celeste7767

celeste7767 specializes in CVICU, PICU, ER,TRAUMA ICU, HEMODIALYSIS.

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1. Nurses with felony records

   celeste7767 replied to CPUREINSTINCT's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, am I ever behind on what's going on!! I thought that most state boards wouldn't even allow someone to take the NCLEX if they had more than a traffic ticket on their criminal record. Personally,...

2. Did Hillary really say nurses are glorified sitters ?..... No fact to support

   celeste7767 replied to time4meRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

   I definitely remember Hilary making a derogatory remark regarding the nursing profession several years ago during the period in the 90's when hospitals were laying off RN's and lived to regret their...

3. Hello, & CEU's

   celeste7767 replied to kansastoto's topic in General Nursing

   I got more than 60 free Contact hours from various sources and once one gets your name you get offers from others. Check out the following which you can do online, download the material if you want...

4. Anyone else not get CEU's for 3-day AMA, CREST Basic & Adv. Disaster Classes??

   celeste7767 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Last Sept. 12, 13, 14 in Socorro, NM I took Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support Classes sponsored by the Univ. of New Mexico Center for Disaster Medicine and for which I was supposed to get 21...

5. RE: Pt. disch. No teaching, No instructions, No nothing!!!

   celeste7767 posted a topic in General Nursing

   My husband was recently hospitalized for 11 days for placement of urostomy via ileal conduit for bladder cancer with bone mets. Although I may sound like supernurse, in 32 yrs of nursing I have never...

6. Nurses pushing a PCA pump for a patient?

   celeste7767 replied to rn undisclosed name's topic in General Nursing

   When is it OK for the nurse to push the PCA button?? When you just got the patient up in the chair and he number and positioning of the infusion pumps, pleurevacs, O2 tubing etc. and the arterial...

7. Who took the NURSE out of Nursing?

   celeste7767 posted a topic in General Nursing

   WARNING: THIS POST IS REALLY LONG. BUT I HOPE MANY OF YOU WILL READ IT. I THINK IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR ALL NURSES. I haven't written a post for quite some time. My husband learned today that...

8. Are you allowed to wear Makeup ?

   celeste7767 replied to AspiringNurse7's topic in General Nursing

   Geez, I almost had a stroke when I first read the question! My first reaction was, "Oh God, no, Please don't tell me that employers are regressing 50 years into the olden days when nurses wore long...

9. Why Do Nurses Allow Understaffing?

   celeste7767 replied to RNfaster's topic in General Nursing

   I'll tell you one thing you can do but unless you want to get fired like I did, you better get most of the nurses on your unit to do the same thing. After I explained what would work to the other...

10. what do you all think about 12 hour shifts?

    celeste7767 replied to emmycRN's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated in 1975 and in 1980, started working 12 hour shifts in Critical Care, ER, CVICU, PICU, hemodialysis. After 30 yrs total, my body is wrecked , ruined. I have chronic vasculitis of both...

11. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    celeste7767 replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I'll start right off telling you all that I am probably the most CYNICAL nurse that is a member of this forum. When I started nursing school in 1971, I had no idea what the starting salary was; it was...

12. What kind of bed is this?

    celeste7767 replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a Circolectric Bed, used primarily in the early 1970's to 1980 for the quadraplegic patients to prevent skin breakdown and to change positions gradually to avert some of the autonomic...

13. Med error could cost my job? Need help!

    celeste7767 replied to dmwRNpa's topic in General Nursing

    Whether someone gets terminated over something that is obviously "human error" in which no real crime, civil or legal, was committed and no one was hurt depends on one thing: Is there any other...

14. Call yourself a nurse?

    celeste7767 replied to kittagirl's topic in General Nursing

    While I agree with the substance of what you are saying, I must state that when I hear a non-medical person say something that sounds medically dangerous or unsound I WILL make a comment. Like they...

15. Phenergan IV changes in policy

    celeste7767 replied to RNKPCE's topic in General Nursing

    As far as your question regarding demerol, I do know that in high doses or with patients who have decreased renal function, the active metabolite from it, normeperidine, does accumulate and can cause...