CeciBean ASN, RN

MICU/CCU, SD, home health, neo, travel

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    Having issues with being a "babyfaced" nurse.

    CeciBean replied to Ash2016's topic in General Nursing

    When I first got out of nursing school I worked for a brief time in a pediatric hospital. I was 40 then and looked young for my age, but at the time I had teenagers, so I didn't have trouble handling...
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    15 Minutes in the Life of a Nurse

    CeciBean replied to NurseJulie31's topic in General Nursing

    Boy oh boy! That is why I chose to work nights. Stuff still happens, but it happens at a slower pace, thank goodness. What you describe probably happens over a half hour or so, and usually before 10...
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    Nursing, Hurricanes, and Floods.

    CeciBean replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    If I could afford it I would be volunteering with RAM, however my fixed income will not allow for me to fly to Texas and put up in a hotel so I will have to send a donation and leave it at that. They...
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    What is a travel nurse?

    CeciBean replied to guest042302019's topic in Travel

    On the whole I loved my time as a travel nurse! There were times I felt kind of rootless, but that was mostly due to other things going on in my life at the time. What I most enjoyed about being a...
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    Sunday Service and Weekend shift

    CeciBean replied to gigglebotRN's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    The Jewish tradition, from which the Christian tradition springs (please remember that Jesus himself was a Jew) has a principle called "pikuach hanefesh", that is, literally, "to save a soul" or "to...
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    I Should Be in Jail

    CeciBean replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I started out in peds, but after about 8 months, found I couldn't stand it. The kids were fine, but they had PARENTS....like the ones who brought their baby in with badly burned hands. She supposedly...
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    Sent home from clinical :(

    CeciBean replied to marin8campy's topic in General Students

    I have never heard of being sent home from clinical for missing an intervention, much less having to pay to make up a clinical day! Is this an American, for-profit school? My freshman clinical...
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    Would You do This Commute?

    CeciBean replied to westieluv's topic in General Nursing

    Consider it? Ive DONE it! I commuted 3 times a week, 50 minutes each way (more if traffic was bad) so I could work in a decent hospital. If it's day shift, I would definitely do it. Night shift would...
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    Glutton for Punishment?

    CeciBean replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    I've been hearing the same things since I started in 1986, which shows you how old that garbage is. I also quickly learned that there were LVNs (LPNs, in my state) out there who knew a heckuva lot...
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    Fire fighter to ER nurse?

    CeciBean replied to Anthony11's topic in Emergency

    I have a good friend who went the other way, nurse to firefighter/paramedic. Takes all kinds, I
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    Am I too old to become an RN??

    CeciBean replied to bananerz84's topic in LPN to RN

    My good heavens, no! You have developed the maturity that I feel is lacking in many new grads, plus look at all the experience you already have! I went back to school when I was older than you, after...
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    Would you be content if you worked your current job/specialty for the rest of your career?

    CeciBean replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    Now you sound like me! I got horribly bored working at the same place for more than 3-5 years, though. After I more or less settled into cardiac/stepdown/progressive care/tele, I was pretty cool with...
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    Habits you picked up from work...

    CeciBean replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    Always checking out someone's veins for a possible stick or IV site...still do it even though I'm
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    If I have hated home health will I hate critical care?

    CeciBean replied to Green8b's topic in Critical Care

    Keep in mind that this was a few years ago and things may be somewhat different now, but...I worked critical care both before and after I worked home health. At that time, and quite possibly now,...
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    Another Brick in the Wall

    CeciBean replied to lilwhit514's topic in Patient Education

    There is no education in the doctor's office because there is no TIME for education in the doctor's office. The doctor is most likely limited to a 15 or 20 minute visit with the patient. This is due...
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    Cops and Nurses

    CeciBean replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

    I got out of a ticket once when a cop pulled me over for supposedly not stopping at a stop sign (I had). Then he noticed my parking tag, asked me if I worked at that hospital, and on what floor. I...
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    "Breast Is Best": A Mantra to Promote Infant Health? or Stigmatizing Adage to Guilt Moms

    CeciBean replied to cjcsoon2bnp's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know how I got so lucky. I had my babies YEARS ago (my youngest is 38), long before there was any such thing as a lactation consultant. I just assumed I would breastfeed and would be...
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    How do you feel about being a nurse?

    CeciBean replied to Grier's topic in General Nursing

    I kind of miss it, now that I'm retired, but if I had it to do over again I think I'd have finished my linguistics degree and gone on to something else, maybe the foreign service. I liked home health...
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    Confronting Doctors with Wrong Orders

    CeciBean replied to RobbiRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think I might have said something like, "We're doing an awful lot of tests on her to find out what's going on, shouldn't we maybe give her some pain meds just in case there really is something? She...
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    Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

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

    Wearing whites in ICU (well, everyone in the hospital was still wearing them; we were the first unit to go to scrubs.But we didn't have to wear caps!) Murphy drips for TURP patients. IV pumps *only*...
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    Why I'm leaving nursing

    CeciBean replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    If I had it to do over, I think I would have followed my dream to become a CNM. I would have taken position in L&D in the nearby large city rather than in the small town where I lived (I worked...
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    Why I'm leaving nursing

    CeciBean replied to UK nurse88's topic in General Nursing

    Try Ohio, California, or New York. They do. Also, in the otherwise backward and right-to-work (slave) state of Tennessee, the hospital in Oak Ridge is unionized and has a max nurse-patient ratio of...
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    What do you do to volunteer and give back?

    CeciBean replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    I'm retired now but just did my first weekend clinic with Remote Area Medical and I can't wait to do another one! Because of previous commitments in my second career (which has nothing at all to do...
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    New nurse: I get no respect

    CeciBean replied to Nurse326's topic in Emergency

    Bull pucky. There is no exception. People with your attitude are the PROBLEM in
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    Psych nurses being forced to float to med surg and tele?

    CeciBean replied to lovetosleep's topic in Psychiatric

    This sounds like the solution of a bean counter and not someone who has any experience whatsoever with nursing. If the CNO went along with it, it was only because s/he is in fear for their own job....