Orion81RN

10 years. Your point?

People get too caught up in wording. Yes, OP was treated poorly. Gaslighting stagnates growth, and you’re oversimplifying things with your statement. It’s entirely unhelpful. Yes, OP. You were mistreated. Now, as Davey was getting at, as I’m sure you...

Surviving Narcissism and DrRamani are both really good Youtube channels that are great educational sources for family roles and what you are experiencing. Your mom cares that you are not there bc to her, it makes her look bad. Her nieces are conformi...

Until you have experienced narcissistic abuse, you will never know what people go through. This is a narcissistic family system and OP is at home by design from the mom. It is part of the abuse, and nobody should judge people in these situations. It ...

Conditioned doesn’t equal innate. And WHO were we conditioned by? Almost as if the system was based on misogyny and we live in a patriarchy. Weird.

So take it a step further and ask why that would be. Is there something innate in men that make them more likely to ask for higher pay that women simply don’t have? No.

There is nothing wrong with me putting myself in the pt’s shoes and advocating for that pt. It is 100% ridiculous to prioritize your feelings over narcotics and addiction over what the pt is exhibiting. So who is taking this more personally? You with...

Dilauded is, in fact, the ONLY thing that worked for my 10/10 kidney stone pain. Morphine is laughable. I think it's awful that your "radar" goes up bc a kidney stone pt KNOWS what works for them and what doesn't. Toradol was the miracle drug post su...

Your ADHD doesn’t make you “not smart.” It’s a neurotype, not a learning disability. There are plenty of symptoms that make it challenging, but smarts isn’t one of them. Especially being diagnosed as an adult like me, you’ve not doubt gotten the mess...

4mg Xanax 13 years. Yes, using the Ashton Method personalized to my symptoms. Finally finally finally found a doctor willing to help. I can’t even begin to describe the harm “experts” do to benzo patients. There is zero reason a benzo taper shouldn’t...

1 month is not a slow taper. I’m in month 16 of tapering. Finally down to 6mg Valium a day, and the withdrawal still sucks. The depression and not being able to experience joy at all is awful. Benzo withdrawal is a horrid horrid experience and too of...

Why should we put any more weight to your lived experience than anyone else here? Especially a woman’s? Woman: This is my reality Man: No, that’s not your reality because this is my experience, so mine is right. See how dumb t...

We very well might. You have no idea and are attributing a trait to maturity when it could be something else.

I also learned a little about autism, and “it’s not fair” isn’t just a maturity thing.

Poor kid. So young to have such a rough condition. I’m 39 and have dealt with the pain since I was in my mid 20’s. Therapy for chronic pain is definitely needed. My experience was developing the pain, not understanding what it was, losing sleep bc of...

Glad to hear you have found something that is better for your mental health. If you're not ready to completely let go, have you ever considered picking up whenever you want in private duty? With your situation, you can pick your case (refuse a case y...

When practicing in lab maybe find someone to do the skill in front of a few times to practice with performance anxiety. I don’t recommend it be an instructor, unless there is one you trust. I failed trach care too. Now I do it every day of my job. Go...

Do you typically have a strong sense of fairness and justice throughout all aspects of your life? Can you think of other times you have encountered treatment you feel is unfair? If so, what have you done in the past when encountering an injustice, bi...

Like with checks, you sign over responsibility for the care of patients. I don’t know where it started being used that way in nursing. I just read in an old AN thread one person say they learned it from Filipino nurses. That got me thinking how much ...

I can’t speak to OPs performance either but look at these two statements. “She didn’t believe me and ended up verifying with someone else and when they told her that the drager was correct she said that’s what She thought and completely dis...

This is some BS gaslighting stuff right here. During Covid at that? I’m not delving into all the problematic stuff here, so I’ll point out 1 thing. You aren’t short staffed bc someone called off shift. You are short staffed bc your organization desig...

Shaming is literally what leads to narcissism. It’s emotional trauma and your are now pushing your trauma onto us. You were so severely shamed you don’t even realize that people deserve to be treated kindly and with compassion and understanding. You ...

As long as OP doesn’t have the entitled mindset of expecting people to contact her. Hoping is fine, though, and in the times we live in, using the internet as one of your resources is fine. I wouldn’t mind exchanging information with nursing students...

Thanks so much. I'll go ahead and call the wound care clinic and ask if its OK. A case manager just suggested mineral oil. I like your suggestion especially for the soothing action it could have. Thanks again.

Hello. Does anyone have tips on removing calazime ointment stuck on the pt’s buttocks? His buttocks is excoriated and I don’t know how to get this stuff off without hurting him further. Any advice appreciated!