KalipsoRed21 BSN, RN

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    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    I don’t agree with you about the “half” part. My friend who has been struggling to find a job she enjoys as well. We were new grads together. She was a director of nursing at a home for mentally...
  2. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    That is what I make an hour $29.71 in home health and I work four 8 hour shifts a week....I recently just went up to 5 days a week. New grads in my area are starting 23-25 an hour. I live in southern...
  3. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    How interesting! I saw that product on Amazon today and ordered it. I am sorry I did not PM you
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    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    The truth that you have stated is that you have not experienced infertility. Thus my question would be, would you give up the challenges and heartache of raising your daughter to have an ‘easier’...
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    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Your sadness in having an older father and the pitfalls of such a situation are just as much of a sap story as me wanting kids all my life and having no end of road blocks trying to get there. Life...
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    Are we not asked to give to much?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

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    Are we not asked to give to much?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    EGG122NP - Thank you for this article. This is exactly what I feel about healthcare. To quote this article, “I stop short of accusing the system of drawing up a premeditated business plan to...
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    Are we not asked to give to much?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Right now I’m doing home health. Yes, most of my issues are charting. Have been and always will be. I can’t ignore people. And home health the charting is just nuts. Charting by exception is not...
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    Leaving federal job for nursing school

    KalipsoRed21 replied to guest62419's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I think this is a really bad idea. I’ve been a nurse a decade and I just finally got a M-F job but I still am on call twice a month and have to work a weekend every 3 weeks and half of the holidays...
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    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Mostly because when I see a pregnant person right now I want to cry out of jealousy. And because I just want to be the patient. I’m to high strung to know all the potential down sides. I already...
  11. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    I think that is a very narrow minded approach you have there. “You chose a man much older than you....what did you think was going to happen?” Such an audacious question from someone who has been...
  12. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for all the replies. I think this has been the most supportive experience I have ever had on this site. I appreciate that most of the responses have been respectful even if I don’t agree...
  13. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    How does ‘block time’ work? I currently am part time. I work 3 days a week, I don’t get to choose the days as it is based on need. I have a small team of patients I case manage...like 8-10 that...
  14. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    I don’t give a crap about other people’s kids....I don’t mean this statement in a biological sense. The idea that one can obtain the same satisfaction of contributing to other people’s...
  15. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Listen, I am grateful for the advice. I AM grieving and my husband is oblivious to it because he still believes that if I would relax I would get pregnant (we’ve been trying for 5 years), my mother...
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    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    I do believe I should have gone buck wild and found any man to father a kid with. My purpose in putting myself through school, finding a good partner, and continuously dealing with a career that...
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    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, so some of my struggles are related to my husband. He is not okay with adoption or fostering due to issues his sister has had raising her 4 adopted children. It is so crazy but it just feels...
  18. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Actually that is the thing. To live a full productive life I do feel I need to have children. I absolutely feel that without children I have very little in this life. I love my husband, but he is not...
  19. KalipsoRed21

    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    It isn’t something I’m willing to borrow for either. A wage slave is not something I enjoy being. I would like to try a sperm donor and IUI which is something I can afford on my own without my...
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    Exhausted; I want a way out.

    KalipsoRed21 replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you both for your input. Davy Do, I respect your life stances and choices. But I do think that is the crux of the issue. I’m not childless by choice, which makes it more stressful to me...
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    Has Nursing hardened you?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, being a nurse makes you a harder person. 1) Because it becomes easier to see real pain from ***. Thus one tends to not pay as much attention to *** which looks bad to young people’s eyes. 2)If...
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    Is it like this everywhere now?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    Look medicine, despite what anyone may wish to believe, is a business in the USA, not a calling. As such there is the great economic principle that I like to describe to point out why we (doctors,...
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    Productivity in Home Health

    KalipsoRed21 posted a topic in Home Health

    We work on point system. A nurse is to see 6 points in an 8 hour day, 8 points in a 10 hour day, 9-10 in a 12 hour day. A nurse gets 1 point for a regular follow up visit, 1 point for a discharge, 1...
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    Is it like this everywhere now?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    You can’t protect patients without your
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    Is it like this everywhere now?

    KalipsoRed21 replied to Forest2's topic in General Nursing

    KalipsoRed BWN - Billing whore nurse. Ha!