calivianya BSN, RN

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    if you graduated in the last 5 years

    calivianya replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in General Nursing

    1 week before graduation (contingent on passing NCLEX). Many of my classmates had jobs a month or more before graduation. I feel like a lot of people miss opportunities because they wait too late to...
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    Your very first or worst interview experience

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

    Not my first interview, but I really don't know why one place even interviewed me. They were so condescending. I had 1 year of ICU experience and had just gotten my CCRN, and I got a call back from a...
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    New RN (almost), 401k, and Retirement

    calivianya replied to 2k15NurseExtern4u's topic in General Nursing

    My savings are abysmal. I have a CD with 3k in it that is an emergency fund. My employer also matches 6% contributions to 401k so I am putting in 6%, but they don't start putting money in it until you...
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    degree changers, was nursing harder than your previous degree?

    calivianya replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on what you think is hard. My nursing degree was more work because there was more material, but it was lower-level, easier-to-understand material than my psych degree. I used my intellect...
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    Errors--system problem or nursing problem?

    calivianya replied to dudette10's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    And, specifically regarding the first scenario, I will say that one's not a systems problem - it's a physician problem. If the specialist wants to do a procedure, the internal medicine physician...
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    Errors--system problem or nursing problem?

    calivianya replied to dudette10's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You just hit the part of nursing that I hate the MOST on the head. I am so tired of policing other people. I just want to do MY job. I would be happier if I didn't have to do everyone else's, too. I...
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    Would you quit over white uniforms?

    calivianya replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    For me it's the color, because of the connotation. I just don't feel like I'm in a respected profession wearing white. It makes me think of all the stereotyped sexy nurses in the TV shows in their...
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    Unit Practice Council Haters?

    calivianya replied to jrall60's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am a self-confessed council hater. My job changes almost weekly because of stupid new things management and the nurse educators come up with. That's about all I can take. Having some unit based...
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    Would you quit over white uniforms?

    calivianya replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    I have yet to find any OB/GYN who will do that surgery for me... and I have asked every single one I have ever met. It's not that easy to get a hysterectomy! But seriously, maybe I am in the minority,...
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    Help! I think I'm going to accidently hurt or kill someone

    calivianya replied to HollySue061566's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't think you did anything wrong, and I think that nurse who got after you made an error in judgment. You can't just start a hypertensive emergency protocol on ONE elevated blood pressure, and...
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    Would you quit over white uniforms?

    calivianya replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    I probably wouldn't, but it would require so much extra purchases - more skin colored bras, more skin colored underwear... I would need more white undershirts. And a pair of white shoes if they...
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    Why are magnet hospitals bad?

    calivianya replied to golson's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I have a lot more unnecessary things to do at the Magnet hospital I work at now that the non-Magnet hospital I did before. I already have my BSN, so that is not a factor. - I have more charting to...
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    Do you auscultate your NGs?

    calivianya replied to Carpediem1012's topic in General Nursing

    We auscultate when first dropped, get a KUB per protocol for placement (can order this without asking a physician if there is an order for a NG/OG to be dropped in the first place), and then I...
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    Dansko, Sorry, DO NOT GO WITH DANSKO

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

    Do you wear compression socks? They might enable you to wear your beloved Danskos again. I love these ones. I have five pairs, some as old as two years, and they are still holding together
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    O2 sat monitor question

    calivianya replied to createun's topic in General Nursing

    I think your equipment must suck! 97.3 isn't low at all, it's a normal temp. It wouldn't be amiss to talk to management about the poor quality of your equipment, although I'm sure that will fall on...
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    People really need to stop coming into nursing

    calivianya replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in General Nursing

    I keep noticing the posts about new grads and decent pay. I think we ALL should be able to get decent pay, even new grads. The nights/weekends/holidays thing? We should be reasonably compensated....
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    Regarding chronic tardiness

    calivianya replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds a lot like me. It makes it really hard to go to sleep at night too, doesn't it? I would probably never go to sleep, ever, if I had the choice not to. It is just such an inconvenient waste...
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    Black and Job Hunting

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

    I think the South is great for minorities. I am always shocked by how racist people from the northern states are in general. My boyfriend is from the north, and some of the things that come out of his...
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    Regarding chronic tardiness

    calivianya replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    I am a chronic last minute person and I will tell you it stems from my perception that my time is INCREDIBLY valuable to me. I put 100% effort into everything I do. I know other people's time is...
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    No 1:1 sitter for fall risk patient

    calivianya replied to RNKX's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I think we probably have about half of our patients in restraints at any given time, so we probably have 15 restrained patients on my unit alone. Unfortunately, my job is not willing to pay for 15...
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    No 1:1 sitter for fall risk patient

    calivianya replied to RNKX's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We only use sitters for suicide precautions, not fall risk patients. If a patient is one of those super confused, doesn't know where he is, ripping everything off, sundowning patient, we just use...
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    Blood color with IV starts

    calivianya replied to Matt8700's topic in Patient Education

    Now that's just gross! I have never seen that and I hope I never
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    Pros, Cons, Salary In Agency Nursing

    calivianya replied to Meriwhen's topic in Agency Nurses

    I am new to the world of agency nursing so I may not be the best person to answer, but the agency I am signing on with asked me what specialty I would like to work in. I told them what I wanted, and...
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    New Grad recently moved to Charlotte NC area needing some advice

    calivianya replied to JoNCRN4's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know much about the Charlotte market in particular, but I can tell you the Novant system definitely hires new grads. NH Presbyterian is there main location in Charlotte, but Matthews and...
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    Which nursing specialty has the most autonomy/independence? Apart from nursing practioner

    calivianya replied to Zyrv's topic in Nurses Rock

    This sounds interesting - could you explain a bit more what you do exactly? Is it like running a blood