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    Racial Discrimination in the Nursing Profession

    nekozuki replied to MasterStreet's topic in General Nursing

    A prime example of how racism plays out at my job: I'm biracial, but with my light skin and dye job, I am perceived as a white woman. I am treated differently at my job in subtle ways -- I am seen as...
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    Valencia college fall 2018

    nekozuki replied to Ktoussaint4's topic in School, College Programs

    We received the email last week! On Tuesday, six weeks exactly from the due
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    Valencia college fall 2018

    nekozuki replied to Ktoussaint4's topic in School, College Programs

    Nothing yet! Myself and two coworkers also applied, none of us have gotten
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    RN's and LPN's working as Nursing Assistants?

    nekozuki replied to blackmamba123's topic in General Nursing

    CNA duties *are* nursing duties. There is no separation between the two. For the sake of efficiency, nursing tasks that are safe for a layman to do can be delegated under supervision, but there is...
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    is this bullying?

    nekozuki replied to jennalou's topic in General Nursing

    Throw a small group of people together in an extremely stressful, high-pressure and competitive situation, and this sort of thing can happen. Benign quirks and personality differences get blown out of...
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    Lpn to RN fast track

    nekozuki replied to deebee18's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    If you want to avoid hoop-jumping and want easy exams to pass, just go to one of those 50,000 dollar for-profit degree mills that do clinical rotations in some terrible LTC one violation away from...
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    I hate the politics in nursing

    nekozuki replied to cwill2015's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Honestly, pretty much every field sucks. Retail sucks. Hospitality sucks. Some of my friends are engineers, and sometimes it sucks. Education sucks. In just about every job, you have to get up at the...
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    Bizarre Med Order

    nekozuki replied to UrbanHealthRN's topic in School

    Honestly, q4h albuterol is normal in our facilities (different medical daycares and groups homes with patients of various ages and conditions, some ventilator dependent, some that are highly...
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    Pro Life Beliefs and Nursing

    nekozuki replied to Tuzla99's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a queer nurse that must provide care to homophobes and people that think that simply existing in a queer body is bringing about the apocalypse (and tell me to my face). But that doesn't really...
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    Valencia college fall 2018

    nekozuki replied to Ktoussaint4's topic in School, College Programs

    I applied for the fall 2018 LPN to RN/accelerated track as well! 4.0 pre-reqs, 3.96 overall GPA, 91 on the TEAS, so I'm not worried about getting in, more worried I missed something on the application...
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    Can nurses live a luxurious life?

    nekozuki replied to Aa1Bb2Cc3's topic in General Nursing

    Income-wise, I'm considered upper middle class for my region, but I also have no student loan debt, no children, and I keep my credit card balance at a few hundred bucks. But I also have to work 60...
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    Tips from an A&P Tutor

    nekozuki posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Hey guys! Just wanted to impart what I've learned through becoming an impromptu tutor over the past month. My secret to doing well in A&P is flashcards, but they are only useful if you do them...
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    My Body Is Not My Resume: Exploring Nursing Dress Codes

    nekozuki replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a series of pediatric group homes with six patients staffed by two nurses. Most of the kids are on hospice or PVS, nearly all of them wards of the state with little parental involvement....
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    How do you quit a case, and do you feel guilty for it?

    nekozuki posted a topic in Private Duty

    When I quit or request to be taken off a case, I'm not shedding any tears over my agency being inconvenienced, but I do feel a tremendous amount of guilt for (some) patients. Sure, there are the wacky...
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    Weird/ Dumb Nursing School Rules

    nekozuki replied to Randy RN ASN's topic in General Students

    Underwear color. We were forced to wear all-white scrubs with white underwear to prevent colors/patterns on our butts from showing through. Then, a new clinical instructor later docked us all points...
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    Not Enough Backup-CPS?

    nekozuki replied to SnowyJ's topic in School

    Thank you so much, SnowyJ. There are so many children whose abuse and exploitation could have and should have been detected, reported, and stopped at the school level, and I'm so grateful you're...
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    The hamster is loose.

    nekozuki replied to Eleven011's topic in School

    Any updates on HamsterWatch
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    Student doesn't eat and I'm the person to fix it!

    nekozuki replied to JerseyTomatoMDCrab's topic in School

    Pediasure, pediasure, pediasure! It's a great supplement. Also, I have a patient on the spectrum (also showing signs of anxiety/OCD although doc says she is too young for a formal diagnosis on those...
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    Accused of sleeping

    nekozuki replied to cdthorste's topic in General Nursing

    I feel you, OP. Those peds nights shifts are so hard, especially when equipment gives off that dreamy lullaby of white noise. Even if nothing can be proven and the agency takes your word for it (and...
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    Disappointed in nursing

    nekozuki replied to nursingilove's topic in Medical-Surgical

    You have two choices: 1. Quit and try to find a less toxic work environment 2. Take a step back, re-evaluate yourself, and figure out how you can develop and improve your interpersonal relationship...
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    Training to work with medically fragile children

    nekozuki replied to FloatyFlowers's topic in Private Duty

    Can an LPN be an independent provider in the state of New York? I thought they had to go through an agency due to initial assessment, RN oversight,
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    Already make $42/hr. Is travel nursing worth it?

    nekozuki replied to Elbajista's topic in Travel

    42 bucks an hour? Wow. I have nothing to contribute in terms of advice. I would simply like to know if you want to adopt an
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    Twelve hour shifts. Are you doing 3 or 4 days a week?

    nekozuki replied to NursePooda's topic in General Nursing

    5-6 days a week if I agree to it, but only because I work in
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    Liking members at AN

    nekozuki replied to Jules A's topic in General Nursing

    I don't post much, but I have spent four years lurking. I know if Thecommuter or Ruby Vee have already posted, I probably don't need to; anything after that is a subpar rehashing. Lots of smart nurses...
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    Nursing shortage???

    nekozuki replied to MatrixRn's topic in Nursing News

    They may be shorter, but LPN programs have 2-3 times the required clinical hours of an RN/BSN program (at least in my state). Less time in the classroom, more time studying on your own and working the...