Tomascz ASN, RN

Wound care; CMSRN

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    I am finally able to leave nursing by January 2018

    Tomascz replied to NursingBro's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Ceased placement due to not taking vital signs properly

    Tomascz replied to Kirsten Kurian's topic in General Students

    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

    Tomascz replied to RN in the making's topic in General Nursing

    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...
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    Any Nurses That Didn't Get COVID Vacc/Booster for Complio?

    Tomascz replied to NoFly-4645's topic in General Students

    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

    Tomascz replied to Sapa22's topic in General Nursing

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

    Tomascz replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    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

    Tomascz replied to bixbie's topic in General Nursing

    "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...
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    Leaving a first job during orientation

    Tomascz replied to rosecm88's topic in First Year After Licensure

    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?

    Tomascz replied to NNF2015's topic in General Nursing

    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

    Tomascz replied to Aaron Smith's topic in General Nursing

    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

    Tomascz replied to Aaron Smith's topic in General Nursing

    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

    Tomascz replied to Aaron Smith's topic in General Nursing

    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

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The problem is you work with sick people who pose a lot of risk, to you and everyone else. If you've had Covid and you're doing OK now, good onya, but you have no right to expose others as an...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    She's not and you know she's not. X % of the general population are at no, or very little risk, of death from this stupid bug. y% are. Do you know who they are? You want to bet their lives? Is that...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I don't know Flo. Either it's your attitude or my lack of time, but none of what you "quoted" as support for your "argument" was actually authored by me (except "I tend to think that there are a lot...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I think we're on a big a*s learning curve in an environment where there are as many opinions as there are cell phones and laptops and a very small percentage of those think critically or are...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    >90% = Greater than. Can't be lower than 90%. Chronic lung is accounted for in the Docs assessment (assessed prior to acceptance by licensed provider, ie. FNP. MD, PA etc.) Falling sats are...
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    One Nurse's Approach to Discussing the COVID-19 Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to nataliadab's topic in Disaster Preparation

    That is just so 2015 Gary. A lot has happened since then, but have it your way. I heard the Pope, who has been vaccinated, and is by all accounts well educated, has come out against mRNA vaccines...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh my, you've certainly accomplished a lot. Kill the messenger, by all means. I've done nothing but study since this started. What fuels this pandemic is retrograde, largely Anglo, human behaviour...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I know, right? I'm in the South West working with a population that is hardest hit and also the highest vaccinated in the US and they started getting vaccinated early in the pandemic which may be one...
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    RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

    Tomascz replied to TraumaRN52's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Honestly this thread doesn't surprise me given the number of people in the medical field I've run into who are totally into woo woo. The self satisfied snark pretty much wraps that type up. I don't...
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    Pandemic: The Beginning

    Tomascz replied to JBMmom's topic in Disaster Preparation

    What we've learned in this pandemic, about respiratory care particularly, is so valuable but has come at such a dreadful cost, to both our patients and ourselves. Thanks for sharing your experience....