begalli

begalli

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  1. Never understood nursing

    begalli replied to PACPhD's topic in General Nursing

    What is it that makes many posters turn the OP's stated experiences around and make it something that must be a shortcoming of his own? Why is it so hard to believe that nursing can be difficult to...

  2. how expensive is california? CAN A NURSE MANAGE WITH HER WAGE??

    begalli replied to curlysin's topic in California Nursing

    As an RN in the San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley) I just want to say that... BLS is wrong. New grads in the Bay Area, for example, at the Santa Clara County Hospital earn $39.77 base pay. This...

  3. Myers-Briggs Type

    begalli replied to piscesguy's topic in General Nursing

    I'm really in between.

  4. rn nclex

    begalli replied to failed's topic in General Nursing

    I actually don't know of any nurse who felt they passed NCLEX. We all think that we

  5. rn nclex

    begalli replied to failed's topic in General Nursing

    First, congratulations on earning your license. That's huge! Maybe you can look at your disappointment with NCLEX as an introduction to real world nursing as oppossed to nursing school nursing. There...

  6. Is there any nursing job that'll make $30,000+/yr for the FIRST job?

    begalli replied to Matt000's topic in General Nursing

    This is what I was thinking as well. Matt - take this: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos258.htm and apply it to something like this: http://www.informatics-review.com/jobdesc/index.html I wouldn't give up...

  7. types of Nursing rounds

    begalli replied to ask's topic in General Nursing

    Hi ask, What kind of comments are you looking for? Are you asking if we personally participate in any of these rounds that you have

  8. **Alert**Our Right to Privacy as nurses???

    begalli replied to bchboy's topic in General Nursing

    Not in

  9. Is there any nursing job that'll make $30,000+/yr for the FIRST job?

    begalli replied to Matt000's topic in General Nursing

    An RN or LVN "major" pretty much anywhere in the country can make $30k a year right out of school. ~$16/hr x 36/hr wk (3-12/hr shifts/wk) = ~$30,000 CNA's where I live make much more than

  10. Brushing up on ICU skills.......

    begalli replied to Misty1's topic in MICU, SICU

    This is an awesome learning tool and it's free and you can do it from home: Pulmonary Artery Catheter Education Project (PACEP) It's a collaboration by: American Association of Critical Care Nurses...

  11. Getting CNAs to WEAR GLOVES & WASH HANDS?!?!

    begalli replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Nursing

    I like this and I think it should be applied everywhere in every LTC and hospital for every single person, no matter who they are. What drives me nuts is when I see a transport person pushing a...

  12. Where were your clinicals?

    begalli replied to Finallyy's topic in General Nursing

    YIKES!! I did a week in outpatient dialysis and hospice too. I bet I'm forgetting

  13. Where were your clinicals?

    begalli replied to Finallyy's topic in General Nursing

    I miss the comraderie of nursing school. There's just nothing quite like it. My clinicals were 6-10 weeks each (not necessarily in this order): -LTC, we worked in a SNF 6 weeks into our program and...

  14. sprained my ankle at work can I still go back?

    begalli replied to kmokay's topic in General Nursing

    Or Nurse Practitioner which is the case in many employee health departments.

  15. sprained my ankle at work can I still go back?

    begalli replied to kmokay's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and be seen again by your employee health -

  16. sprained my ankle at work can I still go back?

    begalli replied to kmokay's topic in General Nursing

    If it's that bad, you need to stay off of it. Period. RICE it. Rest Ice Compression Elevation This is why you go to employee health so if it is work related you are covered and able to file workmans...

  17. sprained my ankle at work can I still go back?

    begalli replied to kmokay's topic in General Nursing

    Sprained ankles are nothing to mess with. If you don't allow the ligaments and tendons to heal you will have long term problems. This can sometimes mean staying OFF of it for a number of days and no...

  18. Nurses Role in preventing inpatient sucidal attempts

    begalli replied to kaletra's topic in General Nursing

    Are you saying that a potential employer will hold that against her? If you're talking about the incident in the HCA facility in Riverside, the cna who was the sitter is in no way, shape or form to...

  19. Hospitals operating as methadone clinics???

    begalli replied to rn undisclosed name's topic in General Nursing

    Some of our longer term patients will get a schedule of methadone to help with the unavoidable withdrawal if they have been on narcotics for a long period of time. OP - I hope that guy eventually got...

  20. Anyone feel short-changed? (Sorry, vent!)

    begalli replied to ERRN629's topic in Emergency

    I would say that until one stands in the shoes of the nurses who have those 4 patients no one can say what exactly they do. I can't imagine all that's done with those four patients is "pass meds"...

  21. It's official, I'm stupid!

    begalli replied to gitterbug's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe we could start adding classes about martyrdom in nursing school? Seriously, it's a HUGE problem in nursing and a large part of the reason nurses are walked all over. Like the essay at that link...

  22. Help me sort what sort of nursing I would like best

    begalli replied to geekgolightly's topic in General Nursing

    Cath

  23. I keep thinking I did something wrong....

    begalli replied to MIA-RN1's topic in General Nursing

    Also, it is your job to write in the chart why the phenergan was given - not the docs. You could make a note stating something to the effect that MD at bedside, recommended giving dose of prn...

  24. I keep thinking I did something wrong....

    begalli replied to MIA-RN1's topic in General Nursing

    What did she say was her pain? You mention giving her tylenol but you don't mention assessing or documenting her pain? I am not an OB nurse but any time the muscles in your gut are sliced through and...

  25. blood exposure and intact skin

    begalli replied to calicamper's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks orcagrrrl. The GI doc I saw told me that as well. However, he didn't think that was the case since the qualitative and quantitative were tested from the same specimen and the restest was done...