nekozuki LPN

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About nekozuki

nekozuki has 5 years experience as a LPN and specializes in Pediatrics.


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    Racial Discrimination in the Nursing Profession

    A prime example of how racism plays out at my job: I'm biracial, but with my light skin and dye job, I am perceived as a white woman. I am treated differently at my job in subtle ways -- I am seen as more approachable and less aggressive. I am the fi...
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    Valencia college fall 2018

    We received the email last week! On Tuesday, six weeks exactly from the due date.
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    Valencia college fall 2018

    Nothing yet! Myself and two coworkers also applied, none of us have gotten anything.
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    RN's and LPN's working as Nursing Assistants?

    CNA duties *are* nursing duties. There is no separation between the two. For the sake of efficiency, nursing tasks that are safe for a layman to do can be delegated under supervision, but there is ZERO distinction. It's always weird to me when nurses...
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    is this bullying?

    Throw a small group of people together in an extremely stressful, high-pressure and competitive situation, and this sort of thing can happen. Benign quirks and personality differences get blown out of proportion, little annoyances become intolerable,...
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    Lpn to RN fast track

    If you want to avoid hoop-jumping and want easy exams to pass, just go to one of those 50,000 dollar for-profit degree mills that do clinical rotations in some terrible LTC one violation away from being shut down. Standards protect us. Standards ensu...
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    I hate the politics in nursing

    Honestly, pretty much every field sucks. Retail sucks. Hospitality sucks. Some of my friends are engineers, and sometimes it sucks. Education sucks. In just about every job, you have to get up at the same time every day and do things you might not wa...
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    Bizarre Med Order

    Honestly, q4h albuterol is normal in our facilities (different medical daycares and groups homes with patients of various ages and conditions, some ventilator dependent, some that are highly functional and eat/breathe on their own). For a few of my p...
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    Pro Life Beliefs and Nursing

    I'm a queer nurse that must provide care to homophobes and people that think that simply existing in a queer body is bringing about the apocalypse (and tell me to my face). But that doesn't really matter. Nursing isn't about me being a champion of m...
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    Valencia college fall 2018

    I applied for the fall 2018 LPN to RN/accelerated track as well! 4.0 pre-reqs, 3.96 overall GPA, 91 on the TEAS, so I'm not worried about getting in, more worried I missed something on the application or that east campus never passed it along.
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    Can nurses live a luxurious life?

    Income-wise, I'm considered upper middle class for my region, but I also have no student loan debt, no children, and I keep my credit card balance at a few hundred bucks. But I also have to work 60 hours a week, constantly negotiate for higher pay th...
  12. I work in a series of pediatric group homes with six patients staffed by two nurses. Most of the kids are on hospice or PVS, nearly all of them wards of the state with little parental involvement. It's a pretty sad atmosphere where you're just caring...
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    Weird/ Dumb Nursing School Rules

    Underwear color. We were forced to wear all-white scrubs with white underwear to prevent colors/patterns on our butts from showing through. Then, a new clinical instructor later docked us all points for not wearing nude-colored underwear, because the...
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    Not Enough Backup-CPS?

    Thank you so much, SnowyJ. There are so many children whose abuse and exploitation could have and should have been detected, reported, and stopped at the school level, and I'm so grateful you're refusing to play a role in that brand of neglect/inatte...
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    The hamster is loose.

    Any updates on HamsterWatch 2016?