Aliareza BSN

Aliareza has 10 years experience as a BSN.

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1. Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Aliareza replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   Several things: First, the fact that nurses at that time had to override anything they gave from the med Pyxis, down to the simplest bag of saline. Second, the fact that Vaught was floated to the...

2. Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Aliareza replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   You'll side-step it ad infinitum but you won't actually just answer the question I've asked several times so I don't know what more to say to you. There is no getting around it: The answer is yes....

3. Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Aliareza replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think there's anything simple about it. She made a mistake that killed a patient. There were many factors involved, her own negligence and poor practice included. There is no questioning that....

4. Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Aliareza replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   Will you claim that Vanderbilt had no hand in this patient's death? The environment in which she worked sounds absolutely appalling to me as a nurse of ~10 years, and yet I have worked in similar...

5. Radonda Vaught is charging $10,000 per speaking engagement.

   Aliareza replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

   Eh. I have mixed feelings on it myself. She was truly thrown under the bus. She was incredibly remorseful from the very start and showed that in every action she took. She immediately admitted her...

6. My mother caught COVID and is on the ventilator -- now what?

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in Disaster Preparation

   She took a sharp turn for the better within about 36 hours of that care conference. One lung started to clear up and her vent settings were able to be turned down enough that she qualified for a trach...

7. My mother caught COVID and is on the ventilator -- now what?

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in Disaster Preparation

   That's just it. I think part of us will wonder if we stop now would she have improved had we just given her x number more weeks to let her lungs recover? But I have seen SO MANY families cling to that...

8. My mother caught COVID and is on the ventilator -- now what?

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I know ☹️. It's so difficult to see her mind still there and active while her lungs stall out and fail. There is so much she's never gotten to see. She has a new grandbaby on the way via my...

9. My mother caught COVID and is on the ventilator -- now what?

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in Disaster Preparation

   She'll be 60 in September. She was generally unhealthy, maybe getting into pre-diabetic territory and probably had undiagnosed OSA (my sister and I both told her she needed a sleep study but she...

10. My mother caught COVID and is on the ventilator -- now what?

    Aliareza posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    So to make a long story short, she didn't get vaccinated and caught COVID in early June. She was hospitalized on the 11th and slid downhill until she had to be intubated. She got a night's warning so...

11. Advice for an itchy nurse?

    Aliareza replied to adventure_rn's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Paint the back with clear nail polish (or glittery/colorful, if it suits your fancy). This is what I have to do when I get a nice necklace pendant that causes my chest to break out because of the...

12. Care plan books..yes or no?

    Aliareza replied to LaBellaVita's topic in General Students

    Fully agree on the usefulness of a care plan book. Not one that teaches you how to write them, just one that comes with a bunch of premade care plans. That's basically all you ever do with care plans...

13. Your decision to pursue nursing?

    Aliareza replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    I have a business degree and started out in that area when I graduated. I felt horribly unfulfilled doing it and knew I hated it. Plus it was very hard to find anything with "just a 4 year degree"....

14. Want to swap to ICU but I cry during codes

    Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in MICU, SICU

    Thank you all for the insight and input. I didn't see that last reply about processing my feelings until just now, but that's what I think I've needed to do all along. I've spent the past few days...

15. Want to swap to ICU but I cry during codes

    Aliareza posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I'm currently working on an ortho floor at just over 1 year into nursing and am ready for a change. I love my ortho patients but we're just too short-staffed for me to properly care for them, and my...