o3lissao

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1. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   o3lissao replied to DesertRN2's topic in COVID

   I refused the flu shot and I intend to keep doing so, my parents never vaccinated my brother or me and we rarely get sick (knock on wood). Maybe we have just been lucky. I haven't gotten the flu or really sick at all in the time I've been working in ...

2. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Relations

   McLennan THANK YOU. I promise I am not a bad person, I am not an ageist, I don't go to work with the intentions of being negative and ruining someone's day. I'm a real person with real limits working at a hospital like so many with its flaws trying t...

3. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Relations

   It's not the appearance of the advanced age, it's the tons of blue eyeshadow or the area where one tries to fill in their eyebrows but misses the area where the brows are and ends up drawing lines on their head. Patient families have voiced concerns ...

4. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Relations

   NO ONE GOES OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE HER CRY. No one sleeps better at night thinking they could have ruined her day. The point was that we have tried helping her but at our wits end dealing with her. Night after night, the same medication warning pop...

5. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Relations

   Thanks for weighing in nurseladybug. To bring up another subject someone bashed me for related to this post, the more I think about it, it grates on me too that people acted like I shouldn't have mentioned her appearance. The hospital addresses appe...

6. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Relations

   Thanks for your input Decembergrad. I try to be professional in the work place to the best of my skills. I went to nursing school like everyone else, I can step back and look at a situation critically. If she were a fantastic nurse with all these s...

7. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Relations

   So, you think it's a legit practice to take a COPD patient out to smoke? Or cardiac patients when smoking is a major contributing factor for their heart disease in the first place? You're right, negotiating a nicotine patch is wayyy more time consumi...

8. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Relations

   Ok people, I agree I posted this when I was annoyed in the heat of the moment and came off a little more harsh than I meant too. But let me clarify some things. First, the smoking thing. Our campus has a strict NO SMOKING policy so helpful or not, it...

9. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

   o3lissao replied to o3lissao's topic in Relations

   You can believe what you want but it's all the truth. And idk anything about age baiting, it's just the jokes we make at the hospital where I work and mean til add an anecdotal aspect to the story as to encourage others to do the same. And as for m...

10. Elderly coworkers becoming a burden.

    o3lissao posted a topic in Relations

    I work on a busy telemetry unit. We have an RN on night shift that is in her 70s and while she is the nicest, sweet old lady, with a great sense of humor, when it comes to nursing, ITS TIME TO RETIRE GRANDMA. The saddest thing about this situation is...

11. Ever have a patient complain about you?

    o3lissao replied to love lilacs's topic in Relations

    I feel like most complaints arise out of one single solitary thing that happens or a simple misunderstanding, the patient (or usually the family member) puts a target on your back and a chip on their own shoulder, and then they pick apart and look fo...

12. What is your Achilles heel?

    o3lissao replied to cjdmomma's topic in General Nursing

    Poop, puke, sputum, I can handle all that. Ive never had to deal with the eye stuff but I think I would be ok. What really revolts me to the point I hold my breathe and leave the room is skin flakes. OMMMGG when I have to pull off a sock or change a ...

13. Burned out and hate nursing

    o3lissao replied to RN1023's topic in Stress 101

    I feel the same way. I keep trying to figure out if its the facility where I work, if its night shift or if its bedside nursing or nursing in general that I hate. There are so many things about this career I did not anticipate based on what we learne...