Tenebrae BSN, RN

Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative

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    Can a nurse have seizures?

    Tenebrae replied to Bmw12397's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    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...
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    Quit my RPN in training position

    Tenebrae replied to Novice Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    New Grad jobs aside from floor positions

    Tenebrae replied to iccul84's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Advice on which job offer to take!

    Tenebrae replied to K. Davis's topic in General Nursing

    Your recruiter gets a bonus for getting you into the job Take their advise with a large grain of
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    Should RaDonda Vaught Have Her Nursing License Reinstated?

    Tenebrae replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    This and a thousand times
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    Health at Any Size?

    Tenebrae replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Health at Any Size?

    Tenebrae replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Should RaDonda Vaught Have Her Nursing License Reinstated?

    Tenebrae replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

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

    Tenebrae replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

    Having to draw up my own flushes. Now its just prefilled all the
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    Finally, someone is discussing this openly

    Tenebrae replied to Hoosier_RN's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Is this an unstageable ulcer?

    Tenebrae replied to coltonk1234's topic in Home Health

    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...
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    Free At-Home COVID Tests

    Tenebrae replied to chare's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    Has anyone ever renegotiated pay?

    Tenebrae replied to NursingHopeful95's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Had a seizure during clinicals and kicked out of school

    Tenebrae replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    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...
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    Is nursing burn out really that bad?

    Tenebrae replied to nursingcand's topic in General Nursing

    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
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    LPN's in LTC

    Tenebrae replied to Tired nurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    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
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    Is nursing burn out really that bad?

    Tenebrae replied to nursingcand's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    What was she thinking?!

    Tenebrae replied to pharmanurse11's topic in General Nursing

    There were a few sentences I had to
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    What was she thinking?!

    Tenebrae replied to pharmanurse11's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Do you regret becoming a nurse?

    Tenebrae replied to jengood's topic in General Nursing

    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
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    What was she thinking?!

    Tenebrae replied to pharmanurse11's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Rude Clinical Student

    Tenebrae replied to 3319684's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Have you ever wanted to see a coworker fail?

    Tenebrae replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Rude Clinical Student

    Tenebrae replied to 3319684's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Have you ever wanted to see a coworker fail?

    Tenebrae replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    And the wisdom to know where to hide the bodies of the people who really hack me