la_chica_suerte85 BSN, RN

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    Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    They still use these if they're doing surgical procedures that might cause a plastic trach to melt (i.e. laser surgery for subglottic stenosis). Except, rarely, those may ignite with the O2 and the...
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    Ah Mondays...(vent coming)

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to KKEGS's topic in School

    OMG I'm
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    Do you ever wish you were a doctor?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to adventure_rn's topic in General Nursing

    Same here. At a certain point, you just gotta get on with your life and whatever happens is what was actually meant to be. But, like others have said, as much as I would prefer the workload and...
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    Being Pulled into the Office for calling CAT

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to ryuunohime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That's what I thought -- that was definitely a code situation. Also, WTH with having you go in on your day
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    Colleagues who hate patients

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There are also the ones that are bed-bound who are coming in for their umpteenth UTI and are so whacked out of their minds from infection that they can't comprehend what is happening to them and beg...
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    Colleagues who hate patients

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They might not have started out that salty. Once you learn about the ED system and how people take advantage of it, it can be easy to see how the once compassionate, starry-eyed new grad becomes a...
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    To take a chance on nursing school or not?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Esther4:14's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I went to school with quite a few older (like, mid-40s) non-traditional students (who either had older teenagers or kids in college and for them, school got put on the back burner, too) and they did...
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    Breaking into aesthetics!!

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to nurseaj2017's topic in Aesthetics

    You absolutely DO NOT have to go the 1 year of med-surg route once you graduate in order to do anything else. I did not accept that as something for myself and my career and I set my sites with laser...
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    Thoughts of an ER Tech

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to vregino36's topic in Emergency

    I would like to know how being a tech in the ED is a specialty. I really
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    Ethical Dilemma: What to do when I see a client outside of professional role?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to krg539's topic in General Students

    The key part of the OP is that this person is known to drink and drive and they saw them at a moment when the person would be possibly intoxicated (and therefore had driven himself to and from the...
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    Failed NCLEX Multiple Times. Can't find help on refresher schools/courses

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to I Will Finish's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I think first you should maybe consider stabilizing your situation. Go back to your old job -- if you hated it that much, it will light the fire under your butt to get through the NCLEX. It will be...
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    Medical Quackery: Let's talk.

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Spidey's mom's topic in Nursing News

    We get the cannabis oil thing sometimes. There was someone using apricot seed and several other random fruit seeds as well. At least they're still showing up for their
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    Math in nursing school

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Pre-calc isn't that hard but it's much harder than math you need to do calculations like BSA and drip calculations. I think at a certain point the pre-reqs are meant to be harder than nursing school...
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    Student who just doesn't get it

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Al Kalosis's topic in General Students

    I agree. I am a new grad and I am in a residency program (because I was honest with myself from the beginning that my program was not going to prepare me to work in the real world) and it's...
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    Student who just doesn't get it

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Al Kalosis's topic in General Students

    I second using Saunders. I used it throughout the first half of my nursing program and it helped me to get a strong grasp on how to deal with NCLEX-style questions. I would use it in conjunction to...
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    When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    When I did my very first clinical there was this very elderly nurse (I'm not sure if she was an RN or LVN) who wore the white dress and the stockings, a pair of white SAS shoes and the navy cardigan....
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    Did You Know the Specialty You Wanted to Work In Before Clinicals?

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    That is truly the most frustrating part of the job. It's nice to work with kids and their parents are usually an added bonus and partner in care but, good god, when you get bad ones...it can really...
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    Doctors without Borders refusing free Pfizer vaccines

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to StNeotser's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is probably in the top 10 of the Most Depressing Quotes of 2016: "In this case, to accept a donation is to accept the status quo in which health technology is beholden to the priorities and...
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    New Grad in ICU feeling terrible...,

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to janelicurn's topic in MICU, SICU

    The worksheet was posted on the first page of
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    "Nurse" arrested for using stolen license

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to NurseQT's topic in Nursing News

    Admire.....I do not think it means what you think it
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    quitting school, pls help.

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to mrsmarah's topic in General Students

    Psychology at a Bachelors level is not aligned to nursing but, since you have your BA in English already, you should be able to either get your BA in Psych or just go ahead and get your MCSW. It...
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    Central line compatibility

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to mfarmer88's topic in Critical Care

    It's probably just because the "OMG it's bicarb stop ALL the things!" knee-jerk reaction to the bicarb drip. As the above posters mentioned, you weren't wrong. The ICU was just throwing a hissy fit...
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    Nursing Admissions: A Frustrated Student's Manifesto

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to medicapoetica's topic in General Nursing

    Manifestos are also often associated with other problematic behaviors....ahem....such as those who write their manifestos prior to go onto do a mass shooting. However, those manifestos are generally...
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    Flu shot/husband-looking for advice, not to debate

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to nealiiih's topic in General Nursing

    You can always tell him that part of why the Spanish flu was so deadly was that it took advantage of the strong immune systems of young and middle adults. It is thought that they "over-reacted" to the...
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    Microbiology Case Study Help

    la_chica_suerte85 replied to hhaide1123's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    GBS is usually ascending, bilateral paralysis and it resolves with supportive care. People don't end up progressing to brain death, though the rare unfortunate few who had it d/t a C. jejuni infection...