uniteddemclub BSN, RN

Finding a patient dead is like when a kid finds their dead goldfish.

I applied today to work at Sutter Health as a staff nurse/new grad. I read it's hard to get hired into sutter and if that's the case then I have no chance. The only reason I applied was because it said "BSN preferred" in the description and I have a ...

In nursing school I only really had 2 classes a semester that were very hard to where I focused almost all my studies on those 2. I just studied for whichever one had an exam coming up the soonest.

Is it just where I'm at (California Bay Area), or do 95% of nurses drive to work? I'm honestly blown away with how many 20-25 year olds nurses drive... I've had several people ask me if I live nearby because they see me walking to work when there are...

I graduated during the pandemic and there was no ceremony. I didn't have to give any pledge. I sort of half-@as my way through nursing because I'm tired. Even if I'm a bad nurse, I dealt with bad nurses, bad cops, bad social workers, bad foster paren...

You were out of line when you requested a male security, implying that she was somehow weaker because of her sex/gender. How do you know that an assumed-to-be cis male security would have denser bone mass, or be bigger, faster and stronger than the a...

Yes. Racism and transphobia are other big issues in the healthcare profession.

You've already studied enough if you've been through nursing school and NCLEX. At this point studying more won't do you much good. I didn't learn a thing from nursing school. It isn't just a feeling I have. I know I didn't learn. I'm now a nurse at 2...

I graduated BSN December 2020 and didn’t pass NCLEX until June this year. I failed 3x because I didn’t retain a lot of info from school and didn’t get serious about studying until almost a year later. I didn’t think I was actually going to graduate a...

I've been working in a SNF for a few months. I received a phone call while I was at work from someone who's from the state and she asked to interview a clinician involved in the care of one of my patients. I struggled to answer many of her quest...

I'm in no position to judge anyone for obtaining a fake degree. My BSN is legit but I graduated December 2020 in the middle of a pandemic so I spent a whole semester and a half doing clinicals online which was just watching a zoom lecture and doing h...

I'm a new nurse working at 2 snfs and I have to see signs in some of the offices say things like "Nurses are ordinary people with extraordinary hearts." What if I'm a nurse and I can't help but be cold and uncaring to everyone because of my condition...

I have not actually been diagnosed but was told by an immediate family member that I should have been diagnosed as such. I was told by a patient that I'm such a gentleman and I've given the impression that I'm nice when I'm at work. At the same time ...

Teenagers killing a security guard in San Francisco: https://www.ktvu.com/news/security-guard-shot-and-killed-in-san-franciscos-japantown

So I got a phone call this evening from the DSD telling me a CNA told her she had given me a stack of sign in papers and she was wanting to know what I did with those papers. I told her I thought they were to go into the binder where we all sign afte...

I haven't spoken with the DSD again since the phone call that prompted me to post this topic. She hasn't shown up to work. I heard she tested positive for COVID19 and she's planning to move out of state. No one has mentioned anything to me about the ...

I have worked in a SNF for a couple months now and it’s my first job. One of the residents recently complained to me of severe pain in her thigh that was “killing her” as she was sitting up in bed. I lowered the head of her bed and gave her Tylenol a...

They supported progressive left Chesa Boudin (former DA of SF who has been recalled) and I saw comments on Twitter claiming Cal Nurses only endorsed him because the drug overdoses keep them working, and every crime victim and drug user will have a jo...

You sound very detail oriented and I’m sure you are not in any way responsible for that person’s passing. I work in a snf and there are patients who seem fairly stable one day and are dead the next. I used to think it was a weight off my shoulders wh...

I just feel bad because someone who calls me a nurse will assume I’m compassionate, caring, or empathetic. I’m none of those things. I hate to give people the wrong impression of me.

I hate being called a nurse. I prefer RN because the word 'nurse' just feels dirty or not who I am. I was never supposed to be a nurse and I feel almost like I'm an imposter nurse if someone calls me that.

All nursing students, especially those graduating with a BSN, should have to meet some spanish proficiency requirements. I think Spanish would be the most useful in the U.S. because of our growing Hispanic and Latinx population. I’m an RN and have fo...