calivianya BSN, RN

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    Shift work and dating

    calivianya replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    I was very addicted to the first season of Married at First Sight. Some of those people's marriages worked out just
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    Mr. Harry the Excessive Hair Patient

    calivianya replied to Barbie8808's topic in General Nursing

    Just a random related question, because I am honestly curious what everyone thinks... What happens when poop is in the lady parts? Do you all go digging with a washcloth? Get a toomey syringe and try...
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    Exit Interview. Honest or not?

    calivianya replied to sungrl01's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I will just tell you my personal experience so somebody else can learn from my dumb new grad mistakes. I wrote some brutally honest stuff in an exit interview once. I really felt like I had been led...
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    missed an abnormal rhythm

    calivianya replied to puffin75RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would say you've learned your lesson, so there won't be much condemnation here. My workflow, just in case you find this helpful, is I print a strip for both of my patients first thing when I arrive...
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    Mr. Harry the Excessive Hair Patient

    calivianya replied to Barbie8808's topic in General Nursing

    I will add - so I seem like less of a total jerk - the way the patient said that if she'd wanted to be shaved, she would have done it herself, was with some laughter. She was genuinely puzzled about...
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    Should you enter into a specialty as a new nurse?

    calivianya replied to Nursecrystal2016's topic in General Nursing

    You had a job as a LVN, right? You've already worked as a nurse, so you may be a new grad RN but you are not going to be a new grad nurse. Either way, I think specialties are fine for new grads if...
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    Code Team

    calivianya replied to nursecam17's topic in General Nursing

    Our code team is pretty much the same as yours - except the nurses that are the RRT nurses that night don't have assignments. They usually just resource on the unit that night and go to rapid...
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    Mr. Harry the Excessive Hair Patient

    calivianya replied to Barbie8808's topic in General Nursing

    On the flip side, I had a patient have abdominal surgery and wake up with me in ICU. She was very startled that someone had shaved her hair. She asked me why it was done and I told her that I honestly...
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    Patient Conscious During CPR

    calivianya replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm super out of shape, but CPR only makes me totally toast for about half an hour. Rest, hydrate, and you'll feel better pretty quick! (Granted, I usually only end up doing a couple minutes of...
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    Nurse Nacole take on # 1 Male Nurse Complaint - pay attention :)

    calivianya replied to Larry2016's topic in General Nursing

    I officially love her! I'm going to subscribe and watch all of her stuff right
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    Nursey Compression Socks

    calivianya replied to Hairstylingnurse's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Sockwell compression socks are the best, IMO. They are real socks, not those ridiculously hard to put on hose things a lot of people wear. I buy mine on Amazon.com. I have five
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    Shift work and dating

    calivianya replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    One of my coworkers met someone on Tinder. She is now a travel nurse traveling to the area he landed his residency in. So yes, she's dating a newly minted MD - but not one she met at work. Go
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    5/14 WILTW: Healthcare Gymnastics and Revolving Doors

    calivianya replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

    I learned a lot of things about the NxStage CRRT machines that I didn't know last night, due to a known black cloud coworker who is not checked off on restringing the machine needing it restrung... 1....
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    Shift work and dating

    calivianya replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    I relocated from NC to GA for my first job out of nursing school because I couldn't find a job in ICU where I lived... and I am dating the guy who moved my furniture. It's so funny to think that my...
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    Patient Conscious During CPR

    calivianya replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    You've never met my coworkers. We have this one who's a total gym rat who gives amazing compressions. I have watched a radial a-line that's still level with the heart read a systolic in the 150s when...
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    NTI 2016: Family Presence During Resuscitation?!

    calivianya replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience, when the patient is sick enough to code, the patient hasn't had his/her wishes followed for a long time anyway. I can't tell you how many DNR/DNI patients I've seen intubated and...
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    New Grad decision: ICU vs Step down vs CCU

    calivianya replied to ICURN5305's topic in MICU, SICU

    I'm going to have to disagree with you because it really depends on the new grad. I got 90 days at my first job, which was a MICU, and I did fine. We used to orient new grads for six months at my...
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    Fired from first job..."not eligible for re-hire"

    calivianya replied to run.for.the.roses's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how you could get fired for attendance issues that were based on inaccurate feedback. You clocked in, right? That should solve any he said, she said issues with your preceptor right...
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    NTI 2016: Family Presence During Resuscitation?!

    calivianya replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    We let families come in. Our rooms get crowded, too, but there's usually some space against a wall somewhere that family members can stand. Most are very well behaved during a code, and don't get in...
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    Crazy sign on bonuses

    calivianya replied to ~PedsRN~'s topic in General Nursing

    I had a job that offered a $25k sign on bonus once. The hospital itself wasn't horrible, but it was in the most middle of nowhere backwoods swamp town I've ever been in. I could totally understand why...
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    Someone in my charts....

    calivianya replied to Maevish's topic in General Nursing

    It really depends on your unit's work environment and policies. At my job, we have to check off each other's protocols in the chart. I've had days where I was looking through protocols on four or five...
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    Why I refuse to work overtime. Anyone else?

    calivianya replied to xtina15's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe I'm just the odd one out here, but I'd much rather stay for a meeting after work than come in on my day off for one. I intentionally schedule myself the night before meetings, or if there's an...
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    Don't think I can do this

    calivianya replied to Ortmannk's topic in General Nursing

    You could always try ER if you need constant stimulation. There's always something going on down there - it might not be lifesaving, but it's busy. I agree that ICU isn't saving lives and high drama...
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    5/14 WILTW: Healthcare Gymnastics and Revolving Doors

    calivianya replied to LadyFree28's topic in General Nursing

    Oh heck yes we are hiring. In any department you could possibly ask for. I've spent all week trying to recruit people at my PRN job to come work at my full time job. I am a bad influence. And I...
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    Patently false rumours of LVN phase out.

    calivianya replied to Redmiata1's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    My hospital system, one of the largest in my state, laid off all LPNs system wide last summer. Maybe it's not true where you are that LPNs are being phased out, but hundreds of them lost their jobs...