~Mi Vida Loca~RN ASN, RN

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    Dream job if you weren't an RN

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

    If I didn't have children and couldn't get my dream job in the FBI I would have joined the Navy in the medical field. I would have a hard time putting up with all the discipline. But I grew up being...
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    Difference between Cor & Code?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to scorpio99's topic in General Nursing

    I have never heard of it as COR zero but I have heard the term COR as in someone calling a
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    Who does your pt assignments?

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

    The oncoming charge. They will give you the same patients if you have same ones there
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    gained alot of weight as a nurse

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to sunshine1216's topic in General Nursing

    Look in Allnurses Central. There is a WL forum
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    PTO accrual

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

    0-3 years .0885 PTO hours earned per hour. Max earned per pay period is 7.08. PTO Earned per year is 184hrs/23 days. We can start using it as soon as we have it which is our first pay check. You can...
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    Modified self-scheduling has to go (IMHO)

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to edogs334's topic in General Nursing

    We just re did our schedules to include the last like 4 new people that have been hired over the past 1.5 years. We were just getting put in where they could while everyne else had a master Schedule...
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    gained alot of weight as a nurse

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to sunshine1216's topic in General Nursing

    Working nights is not the end all and not everyone does bad working on nights. Every ones experiences are different. Wight loss comes down to one basic principle. Calories in and calories out. I...
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    Drug error

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

    That is one of the downfalls to the CPOE we use too. You don't always know when a new order is put in and when it's a stat order it's good to know. We can't sit at the computer and refresh every...
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    Confused about Carpuject???

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to newexcitednurse's topic in Patient Medications

    Helps with the whole needle less system as well. Just added safety measures. The needle less connectors we use to draw up Meds are kinda large compared to a needle so it's a bit of a pain to use on...
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    A vent thread for patients- what can we do better?

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

    I'm a nurse. I have also been a patient numerous
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    New RN worried about confrontations

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to xtian's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It would probably be good to read up on lateral violence and how to better cope with it. You can't let people walk all over you and you have to learn to stand up for yourself in a respectful way or it...
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    UGH! I Hate Psychiatric Nursing ....

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

    I think this is the problem a lot of students don't realize. The stuff they are learning in psych WILL come back when they are in the real world. It will become very practical. In fact in Jan/Feb we...
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    UGH! I Hate Psychiatric Nursing ....

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

    A good number of your medical patients in a hospital are going to have psych issues as well. The ones in the psych facility are medical stable. A lot are NOT and those are in the hospital on the...
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    For Fun--Kudos 2 Me...The "toot your own horn" thread

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to tammy1974's topic in General Students

    Let's see I haven't posted in here since I passed nursing school a few months ago. Well I will toot again, I passed NCLEX a few days later and I have been working as a nurse in a hospital since June....
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    No patients again!

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

    OK I do have to laugh at the using the word simple with RSV and Asthma kiddos. They turn bad VERY quick. In fact all the codes on my unit have been from respiratory kiddos. They make up majority of...
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    No patients again!

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

    Ironically I got hired into a Peds unit right out of school. It wasn't where I pictured myself. I did have clinical at this hospital but the patient load was so low I was in the ED one of the days...
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    No patients again!

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

    It's coming. They should just do Peds clinicals in the winter and early spring. The peds units will be PACKED. We are just starting to get fuller and fuller. Summer is the worse. We closed down our...
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    treatment of student nurses on the floor

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to teterichko123's topic in General Students

    i have to comment on the bolded part. your first paragraph in this post you said "i was with you until i got to the portion of your post i've bolded. one thing i've noticed after my first few...
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    Any mothers who are nursing students? How hard is it to balance the two?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to christina94's topic in General Students

    Don't go into it thinking about how hard it will be. Go into it with a goal and a determination that no matter what you will get through it. Before I started nursing school all I did was have people...
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    what do you talk about at work?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nola1202's topic in General Nursing

    I have friends in nursing and out of nursing and we have a lot of downtime in the summer
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    Just moved to colorful Colorado and seeking advice from RN's

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to sdorsky1's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I did clinicals there as a student and never had problems. Everyone was really nice. I have really good bosses and do not have any problems on my unit in that aspect. If I did have a problem though my...
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    what do you talk about at work?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nola1202's topic in General Nursing

    There are usually only 2-3 of us working at a time and the night shift on our unit is just a whole different vibe. We get a little crazy and have a lot of fun. We talk about crazy stuff but everyone...
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    A vent thread for patients- what can we do better?

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

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    My first true rant... my new job STINKS. :(

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

    She wasn't inserting, she was putting pressure above the site to slow down the
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    what do you talk about at work?

    ~Mi Vida Loca~RN replied to nola1202's topic in General Nursing

    We talk about all sorts of things. Some probably way inappropriate if there were listening ears around. Thankfully there isn't. Not usually a lot of gossip unless 1 person is