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It's really difficult for me to keep my guard up.

I pray and pray everyday. I just want things to be the way they used to be. If I can’t keep my guard up and I feel hurt like this with me just guessing and guessing, I have to put up a wall again. And only for my own good. I don’t know if you can read me, but I obviously haven’t cut the ropes on my end. There’s gotta be a reason behind it, but I don’t know why. I...

Feb 18th

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Feb 13th

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lab values

red app with syringe on it 2.99

Feb 12th

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7028437 →

Feb 9th

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Note to self:

Lactulose isn’t used just to treat constipation. For patients with LIVER PROBLEMS, it draws out the ammonia for them and into the colon so they can poop it out.. Whereas if they had no liver problems, their liver would be able to get rid of the ammonia. Normal ammonia levels are 11-35 mg/dL at Kaiser. So when giving lactulose, see what they’re actually getting it for. Why did the...

Feb 9th

Feb 8th

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In 2013 I will be wearing that Kaiser Permanente...

Feb 8th

I WILL PASS CLINICAL. NOTHING'S STOPPING ME.

Feb 8th

regardless of what it is right now.

i just want to be able to talk to you the way we used to before we were together. before we even liked eachother. or before you even knew my name.

Feb 6th

Feb 5th

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29 y/o male with sickle cell crisis

came in the other day and has not had a single physician or nurse give him O2. proud to say i caught that and took initiative to give it to him myself. it was even in the orders and NOBODY bothered to do it. my instructor wasn’t even there. nigga has sickle cell CRISIS and is satting 90% on ROOM FUCKING AIR. AND THERE WASN’T A NASAL CANNULA HOOKED UP. we just learned this in...

Feb 1st

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note to self: quick jot of today's agenda

wake up 8ish head straight to panera in cerritos to finish up paperwork and study for pharm quiz grub medsurg from 12:30-3:30 study pharm from 4-6 happy hour drinks with the nursing crew again maybe? been craving jeremiah red. hang out with my boys maybe late night happy hour. study?

Jan 19th

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So I hung my very first IV today. :D

3.375 mg of Zosyn. It felt pretty awesome. Every step of the way through actually doing it was awesome, from mixing the contents into 50 mL D5½NS to programming the IV pump to do its thang. Even back-priming the piggy back tubing was awesome. Today was a good day. I suppose you can say having a patient get an early discharge (from yesterday) was a blessing in disguise. It’s kinda...

Jan 19th

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Jan 18th

Tomorrow I'm going to be working on the medical...

There’s such sentimental value attached to this hospital, not just because it’s my dream hospital to work at (when I become an RN), but also because Kaiser is the very hospital that my parents made a living off of. A little over 20 years ago, my parents started working on the med-surg floor together at Harbor City Kaiser. They’d commute all the way from Riverside to Harbor City...

Jan 16th

jonsense: 20 Rules for Formulating Knowledge →

keepsdiary: image via time.com I’m sure I’m not alone in taking the start of the new year as a jumping off point in learning (or relearning) things. As seen in my last post, I’m pushing myself to really get better with the guitar. I recently came across a great article on… I love it! It’s very practical. :-)

Jan 2nd

Jan 1st

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So there are memories we should store away, but...

Dec 31st

Funny how in the span of 2 months..

my “maturation curve” has exponentiated at least three fold.

Dec 31st

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Here's to 2012..

I’ll have to admit I liked 2010 at least a tad bit better than 2011. Though 2011 could’ve been a year in which more important things happened. I do know I fulfilled one of my new year’s resolutions from this year and that was to get accepted into the RN program. I found more time for my friends this year after finishing hibernation in 2010. My family overcame very difficult...

Dec 31st

Watch

hahahhhaha

Dec 25th

Dec 20th

my ukulele rendition of It’s a Small World...

Dec 19th

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Dec 17th

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I keep forgetting about my plan B.

My pop’s always told me to have it ready so that I’ve got something to fall back on. Getting my RN has always been plan A (along with carefully making financial investments), but I’ve been so caught up with studies that I totally forgot about plan B. I’m not going to fail nursing school, but I definitely want to have another career on the side. I know what plan B is...

Dec 17th

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Dec 16th

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If your heart keeps tugging at you, you better...

f*ck what the logic tells you

Dec 15th

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Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person...

there’s no reason to give up something that was good. just because it goes bad on you once, twice, thrice, etc. doesn’t mean it’ll always be that way. that’s just a stupid fabricated little rule our culture instilled in us. if that person makes the same mistake twice, blah blah blah they’re out. that’s bullshit. now hold on to that thought because it’s...

Dec 15th

Dec 13th

Against the grain.

Dec 10th

Dec 5th

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This music's helping me shake off the anxiety a...

I worked very hard this weekend. Hopefully tomorrow’s outcome is good. Jesus, take the wheel!

Dec 5th

Logic tells me where to go from here,

but my poor, little broken heart keeps tugging at me and tells me otherwise.

Dec 4th

Dec 3rd

I really want that guitar.

I know I’d write the sweetest jams right now.. and especially right now.

Dec 3rd

Dec 2nd

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Nov 20th

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Reading about peri op makes me wonder...

Should I be a scrub nurse?! ‘Cause I do want to be in the OR.. I already know I’m gonna be working on the med-surge and telemetry floors for a while, but eventually I wanna do something sexy, Lololol for lack of a better word, down the line. And yes, I have fantasized about getting into anesthesia, but that’s WAY down the line. Anywho, that’s just that. I gotta worry...

Nov 20th

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Congrats to me and my first 100+ notes! haha

So 100 people agree with me on “If there’s a will, there’s a way!” Even better yet, these are people that don’t even know who I am. I’m not going to give up on what I want because I KNOW what I want. And I want what I want with all my heart and soul. That’s a lot of WANTS, man. No matter what anybody says, even if I am told straight forward that it’s...

Nov 20th

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Nov 20th

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being 21 is NOT overrated

i LOVE the nightlife!!

Nov 19th

Do you ever think...

jackieology: that maybe the reason why I wait for you to talk to me first is because I want to know if I cross your mind at some point during your day?

Nov 19th

I may be quiet, but I have so much on my mind.

alyssababbyy: & it’s nights like these where it creeps up on you.

Nov 19th

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