic in General Nursing

    We don't have to have our CI with us to do our patient research. We just have to have on our scrubs and badge and let the Charge Nurse know we are there to pick our patients. If our patient is...
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    To those who live in Colorado

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

    Wa is my hometown, very beautiful, but if your custom to Sunshine, you won't get much of
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    Thank you to all the wonderful Co-Nurses out there.

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    It truly does make a difference in a students life and clinical experience and I know, unlike Preceptorship, Co Nurses don't always get asked if they would like a student or not and they don't get...
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    Thank you to all the wonderful Co-Nurses out there.

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

    I think more often then not, we tend to always want to vent about the negative and forget about the Thank Yous, so I try to do them often. I know they are great to
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    Thank you to all the wonderful Co-Nurses out there.

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

    :) I plan on
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    anyone go from LTC to hospital?

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

    This hospital has contracts with 3 schools to agree to hire up to a total of 25 new grads a semester,(as of right now) but she did not go to a local nursing school. She went to a school in another...
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    Favortism in Nursing School

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to latebloomer74's topic in General Students

    There is NO WAY I would allow someone to slap me and I sit idly, if they tried to dismiss me for reporting PHYSICAL ASSAULT I would sue their orifices off! That is absurd and goes beyond crossing a...
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    Thank you to all the wonderful Co-Nurses out there.

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

    Believe me, I will, probably more so because it was the first night of my hospital experience and that alone is something you remember, or I would think you do, just as I remember my first clinical. I...
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    To those who live in Colorado

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

    I wouldn't live in greeley though. Windsor is a really nice area as well that is fast in
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    To those who live in Colorado

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

    Fort Collins is the BEST and so is PVH (I am doing clinicals there now). Can you tell I love my city!!!! I have lived all over the country and for a place to raise kids, I love it here. As for where...
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    Need help taking blood pressure

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to liladybug526's topic in General Students

    That won't always work. In fact I have found it to be quite inaccurate. A few people used that method in returns and found themselves coming back for their Second learning opportunity when they didn't...
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    What the heck is up with nursing school tests??!!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to citylights89's topic in General Students

    Oh is this bad LOL Sorry the procrastinator in me wrote
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    anyone go from LTC to hospital?

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

    I haven't made this transition myself being that I am still a student. But I have met many nurses that started in LTC. A Co Nurse I just had the other night said she spent a year in LTC. she said...
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    Nursing, the field of medicine or customer service?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to jalvino1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Just from what I have seen in my limited hospital experience as a student nurse, I would be in favor of visiting hours, (not super strict like 6 p.m or something) because some family members can't...
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    Favortism in Nursing School

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to latebloomer74's topic in General Students

    I haven't really noticed it. As far as getting to do skills in clinical, it's up to us to seek out the opportunities. I let the co nurses no I would love to do the injections if they get any, even...
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    Just venting about something dumb

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to K nurse-one-day's topic in General Students

    Happens in class all the time and it is very annoying. The other day I was in pre conference and it's a small room and there are 9 of us and 3 people are constantly clicking their clicky pins. It took...
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    Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

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

    So since you all had on shorts and t shirts and got wet, it was sort of like a wet t shirt contest, I could see how that could be a great day. Ok I kid I kid. But walking around in wet clothes seems...
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    tired of hearing it, nursing students PLEASE answer

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

    Only you will know what you can handle. Your attitude going into it will determine how you handle it. It doesn't have to be all the negative things you here and it doesn't have to take every ounce of...
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    Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

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

    I have a small tattoo,double piercings each ear,and had a naval piercing 4 different times. I will NOT be letting anyone practice blood draws or IV's on me. (we don't practice on each other at school...
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    Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

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

    For the record, I have been a Pt. many times, I have had a hx of female problems and also spent a lot of time in military hospitals were privacy and respecting that, didn't often go hand in hand. I...
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    Bathing Classmates and Other Personal Boundaries?

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

    I wanted to reply to this the other night and didn't get a chance, I haven't read all 7 pages now (it was like 2 last time I was here) but I wanted to reply. I would NOT be ok undressing in class for...
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    Hospital clincals have been awesome!!!!

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN posted a topic in General Students

    I finished first semester not feeling very competent in my clincial skills. I felt like I didn't learn much of anything, we were at the nursing home first semester and there actually just wasn't much...
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    Hospital clincals have been awesome!!!!

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

    Thank you!!! It feels so great to actually feel like you are catching on and learning things. I have learned SOOOOOOOOOOO much in just my 4 days in my hospital clinicals on the medical unit. Today I...
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    You know you're in nursing school when....

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

    You're at home and gathering your kids up to go out and tell them they need to run upstairs and void before you go, your kids give you that look again and try to figure out what you are wanting them...
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    How many hours of sleep did you get a night when you were in nursing school?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to 2bnurseofchrist's topic in General Students

    I aimed for 8-9 hours first semester. During winter break I let myself get back onto my night owl cycle and haven't been getting near enough sleep. I am trying hard to get back into my previous habits...