lemur00

lemur00 BSN, RN

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  1. Is the increased love for healthcare workers an irony that will fade away when things get better?

    lemur00 replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Don't confuse love and "love-bombing". People clap and post memes, meanwhile in my province we've been working without a contract for two years while we battle a pay cut and for our hard won right to...

  2. Spouse of nurse

    lemur00 replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    It would be a stereotype if I had assumed this was always the case, which my wording intentionally precludes. It is, however, a generalization that has been shown to have an evidence base, both...

  3. Spouse of nurse

    lemur00 replied to martymoose's topic in General Nursing

    It really isn't. A 50/50 split doesn't mean just money. Often in a financially unequal relationship, the disparity is made up for in other ways. For example the 1950s housewife that's been thrown...

  4. "Not sure what unit you will be hired into..."

    lemur00 replied to TitaniumPlates's topic in General Nursing

    All this trouble could have been saved with an oxford comma ? Ie "...garbage shifts, and positions no one can fill..." Oxford comma ftw. That said, I would guess like others that the position is for...

  5. Nurse Charged With Homicide

    lemur00 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Extenuating circumstances are a thing when it comes to real justice. And the purpose of law is ostensibly meant to be justice (though it rarely is). This is why most law systems have moved to a focus...

  6. Are We Too PC?

    lemur00 replied to traumaRUs's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, most discussions of "PC" succumb quickly to the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. It's helpful to actually define political correctness. Political correctness in the 90s had to do mostly with...

  7. Boomerang Coworkers

    lemur00 replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    In Canada we have long mat leaves so positions are usually filled temporarily for a year and a half to cover that leave. In SK we can also revert to our original line in three months if we don't like...

  8. No Respect.

    lemur00 replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    I feel your pain. We had a pt that somehow obtained the site manager's number and called to complain vociferously that the nurses were purposefully neglecting her by refusing to get her water and ice...

  9. Getting around the 18 y.o requirement

    lemur00 replied to npaar's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It's true. I was a 45 year old bitter divorcee in a child's body. My dad called me "little grandma". One time we were discussing crazy things kids do, and I noted that I never did any of those things....

  10. Feeling Forced to Stay Late?

    lemur00 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    On nights we rearrange the teams or work a team alone (we have rn/lpn teams in most facilities and units), or there will be float coverage (not necessarily someone on the unit though). We also have...

  11. Feeling Forced to Stay Late?

    lemur00 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    I always found this odd. None of the facilities I've ever worked in has made staff stay. You can choose to stay for a while for ot, but if you're working 12s you can only stay for 4 hours anyway...

  12. I GOTTA KNOW!!!!!

    lemur00 replied to qaqueen's topic in General Nursing

    We've been short of urinals and had cutlery removed in the last year or so (this is in Canada). We were told it was because of the stupid lean process though. The service aid had a bunch of urinals...

  13. did any of you share your first job offer on Facebook?

    lemur00 replied to mixtapern's topic in General Nursing

    I did with no harm. Since there is only one employer here, I didn't need to say who it was. They are listed as my employer, which I've tried to make private but it keeps showing up. That just means...

  14. Is Anyone A Highly Sensitive Nurse?

    lemur00 replied to PrincessNur's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My understanding of HSPs is that they process sensory input much more intensely and thoroughly, thus less input is needed and also tolerated. The downside of that is that the threshold for sensory...

  15. Overweight Healthcare Workers

    lemur00 replied to EmpoweRN's topic in General Nursing

    If they do, they'll have to do away with shift work and other stressors, since these contribute to obesity. ... That said, if a facility wanted to help improve employee health, there are a lot...

  16. Negative Post on Facebook About New Nurses - I'm Fired Up!

    lemur00 replied to DisneyNurseGal's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If anyone is wondering what the outcome of this case was, here it is. In a precedent-setting decision, the body that regulates Saskatchewan’s nurses has said a nurse who posted on Facebook about...

  17. Should I have volunteered to stay overnight?

    lemur00 replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    My first thought would be this... If they don't adequately staff their unit, it's not your problem. Those in power in facilities like this never seem to understand that this kind of crap is exactly...

  18. Only Crusty Old Bats will remember..

    lemur00 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    Canadian too 😃 We use paper charts, addressographs, and kardexes until they pried them away from us a few years ago. Pyxis came in after I finished school a few years ago, and licensure exams...

  19. When did you last see a nurse wearing the old school garb?

    lemur00 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I've never seen it. Even when I was a kid nurses wore

  20. One thing i dont understand(at the nurses' station)

    lemur00 replied to BellaCat's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Meh people can talk whatever they want in personal conversations. But work related conversations do need to be had in the language of the facility. Thing is, sometimes the personal and the...

  21. Critical Thinking

    lemur00 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    Oh for some reason I could only see the first page of

  22. Critical Thinking

    lemur00 replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    The first thing I learned in nursing school is that this term is basically a wax nose and isn't exactly used by nurses the same way it is in other disciplines (where it's much clearer in meaning)....

  23. Nursing Supervisor is Inappropriate

    lemur00 replied to Shelby, BSN, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Good advice here. But you definitely need to do something with this situation, op. It sounds like you are making contingency plans for yourself and kids. But the first thing you need to do if you're...

  24. Is money everything in this profession?

    lemur00 replied to WhyNurse's topic in General Nursing

    One of the nurses I knew that worked up north said "you have to be bats***t crazy to be a northern nurse". Another that worked on Baffin Island for years admitted to having a complete suicide plan...

  25. Do you overspend on luxury items as a nurse?

    lemur00 replied to Neywel120's topic in General Nursing

    Not gonna lie, I planned for egregious spending in my first year of working. I bought everything I told myself to wait until I was done school for: a big rock, clothes, trips to see my friends and a...