StillSearchingRN

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  1. Why haven't hospital systems in hard-hit areas reached out to state BONs to find out if there are former ICU or other high-demand specialty nurses?

    StillSearchingRN replied to A Hit With The Ladies's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm pretty sure @/username was being sarcastic based on the posts of another user and wasn't calling Covid a hoax

  2. Suicidal thoughts every week before first shift

    StillSearchingRN replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry to hear that @pinkdoves! Please look after yourself, take the time you need, and get the help you need. Leaving nursing was the best thing I could have done for my own self-care, even though...

  3. time to bathe patients--whose responsibility and is it every day/when?

    StillSearchingRN replied to pinkdoves's topic in General Nursing

    When I was working LTC, whirlpool bath/shower days were usually care planned on a schedule. Quick bed baths were given at the end of NOC shifts (around 6 am) if the care team (usually 1 RN and 1-2...

  4. Absolutely Fried

    StillSearchingRN replied to StillSearchingRN's topic in General Nursing

    I tried that. I had Employee Health and my PCP involved and it was actually my manager who gave me a hard time and ended up firing me due to mental health reasons, stating "we all go through stressful...

  5. Absolutely Fried

    StillSearchingRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Warning, this is a vent: I am just feeling totally fried in nursing, like I've hit a brick wall and-aside from the drop in income to be honest-I don't care if I ever work in nursing again....

  6. Biggest Pain or Problem

    StillSearchingRN replied to tronix304's topic in General Nursing

    I have been open-handed palm-forward smacked, open-handed back-handed, punched with a closed fist, pinched (on my breasts, buttocks, as well as just general areas), kicked (once across the room, and...

  7. Biggest Pain or Problem

    StillSearchingRN replied to tronix304's topic in General Nursing

    Maltreatment from patients and

  8. PTO

    StillSearchingRN replied to snickers17's topic in General Nursing

    Could be worse: all of my holiday pay came out of my stingy PTO bank AND my old employer "gave" us extra "holidays" (nebulous days before/after actual holidays, but I don't want to say which ones in...

  9. Am I Throwing My Career Away?

    StillSearchingRN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    As I'm sure some of you have seen, I recently resigned from my position in lieu of being fired due to my own chronic health conditions and those of my immunocompromised, elderly relative living with...

  10. Being re-allocated

    StillSearchingRN replied to Nic2003's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was and I quit. I specifically chose my non-bedside nursing job due to my own preferences, health issues, and lack of potential exposure to things I could bring home to immunocompromised family....

  11. This is really taking a toll on me...#Vent

    StillSearchingRN replied to Alexa Weaver's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If you work for my company, they don't give **mn. Even with physical and mental health contraindications (this has exacerbated my mental health conditions to the point where I've almost ended up...

  12. Here's The Way It Should Be: Hooray, Home Depot

    StillSearchingRN replied to Kooky Korky's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Hmm, maybe if my current employer torpedoes my nursing career because my very-real request for accommodations for my own health issues and immunocompromised loved one's health issues keep being...

  13. To be a coward, or to be a fool?

    StillSearchingRN replied to MsJenn_The_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It's what they do if they sign up for that line of work. As everyone is always touting on here, there are many avenues in nursing, many of which DO NOT necessitate putting oneself in direct harm's way...

  14. This is really taking a toll on me...#Vent

    StillSearchingRN replied to Alexa Weaver's topic in Disaster Preparation

    You're not alone in severe stress and anxiety; I seriously don't know whether I'm going back to my job or even back to nursing at this point. I was hired for a non-acute position, wanted nothing to do...

  15. Has anyone left nursing job due to COVID19 virus?

    StillSearchingRN replied to Tirednurseandmomma14's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I specifically chose an area with limited exposure to the public. Now I am considering leaving because my [insert mega-corporation umbrella healthcare entity] has decided that if you are a nurse---in...

  16. Has anyone left nursing job due to COVID19 virus?

    StillSearchingRN replied to Tirednurseandmomma14's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Outpatient is no guarantee-they're drafting us into inpatient for extra hands with very limited

  17. Covid-19 is Quite Unpleasant: A Personal Testimony

    StillSearchingRN replied to Guest1142305's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I seriously think I had it (after my mother had it after she likely caught it from a Chinese tourist at work that she came into contact with who was super sick with severe respiratory symptoms at the...

  18. Patient Abandonment

    StillSearchingRN replied to redsnapper19's topic in General Nursing

    As long as you hadn't clocked in or received report, I don't see where it would be, but I also don't see them keeping you around-even as PRN-if you did that (unless they were truly desperate for help...

  19. What do you wear to commute, esp if you walk or take public transit?

    StillSearchingRN replied to Bloop41's topic in General Nursing

    Plenty of visitors and, I'm sure, fellow staff members will wear their same shoes all over the facility from the community and then from the facility right back into their community. That being said,...

  20. Please Help

    StillSearchingRN replied to guest1136129's topic in General Nursing

    Frankly, I'd be telling her to run far, far away from such a manipulative [censored]

  21. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    StillSearchingRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is more of a vent, because I am becoming more and more anxious the more I look at things. My place of employment works on a points system and a rolling calendar year for call outs. It doesn't...

  22. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    StillSearchingRN replied to StillSearchingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Right now there is literally no one else who is trained to do my job. Since my coworker left, I am the only care coordinator for the practice. Due to regulations, everything has to be handled within 2...

  23. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    StillSearchingRN replied to StillSearchingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I am swiping. As far as the policy, I've read the policy as written by HR and I've received a strongly-worded letter from my manager when I asked her whether it was gospel that it

  24. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    StillSearchingRN replied to StillSearchingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! I really do appreciate your well wishes! Unfortunately, the OT is unavoidable: we work 8.5 hours/day to "build in" a half hour lunch that we're supposed to get, but it's impossible to...

  25. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    StillSearchingRN replied to StillSearchingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! It counts the same whether if we're sent home sick as if we called out and didn't come in at all, which doesn't really incentivize even trying to come in, other than to get everyone else...