PrimaFacie

PrimaFacie

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About PrimaFacie

PrimaFacie has 20 years experience.


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  1. New LPN in LTC and I am drowning

    I strongly agree with JZ_RN. About 5 years ago I took a night RN position in LTC. I had always done ER & OB and was pretty efficient, but in my 'old age' I wanted to try something slower pace. I found very quickly that LTC was not slower pace. ...
  2. Do I need Malpractice insurance?

    Why do they even know she has it? It's not on any public record that you have MI. Get it and don't tell anyone except your attorney, when/if you need to use it.
  3. Is this badge holder too morose?

    That too, but other actions which ignore IC measures help spread ick all around. Jewelry, pins, headbands, badge holders, nail polish, fake nails........all these things that some nurses seem to not be able to live without sometimes....all carry ge...
  4. Is this badge holder too morose?

    And this attitude is why MRSA is an epidemic.
  5. Is this badge holder too morose?

    But aren't you missing the point? How is it displaying your own personality when you wear the logo/art of some company? All you are doing is advertising for that company. There is no individuality displayed in this action....on the contrary, it is a ...
  6. Is this badge holder too morose?

    is it really your personality portrayed, when you snap on an item with logo/saying/artwork of some company? rosie the riveter is a cultural icon of the united states, representing the american women who worked in factories during world war ii,[1][2][...
  7. Is this badge holder too morose?

    i've seen so many cutsie type things on uniforms that could potentially harbour bacteria and i just don't get why a nurse, who is supposed to be advocating for their patients would choose to endanger patients and themself just to be all b[color=#00ff...
  8. Need advice after losing first nursing job

    I'm never ok with lying, even if the job market is bad. But the OP said they were making financial cutbacks....so a truthful statement here is: They were making cutbacks and I was the least experienced nurse on the unit.
  9. Need advice after losing first nursing job

    This is a tough situation. It won't be constructive or helpful to criticize your school or your new grad program for lack of preparing you. From reading this board lately, it seems many new grads are not ready for the real-life world of how hard ...
  10. Never placed an IV!!!!!

    Esme, whew, thank you, because I was starting to feel like some in this conversation thought I invented the practice, and was being blamed for it. I do have a few last thoughts on this, but I'll keep them to myself and hope that the topic can go b...
  11. Witnessed abuse, nothing being done?

    A lot of patients/residents are fearful of staff treating them with predijuice if they report anything....so possibly the investigation bombed when they interviewed the resident. Recently, when my mother was in the hospital, I got my own lesson on th...
  12. Never placed an IV!!!!!

    A deficiency in human decency?? Because someone has different ethics than you about something that does no harm, does not make them a lesser human being. For people who are so up in arms about something that still exists today in medical schools, l...
  13. Which FNP programs are the shortest?

    "On October 25, 2004, the members of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) endorsed the Position Statement on the Practice Doctorate in Nursing. AACN member institutions voted to move the current level of preparation necessary for ad...
  14. What kind of PSYCH disorder does this sound like?

    Strange....this is a nursing forum, and nurses aren't allowed to diagnose, so as a nurse, why do you need an unofficial/armchair Dx to "know where to start"? Seriously, you are treading in dangerous, unethical and possibly illegal waters trying to ...
  15. Your thoughts on being "written up".

    What I always found much more scary, on nurses endangering themselves, was how so many disregarded or only halfway used precautions in rooms where pts had MRSA. Then they would inevitably say; "we are all colonized anyhow." Bulls***.