LindaGracie ADN, BSN

LindaGracie has 9 years experience as a ADN, BSN and specializes in geriatric, home health.

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   Ageism in Nursing Employment

   LindaGracie replied to Jmd623's topic in General Nursing

   If you were in South Carolina in my area, we would definitely hire you for our home care and home health agency. We find baby boomers are the best employees. They are loyal, hard workers, dependable and have common sense and critical thinking skills....
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   Can a second degree student apply for a Traditional BSN?

   LindaGracie replied to Helen Lee's topic in Pre-Nursing

   From my understanding the accelerated BSN is for associate degree RNs to get their BSN. I did this. All the courses are nursing courses in the RN-BSN program. In the traditional BSN program, you definitely shouldn't have to take any of those core cou...
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   Deathly Afraid of Critique/Getting in Trouble

   LindaGracie replied to Lynker's topic in General Nursing

   I'm so glad you are finishing up your training and will be working as a supervisor next week. I'm learning about mindfulness through a free program offered by my insurance BCBS. I just started the program this week. It's a 12 week program. That'...
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   Deathly Afraid of Critique/Getting in Trouble

   LindaGracie replied to Lynker's topic in General Nursing

   I'm there with you with the same problems and diagnosis. I had several health issues in 2022 starting with aortic valve replacement surgery, small bowel obstruction a few months later, and then anaphylactic shock from yellow jackets stings a few mont...
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   Fired. How To Get Over It.

   LindaGracie replied to rninformatics's topic in Career Support

   It's so sad that there are so many people in management who do such immature things to just find a petty reason to fire someone just because they don't like them or have a personality conflict. That facility should have checked you off on the compete...
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   Fired. How To Get Over It.

   LindaGracie replied to rninformatics's topic in Career Support

   Thanks for sharing. I have found that there is a lot of inconsistency in what actually happens in healthcare as well as a lot of short cuts. However when it's time for inspection management demands that everyone do everything according to policy.
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   Nurse Incivilities: Does it Start in Academia?

   LindaGracie replied to jknaack's topic in General Nursing

   I am glad you didn't go to that graduate school. That leader is a very irresponsible example and poorly representing that school. Either she has major issues, or the entire school is poorly managed. Either way, I'm glad you went to a reputable and pr...
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   Let's share some nursing tips

   LindaGracie posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was thinking the other night that we need to share techniques and tricks we have learned to complete nursing tasks more efficiently and effectively. I know I am not the only nurse who seems to struggle with successfully completing a nursing task. I...
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   Patient Died in ER lobby

   LindaGracie replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

   Many years ago before I even went to nursing school, my mother-in-law was sitting in the waiting room for migraine type symptoms. There was a gentleman there who had chest pains and N&V and had been waiting about 6 hours. That was an extremely bu...
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    Unemployed 68 yr old NP told she is "too old" for job

    LindaGracie replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

    My first career was a counselor. I had worked at the SC department of Vocational Rehabilitation and would routinely get my clients who were nurses hired at the local technical school as instructors. I even got a disabled physician hired teaching. One...
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    Nursing Judgement vs Physician Orders

    LindaGracie replied to renewyou62's topic in Career Support

    That agency sounds very unethical as far as the nursing staff goes. There are plenty of good home healthcare agencies out there. I think I would consider an assignment with one of the other agencies. When I was younger, I tended to be an outspoken ad...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    LindaGracie replied to TraumaRN52's topic in COVID

    Hi 10GaugeNeedles, I am glad you shared your concerns. I thought the spike proteins produced by the vaccine was free floating rather than attached to the cells. I know that research on Pfizer indicates immunity wanes considerably (drops to around 50%...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    LindaGracie replied to TraumaRN52's topic in COVID

    I know that Bayada doesn't have the vaccine mandate for everyone to be vaccinated. (www.bayada.com) You may want to check with some other home health care and hospice agencies in your area. I just started working at a small home health care agency an...
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    How Should I Respond to a Bad Clinical Eval?

    LindaGracie replied to lcb's topic in General Students

    I've had similar experiences with a few people in authority over the decades and have learned that these people tend to have certain characteristics in common. They tend to be micromanagers, take offense if anyone questions them (insecure and misinte...
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    Social Skills Should Be a Bigger Focus in Nursing School

    LindaGracie replied to Kenneth S. Veillon's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with you Emergent, I was teased as a child (being a preemie, an identical twin, smallest girl in the class, being delayed in speech & a little slower academically) with the desire to be successful but was socially awkward. I still remembe...