foxypaws BSN, MSN, RN

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   Michigan Hospital Offering Housing or $10,000 Bonus

   foxypaws replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

   OR nursing is ... weird. A lot of turn and burn for the rooms, sure you have just one patient at a time but you can spend more time setting up and breaking down a room than the patient spends in surgery. High stress, high burnout. I loved it for...
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   Decisions decisions

   foxypaws replied to Miss_Rose's topic in Operating Room

   I learn very quickly so it felt easy to me by two months. Much more so by four. I ended up leaving because I unexpectedly needed a surgery, but definitely will consider getting back into OR once I heal up. I found another job willing to wor...
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   Should RaDonda Vaught Have Her Nursing License Reinstated?

   foxypaws replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   It set a bad precedent that this person did not do hard time for what amounted to profusely negligent homicide.
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   The 10 Highest-Paying Travel Nurse Assignments in 2023

   foxypaws replied to TeachRN's topic in Travel

   You seem to have forgotten Operating Room nursing. We are usually either top or close to it for compensation.
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   Decisions decisions

   foxypaws replied to Miss_Rose's topic in Operating Room

   New grad nurse here. Run, don't walk, and go sign the OR contract as quickly as possible. Safest bet for your license, guaranteed breaks, work/life balance is amazing, the job is dead easy once you get the hang of it, orientation is LONG, and it is o...
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   Mitigating Implicit Bias and Microaggression in the Emergency Department

   foxypaws replied to nancyEDRN's topic in Emergency

   Honestly, toughen the hell up. This generation has become offended by everything. Everyone has turned into a little dictator that demands everyone bow at their feet cater to their every need. Ban me if you want for saying it, but the culture that pus...
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   Changing male patient's brief

   foxypaws replied to JoMar's topic in General Nursing

   I've had patients under MAC anesthesia get an erection just from surgical prep in cysto. It's can be an entirely involuntary reaction.
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   Karen MD started YouTube channel to bash nurses and NP

   foxypaws replied to Benzodiazepine's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks. On a good note, it makes me a better nurse, and I never would have been able to have the beautiful family I have without the medical retirement from the military and decade I spent recovering. Silver lining!!
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   Karen MD started YouTube channel to bash nurses and NP

   foxypaws replied to Benzodiazepine's topic in General Nursing

   A PA missed something the radiologist later caught on an X-ray when I was in the service. By then it was too late. I nearly lost my arm and will be in horrific pain the rest of my life. I was in my twenties and it destroyed my life. I'm lucky I...
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    Too Fat To Be A Nurse?

    foxypaws replied to Newprospnp's topic in General Nursing

    I eat one large meal a day when working, and one or two 100-150 calorie snacks. On off days I eat two large meals. I don't drink anything but water, black coffee, and drinks that use stevia or sugar alcohols as sweeteners. How can I do it? As ot...
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    Too Fat To Be A Nurse?

    foxypaws replied to Newprospnp's topic in General Nursing

    No one is going to look down on you. BUTTT…. Self care is so important. For YOU make a game plan and stick to it. Hit the gym, eat only what you cook yourself, cut the carbs waaay down to something more realistic like our ancestors would eat, tr...
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    How much are you willing to pay for scrubs?

    foxypaws replied to Ms.Frank's topic in Uniform/Gear

    They’re provided in the Operating Room, for sanitation purposes. It should really be that way in all units, but it is not. That said, a hospital will only buy uncomfortable awful scrubs and not the nice stuff I like.
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    Is this discipline or discrimination for being autistic?

    foxypaws replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

    Just throwing this out there, but I would initiate a workplace harassment claim with HR based on disability immediately.
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    Starting Out on a Medical-Surgical Floor

    foxypaws replied to Jessica Carter's topic in Med-Surg

    When nurses at the hospital I was doing clinicals at last year started telling me that 8 patients was the new norm with mandating every week, I instantly said "not for me." No, and hell no. I’m too physically disabled and old to wreck what is left of...
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    New Graduate Nurses Require Support and Honesty, No More "Eating The Young"

    foxypaws replied to symondsbl's topic in New Nurse

    I did run into this in school… one of my preceptors had about a year of experience BUT she was a DEMSN graduate from a top school and was sharp as a tack. Honestly she did a great job, almost as good as another preceptor that had a decade of experien...