None of you will like what I have to say. But let me kick the hard truth to you. Honestly about 50% of people I talk to are in nursing school or are taking pre-reqs for nursing school. This is a major red flag for several reasons. If you have not noticed, nursing wages/benefits have been on the down trend.
Pension?? goodbye.
Crud 401k 403b plans hello. Raise? LOL "sorry hospital is working out financial issues, maybe next year".
Nevermind if you work for a community/SNF agency. Yet insurance companies, medicare derived/gov agencies, and anyone else from the top 1% will continue to blast the RN as "shortage" in order to drive drones of students into nursing schools pulling each others hair out on the way to land a seat. Proof of this is, let's see (ABSN ***** ADN, BSN, diploma, LPN/LVN bridge to RN programs, RN to BSN) Why do these different routes exist? To flood the RN market as fast as possible to drive the wage, need, and profession into the ground.
Let's look at our oh so loyal CNA's. If you can find one that isn't in nursing school to be a nurse, ask them how much they make?
Look at LPN's 20-30 years ago and look at them today??
Surely the ANA and other organizations treated them with respect. The RN is next, so make sure to support your local nursing agency so they can do nothing for you. So they can be paid off by organizations so powerful that no one can say no and "not have the power to stop a bill". So they can continue to cry nursing shortage when this is not true.
RNs today are treated like children and are required to demonstrate fundamental task and other skills in inservices which were designed for nothing else but cut throat. To place blame of UTI's and poor patient satisfaction on the nurse.
If you are an RN today, your only safety net is to become an APRN if you want to live comfortably but in several decades the APRN will be under attack just like the LPN had been an RNs currently are. "OH the aging population is going to need nurses" You really think so?
Nursing homes are shutting down and now elderly people live at home with "24 hour care takers" that get paid **** wages and do things only an RN should be doing. You don't think so? Wake up.
None of this is to say that I hate nursing. I love helping people who are mentally ill, suffering from dementia, sick, or on their death beds. It is when we do great things for them that my love for nursing shines. There aren't other people standing around to reward you for your great deeds.
When the family comes in the next day complaining about everything, they never had a chance to see how well their dying loved one was cared for. Your good deeds will never be rewarded, but in a safe place in your heart.
I am just here to open the eyes of people who are intelligent and looking for a new career. I think you may find better job security else where. Invest your time in classes and money else where. Nursing is honestly under great attack right now and the future is black.
Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
All these accounts are Amanda Trujillo.
I had the same thought - the crazy nurse who if you look her up lost her licenses because she presented herself as an NP which she was not (Charged as a nurse imposter) then failed to show up for her hearing so her license was summarilly revoked.
I had the same thought - the crazy nurse who if you look her up lost her licenses because she presented herself as an NP which she was not (Charged as a nurse imposter) then failed to show up for her hearing so her license was summarilly revoked.
The plot thickens! What am I missing...how did you know who to look up?!
I did find this article about Ms.Trujillo interesting, whether or not she is kuippo and/or pearybrown:
Well publicized case here in AZ. She was most recently listed as an imposter nurse on the BON website last fall. Apparently she kept representing herself as a nurse after her license was revoked.
Well publicized case here in AZ. She was most recently listed as an imposter nurse on the BON website last fall. Apparently she kept representing herself as a nurse after her license was revoked.
Ah, I see. You'd see the similarities immediately, then, if it's all in the local news. But like I had posted to her (under the other name) I don't really see the point of railing about the AZ BoN on AN, "warning" everyone about them.....it's not like it's an optional club membership people can refuse if they want to work in AZ.
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
I find nurses who are B/C students are more than capable. Getting straight As means nothing when you lack common sense!!!!! I bet your friend is great in what she is doing!!!!
Or worse, they cheated their way through nursing school. (I know a nurse who had her brother write all her papers for her BSN. She got kicked out of an MSN program. that's what happens when you cheat You will get caught) She also lacks common sense.
I am Peary Brown and I am not Nurse Trujillo. Although I have responded in her defense is because her case is significant in many ways which does not depict many nurses and the organization as such individuals as open minded and concerns for patient education and safety. I've been an RN for 35 yrs and a military nurse in combat and the Amanda Trujillo case, in its true light, represents, in part, why the Senate Sub Committee On Public Safety in July of 2014 reported the worst health care ratings in patient safety in its history. What Amanda did in terms of Nurse Practice Act Violations is so minimal it only raises the curiosity factor as to why it even came forward for discipline. Those who come forward and berate her and believe she is an imposter are what the true meaning of"Nurses Eat There Young". Nurse Trujillo is a victim of corporate nursing. The case brought against her was vindictive and inaccurate. Just because the Board says something doesn't necessarily make it so, and in this case, even if it is true, it is nothing. She interrupted the money train, thats all.
I am Peary Brown and I am not Nurse Trujillo. Although I have responded in her defense is because her case is significant in many ways which does not depict many nurses and the organization as such individuals as open minded and concerns for patient education and safety. I've been an RN for 35 yrs and a military nurse in combat and the Amanda Trujillo case, in its true light, represents, in part, why the Senate Sub Committee On Public Safety in July of 2014 reported the worst health care ratings in patient safety in its history. What Amanda did in terms of Nurse Practice Act Violations is so minimal it only raises the curiosity factor as to why it even came forward for discipline. Those who come forward and berate her and believe she is an imposter are what the true meaning of"Nurses Eat There Young". Nurse Trujillo is a victim of corporate nursing. The case brought against her was vindictive and inaccurate. Just because the Board says something doesn't necessarily make it so, and in this case, even if it is true, it is nothing. She interrupted the money train, thats all.
And do you have any first-hand, objective information on the Trujillo case, or does her version of events just coincide with your existing views about the AZ BON? The Working Nurse article sounds pretty compelling. Is that all lies?
I am Peary Brown and I am not Nurse Trujillo. Although I have responded in her defense is because her case is significant in many ways which does not depict many nurses and the organization as such individuals as open minded and concerns for patient education and safety. I've been an RN for 35 yrs and a military nurse in combat and the Amanda Trujillo case, in its true light, represents, in part, why the Senate Sub Committee On Public Safety in July of 2014 reported the worst health care ratings in patient safety in its history. What Amanda did in terms of Nurse Practice Act Violations is so minimal it only raises the curiosity factor as to why it even came forward for discipline. Those who come forward and berate her and believe she is an imposter are what the true meaning of"Nurses Eat There Young". Nurse Trujillo is a victim of corporate nursing. The case brought against her was vindictive and inaccurate. Just because the Board says something doesn't necessarily make it so, and in this case, even if it is true, it is nothing. She interrupted the money train, thats all.
The allegations against Ms Trujillo are public record. She allegedly "educated" a patient with an upcoming liver transplant by going into the room at 2am-ish while the patient was groggy from narcotics and told them that, among other things, being a transplant receiver entails "being hounded and hounded by the transplant people" and that they should consider hospice.
Now, whether or not this is true, I do not know. That's what the trial seeks to discover. But for you to say that the allegations are trivial and that even if they're true, they're "nothing", is disturbing. Particularly considering you're a 35-year experienced RN. If these allegations are true, they constitute a gross breach of ethics, and license revocation would be justified.
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