Tenebrae BSN, RN

perhaps you could read OP's post properly You missed the portion where they said they were permanently disabled due to medical conditions arising from covid. IMO nurses should always endeavour to practice in such a manner that if anyone wa...

I would love to say go for it. It would concern me that you are still having seizures. On my ward you are rostered a mix of mornings and afternoons and most bedside nursing jobs will require you to work a combination of mornings, afternoons and...

Floating is definately not for new grads IMO. The failure was the one who employed you into a role that you were not equiped to take on yet. Its a small likelyhood that you end up in a role you are well supported in and end up loving.

The first male catheter change I did as a new graduate was a nightmare. I was so nervous to get the old one out and the new one in I didn't give it a gentle rotation prior to removing it to dislodge the urine crystals and caused the patient pain. Eve...

Your recruiter gets a bonus for getting you into the job Take their advise with a large grain of sat

This and a thousand times this.

I think its probably more nuanced than that. However if you were to look at the diet of an overweight person, its unlikely to be all that healthy. Speaking as an overweight person, who ate the wrong food eg missing meals, eating high fat, high ...

Thats happened to me before. The patient denies having any medical conditions and than hands me a supermarket bag of their current medications. I find it a lot working in mental health. People get better and then stop their medication because '...

good! The fact that she thought this would be a good idea is even more of a reason why she should never nurse again

Having to draw up my own flushes. Now its just prefilled all the way

We have this in NZ We have so many jobs that need filling. Lots of amazing trained nurses from the phillipines, india etc who cant work in without going through a CAP program. The CAP program costs $18000 plus and requires the student to w...

Its hard to tell until you get rid of the slough. The size of it would make me think stage 2 with a layer of slough/biofilm I love iodosorb for autolytic debridgement, it comes in a sheet with gauze each side but you can pull off a piece and ma...

I walked into my local pharmacy and they gave me 10 tests. And when I run through those 10 I can get another refil also all for free I continue to stand by my belief that profit has no place in healthcare and that people should be able to get th...

I'm part of a MECA so our increases are apart of that . A few years ago I went to my employer and pretty much said "I would like a pay rise, I have people wanting to pay me X amount of money, can you meet this" Worst case scenario they say ...

IMO getting back into nursing school will be difficult until you can show the thing thaty caused the orginal seizure is under control. Imagine you are in the process of inserting a catheter or other invasive procedure and you get dropped by ano...

As to information re nursing school, it may surprise you that there are members from other countries that arent America. I am from NZ and I answer based on my knowledge.

Because its driven buy the almightly dollar and those in high places will do anything to avoid proper staffing ratios? I would have been screwed without the LPNS when I worked in aged care

I love my job, dream population, older persons mental health That said I'm currently day 2 of 8 days leave. I've spent most of the last two days sleeping and almost feel back to baseline. I almost feel just tired as opposed to bone tired wearine...

There were a few sentences I had to rewrite😂😎

Spoken like someone who has never worked in SNF or long term care. I had 75 patients on an afternoon shift and I have 8 hours to do my job. The faclity hired me to be a nurse, not answer phones. When I got distressed family members who c...

It drives me up the wall at times. Currently have a toxic work mate which is threatning my sanity. That said I don't regret it at all

I used to work on a SNF/aged care facility. We got a shiny iphone to take incoming phone calls. It has this wonderful habbit of ringing when I had my hands in a gooby wound, or in the middle of the med round. Or Mrs Smith in room 4 had fallen a...

I got the stink eye from a student nurse because I wasnt going to toilet a highly anxious patient 100 times an hours. I explained my logic that to do so would reinforce her anxiety and panic. and I did not have the time or ability to toilet this pati...

We have as special charge for that its called "theft as a servant" (covers theft in the work place). While some employers might give someone a second chance for a theft charge, they won't if its theft as. servant

Does she have specific criteria that she is supposed to be meeting? If she is not meeting those then give it to her straight, ensure you have a witness though. I had one of my recent student nurses who didn't seem to be meeting the criteri...