holisticallyminded

holisticallyminded

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  1. Nurses: You've Been LIED to about your Back and Body Mechanics

    holisticallyminded replied to Lynda Lampert, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I push the call button for my CNAs. YES, I really do. I'm not even close to Nightengale. This is a job where I'm already on my feet all day and have the spider veins at 40 to show for it. I will not...

  2. Nursing Educator Salary

    holisticallyminded replied to fbhopern's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    What I find interesting about this is the idea that bedside nurses make $$$. You're kidding, right? For the amount of responsibility and liability, nursing is hardly lucrative. It's a "job job" for...

  3. Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    holisticallyminded replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm one of the few folks I know who actually read the MMR/autism study YEARS AGO before it was banned because it did not jive with healthcare propaganda. The link that was found between autism and MMR...

  4. Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    holisticallyminded replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Only 4, huh? So you mean you might vaccinate your child for something that wouldn't kill them anyway and they might not be responders? Why not? Again, you don't understand how any of this

  5. Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    holisticallyminded replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Did anyone actually READ the autism study before it was banned and retracted? I did. The children who developed autism after vaccination all had one thing in common: gut inflammation. There is...

  6. Anti-vax nurses? Are you serious?

    holisticallyminded replied to dinah77's topic in Disaster Preparation

    My child can recover from measles (has had it, in fact) but can't recover from Autism. He has celiac's disease and his ND and I do not feel that it would be in his best interests to vaccinate due to...

  7. Hospitals Firing Seasoned Nurses: Nurses FIGHT Back!

    holisticallyminded replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    As a newer nurse with a bit of life experience (2nd health care career, I'm in my 40s), I lasted a year in acute care precisely because I could see the writing on the wall. It's a liability game and I...

  8. Healthcare Facilities running out of medications + supplies

    holisticallyminded replied to calivianya's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Isolation gowns. No kidding, we were using the patient gowns instead. Fentanyl is much

  9. Nurses are control Freaks

    holisticallyminded replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    I call myself a "type B" nurse, sort of a "fly by the seat of my pants" kinda gal. Not only does it work for me but I often hear, "You're so......calm." I could never function the way most of the...

  10. Denying Death As A Society

    holisticallyminded replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for this! One of my on-call jobs is at a SNF. I float to LTC and hospice floors as well. I am absolutely amazed at how often I see families in total denial over death. I once had a patient...

  11. Hospice Nursing Question

    holisticallyminded replied to stirfried's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    A pacemaker is medical treatment that is prolonging life; it is not comfort care. If someone is unable to eat, drink, take medications or is generally unable to have any quality of life with continued...

  12. Hospice Nursing Question

    holisticallyminded replied to stirfried's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I work with hospice patients very frequently through my facility, though I am not a hospice nurse. Hospice is typically brought in when the prolonging of life no longer produces QUALITY of life....

  13. The Influence of the Influenza Vaccine:

    holisticallyminded replied to Bridgid Joseph's topic in General Nursing

    You've forgotten something that may help you with informed opinion: There are TWO parts to the immune system and they are never talked about regarding vaccination. A healthy person has the ability to...

  14. Do you chart lies?

    holisticallyminded replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    Well said, ICU/DON. You have demonstrated the hypocrisy of the con side to the argument. In our e-charting program, we can actually alter the time to an earlier point in the shift but not a later...

  15. Do you chart lies?

    holisticallyminded replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    I used to frequent this site more often but I became tired of the Holier Than Thou nursing comments and am reminded of this here. Can someone please make me understand why nursing is supposed to be...

  16. Do you chart lies?

    holisticallyminded replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    I don't believe a single nurse, save possibly ICU, who tells me she doesn't copy/paste at least some of the assessment info from those flowsheets. Regulatory bodies are not nurses. In a perfect...

  17. Why can't we tell pts/families we're understaffed?

    holisticallyminded replied to delphine22's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think we all feel this pain. My state does not have legal safe nurse-patient ratios (based on acuity). Each facility determines liability vs payroll for staffing needs. They then staff floors based...

  18. I apologize..

    holisticallyminded replied to letsbefriends's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I quit a med unit after trying like mad to stick it out one year (I made it 11 months). I wasn't a new grad but it was my first RN job in a hospital. But I would NEVER apologize. I was not the one who...

  19. Nursing positions deeply embedded in science

    holisticallyminded replied to DGabe24's topic in General Nursing

    My opinion is that you may be frustrated in nursing. A BS in nursing doesn't require a whole lot of science outside of the very fundamentals (sorry- but coming from someone who was required to learn...

  20. Attention PRN nurses

    holisticallyminded replied to Vtachy1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm a pretty new nurse (3 years) and work per diem. I don't experience any of the frustration that you do. Most people say they wish they could do what I'm doing (didn't need to work FT for benefits,...

  21. Flu Vaccine, enough already!

    holisticallyminded replied to Bklyn_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    laidbackal, I didn't say a damn thing about autism, did I? Read my posts again. Conspiracy theories? How about aluminum buildup in the brain? Btw, if you want to talk about autism, read the original...

  22. Flu Vaccine, enough already!

    holisticallyminded replied to Bklyn_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    "George W. Bush planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. Contrails from jets are actually "chemtrails" meant to poison the population. The US never landed on the moon. Vaccines cause autism." You're a...

  23. Med/surg to NICU

    holisticallyminded replied to longroadtoRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Well, I'm not sure I can offer much in the way of advice but I believe we're on similar paths. I want to do mother/baby then lactation (working on my IBCLC hours through LLL). I like clinic. I just...

  24. Flu Vaccine, enough already!

    holisticallyminded replied to Bklyn_RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am always extremely surprised that nurses are willing to sign up for flu vaccines in the name of "patient safety." How absurd!! What I really wish I'd see is more nurses who are educated in how the...

  25. To break the contract or not....that is the question

    holisticallyminded replied to jaznia15's topic in Nursing Career

    You have one life. Your kids are only young once. Don't let ANYONE tell you that fulfilling a contract is more important than your health or your family. At the end of it all, what is the most...