Dogen

Dogen

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  1. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. Even though I sort of kind of agree with you, this

  2. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    Can you be more specific? I feel like people think science is wishy-washy, changing its mind all the time. This might seem true if you read about science in popular media, because they're pretty...

  3. I'm a sexless nurse

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    You say this, but the rest of your post is talking about how it's apparently not fine. Apparently you're the only nurse on AN who can get patients to tell them what they really feel, and the rest of...

  4. Pot, teenagers, and the psych ward

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    What have you been smoking? The reason we moved toward deinstitutionalization is because mental institutions were fetid, cruel prisons where people who were mentally ill or intellectually or...

  5. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    This is, honestly, the most difficult thing about these conversations. The language is fluid, everyone has their preferred terms, and different communities of relatively similar groups of people will...

  6. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    You guys have great discussions... but if I may: these are patients who are transgendered, maybe transgendered patients, but not "a trans." That's like saying "if a Chinese walks in..." I have to...

  7. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    Not everyone experiences healthcare the same way. For some people healthcare and healthcare providers are frightening, aggressive, condescending, or even dangerous. Pretending that there isn't a...

  8. Please don't call me Dude

    Dogen replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    It wasn't until I moved out of the south that I realized people don't use honorifics much in other parts of the country. I spent some time in Vermont and it took me a few days to realize the people...

  9. Sexy male scrubs

    Dogen replied to Betenhauser's topic in Men in Nursing

    I wouldn't worry about it. You feel good and you want to look good. That's totally normal. You can want to look good without wanting to sleep around... and there's nothing wrong with having...

  10. Please don't call me Dude

    Dogen replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Then you

  11. Why do nurses seem to have a bad reputation?

    Dogen replied to unbrokenx3's topic in General Nursing

    It works better for some of us than someone shy and doing a chin tuck all the time... we're just not the target demographic of romance novels. Apparently a novel about two people who meet and treat...

  12. Please don't call me Dude

    Dogen replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Don't forget waitresses. No one tosses around "hon" like a Southern

  13. Please don't call me Dude

    Dogen replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I was partially raised by a Southern granny, and she would have been (and frequently was) disgusted if I didn't use honorifics. Now anyone who is helping me is a sir or ma'am. The 16-year-old who bags...

  14. Intimidated by USA nurses

    Dogen replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    A friend of mine who is an ICU nurse was traveling in the UK when her daughter developed appendicitis, and she had only good things to say about the care provided and the capability of the nurses she...

  15. Pay grade: experienced nurse vs new grad

    Dogen replied to rehric00's topic in General Nursing

    That's why I like the pay scale at the hospitals around here: that will never happen. New grads start at the first step, and people with 20 years of experience start at at the 20th step. If the base...

  16. Pay grade: experienced nurse vs new grad

    Dogen replied to rehric00's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a non-union hospital, but two of the largest hospital systems in the city are union, so our pay scale matches there's. Not the same situation as yours, but we benefit from the unions being...

  17. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    Hi. I've been away at a wedding all weekend, and boy did this thread explode. As a mental health professional, I want to point out a couple of things. First, being transgender isn't a mental illness....

  18. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I don't find it scary, but I think we're looking at this through different lenses. I'm with the Dalai Lama (the head of Tibetan Buddhism), who said, "If scientific analysis were...

  19. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    Personally I don't care what anyone's thoughts are. You can think whatever you like. But if you act in a way that explicitly disrespects patients - for whatever reason - then yes, you should either...

  20. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know of any research that explicitly looks at physicians and their opinions, but the research that looks at patients and their experience suggests physicians have as much trouble treating...

  21. Floating Policy

    Dogen replied to NGYSUN's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital has three behavioural health units, so we usually only float between those, but I (personally) also float to med-surg because I like it and I like floating. I rarely get the opportunity...

  22. Nursing's Transition: Creating Inclusive Healthcare Settings for Transgendered Patients

    Dogen replied to Jessica Quigley's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not religious, so I'm going to avoid that part of the discussion (so, er, the whole conversation). One of the reasons that people who are transgender don't seek medical care is because they're a...

  23. Why do nurses seem to have a bad reputation?

    Dogen replied to unbrokenx3's topic in General Nursing

    Assuming I got paid the same, I'd work there. Float around in the background, shout, "Yes, doctor!" a couple times, and maybe hook up now and then? Sounds great. Of course, then there are the seven...

  24. Why do nurses seem to have a bad reputation?

    Dogen replied to unbrokenx3's topic in General Nursing

    I was talking with a friend of mine about how shows set in hospitals show employees having sex in closets or sleep rooms or wherever, and I've always appreciated her response: "If you work in a...

  25. Mental math very important in nursing?

    Dogen replied to Jayce2k15's topic in General Nursing

    You're like one of those games on the back of a child's place mat at a restaurant. The thing that messes me up is when the MDs start writing dosages as formulas, time how long it takes you to solve...