calivianya BSN, RN

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    Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Nurse Residency

    calivianya replied to oneheartoneway's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I work at the other large hospital. I have heard fantastic things about Baptist. They tend to pay a little less than their competition *cough* but your experiences will be invaluable. Most of the...
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    Traveling vehicle

    calivianya replied to Comfort14's topic in Travel

    I've had a Honda Civic for 10 years now. I'm not a travel nurse, but I lived a couple of states away from my family and did a 1100+ mile roundtrip every month or so in it for a good year. I will...
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    Loan forgiveness options? Help!

    calivianya replied to kaimkaim's topic in General Nursing

    Most of the loan forgiveness stuff I'm aware of required signing on before you went into the nursing program. I know some friends who had their debt greatly reduced by going to nursing school with a...
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    Normal saline after plasmapheresis

    calivianya replied to mikethethinker's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Yep, it was twice in 7 days here, too, and they always gave us fluids back afterwards. I guess that's what the difference is - if they make you wait two weeks before donating again, I'm sure you'd get...
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    Problems with ER

    calivianya replied to ReggieN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Both this post and the post above (about popping the patients into the beds and just leaving) are horrifying to me. If a patient is on tele where I work, a nurse has to transport the patient. The...
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    All about the bling...

    calivianya replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I have a "sweater" on my stethoscope that I wash with my scrubs. It is less about the bling and more about protecting my stethoscope from my neck oils, since I always wear my stethoscope around my...
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    Travel Nurse Scam?

    calivianya replied to 1alphamale's topic in Travel

    I applied with an agency (local, not travel) and I had no interview at all. They went straight to documents. When I finally did go by the office, it was to fill out more documents and talk about what...
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    I hate night shift

    calivianya replied to Wrangler156's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think anyone's attacking you. There is no harm in getting help if you need it, and it sounds like you need some help. I made an emergency primary care visit once because I was struggling with...
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    Oldest practicing Nurse?

    calivianya replied to RN&mom's topic in General Nursing

    This! Also consider contacting the ANA or something. They might just be interested in recognizing
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    Nursing makes me hate fat people

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

    I don't think many nurses really hate fat people in their day to day lives outside of the hospital. Another person's weight has nothing to do with my perception of them until their weight becomes my...
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    Black Humour

    calivianya replied to Tenebrae's topic in Nursing Humor

    The patients and families don't know we aren't being compassionate. If you have such a horrible poker face that everything you are feeling bleeds out via your facial expressions, that is something you...
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    CNA as a career

    calivianya replied to unbrokenx3's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I don't think CNA is necessarily that safe of a career. The CNAs on my unit just got downgraded to secretaries. Management decided we didn't need CNAs anymore, so they took the CNAs' jobs away and...
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    How to NOT Aid a Cheater?

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

    I have an issue with everyone saying this woman's cheating is going to make her an unsafe nurse. An ADN and a BSN have the same job. This woman has to get her BSN to keep the job she already has....
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    Problems with ER

    calivianya replied to ReggieN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The orders vs. no orders thing is a pretty important distinction, I'm glad someone brought it up. On my unit, a patient may have no orders if they went to another facility's ED, the facility...
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    Would you send this patient to the unit?

    calivianya replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I would say she is a stepdown patient. The labs are critical but if the patient is A&O with a good BP, I wouldn't classify her as
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    renal patients

    calivianya replied to starlane's topic in General Nursing

    KatieMI had a pretty good summary there. I would be more worried about acutely elevated K+ levels than the rest of the toxins. Those are uncomfortable but the elevated K+ can cause fatal arrhythmias,...
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    PALS provider..need prep help!

    calivianya replied to Satsun's topic in General Nursing

    You're welcome.
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    I don't mean to complain..

    calivianya replied to Nurse216's topic in General Nursing

    I am getting pretty sick of overly demanding people, too. Had an experience this weekend that made me resentful - I was on vacation and walking through a very old cemetery. I think I saw one person's...
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    Unsolicited Warnings....

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

    I would take warnings like that very seriously. Yes, some of it may just be drama between those coworkers, but you also don't want the time that you figure out that coworker X liked to snitch to...
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    PALS provider..need prep help!

    calivianya replied to Satsun's topic in General Nursing

    I just took PALS a few days ago for the first time. A lot of places require the precourse self assessment before you go. I know I had to bring my transcript for PALS/ACLS or I would have been turned...
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    Time frame.

    calivianya replied to AmandaHaspel's topic in General Nursing

    We are technically allowed to chart things that are 24 hours old. The system literally locks the time and we cannot make entries for a time more than 24 hours in the past. However, we are encouraged...
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    do you drink coffee during your shift?

    calivianya replied to aname's topic in General Nursing

    I am one of those weirdos that just about anything that affects awakeness/sleepiness doesn't do a thing for me. I can fall asleep after caffeine, I can stay up most of the day after an Ambien, etc. I...
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    When did nursing become the answer to the bottom line?

    calivianya replied to marick_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Even when you have a full patient assignment, too? Jeez, you must be some kind of time management whiz. Some days I feel like I barely have enough time to get the nursing tasks done. If I had to stock...
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    RN supervising LPN's

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

    I would check to see what your level of responsibility is for those assessments before you start cosigning them. Are you signing them to say that you agree with them, or just to say that the...
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    New grad RN salary in Florida 2014

    calivianya replied to Crystal360's topic in Nursing Career

    Not much. I interviewed at one in the panhandle that wanted to offer me $20.50/hr with a year of experience and the night diff was either $2.50 or $2.75, I can't remember. The night/weekend diffs...