Tomascz ASN, RN

Wound care; CMSRN

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About Tomascz

Tomascz has 10 years experience as a ASN, RN and specializes in Wound care; CMSRN.


Late life career change to lifelong dream.

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  1. Do these posts ever expire? Did the OP make it out alive? (If you got out by 2018 you missed all the fun). What disturbs me about this is how many of these I've read. That goes without mentioning the...
  2. Subjective assessments like the one you apparently failed can be used unfairly to eliminate students from nursing programs who the instructors or others "feel" are not up to some unwritten standard in...
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    Endorsing License

    Not sure how you were able to pass the NCLEX, which is identical across the country, and obtain a compact license, which is good in about 27 states, yet not be able to work in the sate you went to...
  4. If you're only accepting feedback that is consistent with your prejudices, you might want to look at another line of work because nursing school is gonna eat your lunch. Sorry; not
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    Failed Orientation

    I don't know what this means. I'm assuming your preceptor was not satisfied with your performance, apprised you of the facts (at least once previously, in writing) and then reported the situation to...
  6. Wow! 27 pages of replies to this and most replies are in the negative. I've been a nurse and I've been a law enforcement officer with 45 arrests for various things with 44 of those resulting in...
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    Can I file a complaint against a facility

    "If you didn't chart it, it didn't happen". So if nothing happened, how do I chart that? You make a pointless, but factually true entry and sign it. This is another example of why hospitals and...
  8. You can not take care of 8 Med Surg pts at a time safely. They're in the hospital because they are acutely ill and they are not inherently stable. If one crashes, you might get lucky and do what's...
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    Wrong Department?

    Get out of there as fast as you can. It's your "manager" that sux. If you're not comfortable w your skill level, get training. My best preceptors had at least 20 yrs or more. They didn't get their...
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    Shift Nurses Post-Pandemic

    The action that needs to be taken is to get "profit" out of "healthcare", and I'm not talking about wages for time spent. You can call it private enterprise or capitalism or whatever you want, but...
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    Shift Nurses Post-Pandemic

    Well put. For some reason I've become increasingly unable to keep a civil tongue in my head in the face of this kind of naked ignorance/avarice/opportunism at the expense of people who've been giving...
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    Shift Nurses Post-Pandemic

    I could tell he wasn't an RN right off the bat. Basically what he's describing is Gig work for nurses; like Uber or Lyft or pizza delivery. As far as these guys are concerned, we're all...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Doesn't look like we're going to get the reproduction rate of Covid under Ro1. Woulda been nice. So called "herd immunity" doesn't actually occur until the disease stops spreading, which is to say;...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    2 initial 21+ days apart (turns out now not to have been optimum) and a booster 6 mo's
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    If we had a cheap accurate and fast dipstick for this it would solve a lot of problems. And yes, I am not unaware of the weirdness. Some days I just want to walk away. I did for 10 months until I...