invisigoth

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1. Suicidal thoughts every week before first shift

   invisigoth replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

   I can RELATE. This is the realest post on the Internet right now. I've facing this decision right now. I gave home health a year, and I'm done LOL

2. African American patients - a cultural question

   invisigoth replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Relations

   They may very well be reacting to you being white if they're black American. Some people just don't talk their business like some white people do. It takes time to open up to people that they may not like,etc.etc. different from them and so on. I wea...

3. African American patients - a cultural question

   invisigoth replied to 0.adamantite's topic in Relations

   Playing possum is nothing new. I take care of older white people and sometimes they do the same to me. then they usually end up looking for me later anyway haha.

4. Remembering the First Black U.S. Army Nurse During Black History Month

   invisigoth replied to TheCommuter's topic in Government

   She talks about her encounters with Americans during her travels to Panama,etc. It wasn't exactly a welcome mat I read her book and decided to stay in nursing school.

5. Remembering the First Black U.S. Army Nurse During Black History Month

   invisigoth replied to TheCommuter's topic in Government

   The best reliable info about Mary Seacole is in her autobiography. British soldiers worshipped her as Mother Seacole. She spent her own money to go serve the British army and when she had none left they remembered her. I highly recommend her book whi...

6. 1st LTC Job! Am I suppose to hate it?

   invisigoth replied to YesImVictorious's topic in Geriatric

   Four years later... my job in LTC still sucks LOL. Oh well.

7. Racial Refusals In Nursing

   invisigoth replied to TheCommuter's topic in Relations

   I went to a flu clinic in klan country and I was wearing a turban AND had olive skin. Feh... yes some did not want me giving them their needle sticks. Personally I don't care. That is their issue. I will take care of them all the same. It is funny ho...

8. Don't People Have Bills To Pay?

   invisigoth replied to Ruby Vee's topic in New Nurse

   RE: Not wanting to face certain patient families. I understand this. There are some family members I want to run and hide from. They're usually the ones with half an hour of questions when the first of three long term care medpasses are facing you wi...

9. Don't People Have Bills To Pay?

   invisigoth replied to Ruby Vee's topic in New Nurse

   You're getting old :) I recommend a book Work by Thich Nhat Hanh for the job complainers. Also watch World's Worst Place to be a Nurse on you tube. I also have a picture of Auschwitz on my cellphone to remind me there are worse places to be in life. ...

10. Second Week and I am Very frightened

    invisigoth replied to us2uk4u's topic in New Nurse

    Get a really good organizer like Franklin Covey or Day-Timer. Or make a hipster pda and get into some serious time management. Seeing everything organized helped me to remain sane through nursing school.

11. 11 Things Your Nurse Thinks (But Will Never Tell You)

    invisigoth replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Don't worry. You'll love it anyway no matter what happens. I am a new LPN in an old folks home and I love my job. OTOH, if I said 'your refusal to adhere to the fluid restrictions means job security for me' that would be mean :chuckle

12. Only a third of nurses willing to have swine flu vaccine: poll

    invisigoth replied to CityKat's topic in COVID

    I'm not exactly willing to take it. Then again, I've not taken the hep vaccine either. I was made to take the tetanus shot as a requirement for school graduation. A good website for natural flu defense is utopiasilver.com I've not ordered from them b...

13. Nurse Aide NA/PCT/PCA Jobs @ NYC?

    invisigoth replied to adambell's topic in New York

    I said that myself when I went there to do a makeup clinical while my mother was a patient there. If it wasn't for them, I would have flunked nursing school. They do not hire LPNs though. I was told they retrain LPNs as surgical techs which I wouldn'...

14. If you could no longer work as a nurse, what would you do?

    invisigoth replied to LockportRN's topic in General Nursing

    Chicken and zucchini farmer since managing peeps and rounding up zucchini is almost as challenging as getting cranky old ladies to take pills.

15. Nurse Aide NA/PCT/PCA Jobs @ NYC?

    invisigoth replied to adambell's topic in New York

    I asked one of the CNAs at Memorial Sloan Kettering how much they make and they ballparked it at 30/hr. I took her at her word. 10.84 might be crap where you live but it's above average in my area. I was a nurse aide before I became a nurse and I mad...