NurseSpeedy ADN, LPN, RN

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    Buying a House on a Nurse's Income: How Do Nurses Afford $450,000+ Houses?

    NurseSpeedy replied to SilverBells's topic in General Nursing

    I think this has a lot to do with where you live. Between me and my husband supporting one child, there is no way in hell we could afford a house worth 450-500k comfortably and maintain our standard...
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    How many chances do you give a job before you quit?

    NurseSpeedy replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Oh dear, the woman was trying to work instead of being a resident there! I had that horrible thought once. I only worked in an ALF for a little less than a year when I ran away from the place-so sad...
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    How many chances do you give a job before you quit?

    NurseSpeedy replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    That makes more sense. Sucks when you have a great team but a crappy situation that you have to make a choice to leave to keep your own
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    How many chances do you give a job before you quit?

    NurseSpeedy replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    That first paragraph sounds more like burn out than time to quit. Yikes, that’s a lot to put up with before throwing in the towel-playing sick, panic disorders triggered by driving toward the...
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    Patient complaint - Did I mishandle this situation?

    NurseSpeedy replied to lily8424's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. I have had post op orthopedic pain and I know when I was sleeping it was the only time I wasn’t feeling pain and would be really angry if someone woke me up to ask if I needed pain...
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    I got a verbal warning for not greeting the new Director of Care?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in General Nursing

    Any “food sharing” for example, a cake, has been prohibited where I work. We are discouraged to having meals together even outside the workplace on break....I guess they aren’t too afraid of...
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    Patients Viewing Nursing Notes In Real Time

    NurseSpeedy replied to Tnurse24's topic in General Nursing

    This is starting to sound worse than the whole patient satisfaction scores for hospital reimbursement. We saved your life. We gave you narcan. We wouldn’t give you IV push dilaudid after you OD’d....
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    Patients Viewing Nursing Notes In Real Time

    NurseSpeedy replied to Tnurse24's topic in General Nursing

    I’ve been away from hospitals for a couple years now. This shocks me. If a patient wanted to view their chart they could but it would be with a nurse present. If they wanted to go through everything...
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    Opening Texas

    NurseSpeedy replied to BunnyBunnyBSNRN's topic in School

    Florida (businesses anyway) don’t enforce any mask mandate. I recently got vaccinated and had to go to the store for some essentials I couldn’t get online ordering so I did my shopping, fully...
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    Biden to announce US will donate $4 billion for COVID-19 vaccines for poor countries

    NurseSpeedy replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The USA is in serious debt, we are having trouble vaccinating.....housing....feeding our own.....we need serious help. Now we take on more debt to vaccinate other countries? I get it. They need help....
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    Big Arms They Say ... Hey, I'm A Nurse.

    NurseSpeedy replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

    I remember when I got a frequent flyer admitted. I just gut behind the head of the bed, grabbed the sheets and gave it a good heave hoe pull. Patient up at head of bed and ready to go. Patient...
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    COVID Faces

    NurseSpeedy replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Maybe use sparingly to the areas affected the worst and see what happens? I had bad cystic acne in my early 20s and had several rounds of accutane, but never had oily skin-more sensitive,...
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    COVID Faces

    NurseSpeedy replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    When I wasn’t working from home, I was starting to get skin breakdown behind my ears, on the bridge of my nose, and the skin just below my eyes on my checks under the mask were starting to look like...
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    Four 12s in a row?!?! ??

    NurseSpeedy replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

    In my youth, I loved having my days bunched together and then having a long stretch off. Once my soon to be mother in law was in the state traveling and that’s when I was able to make a 6 day...
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    Taped by a patient

    NurseSpeedy replied to lauriepanther's topic in General Nursing

    Had to research the audiotape has about two decades ago for non related reason but to be used in court in FL BOTH parties had to be aware of the recording for audiotape. When it comes to...
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    Took Ibuprofen for 2nd Vaccine

    NurseSpeedy replied to jlv613's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I cannot comment on the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-I have my second dose scheduled next week. For my own sanity-I will not be taking anything and just plan on braving it out. However, the whole...
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    COVID Vaccine: False sense of security or green light?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Schweet's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The variants are what I’m having the hardest time with. I get my second Pfizer vaccine next week. I am less likely to die from COVID19-but how safe am I really? How safe is my family to be...
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    Getting off the "do not hire" list?

    NurseSpeedy replied to cmf2021's topic in General Nursing

    Had that happen years ago, small hospital, last hour of a 16 hour shift. Borrowed OR scrub pants-stripped off the shoe and sock and washed my leg/foot well since isolation patient (got the part that...
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    Getting off the "do not hire" list?

    NurseSpeedy replied to cmf2021's topic in General Nursing

    They will find out, likely through your social, and then you will probably never have a chance for employment because now you lied about your employment history (by not including it or just checking...
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    Rationing Care in COVID: Whose life is worth saving?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I haven’t had a chance to read all responses yet as I have to get up for the morning to work, but didn’t NY get a naval ship to prevent this issue that they didn’t really need after everything...
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    Is it reasonable for Nurses to be fired who "ran away" from work during the pandemic?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Please do not even compare COVID19 to the flu. They were allowed to go on leave. You have no idea what their circumstances were and they have the right to privacy. Many nurses have pre-existing...
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    When Your Patient Wants To Talk Politics

    NurseSpeedy replied to KC,RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, I had that for about 8 yrs straight with my first hospital nursing job. Doc admitted patient spent 9 out of 12 months in the hospital-most of it sympathy care for mother that would go MIA before...
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    If Nurses are "Essential", Why Can't We Be Treated Like It?

    NurseSpeedy replied to Catalin's topic in General Nursing

    I actually did just that working 6-7 12-16 hours shifts a week at the end of the year in 2005 as an LPN between three employers. I got taxed through the nose by my main employer during OT and regular...
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    Doc Won't See Me Because I Treat Covid Patients

    NurseSpeedy replied to bitter_betsy's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I was just glad when they finally removed the “have you traveled to any high risk COVID19 areas in the past two weeks” from the required template questions. Try asking that question 40 times a day...
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    Nurses are Pushed to the Brink

    NurseSpeedy replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Agreed-and with COVID being a reality, who the hell would want to work for the same amount they can make at a grocery store with a lot less risk-yeah it’s still there too but coughing in public is...