TheMoonisMyLantern ADN, LPN, RN

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 delivers.

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 be a good employee it can open doors for you. ...

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 going and the whopping 500-600 clinical hours require...

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 also quite a few good things the internet provides. T...

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 antitrust laws. There's been a push for a while t...

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 supervisor or on call person, period. All the situatio...

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 1-5, give for paint 6-10" or "give this medication ...

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 but also be better for you personally by being clos...

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 other healthcare worker gets injured we should be an...

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 noticed last week when he lowered his mask that m...

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 be your perception. I think the reality is that ea...

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 often dismissed or reduced. Yet if the same person we...

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 for nicotine in pre-employment screens make it wel...

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 with whom I allow a professional relationship also b...

Oh absolutely.

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 psychological, these patients require closer medical managem...

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! ?

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. Your best bet, in my opinion, for temp new grad oppor...

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 some pretty high fevers and GI upset, but with Tyl...

Honestly? Seeing a therapist a couple times a month.

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 scientists reject modern medicine and believe that heali...

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 death or a bad psych meltdown, I literally hurt for t...

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 improving education, it's making money and enrolling as ...

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, testing has been studied for decades and shows it is...

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 schools are more predatory simply due to the fact...