brandy1017

brandy1017 ASN, RN

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  1. Retaliation for reporting abuse?

    I would keep a copy of your statement about the abuse and any written statements of your former employer's attempt at witness tampering. You said they got in trouble so there should be some written...
  2. Retaliation for reporting abuse?

    File for unemployment and get a lawyer to sue them. Hopefully you will have whistle blower rights as this is a direct retaliation for speaking up against abuse. Considering the facility got into...
  3. Nurses Are Leaving the Bedside In Droves

    I read the military asked vets and their families to tell how their service had impacted them, hoping for positive comments, but instead heard about grief and pain. Obviously, while we are not...
  4. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    Honestly, I was warned not to go into nursing by my childhood friend who had been a nurse for five years already. I did it anyway. It has never been easy or pleasant, but for a long time, I denied...
  5. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    But if you listened to the OP and many others we went into nursing with hopeful, idealistic positive expectations. We did not start out negative, demoralized or cynical. I don't know the answer, I...
  6. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    In my years working as a nurse, I've witnessed several nurses literally have breakdowns and truly in my heart, I don't believe they would have fallen so low if not for the terrible working conditions...
  7. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    What gets me is when nurses are getting there MA to be educators and clinical instructors and don't realize most jobs are adjunct, part-time, paid by the class, less than minimum wage and usually with...
  8. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    Ironic you seem to be demeaning those who have not had your rosy experience. The discussion reminds me of the heated back and forth political debate between Republicans and Democrats and Trump...
  9. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    Good luck you'll need it, you're well on your way to twisting yourself into a pretzel to show the world how great you are and how great any and all nursing jobs you get. Just remember you were...
  10. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    I thought she was talking about the computer micromanagement. Epic for example gives you a list of tasks etc plus constantly flashes pop ups asking you all sorts of questions, some really up to the...
  11. The Nursing School to Welfare Pipeline

    So I'm curious what are you doing now to pay the bills? I thought you said you received interviews and offers and then were ghosted. If you got that far into the process I think something else...
  12. Stupid hurts.

    Sounds like that is a wedding night they'll never forget. LOL I wonder if he wanted an annulment after
  13. Cry me a river...?

    Any tears I cried were over personal attacks at work and my own personal issues, but I damn sure never cried at work. I wouldn't give anyone that satisfaction! That said, extreme anxiety was an even...
  14. I hope the citizens of Washington start a recall effort and kick her out on her can! Then she can play cards all she
  15. All the altered mental status patients and the alarms are what get on my nerves. As to violent patients usually, they are angry men in my experience. While I've never been injured my coworkers have...
  16. I took care of a patient whose leg got injured by her horse and she developed a
  17. This tragedy reminds me of another attack on a nurse a few years ago in NYC. A senior nurse near retirement was still working on a surgical floor I believe and was attacked by an angry male patient...
  18. Falls

    I'm curious why you want to stay at this job when it has you so stressed out you had to take stress leave? Wouldn't it be better to look for a less stressful job than try to remain there where you...
  19. New Grad Nurse Might Lose Job Struggling In Orientation

    I suggest you see your Dr ASAP and see if you can get some anti-anxiety meds to help you cope. Crying at work is not the answer. If you are losing it you need to take a break, even if it's just in...
  20. How I Made $93,000 My First Year of Nursing

    Yes money can be made thru overtime, depending on where you work and so many places run short-staffed the opportunity and, for some, the pressure to pick up extra is always there. But remember not...
  21. I accidently took home a zofran in my pocket.

  22. Please Help!!

    I agree with JKL33 learn about personal finance. Read some good books like Personal Finance for Dummies, Deal with Your Debt, Your Credit Score, Smart Women Finish Rich. I wish I had done that when...
  23. Nurses that “only do it for the money”

    It just means that you touched a nerve and that there are a lot of strong feelings on both sides of the aisle. I don't care one way or the other why someone becomes a nurse. I just hate the way many...
  24. Nurses that “only do it for the money”

    I'm just really sick of the corporate destruction of nursing. Also nursing is a calling as an excuse to work for less, put up with unsafe staffing and rude, sometimes violent patients etc. Nursing...
  25. Nurses that “only do it for the money”

    I think you said it