calivianya BSN, RN

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    forunate to be torn between two job offers

    calivianya replied to <3ingRN's topic in General Nursing

    What shift does your SO/whoever watches your baby work? If your person works day shift, I would work night shift so you don't have to pay for childcare. You can save a lot of money that
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    Go into nursing for the money?

    calivianya replied to jackhensy's topic in General Nursing

    Some places have good benefits. I accrue around 208 hours of PTO per year assuming I don't work any overtime, which gives me almost six weeks off per year with pay. I usually end up earning much more...
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    Really, is this real?!?!

    calivianya replied to FlossyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Your unit sounds like a nightmare. At the places I have worked, stepdown was 1:3 or 1:4. I have seen stepdown nurses take five in extreme staffing emergencies, but never 6-8. Never. That is very...
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    Pregnancy Work Woes

    calivianya replied to Barbie8808's topic in General Nursing

    We have a ton of preggers right now. They are all generally very helpful, but in some situations they are a bit of a hindrance. I had a patient recently who we were ruling out TB, shingles, HIV,...
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    Is clinic nursing a dirty job?

    calivianya replied to Yerani27's topic in General Nursing

    I wish people would stop spouting off all this misinformation. I started out in ICU and I did just fine. The only med/surg experience I have was the couple of times I got floated there at my first...
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    Stephen King Readers Thread

    calivianya replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    I have gone to work in dirty scrubs many a time. If you run them through the dryer to get the wrinkles out and then hit 'em with the lint roller, no one's going to notice. My new rule is I can't wear...
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    Anyone excited about your RN life ahead?

    calivianya replied to Upward_Bound's topic in General Nursing

    I am glad you are excited. I grew up both rich and poor (rich first, Dad was a corporate exec in the textile industry, but then textiles went to China, he was unemployed for almost a decade, and the...
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    Go into nursing for the money?

    calivianya replied to jackhensy's topic in General Nursing

    I absolutely went into nursing for the money, too, and it has treated me well. I would not become a LPN for the money. Getting paid is dependent on getting a job. My hospital system just laid off all...
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    Stephen King Readers Thread

    calivianya replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, he has freaked out many a small child and many not-so-small not-children, between that, the Evil Dead remake tattoo, the Evil Ash from Army of Darkness tattoo, the Freddy Krueger tattoos on his...
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    Stephen King Readers Thread

    calivianya replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    I love you even more for bringing up Duma Key. I will go as far as saying it's hands-down one of my favorite books of all time - definitely in my top five, at least. I think I've read it about eight...
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    Vasopressin vs. Levophed

    calivianya replied to sugarmagnoliaRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Yep on the last part! I watched an endocrine presentation as part of the orientation process for a new PRN job, and it talked about vasopressin requirements being easily 100-200x normal when a body is...
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    When did you find your calling?

    calivianya replied to SBDon's topic in General Nursing

    I think most people talk about the parents. I have come to believe that parents couldn't possibly be as annoying as some siblings/children/great uncles/boyfriends I have run into, so I don't believe...
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    Taking notes during an interview

    calivianya replied to cbebes's topic in General Nursing

    I almost never bring a note pad, but I almost always ask lots of questions about what types of conferences/educational activities are held in the hospital, do we get enough notice to schedule off for...
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    Being Sued / Losing License

    calivianya replied to Meraki's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'm glad this thread got resurrected; it's enlightening. I have been a nurse for two years and I know someone who's been sued. I made some comment recently about how I hope I never get sued to a...
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    Stephen King Readers Thread

    calivianya replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    A bunch of people in The Tommyknockers - "Altered sexual function as evidenced by replacement of normal genital tissues with tentacles." ...Too much? I can think of an altered bowel function one for a...
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    What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    calivianya replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    No, that's pretty gross. I hate the smell of partially digested tube feeds. HATE it. I would be extremely unhappy if I spilled some of that down my
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    Jack of All trades

    calivianya replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    And this is my biggest problem with healthcare - although, I don't see the comfort aspect much. Just the part where we wake 85yo grandma dying of metastatic cancer, heart failure, and COPD in the...
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    When did you find your calling?

    calivianya replied to SBDon's topic in General Nursing

    Those of us that don't feel nursing is a calling often think the whole "calling" thing to be one of the reasons nurses are treated so badly as far as low pay, terrible ratios, being dumped upon by all...
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    When did you find your calling?

    calivianya replied to SBDon's topic in General Nursing

    The closest thing I have to a calling is eating different things every time I go to a restaurant and writing reviews about what I ate. I am a supertaster and I feel compelled to try everything I...
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    I have a fear of being bullied what should I do?

    calivianya replied to sadbuthappy's topic in General Nursing

    I think you should talk to someone. Nursing isn't the only field where you're going to run into people who put you down, for sure. I've had passive aggressive coworkers in every job I've ever had....
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    Should I try and become a Nurse in a Naturopathic Clinic or a Naturopathic Doctor?

    calivianya replied to NenaRK's topic in Holistic

    Of course there is a higher morbidity and mortality for patients who need blood transfusions - they are doing more poorly than patients who don't need transfusions.There are no high level studies on...
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    Finally, some evidence for environment-driven obesity.

    calivianya replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    All of that stuff is really difficult to stay away from. It's scary to think
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    Books are so expensive!!!

    calivianya replied to leepatn's topic in General Students

    Yep, I swear by Amazon, too. They allow you to rent, and you can also sell books back to them a lot of the time. I also have an Amazon Visa so I'd get extra cash back for using Amazon, but I hear they...
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    Ignoring your education?

    calivianya replied to dinah77's topic in General Nursing

    Don't forget the placebo effect is a very well-documented thing. I don't believe aromatherapy, for example, is terribly scientific - but if you can convince a patient to believe lavender will help him...
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    Disability: genuinely curious

    calivianya replied to anh06005's topic in General Nursing

    There is a way around this. A lot of employers offer disability insurance. Yes, it's something else coming out of your paycheck (if your employer doesn't cover it), but it would probably be enough to...