Orca ADN, ASN, RN

Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC

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    Physician Spreads Dis-Information: License Revoked

    Orca replied to sirI's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Claiming that many credentials, then parroting an unproven and potentially harmful treatment culled off social media, boggles the
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    Physician Spreads Dis-Information: License Revoked

    Orca replied to sirI's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I follow the science. A leading asthma patient group has issued a warning against an unproven coronavirus treatment circulating on social media that is leading some people to post videos of...
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    Physician Spreads Dis-Information: License Revoked

    Orca replied to sirI's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Or Fox News. Or social media. It takes eight drops of bleach to purify a gallon of water. Not enough to make any difference against
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    Physician Spreads Dis-Information: License Revoked

    Orca replied to sirI's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There is a big difference between using it as a disinfectant and using it as a "cure". Talk about "do your research"... This is the same kind of thinking that led a certain prominent politician...
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    Physician Spreads Dis-Information: License Revoked

    Orca replied to sirI's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Far too many people are so opposed to vaccines due to either misinformation or unrealistic minimizing of the virus' effects by politicians and others, that they will latch onto anything else, no...
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    Quit Job and Now Accused of Abandonment

    Orca replied to FolksBtrippin's topic in General Nursing

    Resignation is not abandonment. In order to be guilty of abandonment, you would have to have accepted a patient or patients into your care, then either walked off the unit or failed to provide
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    Help! Which Position Do I Choose?

    Orca replied to CSTtoFutureNP's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Given a choice between the two, I would choose the unit with the fixed shift. I have worked rotating shift positions before, and it is disruptive. I understand the concept - to be fair to everyone by...
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    Retire? Inactivate? Neither?

    Orca replied to Jon-O's topic in Retired Nurses

    My opinion is to keep your options open. I wouldn't inactivate a license because of what an employer "might"
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    men in printed scrubs

    Orca replied to TexanJLN's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Back when I had a job that required scrubs, I used to occasionally wear prints. I stayed away from cartoons, superheroes and such. I had one that had African animal prints on
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    New grad getting in trouble with management for weird things.. HELP

    Orca replied to NewGradRN_CA's topic in Correctional

    This is unsafe. Any employer who issues N95s ought to be able to fit test
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    Can’t believe I had to explain that. . .

    Orca replied to T-Bird78's topic in Nursing Humor

    Years ago, when I was working as a mental health aide, another aide (veteran employee, no less), picked up a styrofoam cup off the counter and asked "Is this a blood pressure
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    9/11 20th Anniversary- Where Were You When Our Country was Attacked, the Twin Towers Fell and America was Changed Forever?

    Orca replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I was working night shift in a prison medical unit. I heard the first stories from the incoming day shift. One person said that the World Trade Center was hit, while another said the Pentagon. At...
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    Pushed by quacks, use of Ivermectin is poisoning people

    Orca replied to nursej22's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Safe, but
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    Medical Fantasy Football Team Names

    Orca replied to ChasePhillips's topic in Nursing Humor

    Asystole (which would be a good name for some of my past fantasy teams) Nasal Cannuli Sepsis (infecting the league with their incredible play) Float
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    Messaging an ex patient

    Orca replied to NewRMN21's topic in United Kingdom

    I wouldn't do it. Mental health patients can be dangerous once released. They are notoriously noncompliant with medication, and they often have skewed perceptions. You were around this patient in a...
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    Pushed by quacks, use of Ivermectin is poisoning people

    Orca replied to nursej22's topic in Disaster Preparation

    For
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    Explaining Absence During Colleague's Vacation

    Orca replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I commend you for sucking it up and taking on something that obviously caused you anxiety. We tend to imagine worst case scenarios when we think of assignments that we don't feel confident about. What...
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    Pushed by quacks, use of Ivermectin is poisoning people

    Orca replied to nursej22's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Ivermectin treats parasites. As others have pointed out, this has nothing to do with effectiveness against a
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    Mentioning recovery from mental illness in a job interview?

    Orca replied to lunalilith's topic in Psychiatric

    There may be a time when self disclosure might be appropriate. When you are trying to get hired isn't
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    Explaining Absence During Colleague's Vacation

    Orca replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Yet you are talking about calling off when you aren't sick, and stating that your employer "can't prove it". You can't have it both ways. Either help yourself or don't. You seem to keep adding reasons...
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    First time Management Interview

    Orca replied to Toast&Butters's topic in Nurse Management

    I have gotten something out of every job interview that I have ever gone on, regardless of whether I got the job. You learn what types of questions are being asked, and it allows you to fine tune your...
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    First time Management Interview

    Orca replied to Toast&Butters's topic in Nurse Management

    Common topics are your supervisory experience, your leadership style, and budgeting experience. You may be given a hypothetical situation question on dealing with a difficult employee or a...
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    Notice

    Orca replied to Phoenix1565's topic in General Specialties

    Some issues are not worth fighting. This is one of them. Another two weeks is not a high price in exchange for cash for your PDO and avoiding do not rehire
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    How do you know if correctional nursing is for you?

    Orca replied to angel.maria's topic in Correctional

    There are too many variables to give you a straight answer to this. You don't mention where you are located, or whether you are looking at city, county, state or federal corrections. Some agencies...
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    Glen Beck's hospital experience

    Orca replied to emmycRN's topic in Nursing News

    Fentanyl is an end-of-life drug. I did not know that. I will have to write that one down. I don't believe for an instant that an anesthesiologist divulged anything to him about what happened in...