calivianya BSN, RN

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    blood transfusion and first 15 minutes

    calivianya replied to valsalvamanuever2's topic in MICU, SICU

    Not really sure why antibiotics would matter - patients can be allergic to anything. I had a patient who was allergic to Benadryl once. I always wondered if there was something else to give her...
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    anxiety depression and adhd have caused me to struggle to find my fit as a new nurse

    calivianya replied to brad0428's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Well, everyone has opinions... but three of the doctors I've been to for my insomnia have suggested I try meditation and melatonin supplements. One of them even suggested I try valerian root. It seems...
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    blood transfusion and first 15 minutes

    calivianya replied to valsalvamanuever2's topic in MICU, SICU

    We do stay in the room and assess/check vitals after the first 10 minutes, but we start it at 120/hr so if a reaction is going to happen, it's going to show up fast. After the first 10 minutes we do...
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    How do you get co-nurses to customize their monitors?

    calivianya replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in MICU, SICU

    We have the Phillips monitors. We do have a policy to change out electrodes q24h - I have no idea if day shift does it, so I usually do just in case. I usually shave my male patients' chests just to...
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    too much experience - vent

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

    That's so true. I worked inpatient rehab as a CNA, hospital-based because the patients were still acutely ill, and there were a ton of nurses on my floor who wanted to change specialties and get into...
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    Will I get a job?

    calivianya replied to akey77's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    The market is tough for RNs, but it's even worse for other allied health professions. You're more likely to get a job as a RN than as a PT, odds
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    Proning ARDs patients

    calivianya replied to catamounts303's topic in MICU, SICU

    We don't have any RotoProne beds - they sure sound nice. It just takes a bunch of people to prone a patient for
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    How do you get co-nurses to customize their monitors?

    calivianya replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in MICU, SICU

    I usually do because changing the parameters does nothing for our monitors. I tried that for a long time before finally just turning the alarm off. I can set the alarm all the way down to 0 and only...
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    Vacation Requests Constantly Denied: A Rant

    calivianya replied to MECO28's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If they are unwilling to change, you could always try to find a job somewhere that you can self-schedule. We self-schedule in six week blocks, so there is no requesting vacation - we just schedule...
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    Looking for info about Wake Forest Baptist Hospital

    calivianya replied to belita33's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Yep, no unions. I was not lucky enough to get hired there, but a lot of the people I graduated nursing school with were - and they only have positive things to
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    **POLL** New 1st Year RN Salary

    calivianya replied to Bell13's topic in First Year After Licensure

    1) Georgia 2) $20/hr 3) 1 year of CNA experience, hired as new grad 4)
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    Grades vs Teaching?

    calivianya replied to vettechtoRN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I believe that grade inflation is a real problem, but I also don't believe classes should be unnecessarily hard. My nursing school had a ton of students make mostly As, and it had a fantastic...
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    Having One of Those Days of Doubt Again....

    calivianya replied to lmm76's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I had to move 400 miles to a very low income, somewhat rural area to find a job as a RN new graduate with my BSN. If you are not prepared to uproot your entire family and do the same, I honestly would...
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    Becoming discouraged about becoming a nurse?

    calivianya replied to RainbowHead's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I would recommend shadowing several different nurses in different areas as opposed to just working as a CNA to decide if you really want to be a nurse. I worked as a CNA before graduating nursing...
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    Are you good at charting in "real time?"

    calivianya replied to Ativan's topic in General Nursing

    I will update the vitals, hourly urine outputs, and document any call I made to anyone including physicians/pharmacy/lab and their responses as close to real time as possible, but that's it. I will do...
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    DNR status and therapeutic hypothermia

    calivianya replied to MunoRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it really depends on what type of DNR we're talking about. There are lots of variations of DNR - I have had a lot of patients lately who have wanted everything done except compressions, up to...
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    Propofol

    calivianya replied to clarkw12's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I always try to keep my patients between 0 and -2 if I can, but I find a ton of my patients are either a -3 or they are a +2. It's like the continuum from -2 to 1 does not exist. What's the trick in...
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    New grad position Neuro ICU or CVICU

    calivianya replied to Liz33's topic in Critical Care

    I don't think nursing is a calling but I believe that neuro nursing is! Go with the CVICU unless you really think the best thing in the world is asking people to lift up their arms and hold them for...
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    RN License Endorsement= Confusion!

    calivianya replied to stephdRN's topic in Florida Nursing

    Thanks for the clarification. I guess I am going to be doing some calling around if I do decide to
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    How do you get co-nurses to customize their monitors?

    calivianya replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in MICU, SICU

    I always turn the respiratory (as in the rate) alarms off on my patient during the very first assessment of the night, and usually go around to my neighbors if their apnea alarms go off and ask if...
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    RN License Endorsement= Confusion!

    calivianya replied to stephdRN's topic in Florida Nursing

    Okay, so we CAN get the fingerprints done at a police station? This was confusing me greatly - the links on the FL BON website are all weird mobile outside companies and things like that. I originally...
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    What do Nurses think about CNA's

    calivianya replied to powers2704's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wish we actually had them. I worked as a CNA for a year and hated it - I looked forward to having someone else to help me with the bathing and turning when I got to be a nurse, but we don't have...
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    "You've got the wrong Mary" ... A Vent About Rude Doctors

    calivianya replied to annie.rn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The MDs I work with here are the same way. I miss the facility where I did my clinicals - they had progressive discipline programs that could end in the MDs losing the privilege to practice at that...
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    Who supervises you during clinicals?

    calivianya posted a topic in General Students

    Just curious. I graduated last May and have been working as a RN since July, and what I am seeing at my current job is shocking and horrifying to me. The way my clinicals worked at my school is that...
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    How much is too much?

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

    It's so funny that people in here say that some patients don't want to know much! 90% of my patients, or family if the patient can't talk, grill me about my personal life at some point. I think the...