HiddencatBSN

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  1. COVID-Positive Nurses Working: Irresponsible or Smart?

    HiddencatBSN replied to J.Adderton's topic in Disaster Preparation

    An asymptomatic positive nursing home employee is credited with spreading COVID to 30+ residents at a home here, and they get tested regularly so this person was at work only a few shifts between...

  2. Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    HiddencatBSN replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why do straight people go around flaunting their sexuality? Oh, because mentioning your life casually in conversation isn’t flaunting. And avoiding making the same casual mention of partners and...

  3. Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    HiddencatBSN replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    FYI, “it” is never appropriate to use for someone’s pronoun like this. I saw it thrown in elsewhere in this thread as well and it’s reflects a big knowledge gap on caring for transgender...

  4. Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    HiddencatBSN replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I’m responding to what is being directly and clearly communicated in this thread, that advocacy for LGBTQ+ issues has no place in our work as nurses and that the OP needs to keep their head down and...

  5. Confused about IV Infusion that should not be stopped

    HiddencatBSN replied to Demareseitipota's topic in General Nursing

    Is this a clinical instructor? There were certain high risk medications we were not to touch in

  6. 80% BSN by 2020: Where Are We Now?

    HiddencatBSN replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    There are different associate degrees though, Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN), and Associate of Applied Science in Nursing. Iirc the ADN is more common so...

  7. Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    HiddencatBSN replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Attitudes (and quality of healthcare) are not static regarding marginalized groups and it is *because* people stopped “keeping their heads down” so I’m not sure what alternate history the poster...

  8. 80% BSN by 2020: Where Are We Now?

    HiddencatBSN replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Nursing

    I think having multiple paths to nursing to increase the accessibility of the career is important. If it’s the curriculum that makes the difference and schools are covering the same curriculum,...

  9. Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    HiddencatBSN replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How they treated the OP is not happening in a vacuum hermetically sealed off from patient care. Using a patient’s stated pronouns is incredibly relevant in providing culturally competent patient...

  10. Experiencing racism and xenophobia when coming to CA to help with Covid

    HiddencatBSN replied to xwill327's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Except we care for patients who are part of the LGBTQ+ community and patients who aren’t white. Staff expressing those views to coworkers are potentially harming patients with their biases. I...

  11. Nursing and Direct Action

    HiddencatBSN replied to guest1054874's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So, I think you maybe don’t have much experience with nonviolent civil disobedience. When people engage in those actions there is a lot of preparation around the possibility or probability of...

  12. How soon can we expect to see cases go down now that Biden is president?

    HiddencatBSN replied to DesiDani's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    “We don’t follow contact tracing protocols so contact tracing doesn’t work” is poor

  13. President Trump and the First Lady Test COVID Positive

    HiddencatBSN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    We get regular updates on our bed availability in our COVID ICU and med surg units and we’ve seen the availability of beds decrease- often when the emails come out the ICU is full lately. But I...

  14. Ever date a patient? Or would you?

    HiddencatBSN replied to MarkMyWords's topic in General Nursing

    I mean let’s be real, if I’m going to ? where I ear it’s gonna be the option that gets me a fancy car and

  15. Nursing and Direct Action

    HiddencatBSN replied to guest1054874's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I want to point out that our ethical obligations and legality can at times be in conflict. People who hid Jews from Nazis were breaking the law, underground railroad conductors were breaking the law,...

  16. Ever date a patient? Or would you?

    HiddencatBSN replied to MarkMyWords's topic in General Nursing

    No, I’m too busy trying to marry a

  17. New grad ED woes.. advice appreciated

    HiddencatBSN replied to NewGradEDRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think it can’t hurt to apply to that other ED again. Worst case scenario it sounds like you’ll have a job on another unit in your current hospital. 5+ preceptors is a lot when it’s not one or...

  18. Nursing and Direct Action

    HiddencatBSN replied to guest1054874's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Direct action protest is often not a public relations campaign, but a method to make it costly, difficult, or impossible for an injustice to be carried out. And with the way protests are being policed...

  19. When to turn in resignation?

    HiddencatBSN replied to PirateNurse06's topic in General Nursing

    They have time to figure it

  20. Nursing and Direct Action

    HiddencatBSN replied to guest1054874's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This is something I’ve always been worried about and have never felt comfortable finding out about through experience. I still go to protests but especially with the current political landscape that...

  21. When to turn in resignation?

    HiddencatBSN replied to PirateNurse06's topic in General Nursing

    Wait until the offer is finalized. Answer your current managers as though you do not have another job lined up as although you likely will, at this time, you

  22. New Grads and Acute Care Hiring

    HiddencatBSN replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in General Nursing

    Right? As soon as it veered in to the ADN vs BSN thing (and presented like it’s a novel discovery no one has ever brought up before) I felt so

  23. New Grads and Acute Care Hiring

    HiddencatBSN replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in General Nursing

    OK, and who decides this? The new grad (or the nurse who is very much still a baby nurse with 2 years of experience)? What do you know about the sacrifices to their health and home life other nurses...

  24. New Grads and Acute Care Hiring

    HiddencatBSN replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in General Nursing

    I’m aware of the history. I don’t get wistful for days of increased employer control over their workers or limited rights and choices for

  25. New Grads and Acute Care Hiring

    HiddencatBSN replied to CardiTeleRN's topic in General Nursing

    It’s a bit weird to me when people get misty-eyed about the days when you could be kicked out of nursing school for being married or