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  1. Emergent

    Explaining Absence During Colleague's Vacation

    I agree. These endless pile on threads are not productive. They gather a strange momentum where someone even logs in after a year away from allnurses, to basically say what dozens of people have...
  2. If you wanted a change of scene then change jobs. Don't get your emotions all in a knot because of it. They would throw you into the ocean to get eaten by a pack of hungry sharks if it meant more...
  3. I'm taking a 3-month medical leave of absence due to stress from nursing. Anyone who is currently working with me will recognize who I am. Basically, covid has killed nursing for me. It has made...
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    1600 mile transfer for bed

    When we talked about a lack of beds we are really talking about a lack of staff. When the media says all the beds in the state are filled, that means all the beds that actually have staff to take care...
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    How do you handle difficult team members?

    My impression is that you are working in a long-term care facility where an RN must be the team lead? Nothing else makes sense since you are a new grad. New grads are wet behind the ears and really...
  6. First problem here is that you are being precepted by someone with six months more experience than you. That is a ginormous red
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    Compassion Fatigue - Staying Positive

    I sincerely hope that no one wants to harm themselves or others, has had their flu vaccine, has not been exposed to Ebola or covid-19, does not smoke, has not Vaped in the last 30 days, and thank you...
  8. Emergent

    Compassion Fatigue - Staying Positive

    Or, get out of nursing, before it totally grinds you into the
  9. Emergent

    I Think I'm Done With Nursing

    I met a gal today who came and bought something from me, whom I know from working at the local Farm Store. They have openings all the time, she's retired like me. She says it's really easy work,...
  10. People can do what they want and if they harm themselves in the process, so be it. No I don't care. I've seen people from all sides do stupid stuff. I'm certainly not going to start a hand-wringing...
  11. Emergent

    Leaving Your Job Due to Mandate

    CDC=Catholic Church in
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    Termination From Employer For Refusing EUV

    Every person has to figure out the risk-benefit ratio. Personally I got the vaccine. But I think it is an egregious violation of personal liberty and civil rights to mandate vaccines. It has turned...
  13. Call a wambulance, someone is doing something outside of the guidelines of all the geniuses who are still trying to figure out what to do, change their minds weekly, contradict their previous...
  14. Emergent

    LBJ

    LBJ took the IRT Down to 4th Street USA When he got there What did he see? The youth of America on LSD LBJ IRT USA LSD LSD LBJ FBI CIA FBI CIA LSD
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    Anxious, depressed, and might need to go to HR.

    Now that I am detoxing from nursing, I am reliving a lot of the negative experiences. There is so much toxicity in the profession, mainly because of these weird interpersonal problems created by...
  16. I think nursing unions should really get away from continuing on in the same outdated, ineffective concepts that descend from other types of workplaces, such as factories. They need to write into...
  17. Emergent

    What Unions Should Insist On

    The unions are too complacent and bloated on union dues to really do anything truly supportive of the nursing profession I'm afraid.
  18. Emergent

    I Think I'm Done With Nursing

    If this job works out,
  19. Emergent

    Explaining Absence During Colleague's Vacation

    In other words "Bless your
  20. Emergent

    I Think I'm Done With Nursing

    I might be getting my dream job at an Antique Mall and fruit
  21. Emergent

    Do you recommend a year of med/surg in 2021?

    That is the old school approach. I agree with you. Us old people sometimes are inflexible and can't accept that times are
  22. Emergent

    Nurses are Fleeing the Hospital

    Yep...
  23. Emergent

    Syringe Disaster

    Just take time off, eat healthy, relax, take walks, and let your meds kick in.
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    I Think I'm Done With Nursing

    I'm thinking that I'll be all rested to pick up a shorter contract this Winter in the midst of the Covid crisis. I definitely am done with where I was working. This LOA is really coming along nicely....
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    "Not a Good FIT"

    A lot of clinics are very cliquey. You definitely have to be a good fit with their peculiar culture that they've developed. When you work with a larger pool of people it's easier to get lost in the...