ajdizzle43 LPN, LVN

We have to value ourselves first. We nurses are always looking for outward validation, why we have 1000 'types' of nurses...and we get what we get. And then accept it, and deal. We have to value ourselves first, say no, realize you're not special in ...

Waiters and waitresses? Bartenders and greeters? Amazon warehouse stockers and finance bros?... anyone breathing that can pass the NCLEX?

As a vetrinish youngish LPN, all these years of being gaslit to not being trained well enough to work in the hospital setting, unless our training has changed clinically over the last 17 years of ( me personally, just imo), what make$ us qualified no...

I agree. For me, I enjoyed the instability of floating. Nothing like documenting "per RN supervisor" and gone to the next random floor my next shift. It's lovely. Underpaid, but lovely. Ironically, choosing to float or not float is one of the limited...

I take my prescription medication before I embark on my job/livelyhood/license right at shift change. Everything and everyone else can deal with unmedicated AD beforehand. It's a great understanding between my family and I; spicy, forgetful and livel...

I work as an Grad Urban and Environmental Planning intern for a city planning dept alongside dept of energy, public utilities, and environmental policy. I use the CNA/LPN critical thinking skills we utilize everyday in heathcare to address civil righ...

Going from working with newly blind folks in the ER from dewormer to the folks who see their purchases on the livestock shelf. It's like a weird butterfly effect twilight zone, but with dewormer. ?. */s I get it BTW. I hope no one is offended....

The doctor can sign off due to the second shot being medically contraindicated. *If* I took a 2 dose shot, the 2nd dose my Gastro MD would have wrote a note stating as such, with evidence of my care. ❤

Nope, perhaps she just chose to stay for those who couldn't, because she could. Nothing more, nothing less. I applaud those who took time away from nursing. To the OG vets, please write healthcare Policy, advocate for us in the trenches, with t...

No, not at all. However, the added benefit for me is not social acceptance, it is empathy for the folks that are not vaccinating for *reasons*. I still don't care about social acceptance because of a vaccine, it's just another way to reach folks in t...

Objectively speaking as a PoC, many things are way more difficult for Indigenous People, and ADOS than immigrants. Hell, for many Americans period, everyday life is a very poor existence, with minimal to no opportunity, regardless of race. Success is...

I was upset. I said nope...waited to take the shot and quit. I refused the shot, because I always refuse non mandated shots, I'm "really healthy". Then my $$$ dried up. Then I said f it and took the shot... and was hospitalized with Covid thereafter ...

That makes so much sense. I also was seen by gastroenterology for potential emergency surgery. They where everywhere as well, and nothing they said made sense, the little bit I was able to decode, way way above my clinical grade. I will say in the 1...

I'm here posting a personal story after a bout from the variant. I am fully vaccinated. I was hospitalized 2 months later. I was curious if I am just a rare breed? Hope so. I am in the high risk group (healthy, middle-aged woman taking BC) for b...

Now that is scary. Praise God, but that makes total sense. I would have never known. Thank you kindly for your explanation.

I did not want to get the vaccine. I took it for the greater good. I was admitted in the hospital for the first time ever roughly 6 weeks later. I don't know, just venting. I am sorry for the confusion.

I apologize for the confusion. Both. I was vaccinated 2 months ago. I caught the variant (I was told) from the antibodies in my system( as what the nurse said)...but I have tested negative the entire time because I am in school, and still have weekly...

There always needs to have a level of respect. Things, topics, ideals go left because people fail to show respect. I am a "well flavored" LPN of 13 years. Depending on the situation I have the most knowledge in the room or the least. Regardless, I al...

I believe the vaccine incentives are just to push past a threshold if I am not mistaken. The people who are never going to vaccinate will not be persuaded by a coupon. Those folks are too far gone. Let's be frank, many people (including heathcare wor...

*Disclaimer* I am an LVN on track to receive a Master's degree in <Economics not related to nursing>. In the same time, it took for me to (finally) pass LVN school (2 years), I will have obtained 2 higher-level degrees, GRE's and all. However, ...

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How's that degree working for you now...? Such a different perspective of human and societal spectrum whenever pandemics occur and a nurse is using GIS instead of a EMAR...

Yell a bit louder for the folk in the back, we can not hear you through your bandana mask...=)

The airlines and Tax-Exempt-Cruise Ships that brought this virus here asked for $$$$$....And received... Healthcare is asking for $$$/Critical Equipment/Basic PPE to fight this international virus that was brought over by same vessels/carriers....and...

Thank you for your service. I understand completely what your saying. Nursing is a job...which we are exchanged our services for labor. We nurses get it misconstrued of our purpose in this healthcare system, and until we tighten up our nursing values...