heron ASN, RN

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  1. heron

    Sexism in Advanced Practice?

    heron replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    From your offensiveness toward old RNs, it appears that you are overly invested in your pickme need to become one of the
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    Help! Needles Make Me Faint

    heron replied to TaylorRN1221's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yes. And remember to
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    Sexism in Advanced Practice?

    heron replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Patronizing doesn't work on me. I've been literate longer than you've been alive, probably, so I understood the question just fine. I'm well aware that the thread has been temporarily de-railed...
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    Sexism in Advanced Practice?

    heron replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I remember when advanced practice nursing was in its infancy. The idea was to prepare highly experienced, expert nurses to use their skills to the fullest - not to take novices and turn them into...
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    Sexism in Advanced Practice?

    heron replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    And have you ever asked yourself why? That you have rarely, if ever, actually practiced as an RN wouldn't surprise me, but what do you think the "N" in NP stands for? You might research the...
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Not news ... just a signal from the zeitgeist, schadenfreude edition: Scene: the Governor's Ball, hosted by trump and melania. The entertainment was provided by the Army choir. They marched into...
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    Sexism in Advanced Practice?

    heron replied to adventure_rn's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    "Be quiet, you're just a nurse …”
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    A distinction without a difference. You've reinforced the point that the US has a looong history of disrupting stable societies - including attempted genocide. It didn't start with trump and the...
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Chickens coming home to roost, maybe? When it comes to destabilizing other countries, the CIA quite literally wrote the
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    I think y'all are giving trump/musk way too much credit. Neither one of them ever "invented" anything. In many ways, the current chaos c may be described as chickens coming home to roost. Google...
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    Made a bad mistake

    heron replied to Tierno's topic in General Nursing

    If the ms contin was ordered for pain from the previous day's accident, OP was kinda set up. That order was inappropriate to begin with and should have been questioned. Was the patient also being...
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    President Biden thread

    heron replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Language is a slippery thing. Remember when Musk changed Twitter to X? The new name lasted about a minute. Now all I hear/read about that platform, it's still called Twitter. Carry on
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    President Biden thread

    heron replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    You're spot on, Tweety. I worked in an urban university health service in the middle eighties and started working in on an AIDS inpatient unit from '87 through '98. I got up close and personal with...
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Exactly ... just leave us alone and stop using your personal issues as an excuse to meddle with our
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    President Biden thread

    heron replied to Beerman's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Anyone here remember the beginning of the AIDS pandemic here in the US? Deja vue all over again. It starts and ends with language and who gets to speak without fear of consequences. Tiktok is...
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Well, there was no change after Matthew Shepherd and Brandon Teena, hard to imagine they'll start
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    Questions about In-pt Hospice

    heron replied to fworkentin's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Investigate the owner(s). Do they have a record of regulatory issues? If they own LTC facilities or multiple hospice agencies, their inspection violations and medicare scores would be interesting....
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    In addition to the folks who need Medicaid funding for their healthcare, we need to consider how our own paychecks will be hit. Where do you think that money came from? FAFO, folks. Cui bono?...
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    Questions about In-pt Hospice

    heron replied to fworkentin's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Inpatient hospice is basically intensive care for people who are dying. When I worked it (2003-ish to 2011, there were 3 criteria for admission: symptom management, caregiver collapse (respite care)...
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    Being Ghosted by recruiters

    heron replied to Dacatster's topic in General Nursing

    What she said. Also, current uncertainty over federal spending is likely to slow business down, so be extra patient. Healthcare corporations get significant revenue from publicly funded "safety net"...
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    But, thanks to the long-term assault (since at least the 70s) on public education, many of those constituents are either functionally illiterate or unable to reason clearly. Do you remember the...
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    TB Outbreak in Kansas City

    heron replied to Erin Lee's topic in Nursing News

    I worked for years in a state public health hospital on both a dedicated Tb unit and a dedicated AIDS unit. Here's hoping that the strain in Kansas is not multi drug resistant. Clinical tb is no joke....
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    This was interesting in the news today...

    heron replied to toomuchbaloney's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Same reason they've gutted public education: impoverished, illiterate, poorly nourished and sick people are that much more desperate for any resources they can scrape together. Next best thing to...
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    Employer keeps delaying start date and I'm confused about what to do

    heron replied to bluescoop's topic in Nursing Career

    I agree that it's impossible to know. I also agree with restarting your job search while you wait for word.. I can think of a number of reasons for the delay. It could be a budget issue, risk...
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    The Trump Thread

    heron replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    The tradition goes back to European colonization around the world. My point being that trump is not an anomaly ... his behavior is the norm for the ruling class. (BTW, I have read, but cannot confirm,...