Leonardo Del Toro

Leonardo Del Toro RN

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  1. Nursing Staffing Post COVID Quagmire...

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Call off. Call off every time you need. Do doubles and then call off

  2. Every Nurse Should Know Martial Arts

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, of course. Half of the benefits and advantages of martial arts are defense. I didn't suggest starting to kick patients into submission.

  3. MEN, dont come into nursing

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in Men in Nursing

    If you look at each and every article about nursing shortage you'll notice two things: 1. you can't leave comments, and 2. Nine out of ten articles are sponsored by learning institution or small...

  4. MEN, dont come into nursing

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to DUDERNGUY's topic in Men in Nursing

    One of the biggest and persistent lies ever invented, is that there is this "nursing shortage" THERE IS NO SUCH

  5. Nurse Beaten by Patient Denied Request for Unpaid Time Off and Fired

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Melissa Mills's topic in Nursing News

    Health care companies are worst than any other corporation. They engage in all kinds of abuses because nurses are "supposed to be heroes" or "good people that are suppose to serve others" or add here...

  6. When refusing to work is considered abandonment?

    Leonardo Del Toro posted a topic in General Nursing

    If a nurse is given an unsafe assignment, say with patient rations she/he deem to be unsafe what is the consequence to simply refusing to take the shift? Agreeing to an unsafe situation and making a...

  7. When refusing to work is considered abandonment?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    Yes...that seem to be the best option. Hopefully this is an isolated incident. Looking for another job, maybe, all these SNF's are about the same, you're just changing one problem fro another...at...

  8. When refusing to work is considered abandonment?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

    I guess what I forgot to mention is that this is a SNF facility. 2 nurses per PM shift with a 35 (average) pt load. Some are very sick an demanding and really impossible to have just one RN. The other...

  9. Fired from my first RN job after only 2 weeks.

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Mountainrnbsn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Your story is nothing unique, lots of nurses go through this. Nursing can be brutal, no only the job itself but other people you work with. Don't take it personally. These people probably didn't like...

  10. Legal or illegal to work more than 16 hours in California?

    Leonardo Del Toro posted a topic in General Nursing

    What if your boss tells you to continue to work after you've pulled a double? I can't find the law that "some people" say exist out there saying it's illegal. Anyone?

  11. What's the worst nursing mistake you've done or seen someone else do?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to AnnG_'s topic in General Nursing

    Funny, but the more worried you are about making mistakes, the more prone to make them you are. At first most nurses have anxiety about making mistakes. With experience they become more relaxed and...

  12. Workplace Harassment forced me to resign

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Drgnfy13's topic in General Nursing

    Is rare to find a decent place to work these days. Most places have been infected with a ruthless and only see money kind of management. Welcome to corporate nursing. Leave and don't look back, there...

  13. New nurse.. Just want to quit everything..

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to nohseungjin's topic in General Nursing

    It is unbelievable how these places take advantage of nurses. Specially new nurses who are willing to try hard and don't know who is who in the zoo. The good thing is, you can walk out. I would not...

  14. Orders from hell...

    Leonardo Del Toro posted a topic in General Nursing

    From time to time I run into real gems of medical writing. Levaquin 750 gm P.O. q. 48 hours for 2 more days the trick is to find how many pills this will be Can

  15. Overtime d/t short staffed

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to nursing4321's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't know newspapers still

  16. Emergent Situation Gone Wrong. Ideas?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Tencat25's topic in School

    Sugar...sugar...sugar. All these kids eat is sugar. Our diet of refined carbohydrates laced with sugar is all these kids eat. Eventually a kid with propensity for hypoglycemic disturbances end up like...

  17. How am I gonna pay for this???

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to lebelesprit_'s topic in North Carolina Nursing

    Do not get into serious debt with nursing school. It might take you longer then you think to get a job in nursing these days. Don't ever think that because is nursing, you'll are safe because the...

  18. RN shortage

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to lee1's topic in General Nursing

    There is so many nurses right now likely there won't be a shortage for many, many, many years to

  19. Disapointed with nursing...

    Leonardo Del Toro posted a topic in General Nursing

    I went into nursing because I like patient care. I like to be with patients and find out what is going on with their health. Then I like to help them. But the reality is that I'm more like a clerk. I...

  20. How do you feel about being a nurse?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Grier's topic in General Nursing

    Not all days are bad. I've also met some amazing people in nursing. And no I'm not bullied all the time. I developed a tick skin. But somehow it is my impression of nursing in general. A high speed,...

  21. When patients keep calling 911

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to JJ the crit RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You just illustrated how absurd and pathetic our health care system is. It is a travesty to say the least. Where the people with the most responsibility have the least authority. And the people with...

  22. How do you feel about being a nurse?

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Grier's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing is brutal. You are bullied 24/7 by you coworkers, managers, doctors and patients. Nothing that you do is right. You are always in trouble and nothing that you do is good enough. You can do 99...

  23. Suspended for a Medication Error

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    One time Dr X barked some orders so fast over the phone I wrote it down as well as a could. After he finished I asked if he could go over them because I missed or wasn't sure of a few items. He barked...

  24. We are not slaves someone please tell the doctors !!

    Leonardo Del Toro replied to Samah1992's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I notice the following: 1. Sometimes doctors are stressed to the max...give them some slack, it's OK 2. Sometimes nurses take things personally. They are not necessarily yelling at you 3. Some...

  25. What to know more about renal RN

    Leonardo Del Toro posted a topic in General Nursing

    Will have an interview next week for Med Surg. Renal. I take care of dialysis pt in a SNF but that's about it. Can anyone tell me more about renal RN routines and tasks? Any advice? What to look for...