ShadowNurse

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  1. Fired Because of Lateral Violence

    ShadowNurse posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    I accepted a position about 6 weeks ago with a third-party healthcare staffing agency. Since it's during the school year, they assigned me to school nursing and I chose to be in the float pool....

  2. No Pain Relief for UTI

    ShadowNurse posted a topic in Developmental Disabilities

    My part-time job is as a community health nurse for an autism organization. I go to the independent living homes in the area and keep up the health needs of the residents. Today when I visited a home,...

  3. Mini Rant

    ShadowNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, I have 4 years of pediatric experience in home care. I'd like to expand my skillset on a pediatric hospital floor. Not even a specialty floor, just a regular pediatric floor. Trouble is, 3 years...

  4. Mini Rant

    ShadowNurse replied to ShadowNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for the support, those who were supportive. I don't accept excuses in my life, but everyone gets tired from time to

  5. New private duty LPN feeling incompetent

    ShadowNurse replied to Girlbear's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Private duty is crazy stressful as a new grad; it's what I did right out of the gate. Speak to your supervisor and let them know that you really do not feel comfortable giving such care unsupervised...

  6. Mini Rant

    ShadowNurse replied to ShadowNurse's topic in General Nursing

    My reasoning was that I had to work. I have no parents and no one could support me while I spent 4 years not earning enough to live on my

  7. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

    ShadowNurse replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nursing Humor

    Just watched a movie called Black Mass. Great movie, but I was jolted by a crazy error. The main character's 6-year-old son develops Reye Syndrome and is supposedly brain dead and on "life...

  8. What might be going on?

    ShadowNurse replied to Bagatha's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Giving you just thirty days' notice to address what they claim are large and systemic problems (and clearly "or else") is a huge red flag too. My last job was full of BS, but even they were willing to...

  9. Ask Me If I'm Safe At Home

    ShadowNurse replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you so much for this. I grew up with the handsome, charming father who was a monster in private. And the mother who was an RN, and a SANE to boot. Nothing could possibly be going on in our...

  10. And The Reason Nurses Don't Get Fired

    ShadowNurse replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, and the nurse who repeatedly dosed twin toddlers with tracheostomies with PRN Tylenol despite there being no indication for it and no other intervention on night shift. That was her response to...

  11. And The Reason Nurses Don't Get Fired

    ShadowNurse replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse not fired despite more than 15 separate naroctic discrepancies on her shifts. Only action was (temporary) removal of narcotic

  12. Expelled from RN program, looking for options

    ShadowNurse replied to cjprenurse's topic in General Students

    I would not call getting an LPN a "waste of time and money" as that is the route I took to my RN and it worked for me. But I do see a lot of about-to-fail RN students thinking that they should...

  13. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    ShadowNurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    The fact that we are a better option than (for example) Venezuela, whose economy has utterly collapsed and people are starving to death, is not a reason to say we care for our citizens well. And by...

  14. Lost Integrity: When Nursing Students Cheat

    ShadowNurse replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Students

    The closest we ever came in my program was my clinical instructor allowing us to complete our drug cards collaboratively, dividing the assignment into 4 equal parts on a Google+ document and setting a...

  15. Lost Integrity: When Nursing Students Cheat

    ShadowNurse replied to J.Adderton's topic in General Students

    That was one of the perks of being not a particularly popular nursing student for me--no temptation to collaboratively cheat. I had one friend to ask about due dates and clarify questions, and that...

  16. How would Medicare for all affect nursing?

    ShadowNurse replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I think this would be an overall good thing for nurses. Or at the very least, after an adjustment period we would feel little difference. Seriously folks, all other first world countries have some...

  17. What causes you to almost scream (internally of course) during your day?

    ShadowNurse replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing

    Walking into my shift and Mom has not put the (ordered by MD) pulse ox on her sleeping toddler with a tracheostomy who enjoys de-cannulating herself. Mom insists that pulse ox "doesn't work" and wants...

  18. What's your favorite nursing task?

    ShadowNurse replied to beekindRN's topic in General Nursing

    Full showers for people who are total care. I had the sweetest teenage redhead with CP I would wake, shower, dress, brush and braid her hair, brush her teeth, put her AFOs on, get her situated in her...

  19. I hate fake call outs.

    ShadowNurse replied to KonichiwaRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a nurse who gets migraines and so did my mother, also a nurse and much more severely. At first, yes, you cannot bear sound or light so TV isn't an option. But after several hours of hard sleep and...

  20. LGBT Nurses

    ShadowNurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    This topic may have been brought up before, but I'm simply curious to see if other AN members are part of the LGBT community and how that has impacted your nursing career (if at all). As a transgender...

  21. Why did you become a NP?

    ShadowNurse replied to climbingeverest's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    That sounds

  22. Please Help!!

    ShadowNurse replied to gravy94's topic in General Nursing

    I've just gotten started on a four-day stretch of time off. I normally work 40 hours as a home health nurse plus a part-time job as a community health nurse. I take the first weekend of the month off...

  23. Dubious Victories

    ShadowNurse replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    I was at a McDonald's after working out (yup, I know, defeating my own purpose there). A man collapsed over in his booth and his "buddies" promptly abandoned him. An employee and I managed to get him...

  24. Nurses that “only do it for the money”

    ShadowNurse replied to AFJ32780's topic in General Nursing

    Like other commenters say, as long as they do a good job, more power to them. "Only in it for the money" makes a lot of people seem callous when it's usually more complicated than that. Even people...

  25. Looking for advice: I don't like my salary

    ShadowNurse replied to EternalFeather's topic in General Nursing

    Your increase sounds pretty standard. I just had my own annual review and earned a higher-tier raise of 2%, which works out to an extra 0.38 an hour. In almost four years at this job (so almost 4...