celeste7767

celeste7767

CVICU, PICU, ER,TRAUMA ICU, HEMODIALYSIS

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  1. Schools producing good NCLEX takers? Or good nurses?

    celeste7767 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I graduated from Indiana University in 1975 obviously I took the old 2 day exam in 5 sections; the one with the least questions was Psych Nursing with 90. The passing score for most states was 250 on...

  2. 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,...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. Most RN's first borns?

    celeste7767 replied to lvs2nrs3535's topic in General Nursing

    First born, Dad was a functioning alcoholic and probably drank as a buffer against mom who has severe personality disorder. I have curly hair, not married to cop or paramedic, but am married and will...

  18. "Just" a 2-year degree

    celeste7767 replied to RNsRWe's topic in General Nursing

    I got my AAD in nursing from Indiana University in 1975. I took all my pre-reqs in summer school sessions between the 2 years or 4 semesters of Nursing Classes because I wanted to be able to...

  19. One thing I'd wish I'd known before going to the USA......

    celeste7767 replied to RGN1's topic in United Kingdom

    I am 57, been a RN since 1975. I can relate to your statement, "it is not the land it used to be." I have noticed ads in some of the nursing journals regarding nursing in other countries. There even...

  20. Hey, Managers! What's up with the "weeding out" of good nurses?

    celeste7767 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    To Nightnurse47: Good for you!! I am so glad you got out before it got to you! What management is doing so rampantly is not only unethical but indefensible and yet there is no stopping them; ,...

  21. Hey, Managers! What's up with the "weeding out" of good nurses?

    celeste7767 replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    God, I am so glad that someone has brought up what I suspected but felt I was being too paranoid to bring up. I have been a RN since 1975. NEVER had a write up. NEVER had a bad eval; NEVER made ANY...

  22. Flag Staff Medical Hospital RNs to vote....

    celeste7767 replied to mark hamel's topic in Arizona Nursing

    :wakeneo: since I see that you are from Maricopa county which has the 6 highest number of millionaires living there of all 50 states, I will try to not be too sarcastic or harsh in my response but it...

  23. Background/Credit Check, Bankruptcy

    celeste7767 replied to markjrn's topic in General Nursing

    Nothing surprises me anymore. This is not the country I grew up in. We are all victims of the Corporate-Government marriage. I took my husband who has a very serious and rare illness to Houston to...

  24. Air Embolus?

    celeste7767 replied to Irishgirl's topic in General Nursing

    All the info offered by P RN, Super Moderator were excellent and on the money as far as avoiding air emboli. I would only add one more CRUCIAL point: When removing any type of central line, make...

  25. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    celeste7767 replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    I am 57 years old, been a nurse since 1975. When I was a little girl, my mother ALWAYS impressed on me the importance of going to college and having a career with which to support myself, "in case...