heron ASN, RN

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    Does anyone have good experiences in the nursing profession

    heron replied to magslu's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    S'cuse me? I'm 46 years in and nowhere near being burned out. Please take some responsibility for your own behavior and lack of awareness of what you were getting yourself into. Your response to Cob94...
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    Defaming other nurses

    heron replied to NurseMonica87's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The action is a public record. While I think that spreading it around via social media is mean-spirited and malicious, I also have to acknowledge that actions have consequences. A damaged reputation...
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    Does anyone have good experiences in the nursing profession

    heron replied to magslu's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    With every job I've held as a nurse, I've had to ask, "Is this gig more good than bad or more bad than good?" Then I stayed or moved on, depending on the answer. Meanwhile, even the worst job kept...
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    Anxiety following patient death

    heron replied to Hockeynursing's topic in General Nursing

    OP, what you perceived as gasping for breath were most likely agonal resirations, a very terminal phenomenon that often occurs just prior to the final shutdown that is death. Don't make yourself...
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    Family stole from me

    heron replied to Speedy15's topic in General Nursing

    I have had things of mine stolen on the job, but I'm pretty sure it was co-workers, not families. That includes a jacket out of a locked breakroom, a silver angel pin inherited from my late wife and a...
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    other rn mama's ..going back to work after

    heron replied to erin01's topic in General Nursing

    Having gone through it, my advice is to nail down your childcare as best you can before you actually have to be legally responsible for patients' welfare. If if your husband is your only option, then...
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    Bullied by a colleague

    heron replied to enc123's topic in General Nursing

    This advice comes much closer to my understanding of bullying than anything else in this thread: the abuse of power to get your own way, in this case,
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    Lump on center right ride of back

    heron replied to Chachi 23's topic in General Nursing

    We are not allowed by TOS to give medical advice - you really need to ask your own
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    Why are nurses sexualized?

    heron replied to Sykadia's topic in General Nursing

    Wrong - modern nursing was founded during the Victorian era and, prior to Nigjtengale's work in the Crimean war (I think it was), nursing care of unrelated people in hospitals was considered highly...
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    Bullying in the workplace

    heron replied to PrincessAlexiss's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    But much harder to
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    Can they do that?

    heron replied to MGLPN's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Yes, they
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    Bullying in the workplace

    heron replied to PrincessAlexiss's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Indeed! And this, OP, is why you're getting so many sarcastic responses. I've followed many of the threads on this subject and have often seen irrelevant minutiae like facial expressions, failure to...
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    How to have teacher/class evaluated or action against program.

    heron replied to nurse4life2017's topic in General Students

    Well, I think it's reasonable to wonder what kind of questions are so unreasonable as to cause all but 3 students to fail a test. Medical math is pretty fundamental to safe practice, so advice could...
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    Who Should Clean Up, Offgoing Shift or Oncoming Shift?

    heron replied to Kooky Korky's topic in General Nursing

    This is the kind of nit-picking issue that leads to unecesary shift wars. On-coming nurse just needs to pick up and move on, not waste time and energy chasing off-going nurse around and nagging her...
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    Yep. Nurses do "eat their young"

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with this - as a charge nurse I get pretty peeved when a caregiver is supposed to be monitoring a patient and winds up schmoozing with co-workers
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    Yep. Nurses do "eat their young"

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in General Nursing

    You make a good point. I just want to point out, though, that the OP never mentioned problems with a preceptor. All we got was NETY and a blanket indightment of all her co-workers. So, OP, what do you...
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    Yep. Nurses do "eat their young"

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in General Nursing

    What you carefully don't mention is is whether you have any respect for nurses who have spent years hands on in real life. It's also real hard to offer guidance if I'm not allowed to mention that you...
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    You know the shift is gonna be a hot mess when ...

    heron replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    When I started out, they were still treating the DTs with rectal paraldehyde, a banana bag and four point restraints. I always knew my night was going to suck when I could smell the paraldehyde from...
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    Yep. Nurses do "eat their young"

    heron replied to Dianna11's topic in General Nursing

    Just as the "recycled topics" thread gets shut down -
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    Bullied by Clinical Instructor

    heron replied to dorkiexcici's topic in General Students

    Zombie alert - thread is over a year
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    Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    heron replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you actually read the post you are going on about. Did you miss the part where the poster said that she is slowly shedding weight herself? Or are you just fixated on the audacity of a...
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    Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    heron replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    Then it seems as if you would have figured out the quote feature by now. So, not buyin' it. Now that I've figured out which post you're talking about, it seems to me that what you find offensive is...
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    Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    heron replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    It plays out as you projecting your own issues on another poster who was discussing a very different situation from
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    Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    heron replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    Then you should know better than to think that sobriety gives you permission to hurt people just because you can. I suggest actually reading the thread. I believe there are a couple of posts that...
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    Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    heron replied to FutureDNP2021's topic in General Nursing

    Poster is a self-identified Alpha Male - everybody serves