Calabria

Calabria BSN, RN

NICU, OB/GYN

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  1. leaving one committee to join another?

    Calabria posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi all, So I'm currently a member of two committees, in addition to working full-time on my unit. Scheduling is a floor-based committee, the other is a hospital-wide initiative (albeit small, there's...

  2. Favourite Doctor Moments

    Calabria replied to NO50FRANNY's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    One night, after working with a particularly difficult, pregnant woman with drug addiction who was on our floor with pain issues, the attending came by during morning rounds and asked me how she did...

  3. Student loan taking forever to pay off...

    Calabria replied to Brian's topic in Nursing Humor

    I graduated from my second-degree program owing around $55,000 total in loans (with my first and second degrees' loans combined, mind you) . It's not something that I'm proud of. It caused me some...

  4. Question for experienced L&D nurses

    Calabria replied to jujubug's topic in Ob/Gyn

    A few from H1N1, one recently from acute fatty liver of pregnancy (she died a little over 24 hours

  5. Legal issues with only having one RN on the floor

    Calabria replied to photocodo's topic in General Nursing

    So, barring the obvious issues if there is a code or emergency, who double checks your high-risk meds if you're the only RN on the floor? Who witnesses narcotic waste? Doesn't sound safe to

  6. What disorders did you diagnose yourself with in Nursing School?

    Calabria replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in General Nursing

    PE. Turned out later that, while I didn't have a PE (thank God), I actually am a thrombophiliac

  7. You know its a seeker when . . .

    Calabria replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in Emergency

    Walked into one patient's room, her pain was a 8-10/10, even with a morphine PCA (which she refused to use until we told her we were taking it away). Looked at the pump settings... she had used it...

  8. What nursing field do you think is easiest and hardest?

    Calabria replied to Tinkx RN's topic in General Students

    I wouldn't be so quick to call any nursing job "easy" ever. Especially if I'd never worked in that

  9. Exercising with a nurses schedule

    Calabria replied to main's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I use her: http://blogilates.com/. She is AMAZING, all of her workouts are free and are on YouTube. Most are in 10-15 minute segments, so if I'm too tired I can spread them out throughout the day. And...

  10. Why do ED docs hate putting in orders?

    Calabria replied to JennyAS's topic in Emergency

    It depends on the resident, for us, regarding putting orders in. Some of them, it's really bad. I've had to call the same resident multiple times for different patients before about missing orders......

  11. RN lost her first patient today

    Calabria replied to srg4784's topic in General Nursing

    My first "loss" was a patient's miscarriage... I got report, couldn't find fetal heart tones with the night-shift nurse, the patient started bleeding lady partslly (she started crying at this point...

  12. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    Calabria replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    I answered the call bell for another nurse's patient once... The patient said, "can you please ask the doctor if we could change my dietary order to 'double portions' so that my husband could get some...

  13. how important is GPA?

    Calabria replied to sourapril's topic in General Nursing

    OP, I graduated cum laude for both my first and second degrees, and was invited to honor societies for both nursing and my first degree... my high GPA and academic achievements were commented on...

  14. Not a waitress or barista

    Calabria replied to noyesno's topic in General Nursing

    We had a doctor who told one of our patients (who was supposed to be on bedrest, until she began throwing a tantrum) that the nurses would be more than happy to wheel her downstairs to the in-house...

  15. Male OB nurse

    Calabria replied to tony2353's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have a male OB resident at my hospital. His gender is no disadvantage to him; in fact, I think he's one of our better residents (answers pages quickly, our patients have given me positive feedback...

  16. So excited for this new journey!

    Calabria replied to MissyKrissyRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Good luck! My floor is crazy (but so much fun) in its own special way - I wouldn't trade it for anything right now! I hope that you have a similar

  17. Being interrupted during report.

    Calabria replied to chicklet74's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had a bit of a similar situation that I'm going to share. The moral of the story? Be assertive. I make it a point to try clock out as soon as I'm able to so that I can go home, especially when I'm...

  18. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Calabria replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    1. I was feeding a baby in our nursery one night, and I had him propped on my thigh while I supported the rest of his body with my arm while I fed him... The baby had been fussing a little bit a few...

  19. Helpful first year tips

    Calabria replied to Kilika421's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Congratulations! I've been working in OB (high-risk antepartum, postpartum, newborn nursery) for nearly a year... I have a few suggestions: 1. Remember your teaching, and know it well. Know how to...

  20. Want some info @ high risk antepartum units

    Calabria replied to altomga's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Our floor is a mixed high-risk antepartum floor with postpartums. We get antepartum moms with hyperemesis, PPROM, PTL, GDM, pyelo, previa/abruption, sickle cell crisis, PIH/pre-eclampsia, cervical...

  21. Start in Postpartum or L&D?

    Calabria replied to nurseygurlie's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't know where LaborNurse77 works, but she either has to spend more time on her postpartum unit or I'm running around too much! But, really, I agree with Casey, and just wanted to echo what she's...

  22. Your experience as a Postpartum/Mother Baby RN

    Calabria replied to LouLay73's topic in Ob/Gyn

    My floor is a busy antepartum/postpartum unit. I love my job... I never know what to expect when I get to work, and I love the population that I'm working with! My day starts getting report on my...

  23. Your Most Heartwarming Moments in Nursing

    Calabria replied to Cuddleswithpuddles's topic in General Nursing

    I admitted a patient who had just delivered (along with her newborn) one day... spent a lot of time with her doing routine admission stuff, then assisted her with breastfeeding and we finally got the...

  24. Staffing Question

    Calabria replied to rnbusmgr's topic in General Nursing

    So, if this patient coded or otherwise rapidly deteriorated, would you have been by yourself? Our policy is to have at least one other nurse on the floor at all times, in case the above should ever...

  25. All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    Calabria replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    There's a lot of talk around where I live/work/went to school (Midatlantic/Northeastern U.S.) that hospitals will be going in that direction. I'm not sure if it's anxiety related to AACN...