TheMoonisMyLantern

TheMoonisMyLantern ADN, LPN, RN

Mental health, substance abuse, geriatrics, PCU

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  1. Hardest Thing to Learn

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Okey Foley's topic in General Nursing

    Your post really hit it on the head for me. Administrators seem to have such an enormous disconnect over what the patients and staff need and what the facility

  2. Should a pre-nursing student get a nursing related job to increase future nursing job prospects?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Kara638's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    While it's not required. I think it certainly doesn't hurt. It allows you to get a taste of what healthcare is like and what is expected of you. It also allows you to network and often if you prove to...

  3. Op-ED: Practicing Medicine vs Practicing Advanced Nursing

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Tomascz's topic in Advanced Practice

    Thank you for stating the obvious. I don't believe anyone has said that there are any ALL online schools that require no clinical component, although give it another 10 years in the direction it's...

  4. What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    There are horrific things that the internet is used for, no doubt, and certainly our legal system attempts to deal with those activities. My concern is that despite that negative things, there are...

  5. What do you think about with current News and Opinions?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to guest1163268's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    From my understanding the relevance to the U.S. is that this power move that facebook has performed is adding fuel to the fire of government officials who feel that facebook is a monopoly and violates...

  6. Nurse Managers: Do you answer your phone on your days off even when not on call?

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    Is there not a supervisor there on the weekends or a designated on call person from administration? If there is then the only person who should be reaching out to people not on call is either the...

  7. Oral vs IV Pain Medication

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to kristine_bean's topic in General Nursing

    The answer to me would depend on a few things. It was becoming common practice in the hospitals here for the MD to set parameter or additional instructions on PRN pain meds for example "give if pain...

  8. Leaving First RN Job Prior to One Year

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to phassy21's topic in General Nursing

    It can be a gamble when a new grad leaves their first job before at least a year. In your case, however, it sounds as though this other job will not only be more in line with your professional goals...

  9. When patients assault staff

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to CaliRN2019's topic in General Nursing

    This kind of dismissive bull crap is what boils my blood. No one tells a police officer "Well maybe you should expect to be shot at in your line of work?" when they get wounded, yet when a nurse or...

  10. COVID Faces

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Haha, it's funny you mention that. There is a co-worker I've worked with since before the pandemic that I think is very physically attractive, nothing I would ever act on or coment on of course, but I...

  11. When One Patient Affects the Care Other Patients Receive

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I think there is lower ceiling for growth in LTC due to the differences in "command" structure and clinical roles of nurses. As far as tripling your skills, knowledge, and potential, I think that may...

  12. When patients assault staff

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to CaliRN2019's topic in General Nursing

    It really is a strange quirk of the legal system. When a healthcare provider is physically harmed, even if the patient was fully aware of what they were doing and that it was wrong the charges are...

  13. HCA drug testing policy

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to HTXRN1994's topic in General Nursing

    I've never heard of HCA testing for nicotine. Keep in mind that all divisions of HCA can have some deviation in certain policies form each other. In my experience though, healthcare systems that test...

  14. Hardest Thing to Learn

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Okey Foley's topic in General Nursing

    There is so much truth in this post, Davey. At the very beginning of my career I experienced a betrayal by a co-worker I thought of as a close friend. Since then, I have become incredibly selective...

  15. Non Clinical Positions For New Grads

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Prosper2018's topic in General Nursing

    Oh

  16. When One Patient Affects the Care Other Patients Receive

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    If you experienced marginalized clinical growth in LTC, sorry but you weren't looking hard enough. With the multiple co-morbidities that geriatric patients have these days both physical and...

  17. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Grumpy, what in the name of all of creation is a "cockwomble"? I simply must know so I can fling it out as an insult and completely befuddle the poor fellow I'm insulting!

  18. Out of state temp jobs for new grad nurses

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to short cake's topic in Travel

    A Karen said, 6 weeks or less is uncommon even for experienced nurses. I've seen *a few* temp jobs for really hard hit areas that were 3-6 weeks, but they were all for experienced ICU nurses....

  19. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Sounds very similar to what my co-workers experienced. Some really got hit hard after the first injection others it was the second. Same with our patients, the more fragile and older residents spiked...

  20. Hardest Thing to Learn

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Okey Foley's topic in General Nursing

    Honestly? Seeing a therapist a couple times a

  21. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It's an interesting debate. The choice of vaccination, especially during a pandemic. It reminds me though that there have been court cases where a religious branch of people known as christian...

  22. Hardest Thing to Learn

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Okey Foley's topic in General Nursing

    For me the hardest thing to learn and I'm still learning, is to not take my patient's suffering whether it be physical or emotional with me. It's really hard for me not to, some shifts after a bad...

  23. We Must Demolish Traditional Universities

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Guest1168644's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    You make a valid point that when we think others should go through what we went through, that type of thinking can certainly stifle innovation. But the innovation from schools like Walden isn't...

  24. We Must Demolish Traditional Universities

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Guest1168644's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Arrogance is assuming that because a study hasn't been done to prove there are problems that no problems exist within nursing education. Certification exams are a low bar to demonstrate competence,...

  25. We Must Demolish Traditional Universities

    TheMoonisMyLantern replied to Guest1168644's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Over regulating certainly can hamper innovation but regulation is vital when a life sustaining service will be provided as a result of the education delivered. I would argue that the online for profit...