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    Seriously guys, relocate.

    calivianya posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I just have to share this - I am astounded by how easy it was for me to get a hit where I live now. I moved to south Georgia for my first RN job. I'd never even heard of the town I live in now until I...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    calivianya replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    If I come back as a hospital ghost, I want to do compressions. Can you imagine everyone standing around, hands off the patient for a rhythm check, and the patient's chest starts compressing by itself?...
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    What's CVICU like, really?

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

    Thanks for the responses, guys! Feel free to keep 'em coming! One of the places I'm interviewing states they are one of the largest heart transplant programs in the country on their website, and the...
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    And this is why I hate floating to stepdown...

    calivianya replied to calivianya's topic in Critical Care

    I had a cardizem drip at a different time I floated there, one that I was titrating. The hassle was ridiculous. Using a rolling vitals machine to take q15 vitals, manually keeping an eye on the...
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    Specializing as a new grad

    calivianya replied to hopefulSN's topic in General Nursing

    If that's really how you feel about NICU... don't limit yourself to that NICU. Start bombarding every NICU within driving distance (and those much further out, too, if you're willing to move) with...
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    How specialty certification opens a ton of doors...

    calivianya posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I've been looking to move back home this summer. I have applied several places, but I'm right at my one year of experience mark and most of them haven't wanted me. I have a job offer up there at a...
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    UNC vs Duke vs Wakemed vs Rex

    calivianya replied to getmeoutofiowa's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    I am currently applying to Duke/UNC/Rex and have been invited for an interview at Duke so far - Duke states that CNI (aka new grad) starts at $20.74/hr. Not sure how much UNC pays, their postings...
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    Portable Chest XRay protocol

    calivianya replied to icuRNmaggie's topic in MICU, SICU

    Wow, I would not have let him take the X-ray and I would have filed a complaint about his behavior. That is
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    Not to beat a dead horse but ...

    calivianya replied to BeachsideRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think the program you just got accepted to sounds great, and I would stick with that. $36k really isn't that much debt, and you'd be coming out with the more desirable degree. Any advantage you can...
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    Help....I Can't Take it Anymore! - Nurses Coping with Stress

    calivianya replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I guess I am the opposite of most of you... I am way more stressed when I have days off and time off. I typically work between 60-72 hours a week between my two jobs. When I'm working, I get home,...
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    Staying afloat on a nurse's salary?

    calivianya replied to mee9mee9's topic in General Nursing

    I don't really budget anymore. Used to, but have found it grossly unnecessary with my nurse paycheck. If you have kids or debt, you may need to budget, but if you are single, childfree, and debt-free,...
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    Slamming in IVP meds and Running Incompatible Meds Together: Is it as bad as they say

    calivianya replied to RNdynamic's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm not worried about slamming in metoprolol because it might drop the patient's BP or HR... I'm concerned about slamming in metoprolol because slamming in a beta blocker can send someone into total...
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    Senior in college seeking grad info

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

    Can't agree enough with what sadiemae1123 said - I moved to get experience in my specialty because no one where I lived would offer me, and I hate the place so much I'm leaving after only one year...
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    And this is why I hate floating to stepdown...

    calivianya replied to calivianya's topic in Critical Care

    Absolutely with the bolded part - that's the lesson I learned this go-round, and I won't make the same mistake again. We use the Phillips monitors, and we just don't keep portable monitors on the...
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    And this is why I hate floating to stepdown...

    calivianya replied to calivianya's topic in Critical Care

    The difference between this unit and a traditional tele unit (as my hospital defines it) as the stepdown patients are not monitored by central monitoring, which monitors the rest of the hospital -...
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    Bullying - What is it?

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

    Regarding #2, I had the opposite problem with lunch while I was an orientee... my preceptor would encourage me to go eat, I'd tell her I wasn't finished with my charting, she'd say I could finish...
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    Nursing and waitressing/food service industry

    calivianya replied to nursefrances's topic in General Nursing

    Never waitressed, but I worked just about every possible role at a movie theater (box office, concessions, ushering, and management), worked as a clerk at a dry cleaner, and worked at a really...
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    What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    calivianya replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I work PRN at a very small community hospital in their ICU. Everyone claims the hospital is haunted... maybe it is! I was working in ICU alone the other night (total ICU census of two patients, so...
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    How a stethoscope can get stolen?

    calivianya replied to osi2011's topic in General Students

    I have a "sweater" on my stethoscope so my neck oils won't mess it up and I can wear it around my neck at all times. I really only take it off for bathing patients, getting them on/off the bedpan, or...
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    An Unapologetic Reasoning On Why You Don't Want To Be A Nurse.

    calivianya replied to Mr Midwife's topic in General Students

    Honestly, that only sounds physically tougher, and only slightly at that. You may not break fingers or get burned, but in nursing you would be lifting people who are dead weight over and over again if...
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    If you could just pick up and leave, where would you go?

    calivianya replied to JNursee's topic in General Nursing

    I am making that choice right now - single, no kids, and no boyfriend. And I have no idea. I am just moving back to where my parents/friends live next month because I am tired of being alone. Wish I...
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    CCRN in 1 month?

    calivianya replied to iceyv3's topic in MICU, SICU

    I am going to be straight with you - I only really studied for two days. I signed up to take my exam when I knew I only had two full free days in between signing up and taking the exam. I thought I...
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    Diluting medication by pushing through a distal IV port

    calivianya replied to M_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't do that to dilute, but if I'm in a huge rush and have to give something that is going to take forever to give, like a huge dose of IV Lasix, I will put it at the most distal port from the...
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    Why can't nurses intubate?

    calivianya replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

    We had a nurse get fired at my job for trying to intubate a patient. It did not happen while I was there, but one of my coworkers told me about it later. RT was unsuccessful, the patient was...
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    Let's hear about your worst shift ever!

    calivianya replied to mamax3's topic in General Nursing

    I had two GI bleeds a couple of weeks back. One was having a colonoscopy in the morning, so there were frequent BMs there, and the other was actively bleeding with frequent dark maroon stools. I ran 8...