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He did kill himself. I just got the news today.

I am working in an outpatient clinic and handling a dangerous situation with a coworker A few months ago, a nurse I work with asked me out. I felt pressured and agreed to hang out. Since then, he has become obsessive and aggressive. Recently, he pinned me down in his apartment, refused to let me leave, and struck me across the face. He acts professional around other staff, but today he cornered me in an exam room at work and verbally abused/threatened me because he was jealous over me seeing my patient. I am really getting tired of him. He called me after work to apologize and then asked why I don't marry him or why I won't hang out with him and sends me AI art of us getting married. When I've distanced myself he's threatened to kill himself, but I don't want him to die. I am so tired of dealing with him at work because it's stressful and I am beginning to kind of hate him and not even want to see or hear him at all anywhere.

You can work as a CNA

Why not just talk to her about it? You can suggest tools like "SmartPhrases" or templates for her notes so she can have shortcuts to documentation without just straight up copying and pasting the same thing.

You can quit whenever you want. I've quit jobs in the middle of training and still got paid for the time I wasted $$$

I work at an outpatient clinic that's hiring in the SF Bay Area. You can move here and we have lots of jobs here in a variety of fields if you want to move your boyfriend out here.

How do I pivot my nursing career in a competitive market with no relevant experience? I'm a nurse in SF with 4 years of experience (SNF/FQHC), currently working at an FQHC making $50/hour, which is well below the local average and certainly not enough to live here and save money. I kind of want to transition into a hospital for the experience and to increase my earnings and stability, but I struggle with 'imposter syndrome' and worried I won't be able to handle it. I've been fired from a job before and my nursing professors all thought I was dumb. I also feel ugly when I wear scrubs and that's why I like working in outpatient care now because I can wear regular clothes. Nurses come to the Bay Area for higher pay and our applicant pool is super overcrowded at large systems like Kaiser, Sutter, and UCSF. New grads can't find work here and even a lot of amazing experienced nurses also have an hard time. Additionally, I don't drive, which limits me to city hospitals. Should I stay and negotiate a raise at my current FQHC, or is it time to look for a hospital that is hiring nurses with non-acute nursing experience? I kind of want to work in medsurg just for the experience since I don't know anything about any specialties.

I didn't mean to belittle anything. My point is less about the legalities of medical translation and more about the quality of patient care and connection. While I completely agree that certified translators are necessary for medical stuff, I've always advocated for nursing schools to incorporate languages like Spanish into their curriculum because learning a language is a gateway to understanding the culture. Cultural competency is obtained by speaking the patient's language. I'm not even suggesting we replace official translators. My clinic has language translators, but we also need to our linguistic knowledge to be more inclusive of different cultures.

You can work as a CNA

You can try learning the language

I am a nurse currently licensed in Cali and I obtained my license despite a prior record that included a shoplifting charge at age 19 and a few other misdemeanors at ages 15/16, all of which occurred in New Mexico and, to my knowledge, were ultimately dismissed. When I applied for licensure, I answered "No" to the question about criminal convictions, believing that the BON in California only inquires about pending charges or convictions, not dismissed charges. I have passed all background checks for school, RN license, and numerous jobs over many years without incident, leading me to believe that you will likely be fine as well. If I was able to do it, I believe you can too. Good luck my fellow nurse!!

I talked to her on the phone yesterday and she seemed to not be upset anymore. I can see why she shares in some of the responsibility for what happened since she chose to have a conversation with me in the reception area with her bf there. While I personally think there's nothing wrong with keeping a disease private if there is no risk of transmitting it, some jurisdictions will still prosecute someone either an HIV+ person with undetectable viral load for not disclosing their status to a sex partner. It's just like with trans people who choose not to disclose their trans identity or sex assigned at birth to their partner because there's still a lot of discrimination and prejudiced reactions. Not that it's any of my business, but I wouldn't be surprised if her bf still has no idea she's HIV+ or even trans.

This was a confidentiality breachthat occurred when I was dispensing medications to a TWOC who is HIV positive, in the presence of her boyfriend and others in the lobby of our primary care clinic that specializes in serving the HIV, LGBTQ, and POC communities. The patient takes the HIV treatment Cabenuva and asked me to clarify the purpose an appointment on an appoinmtent reminder card and I mistakenly replied "I think that's for Cabenuva" unintentionally disclosing her sensitive HIV status to her boyfriend and potentially others who were in the area as she had not chosen to disclose this information herself. The patient later called me expressing she was very upset with me and wants to live a normal life without people knowing about her HIV status, though she said she would not "blow it totally out of proportion" and that she knows I didn't mean anything by it. I am now extremely distressed and worried about the potential consequences of being fired or losing my RN license and realize in hindsight that I should have immediately moved the conversation to a private room once the discussion shifted beyond simple medication dispensing. I feel like I fail to come to terms with HIV status being sensitive information or I would not have openly mentioned the name of an HIV medication when explaining her appointment.

I got a domestic violence charge when I was 15 and didn't have problems with becoming a nurse because of it, but I was a minor at the time.

I think if you weren't convicted for a DUI then you won't need to report it to the BRN CA. I was charged for shoplifting when I was 19 (dismissed) and I passed the background check for licensure and many jobs in CA.

I was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery when I was 15 and didn't have an issue with going to school or becoming licensed at all. Maybe because I was a minor?

If there is no visible injury and they seem okay then I probably would not send them out.

I'm pretty sure your coworker is still protected. It's just a flu shot. Next time don't pinch the skin when giving IM injection though. Pinching skin is for subcutaneous injections, but for IM it's not best practice. If you actually pinched her skin it probably got absorbed in her fatty tissue and that's probably why there was a hard lump, but that's okay. BTW I'm the primary vaccine coordinator at my job.

How did they find out about your mistake? You might not have needed to tell anyone. And this is why I always advise against taking 6 month long vacations because it is hard to get back into the swing of things after being out of work so long.

I think nonbinary person.

I've only been a nurse for 3 years and never did paper charting. That's weird. When I worked in LTC the power went out and we had to chart on paper temporarily though.

I'm an RN in San Francisco but only make $50/hr.

I'm an RN who works outpatient and I saw a homeless patient several times for his wound care. I saw him today on the street and he asked me for money so I gave him $17. We were just talking and he said we should hang out sometime. I told him I didn't want to cross professional boundaries and he assured me he "won't tell a soul" "homeless people are good at keeping secrets." I told him what building I live in and that he is welcome to ring me on the call box if he needs help. I feel terrible about this now and wondering if I should be fired or no longer allowed to practice nursing. I am wondering if he will ever use the call box to ask for more money. I would have offered to do his wound care, I just don't keep my own wound care supplies with me.

Epic isn't that difficult to learn, just takes some getting used to. Very different from PCC. I have experience using both.

I work in an outpatient clinic setting and there's a man who comes in regularly for apretude injections. I felt like he didn't like me from the beginning. I don't know why, I guess he just acted like I was stupid and he seemed hesitant to agree to me being the one to give him his injection. I just saw this man yesterday as I was walking home. I didn't know how to handle seeing him in public. I was preparing to say "hello" in case he would say something, but he quickly looked the other way when he saw me and kept walking. I hope it's nothing personal that he didn't want to even give me a smile or a nod. It wouldn't violate anything confidential just to do that.