eatenbylocusts

eatenbylocusts

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  1. Is it legal for your boss to dictate where you poop?

    You haven't smelled my daughter's poop. I wish I had known about that stuff before my daughter went on a week long trip to Washington D.C. in high school. She might have had more
  2. Is it legal for your boss to dictate where you poop?

    . Then I had to watch this
  3. What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    To the OP, don't worry about the future, just plan for it. I still remember the day I got my job offer while standing in Albertsons. My first year me and another new grad were picked on by the evening...
  4. What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    In response to Shilmar: I was going to be a police officer, then got my real estate license before completing medical assisting school and doing a 2 week externship in a medical office before I...
  5. Global Conference on Nursing-2017,FRANKFURT- GERMANY

    I'm actually going to be in Europe at this time. I need to look into
  6. "I Narcanned Your Honor Student"

    I don't know what IVDA means, but there are a few past patients that make it seem like the homeless type is often more humble and easy to take care of than the one that did well in school and was from...
  7. Leaving the bedside

    Go to day shift. If you have an employee assistance program I would see what kind of help and direction they could provide. Don't discount the effect that working nights can have on
  8. Injection Gone Wrong: Part 3

    They are. I started on my road to nursing after getting MA certification from a regional occupational center. I think it was 16 weeks and we had to practice blood draws on each other and demonstrate...
  9. Injection Gone Wrong: Part 3

    Yes, I cringe just reading it. I hit bone one time giving a deltoid injection to a very thin patient. She did not complain, but the memory freaks me out many years
  10. Injection Gone Wrong: Part 2

    How horribly frustrating for the subject of this story and the other commenter who had the issues with implants. It does pay to be a squeaky wheel. Now I am awaiting a referral for a new...
  11. Injection Gone Wrong: Part 1

    Funny because I do not believe in forced vaccination or the worth of the flu shot and I do more reading on it than anyone on my floor and my co-workers come to me with questions even though most get...
  12. Weight loss for nurses

    I remember late night studying and self medicating with M&M's to stay awake. I don't even know how much I weighed, but I saw our group grad picture a while back and was in awe seeing how big I...
  13. Weight loss for nurses

    It is not the only effective way for losing and keeping off weight, but it is the fastest. I work on the surgical floor so we get all of the bariatric patients unless they have to go to SDU or ICU. I...
  14. Sorry it must've been your first post that was apparently changed that landed in my email that included the words "anti-vaccination rhetoric" which kind of tipped me off to your feelings. And my...
  15. This is about immunity and a response to someone else's post. If I stated something untrue, please point it out. Please don't make assumptions and try to shut me down because you don't like something...
  16. "Ignorance about vaccinations"- This statement gets me. I know what education I got in nursing school about vaccinations which consisted primarily of the schedule. I got great grades on all my tests,...
  17. First of all bullying is not helpful and not using common sense when caring for individuals is just ridiculous. As a youngster I knew I wanted to breastfeed my kids after hearing my mom's stories who...
  18. Lost stethoscopes

    I want this! I am still hoping my grey stethoscope with my faintly printed name comes back to me again some day as it did once before. Maybe I will find it in some doctors office one day. I finally...
  19. I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

    I love my job most days and love my co-workers. My hospital is a large HMO with terrific benefits and retirement. I have been a nurse for 13 years and don't regret it a bit. My hospital is Union. I do...
  20. I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

    I agree that it isn't healthy to go home day after day crying about our patients, but certainly believe there should be a few days we shed a tear with patients and or family when there are difficult...
  21. The "How was your day" question

    I will occasionally share details with two of my close female friends and my husband often hears complaints about bad days or something funny. The lunch room can be a place to vent also, especially...
  22. The "How was your day" question

    I think you answered right and more politically correct than I am at times which is why I will probably never be in a leadership
  23. What is your opinion on getting the flu shot?

    I'm beginning to think you are just trying to waste my time. I have never said the flu is not serious or potentially deadly. This link shows anyone who wants to know truth that the figures being...
  24. What is your opinion on getting the flu shot?

    Estimating Seasonal Influenza-Associated Deaths in the United States: CDC Study Confirms Variability of Flu | Seasonal Influenza (Flu) | CDC Please read the CDC link which explains how they come up...
  25. What is your opinion on getting the flu shot?

    You called me anti-vax. I am not. I am anti forced medical treatment and reckless and misleading health care. My two kids are fully vaccinated minus yearly flu shots and HPV. Both my kids are on the...