Delicate Flower

Delicate Flower

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  1. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Inconsiderate and rude? How is it rude to respond to comments? Isn't that what a discussion board is about? It's part of the natural progression of a

  2. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You are missing my point entirely. I'll make it basic. 1. You say you don't judge, but your other points say otherwise. You are obviously making a judgement that a fat person MUST overeat, be...

  3. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Denial of what? I am not in denial of anything. Fat people should have the same rights as thin people and that includes working in whatever job capacity they are capable of working. They should not...

  4. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If you think "feeling horrible" as a direct physical result of being overweight is the sole reason people get weight loss surgery, attend fat camps, or even diet, then you are missing a huge piece of...

  5. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    You get to decide for you how to live your life, whether you eat fries or not, whatever. You say you feel better when you don't eat them. It's a mistake to assume that your experience is the same as...

  6. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Ughhh Yes, there are plenty of overweight healthy people. There are also plenty of overweight FIT people. Shocking! The idea that the extra weight is taking a toll, somehow, someway, is also...

  7. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'm sorry for the medical challenges you are going through. I completely agree with the first portion of your post regarding the country's weight obsession. War is being waged on fat people by the...

  8. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Who tells their patients they need to quit smoking? What is it with people trying to boss others around? How about, "I see that you are a smoker. Have you ever thought about quitting? I can point you...

  9. Dumbest question ever...

    Delicate Flower replied to medsurgrn95's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Actually, noc IS an abbreviation (shortened form) for nocturnal. NOC is also an abbreviation, specifically an acronym (if you pronounce it as a word "noc"), or initialism (if you pronounce the letters...

  10. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Here we go again. Brilliant. MaryColleen, weight is not the same thing as health, mkay?

  11. The Face of a Medical Error...

    Delicate Flower replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thank you for sharing this. Truly, it could happen to any one of us, at any time. As you said so eloquently, you are better for having experienced it. Someone once explained it to me like this: If...

  12. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Yes it's clear: It's clearly wrong. The difference is: 100% of the time, quitting smoking cures smoking. There is no 100% successful behavior intervention for obesity, since body size is not a...

  13. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Nope. Not really. Obesity is not a behavior. Can we name behavioral factors that influence a person's body size? Sure. But body size in and of itself is not. It may sound like I'm splitting hairs, but...

  14. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Really? I can only imagine that this post came from someone who is ignorant, or otherwise deemed

  15. Dealing with calls from work

    Delicate Flower replied to Katniss88's topic in General Nursing

    I learned early in my career what happens when you step in, change your plans, inconvenience yourself and your family, to come in on your day off because "we are desparate!" Wow, you are such a hero!...

  16. Discouraged

    Delicate Flower replied to livefully's topic in Nursing Career

    Have you tried all avenues, including LTC and home care? How far from home is your radius that you are looking? Can you maybe expand your radius and apply to positions farther away? Do you have any...

  17. Can parents give medically fragile kids meds w/o Dr. order in homecare?

    Delicate Flower replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    A crusty old bat nurse (I mean that in the most loving and respectful way) once told me that back in the good old days, before tube feedings were readily available, tube fed patients did get the same...

  18. HELP!! Nursing diagnosis for PostPartum mom

    Delicate Flower replied to gmsc11's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Nursing diagnosis for a normal pp vag delivery would include- *risk for pain (even if she isn't having any), *knowledge defecit (education is HUGE in postpartum)- SIDS, shaken baby, breastfeeding,...

  19. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    First of all, what makes you assume that I am obese? Because I advocate for the rights of fat people? Be careful about your assumptions. Here is the reality: I have recovered from an eating disorder...

  20. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    This was your first post? I don't even know where to

  21. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Bold emphasis mine... Because obesity is not a behavior. It is a body size. It is not the same thing as smoking. A fat person has the right to live in their body. It is the body they live in all the...

  22. How important is your 'look' as a nurse

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I get the feeling that you are really being sincere here and not meaning to offend anyone, but please think about this. Your post was pretty over the top for me. In one fell swoop, your post...

  23. How can I tell if I'm cut out for night shift

    Delicate Flower replied to Nola009's topic in General Nursing

    My dogs will sleep all night in bed with my husband, and then sleep all day in bed with me. No problem. If there is a human sleeping in bed, they are down for a

  24. What will happen with all of the ASN programs now BSN is the norm?

    Delicate Flower replied to mee9mee9's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I think the poster meant that some people need to get the ADN before they can get BSN. Why? Some people need to get to working as an RN as soon as possible to support themselves and their families....

  25. Can a nurse survive on several per diem jobs?

    Delicate Flower replied to ihatethisjob's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Depending on your situation. But remember, the employer mandate courtesy of the ACA is coming up in January which will require employers to offer affordable health insurance to any employee...