lemur00 BSN, RN

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 determine staffing. To be fair we're better off th...

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 anecdotally and in various types of research.

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 around worked as the manager of the household for f...

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 one of multiple ICUs, or floats between them. Othe...

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 on rehabilitation rather than retribution. Retribu...

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 allowing marginalized groups to have a say and was concer...

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 the new position. It makes the moves less risky to...

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 while they ran a code in the next bed. You laugh ...

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. My dad replied "that's because you were never a ...

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 evening and weekend managers who can approve calling...

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 because it's against the law to work more than 16 at a ...

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 secretly hoarded in a locked room no one ever uses o...

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 being careful about posting, which probably isn't a...

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 input becoming annoying or overwhelming is lower, bec...

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 systemic changes that can be made from the top with no...

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 her grandfather’s health care experience is guilty of ...

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 why no one wants to work for them, and I doubt thin...

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 were three times a year. The unit I just started on ev...

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

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 professional blend in one conversation at the desk or chart r...

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

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). However it usually refers to knowledge application to...

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 going to be able to support yourself and them is n...

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 when she worked up there. There are lots of stabbing...

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 very expensive sewing machine. I paid cash for it ...