Tenebrae BSN, RN

Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative

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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    Tenebrae replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    As a pysch nurse, often we have to restrain people who are floridly psychotic/high on meth or synthetics and a harm to other patients/staff In the 18 months I've worked on the ward, there has...
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    Tenebrae replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Someone on my facebook feed was banging on about how the cop who killed George Floyd wouldnt get a fair trial to all the media distortions and dramatics. I'm like "the cop obstructed George...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    Tenebrae replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    We've had several cases recently of people who went through 2 weeks in managed isolation, 2-3 negative tests. Discharged to the community and within a few days found to be postive and symptomatic with...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    Tenebrae replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Speaking as someone who lives on an island in the south pacific, I would like to respectfully say, please keep your unvaxed population, we don't want them.
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    How Long Do You Expect To Be a Nurse?

    Tenebrae replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I've been a nurse for nine years. Primarily in primary health, gerontology and mental health. My eventual goal is to complete my masters and qualify as a nurse practitioner and nurse prescriber....
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    Tenebrae replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Fried with
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    Blood splashed in eye- patient status unknown

    Tenebrae replied to NurseEr2000's topic in General Nursing

    I felt fairly freaked after my first needle stick injury. Again it was a very low risk exposure but didn't stop me from worrying. Occ health put me through a regime of testing day of exposure, then I...
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    Do you agree with Gov. Cuomo?

    Tenebrae replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I've worked in one rest home that was totally put into lock down from one new admission from the public hospital that had norovirus (the hospital didn't advise the
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    Tenebrae replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think it was Samoa where the measles vaccine was reconstituted with some expired muscle relaxant as opposed to water, two young ones died, leading to some of the worst numbers of death in the recent...
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    Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    Tenebrae replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Donald Trump was on the news boasting about how he passed his MoCA. I mean Sheesh thats not a difficult test if your cognitively intact. As for his racist comments could you post some direct links to...
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    When One Patient Affects the Care Other Patients Receive

    Tenebrae replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I had one of those the other day. Patient with acute pysch issues and lots pf physical comorbidities. Tells me at 1730 that they havent been able to pee properly all day, bladder scan showed 850mls....
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    Psychiatric patients refusing to move rooms?

    Tenebrae replied to Ashleynurse101's topic in General Nursing

    Your supervisor sounds like an ***. With those nurses I have to fight the urge not to bang heads together (metaphorically of course) and remind people that we are here for the best care of the...
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    Being sued

    Tenebrae replied to Tenebrae's topic in Nursing Humor

    Its more of a giggle here because of our ACC law, it removes a persons ability to sue over health related
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    New Grad Needs Advice - Hostile Work Environment

    Tenebrae replied to aap2020's topic in General Nursing

    The thing is I woud never knowingly treated someone differently based on the colour of their skin either. In my opinion a jerk is a jerk. That opinion is based on their actions and attitudes, not...
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    New Grad Needs Advice - Hostile Work Environment

    Tenebrae replied to aap2020's topic in General Nursing

    I forget where I found this article, however for this white girl it explained white privlidge really well. The full article here Being a white woman, it was pretty humbling reading this...
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    16 Hour Shifts

    Tenebrae replied to missnursingstudent19's topic in General Nursing

    I usually do four 8s on and 2 days off I worked a 16 hr shift on Saturday night, on the condition that I don't come back for my final shift. . They were desperate enough that they took me up on...
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    Nursing Products We'd Like To See

    Tenebrae replied to Davey Do's topic in General Nursing

    Haloperidol/lorazepam able to be administered in blow dart
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    Contested a Doctor's Order Psych ?

    Tenebrae replied to mhadvrn34's topic in General Nursing

    Our psych doctors deal with the mental health stuff, if the patient has physical health issues we send them out to the main hospital Once was case managing a palliative patient who also had a...
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    Nursing and being a youtuber

    Tenebrae replied to xlightx's topic in General Nursing

    Our code of conduct among other things says that nurses won't act in such a manner that undermines the public perception of nurses IMO your friend needs to change the direction of his you tube...
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    President Trump and the First Lady Test COVID Positive

    Tenebrae replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Me as well. The man who shot up two mosques last year and killed 51 people and attempted to kill many more was very much a right winged nationalist. One of those charming people who believed that...
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    President Trump and the First Lady Test COVID Positive

    Tenebrae replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Well you took that to a wierd
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    How often should healthcare workers be tested for COVID?

    Tenebrae replied to DesiDani's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Depends on the patient group and their situation I work acute pysch. Our unit has a high care area that has been set up as the 'covid ward' for any unwell patients that couldnt be managed in a...
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    President Trump and the First Lady Test COVID Positive

    Tenebrae replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Would you want to be the one that says 'no mr president'? Your whole political system is set up to give the one at the top pretty much anything they want whether its the right thing to do This...
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    President Trump and the First Lady Test COVID Positive

    Tenebrae replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    When I was working in palliative care we would give it as an means of helping someone increase their
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    200,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the US (so far)

    Tenebrae replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Grumpy you rock! Reposting because you said it was more eloquently than I