SunDazed

SunDazed BSN, RN

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  1. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto, though my previous field was a bit like being trapped in an all boys high school (I was a female in a male dominated industry). I still believe that the guys were much less likely to take each...

  2. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I have floated a ton in the last 18 months. We do get a small amount of money for those hours... but even so it is

  3. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    We have unions at our hospital. Having a union doesn't guarantee meal breaks, rest breaks, or staffing to grid. It does mean we file paperwork for the union every time it happens, which can be almost...

  4. Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Horror-ible! I received notice from the union rep while I was on vacation that indicates our hospital administration is planning on going out of ratio, floating more staff (unsafely) and just...

  5. Delta Variant is Spreading Like Wildfire in Florida

    SunDazed replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Were you in an acute care setting when Covid first hit? Or now? Do you know how long it takes for some patients, who no longer need acute level care, to find a place to fully recover? Nursing...

  6. Delta Variant is Spreading Like Wildfire in Florida

    SunDazed replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    No. I mean they were not symptomatic with Covid. They were medically cleared to return to the assisted living/dementia unit but the facility was not prepared to take back people who still tested...

  7. Rant About Covid Antivaxxers

    SunDazed posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    We have all dealt with chronic care patients who keep coming back to the hospital because they have COPD and refuse to stop smoking, have CHF but can't be bothered to be compliant with their...

  8. Delta Variant is Spreading Like Wildfire in Florida

    SunDazed replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Knowing the methods of our hospital administration and the way corporate discharge planning thinks they will pressure the social workers at the hands on level to tell the families they "have" to come...

  9. Delta Variant is Spreading Like Wildfire in Florida

    SunDazed replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh man it was a nightmare!! The first five deaths in our hospital at the beginning of Covid were patients from a locked down dementia unit at a local care facility. The facility did not have a plan to...

  10. Rant About Covid Antivaxxers

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Like a few others have posted, I don't hate them. Not sure I have the energy or the bandwidth to actually boost my signal. Remember when there were discussions about shifting from a healthcare...

  11. Delta Variant is Spreading Like Wildfire in Florida

    SunDazed replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    When my dad was in his final years I relied on a friend of the family to take him to doctors appointments, etc. Dad had vascular dementia and so it wasn't always obvious to people that he had some...

  12. Delta Variant is Spreading Like Wildfire in Florida

    SunDazed replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I feel the same way. Don't want to do it again. It is more dangerous now to caregivers to care for these patients. The patients we are seeing in the hospital with serious Covid 19 symptoms are the...

  13. Rant About Covid Antivaxxers

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Wish taking a vacation was that easy! Nurses here are so stressed and vacation time is not always easy to get. When they fear not getting their vacation requests approved they speak about quitting......

  14. Caution: No boundaries

    SunDazed posted a topic in General Nursing

    I left a job on good terms in the Summer of 2019. There were problems at the company, but others were more affected than I was. I just had a lot going on with my dad's failing health. I needed a...

  15. What I Hate About Nursing In 2021

    SunDazed replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    We are doing the online BLS and ACLS - it is from the AHA and Laerdal and it is a

  16. What I Hate About Nursing In 2021

    SunDazed replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    And if you have tried hospice and are not hearing back.... often the offices are so impacted by people still out due to issues related to the pandemic - ie no child care, kids out of school, etc. -...

  17. What I Hate About Nursing In 2021

    SunDazed replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Have you looked into hospice nursing? There are predictions that business is growing like crazy in the next 10 years and they tend to discriminate less against age as long as you can carry your load...

  18. Leaving the Bedside

    SunDazed replied to Live.Intentionally's topic in General Nursing

    It is easy to get burned when you care too much about doing right by patients and each other. How does administration square the faith based mission statement that is sooo important while treating...

  19. Stanford or Kaiser???

    SunDazed replied to Nursejackie782's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked at Stanford and worked with Kaiser patients in home care, including visiting them in the hospital. Both have some beautiful facilities with very professional healthcare vibes. As a...

  20. Adventist Health - Glendale, CA

    SunDazed replied to Biancakachingwe's topic in General Nursing

    I would not let the incentive make you hesitant. California, like many places, needs nurses. In 2010 new grads had a very hard time getting offers. Back then there were job fairs for a few dozen jobs...

  21. Does scheduling affect absenteeism?

    SunDazed posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have been a nurse about 15 years. I worked in another industry before nursing. I had jobs where if you called in sick, there was only 1-2 other people to pick up the slack and they still had to do...

  22. Does scheduling affect absenteeism?

    SunDazed replied to SunDazed's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Thanks for the thoughtful replies JKL33 and CABGpatch_RN. I was seeking to better understand another point of view; and maybe I am a little

  23. Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    That poster didn't say they had the same system. Just acknowledged that this is what happens with rationed care. I've lived in other countries, and yes, this does happen with socialized medicine, or...

  24. Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    California state Governor Ronald Reagan forever changed the world of K-12 education with prop 13 passed in 1978. It took local community control over school districts and pushed it up to state level...

  25. Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    SunDazed replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    hospice is a valuable resource, it provides social and grief support beyond the death part. not believing in hospice is ordering a milkshake without a