lemur00 BSN, RN

lemur00 has 12 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Palliative.

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1. Is the increased love for healthcare workers an irony that will fade away when things get better?

   lemur00 replied to DesiDani's topic in COVID

   Don't confuse love and "love-bombing". People clap and post memes, meanwhile in my province we've been working without a contract for two years while we battle a pay cut and for our hard won right to determine staffing. To be fair we're better off th...

2. Spouse of nurse

   lemur00 replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

   It would be a stereotype if I had assumed this was always the case, which my wording intentionally precludes. It is, however, a generalization that has been shown to have an evidence base, both anecdotally and in various types of research.

3. Spouse of nurse

   lemur00 replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

   It really isn't. A 50/50 split doesn't mean just money. Often in a financially unequal relationship, the disparity is made up for in other ways. For example the 1950s housewife that's been thrown around worked as the manager of the household for f...

4. "Not sure what unit you will be hired into..."

   lemur00 replied to TitaniumPlates's topic in General Nursing

   All this trouble could have been saved with an oxford comma ? Ie "...garbage shifts, and positions no one can fill..." Oxford comma ftw. That said, I would guess like others that the position is for one of multiple ICUs, or floats between them. Othe...

5. Nurse Charged With Homicide

   lemur00 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Extenuating circumstances are a thing when it comes to real justice. And the purpose of law is ostensibly meant to be justice (though it rarely is). This is why most law systems have moved to a focus on rehabilitation rather than retribution. Retribu...

6. Are We Too PC?

   lemur00 replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah, most discussions of "PC" succumb quickly to the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. It's helpful to actually define political correctness. Political correctness in the 90s had to do mostly with allowing marginalized groups to have a say and was concer...

7. Boomerang Coworkers

   lemur00 replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

   In Canada we have long mat leaves so positions are usually filled temporarily for a year and a half to cover that leave. In SK we can also revert to our original line in three months if we don't like the new position. It makes the moves less risky to...

8. No Respect.

   lemur00 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

   I feel your pain. We had a pt that somehow obtained the site manager's number and called to complain vociferously that the nurses were purposefully neglecting her by refusing to get her water and ice while they ran a code in the next bed. You laugh ...

9. Getting around the 18 y.o requirement

   lemur00 replied to npaar's topic in Pre-Nursing

   It's true. I was a 45 year old bitter divorcee in a child's body. My dad called me "little grandma". One time we were discussing crazy things kids do, and I noted that I never did any of those things. My dad replied "that's because you were never a ...

10. Feeling Forced to Stay Late?

    lemur00 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    On nights we rearrange the teams or work a team alone (we have rn/lpn teams in most facilities and units), or there will be float coverage (not necessarily someone on the unit though). We also have evening and weekend managers who can approve calling...

11. Feeling Forced to Stay Late?

    lemur00 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    I always found this odd. None of the facilities I've ever worked in has made staff stay. You can choose to stay for a while for ot, but if you're working 12s you can only stay for 4 hours anyway because it's against the law to work more than 16 at a ...

12. I GOTTA KNOW!!!!!

    lemur00 replied to qaqueen's topic in General Nursing

    We've been short of urinals and had cutlery removed in the last year or so (this is in Canada). We were told it was because of the stupid lean process though. The service aid had a bunch of urinals secretly hoarded in a locked room no one ever uses o...

13. did any of you share your first job offer on Facebook?

    lemur00 replied to mixtapern's topic in General Nursing

    I did with no harm. Since there is only one employer here, I didn't need to say who it was. They are listed as my employer, which I've tried to make private but it keeps showing up. That just means being careful about posting, which probably isn't a...

14. Is Anyone A Highly Sensitive Nurse?

    lemur00 replied to PrincessNur's topic in Relations

    My understanding of HSPs is that they process sensory input much more intensely and thoroughly, thus less input is needed and also tolerated. The downside of that is that the threshold for sensory input becoming annoying or overwhelming is lower, bec...

15. Overweight Healthcare Workers

    lemur00 replied to EmpoweRN's topic in General Nursing

    If they do, they'll have to do away with shift work and other stressors, since these contribute to obesity. ... That said, if a facility wanted to help improve employee health, there are a lot systemic changes that can be made from the top with no...