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    Cedars-Sinai Labor & Delivery Internship Feb 2022

    I was born at Cedars of Lebanon hospital in Santa Monica in the 1950s. They obviously merged with Mt Sinai at some point. Good luck with your
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    Why Do New Grads Lack Critical Thinking Skills?

    I don't understand the rationale of denying nursing students access to clinical sites. They are a vital part of the fabric of our medical system. That was very short-sighted of the rule makers to ban...
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    Explaining Absence During Colleague's Vacation

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    Why Do New Grads Lack Critical Thinking Skills?

    There are so many snot-nosed, whiney, entitled baby-boomers, it's unreal. Yep, my generation. I know all 6 of my adult offspring stand on their own 2 feet very well. I wasn't a smother-mother at...
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    Why Do New Grads Lack Critical Thinking Skills?

    A lot of young people have grown up in a pressure cooker. The millennial generation has had challenges that my generation definitely didn't. I think it's a generalization to paint all younger people...
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    Why Do New Grads Lack Critical Thinking Skills?

    Brilliant! And once these neurotics get into regulatory, they foist their two-dimensional thinking on all of us. Revenge of the Nerds I
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    New Job, Lost Orientation Packet

    LOL, so true. There are a million other reasons why not to work in nursing in my opinion. It is a brutal, thankless profession where we are expected to be endlessly tolerant and compassionate, and we...
  8. Emergent

    How to Give Constructive Feedback

    It's very difficult to get a lifelong non-punctual person to change their ways, just sayin'. Someone should have nipped that in the bud years ago like my mother and teachers did with me....
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    New Job, Lost Orientation Packet

    They sound like a nitpicky place. It might not be a good match for you, since you lost that stupid
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    Questions about getting fired?

    They would be absolute fools to fire anybody who is willing to come in under those circumstances. I wouldn't worry about
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    I Think I'm Done With Nursing

    If I do any contracts this Winter it will be no more than a month. 13 weeks is too
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    Add me to the list of being done with nursing....

    A lot of her job is being interested in the potential customer, expressing concern, all of the attributes that help nurses interact with patients. I have heard her talk to people when she came for a...
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    Add me to the list of being done with nursing....

    My daughter is selling insurance and works from home. A lot of companies have kept with the work from home option. She says she is on track to make between 80 and $90,000 this year oh, she's only been...
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    I Think I'm Done With Nursing

    As for me, I am enjoying my time off to reflect and recreate. I'm not sure if I'm going to continue with anything in the medical field, I haven't come to a conclusion about that. Whenever I think of...
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    I Think I'm Done With Nursing

    I think that a lot of us are looking towards other options. It's nice if you are at the stage in life where you can still tolerate the medical field. Some of us have reached the point where we cannot....
  16. (But may have contributed to a few deaths by sucking time and energy from us) I'll name a few: 1) Care Plans 2) Charting pain scales before and after meds 3) Laminating paper...
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    Bad Nurse Judgement

    What I find puzzling is when people fail to say anything in the moment, such as these EKG techs who did not utter a word to you that they would like you to stay. Then they make a tattletale complaint....
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    Bad Nurse Judgement

    I would not dwell on this too much. If they want you to do things differently next time you can have them clarify their policies and procedures. Hopefully you documented well, and it sounds like the...
  19. I am totally mentally exhausted from dealing with the covid-19 nursing world. My claustrophobia from masks has become intolerable. My aversion to over-reaching, meaningless government regulations is...
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    license status: failed/rejected (IL)

    I would advise you either emailing or calling the people who told you this. I doubt if anyone here can help
  21. Because I am debt-free I get to quit being a
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    Super Unhappy New Grad RN, HELP. Advice needed.

    I just want to mention that I spent about $20,000 on College for one of my daughters, and she did not finish. I had $50,000 to start with for each of the daughters. The other one got a degree in...
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    Super Unhappy New Grad RN, HELP. Advice needed.

    You need to see a counselor and discuss your relationship with your parents. It is time for you to cut the apron strings. They are obviously very controlling people, and you need to distance yourself...
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    Three Tips for a Living a Healthier Lifestyle as a Nurse

    Not much new information here. This has been known for centuries. The best path towards better health is to get out of nursing and do something more wholesome. It's a terrible profession right...
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    Can you choose DRN and full treatment in the POLST?

    The patient wants to be treated, but if their heart stops, or they stop breathing they don't want CPR. They do want fluids, antibiotics, and other treatments. What they don't want is to have their...