Aliareza BSN

Aliareza has 9 years experience as a BSN.

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

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in COVID

   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 + peg and LTAC. We did the surgery that Mon...

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

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in COVID

   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 hope after ventilation and do the trach and peg t...

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

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in COVID

   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 sister, who is heartbroken that she can't even really see he...

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

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in COVID

   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 refused). Her biggest issue is that she weighed 33...

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

   Aliareza posted a topic in COVID

   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 she was able to tell us her wishes regarding the d...

6. Advice for an itchy nurse?

   Aliareza replied to adventure_rn's topic in Uniform/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 cheap metal. It should stay on a good while, it won't ...

7. 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 as a nurse anyway; I type in the problem, get a li...

8. 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". Everybody wanted me to go back and do my master's be...

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

   Aliareza replied to Aliareza's topic in MICU

   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 just thinking over why I'm a nurse, what I love about...

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

    Aliareza posted a topic in MICU

    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 manager is never going to grow a backbone and fight...

11. refusing assignment

    Aliareza replied to texas_rn11's topic in Agency

    I don't know if you're trying to sound extremely bitter and biased against agency nurses but that's how it's coming off. At my facility, any new nurse being hired on would get 6-8 weeks of training. An agency nurse might only get 1 week and then be ...

12. The rudest thing that's ever been said to you by a patient or family

    Aliareza replied to nikkole318's topic in Relations

    Lots of little old ladies calling me fat. I just laugh at them and tell them they're beautiful too xD. I've had some patients say some truly mean things. The key is just to laugh at them and kill 'em with kindness. My favorite insult was about a part...

13. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    Aliareza replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    Being a nurse didn't really lead to me being able to buy more luxury items. It led to me being able to afford my own apartment, and then help the SO out with college. But I can honestly say that if I wasn't spreading so much of my money around to hel...

14. When you want to slap your co-workers

    Aliareza replied to thecrossfitrn's topic in Relations

    Couldn't you just tell them what you're thinking? Perspective is everything. Don't do it in an "You ingrates! You don't even know hardship!" kind of way. Do it like, "Hey, it could be worse. At my last job, we all took # patients and had no tech and ...

15. Can I ask to work exclusively day shifts?

    Aliareza replied to kassiahgp's topic in General Nursing

    TBH rotating seems ridiculously unnecessary and torturous, and I would never consider it unless I had literally no other options. I doubt I'll ever be in that bad a spot. Where I live, nights are (sometimes) quieter and (always) come with higher pay...