Not_A_Hat_Person RN

I haven't personally encountered it, but at my job hospice and home health clients use medical marijuana. Hospice clients use edibles, home health clients prefer tinctures.

Case management Telephone triage Education Diabetes Educator Informatics

Where I live, the big hospital is moving toward an all BSN workforce. ADNs work in home health or LTC.

Opium poppies are plants. Oleander is a plant. Half of all medications are derived from plants.

I had a home care client with psych issues. Among other things, he was terrified of being hit by a tsunami. He lives in the mountains, 4 hours from the ocean. Back in my ER volunteer days, a man strutted in one afternoon (think John Travolta at the e...

Rural hospitals keep closing, particularly in states that rejected Medicaid expansion.

Is reading on an e-book somehow inferior? Novels were considered very corrupting once upon a time.

A former nurse in Germany has admitted to killing 100 patients, mostly due to boredom.

I imagine it will be treated like alcohol. Some professions make their own rules- pilots can't take Benadryl within so many hours of working.

Andrea Yates was an RN when she killed her children. It took the Texas BON over a year to revoke her license. Niels Hoegel is a German former nurse who just admitted to killing 100 patients.

White. It's hard to prevent stains, and if your skin is darker than olive your underwear shines through.

I drive a Legacy. Most of my colleagues drive either Subarus or big trucks.

You could say you had to take off a lot of time for a personal health issue that is now resolved.

It depends on the facility and the state. I graduated in a state with no "graduate nurse" status. You were a nurse the day you passed the NCLEX, and not one day sooner. I graduated May 31st and took the NCLEX July 24th. I did some job hunting in Pit...

I graduated in a state that doesn't have "graduate nurse" status. New grads can't legally work as nurses until they pass the NCLEX. Any local job offers were contingent on passing the NCLEX.

Facilities can also develop bad reputations. When I was was job hunting after Nursing Home Hell, people would see the name on my resume and say "Oh, you worked there." They were usually pretty understanding.

I work for an agency that has done 2-3% raises across the board for 3 years now.

If it's something that could put you or your client at risk, talk to your supervisor.

In 10 years of nursing, I saw and experienced peer to peer bullying several times, particularly when I worked in Assisted Living and in Nursing Home Hell. Yes, really. It happened. Call me a snowflake all you want.

I don't judge anyone for not wanting to live with their parents. My mother was an emotionally abusive hoarder. Living with her was not an option. Money isn't everything. Student loans can be used for living expenses. That said, student loan debt is t...

I've seen enough posts here about government-sponsored student loan forgiveness programs for working in places like Native American Reservations and critical access hospitals. The lawyers in this story were counting on student loan forgiveness after ...

According to recent news reports, for the PSLF's first cohort of borrowers, 99% of loan forgiveness applications were rejected.

In my experience, people use the ER for non-emergency problems because they have no alternatives, even with insurance and a PCP. When I lived in Boston, the city had a huge PCP shortage and no urgent care. When CVS introduced Minute Clinics, Boston'...

On September 11, 2001, I was working at a coffee shop just outside Boston. A customer walked in and said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Boston has a World Trade Center, just across the harbor from the airport. The general aviation runway is ...

Why do you assume she used food stamps and Medicaid?