Tomascz ASN, RN

Tomascz has 9 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in Wound care; CMSRN.

Latest Activity

1. 

   Ceased placement due to not taking vital signs properly

   Tomascz replied to Kirsten Kurian's topic in General Students

   Subjective assessments like the one you apparently failed can be used unfairly to eliminate students from nursing programs who the instructors or others "feel" are not up to some unwritten standard in their performance or aptitude for the job. A c...
2. 

   Endorsing License

   Tomascz replied to RN in the making's topic in General Nursing

   Not sure how you were able to pass the NCLEX, which is identical across the country, and obtain a compact license, which is good in about 27 states, yet not be able to work in the sate you went to school is in, and not be able to go to work as a bona...
3. 

   Any Nurses That Didn't Get COVID Vacc/Booster for Complio?

   Tomascz replied to NoFly-4645's topic in General Students

   If you're only accepting feedback that is consistent with your prejudices, you might want to look at another line of work because nursing school is gonna eat your lunch. Sorry; not sorry.
4. 

   Failed Orientation

   Tomascz replied to Sapa22's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know what this means. I'm assuming your preceptor was not satisfied with your performance, apprised you of the facts (at least once previously, in writing) and then reported the situation to their supervisor who removed you to another positio...
5. 

   Should RaDonda Vaught Have Her Nursing License Reinstated?

   Tomascz replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   Wow! 27 pages of replies to this and most replies are in the negative. I've been a nurse and I've been a law enforcement officer with 45 arrests for various things with 44 of those resulting in convictions. If you're going to make an arrest and ...
6. 

   Can I file a complaint against a facility

   Tomascz replied to bixbie's topic in General Nursing

   "If you didn't chart it, it didn't happen". So if nothing happened, how do I chart that? You make a pointless, but factually true entry and sign it. This is another example of why hospitals and other care facilities don't have the nursing staff the...
7. 

   Leaving a first job during orientation

   Tomascz replied to rosecm88's topic in New Nurse

   You can not take care of 8 Med Surg pts at a time safely. They're in the hospital because they are acutely ill and they are not inherently stable. If one crashes, you might get lucky and do what's necessary to get backup and get the pt out of trouble...
8. 

   Wrong Department?

   Tomascz replied to NNF2015's topic in General Nursing

   Get out of there as fast as you can. It's your "manager" that sux. If you're not comfortable w your skill level, get training. My best preceptors had at least 20 yrs or more. They didn't get their confidence by whining to someone pretending to be a m...
9. 

   Shift Nurses Post-Pandemic

   Tomascz replied to Aaron Smith's topic in General Nursing

   The action that needs to be taken is to get "profit" out of "healthcare", and I'm not talking about wages for time spent. You can call it private enterprise or capitalism or whatever you want, but any part of the system that simply exists to extrac...
10. 

    Shift Nurses Post-Pandemic

    Tomascz replied to Aaron Smith's topic in General Nursing

    Well put. For some reason I've become increasingly unable to keep a civil tongue in my head in the face of this kind of naked ignorance/avarice/opportunism at the expense of people who've been giving their all for the last few years.
11. 

    Shift Nurses Post-Pandemic

    Tomascz replied to Aaron Smith's topic in General Nursing

    I could tell he wasn't an RN right off the bat. Basically what he's describing is Gig work for nurses; like Uber or Lyft or pizza delivery. As far as these guys are concerned, we're all interchangeable; indistinguishable cogs in a corporate machine. ...
12. 

    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in COVID

    Doesn't look like we're going to get the reproduction rate of Covid under Ro1. Woulda been nice. So called "herd immunity" doesn't actually occur until the disease stops spreading, which is to say; when the transmission rate drops under Ro1 through ...
13. 

    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in COVID

    2 initial 21+ days apart (turns out now not to have been optimum) and a booster 6 mo's later.
14. 

    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in COVID

    If we had a cheap accurate and fast dipstick for this it would solve a lot of problems. And yes, I am not unaware of the weirdness. Some days I just want to walk away. I did for 10 months until I could get at least a little bit of a leg up. I know ...
15. 

    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in COVID

    The problem is you work with sick people who pose a lot of risk, to you and everyone else. If you've had Covid and you're doing OK now, good onya, but you have no right to expose others as an unprotected carrier. That's where good PPE and diligent in...