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    My first 100 days on the job: Week 3

    calivianya replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I like reading about your experiences. :) My favorite quotes are not motivational. I love just about everything on despair.com and even have a poster of one of their demotivators in my room, so you...
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    Have you ever been abused at work by pt or med staff?

    calivianya replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't been seriously injured yet. I had a coworker bend down near a psych patient to flush his line and he grabbed her by the head and fractured several of the vertebrae in her neck. She is very...
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    Already have a bachelors...

    calivianya replied to cheesepuff's topic in Nursing Career

    You can also do a regular BSN if you're concerned about getting hired with an ADN. ADN and ABSN are not your only choices. I would not get an ADN and have to bridge when you could just go back to...
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    Offered job while still an extern

    calivianya replied to Kystudentrn's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely take it! Most of the hospitals around here offer 2-3 year contracts and don't pay any tuition reimbursement at all, you just have to pay them money if you quit on top of paying student...
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    Hospice Thrift Store - what?!

    calivianya replied to ixchel's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I just spit out my water when I read the OP. Ixchel, you owe me a
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    Why am I so depressed?

    calivianya replied to freckles23's topic in Health, Stress Management

    The writing has been on the wall for a while now about hospitals wanting BSNs. You took a gamble going to an associate's degree program if you really wanted a job in a hospital, and unfortunately it...
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    Alteplase infusion for clot in port

    calivianya replied to Cincinatti1978's topic in General Nursing

    I have never seen anything like that. The only close thing I've seen is an alteplase infusion through a sheath placed in the leg in a patient with arterial occlusion in the leg. Ran tPA through a...
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    What to do when u find an unresponsive patient

    calivianya replied to LucasNewGrad's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Okay, guys, OP now knows that things didn't go like they should have. Let's cut OP a break. I saw my first code in inpatient rehab. As a nursing student/extern, I helped transfer him from the toilet...
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    How would you handle this?

    calivianya replied to sippee's topic in General Nursing

    I got hired in Florida before having my Florida license last year. It was as someone with a year of experience, though, and it was Florida. Most places aren't quite that desperate. I'd at least...
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    Code blue questions

    calivianya replied to SimpleNewGrad's topic in General Nursing

    Likely it was feces. I have coded people with bowel obstructions multiple times and the same thing always happens. If it was blocking up in the gut, it's going to go out the path of least resistance...
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    What nursing task do you loathe???

    calivianya replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, while we're on the subject of skin tears, I was helping to admit a new patient last month and I literally ripped off the entire top layer of her left hand from where her fingers meet her hand to...
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    What nursing task do you loathe???

    calivianya replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Put a chux in the bedpan if the patient has to have a bowel movement. Then the bedpan itself stays clean and you just ball up and throw away the poopy
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    New grad RN and going to school?

    calivianya replied to Jenniferocious's topic in General Nursing

    My employer just started a budget cutting program that involved a lot of people losing their jobs. All the LPNs got the ax (we were team nursing in theory, so some LPNs were still around), but no RNs...
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    Salary

    calivianya replied to lil cajun's topic in Advanced Practice

    You've hit it, here. We don't have unions or anything of that nature in NC, which is why our wages are so low. I don't know any nurses who have cracked $30/hr base pay. I know plenty who have made...
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    How Important is it that your patients and their families like you?

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

    It's very important for me that the patients and families like me. I read somewhere that nurses/physicians are less likely to get sued when something goes wrong if they are well-liked. Since I have a...
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    Be honest, what pt behaviors do you find annoying?

    calivianya replied to CrunchBerries's topic in General Nursing

    I can't stand paranoid patients. If they are legit schizophrenic or something I give them a pass... but if they are just looking for something we did wrong that they can blame their problems on, I am...
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    My first 100 days on the job: Week 2

    calivianya replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I felt at least somewhat comfortable on the unit right away - but then again, I did my preceptorship in nursing school in a high acuity ICU, so I'd already spent 36 hours a week for six weeks in the...
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    What to do when u find an unresponsive patient

    calivianya replied to LucasNewGrad's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I agree with the person who said dead is dead. If the patient is a full code, they have to be coded anyway for appearance's sake, at least. No pulse and full code - start compressions. You can always...
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    Is Nursing A Competitive Profession?

    calivianya replied to Soliloquy's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is, in general, very independent. There's not much to compete about. I have my patients and you have yours. You don't see what I'm doing and I don't see what you're doing. We work together,...
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    This week, I learned.... (7/25)

    calivianya replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I like how people freak out about cold sores. It's kind of entertaining. Never have had one myself, but did a lot of research after a best friend developed them and got teased mercilessly about them...
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    Shoes?! Socks?! Tights?! OH MY!

    calivianya replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

    My feet and back love Danskos. The downside is once you get used to wearing them, anything else is horribly uncomfortable. Can't wear tennis shoes without leg, foot, and back pain now. Oh well. At...
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    7:30 meds? Who is responsible for giving?

    calivianya replied to Manda92's topic in Patient Medications

    I find it fascinating that this is an issue facilities actually regulate. Not to be rude, but who really cares? If the 0730 isn't insulin and I have time at 0630, I'll give it. I'll definitely give...
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    Need advice from nurses. Accelerated BSN, RN, or LPN program...which would you do??

    calivianya replied to AlleycatLady's topic in General Students

    You forgot one option - you could also just do a traditional BSN. It would have the exact same amount of schooling as getting your ADN at this point since you'd only have to do nursing prereqs for...
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    Australian RN wanting to live and work in the US

    calivianya replied to cbmiller23's topic in Nurse Registration

    Experience is not required to get a nursing job, but from what I hear, California's job market is especially brutal because there are so many new grads and so few spots. It can take months or even a...
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    This week, I learned.... (7/25)

    calivianya replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    You must have a heck of a voice if you can sing Sarah Brightman songs. Nobody would be thanking me if I tried to sing her stuff, that's for