calivianya BSN, RN

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    Night shift scheduling!

    calivianya replied to KBRN15's topic in General Nursing

    If you don't switch your sleep around, working night shift becomes no different for your body than working days. It's the flipping back and forth and interfering with your sleep schedule that causes...
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    Girlfriend of a NP student!!!

    calivianya replied to Applety8's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    He might not be able to make time to go out and do fun stuff with you quite as often, but like the PP said, you can always go over and stay in with him. Have nice dinners at his place with him. Even a...
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    Intern in the ER...terrified.

    calivianya replied to DNS.RN78's topic in General Nursing

    Just remember - right now you have a ton and a half of people backing you up. Work with confidence because you are not
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    8/22 What I learned this week....

    calivianya replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I learned that fuzzy cats are even better than sleeping pills. I was just sitting on the couch minding my own business, my very cute cat jumped up next to me and turned on the warm fuzzy love factor,...
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    Working OT helped me to pay....

    calivianya replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    Right there with the above poster - I have been working OT to start socking some stuff away into savings. I am intending to max a Roth for the first time this year (probably will do that by the end of...
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    What's your favorite floor

    calivianya replied to guitargirl88's topic in General Nursing

    I love ICUs of any sort. Love all the lines, drains, machinery... love only have two patients... :) A close second has to be the times as a CNA that I got floated to the hospital's inpatient hospice...
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    RN vs BSN, is a BSN really worth it?

    calivianya replied to Upward_Bound's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Around here no one offers a pay difference between ADN and BSN prepared nurses. The ADNs are just more likely to still be working at their restaurant jobs waiting tables than the
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    Tough point in my life

    calivianya replied to BearFeet's topic in General Nursing

    Everyone's right - you need to get help now - I won't expound on that - and you need to resign from your job right away. This is about your future - three absences likely already has you on...
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    Who here works both part time and per diem?

    calivianya replied to blah_blah_blah's topic in General Nursing

    The more jobs the better! Kidding, sort of. I have a FT and a PRN job. The worst part is the PRN scheduling period is open before the FT scheduling period for me, which is a headache because I would...
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    8/22 What I learned this week....

    calivianya replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    40% is way too high to extubate someone, IMO. I've seen a few extubated on 40% and none have done well. I'm sure there are people that do fine, but I'm not comfortable extubating until they're down to...
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    ICU burnout?

    calivianya replied to infinitynotzero's topic in Critical Care

    That's standard ICU charting - every ICU I have ever worked in charted all of those things, and I have never gotten out as late as you do in any of them. They even took away copy and paste at one of...
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    ICU burnout?

    calivianya replied to infinitynotzero's topic in Critical Care

    We have been tripled a lot, too, but getting out as late as you are talking about is very uncommon. We are considered leaving "late" if we clock out after 0722/1922, and we have to write in an...
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    Our units acuity is at an all time high.

    calivianya replied to TheNGTKingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Just laid off all our LPNs, who were supposed to be resources but were actually taking assignments, and then the hospital went on a hiring freeze. So, not only were we short before we laid off people,...
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    To LPN or not to LPN, that is my question!

    calivianya replied to smartassmommy's topic in Nursing Career

    I advise everyone coming out the gate to go ahead for a BSN. It's not really any more classes than an ADN except for fluff gen eds, a research class, and a leadership class. It's extremely difficult...
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    That one reference hold out...

    calivianya replied to RookieRoo's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    The last couple of places I've gotten hired wanted five. One that I'm working PRN at now wanted five including TWO supervisors/managers. The people with the actual supervisor/manager roles (clinical...
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    COB rollcall

    calivianya replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    Alas, I may never be crusty. I hope to retire before I hit 20 years of experience! Hats off to all of you with so much experience. I can only dream of your level of
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    Admissions

    calivianya replied to nightsinBoston's topic in General Nursing

    We get verbal report, but I can't tell you what the rest of the hospital does. I have learned from this forum that critical care usually gets verbal report even when other floors don't - which is...
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    Having no car for nursing school?

    calivianya replied to CarolynNAC1's topic in General Nursing

    I had a friend buy a $500 car and it got her through college. Cheap cars are major gambles, but hers survived three years and round trips from NC to NY several times to visit her family. Sometimes you...
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    What do you guys like to do in your free time?

    calivianya replied to PianoTiles's topic in General Nursing

    You guys do a lot! I mostly just sit on the couch and browse the internet. I am a real homebody and I am really lazy when I'm home, LOL. I hang out with the boyfriend whenever I can - we mostly just...
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    Patient bathing

    calivianya replied to texasrn71's topic in General Nursing

    My job has gotten rid of bath basins altogether. My hospital sees it as unacceptably expensive to get a new bath basin every time, apparently, and they are seen as an infection risk. All we have are...
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    Are too many certifications a bad thing?

    calivianya replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I had this problem a lot when I was younger because I was a very arrogant person. I learned the hard way that the line is keeping my mouth shut. It is perfectly possible to be proud of yourself...
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    This week, I have learned... (8/8)

    calivianya replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Happy belated birthday! I love coworkers' birthdays. There's nothing that beats eating cake I don't have to make and I (usually) don't have to pay
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    Nicotine-Urine

    calivianya replied to CardiacRNBrina's topic in General Nursing

    It could be grandfathered in - I have a cigar bar not too far from where I live. It is in a historic downtown building and it is considered a community landmark, so even though it's illegal to smoke...
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    How to learn to start IVs?

    calivianya replied to Momma1RN's topic in General Nursing

    One job I had made us go to the GI lab for a day. You want to talk about a place where people start IVs? That's it - and a lot of time those sorts of procedures are non-emergent and the patients are...
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    Is everyplace like this?

    calivianya replied to Ankh's topic in General Nursing

    I hate to tell you, but everywhere I've worked was like this to one degree or another. Probably the closest thing to an exception was my first job. Brand new shiny unit with comfortable (easily...