AutumnApple

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    Does anyone here like nursing?

    AutumnApple replied to bluestar776's topic in General Nursing

    I've learned, with regards to liking nursing vs not, I tend to create my own reality. If I've done the footwork and selected a job that suits me, has compensation that supports me and doesn't ask for...
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    What is harder- nursing school or first year working?

    AutumnApple replied to BookishBelle's topic in General Nursing

    I'd have to say first year working. I have my reasons for this though, it's not an arbitrary knee jerk response. I thrived in nursing school. My grades were where I wanted them, no major "unsafe"...
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    Uhhhh, That's Kinda Personal

    AutumnApple replied to evastone's topic in General Nursing

    Had an elderly lady from the South (Don't ask me where, I know not but she was such a Southern Belle) who couldn't get over the male nurse thing. Of course she called them all doctor, and they'd try...
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    Manager Insists....

    AutumnApple replied to alaskaman's topic in General Nursing

    Early in my career, my manager responded to pettiness (gossip gone too far for instance) with a "If this is what concerns you, you don't have enough to do" point of view. In a lot of cases she was...
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    Singlism in the workplace

    AutumnApple replied to CaffeinePOQ4HPRN's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I'm not sure working nights is good for me. I'm tired, scrolling through all the General Nursing topics and I swore this thread said "Sadism in the workplace." I about jumped out of my shoes and...
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    You'll have to expand on that. My point is, despite it being contradictory to freedom of speech, it's not going to work so........meh. You believe it's going to work? That science, right here and...
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    Anyone more well read up on the subject than I am have any input on the above? That it's the CDC who wanted the words not used to (as the quote says) "avoid conflict with ill informed politicians."...
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    Should I go back to school?

    AutumnApple replied to Butterfliesnroses's topic in Nursing Career

    Can't answer that for you but I can tell you how I'd approach answering it for myself: I diagram things when I can't decide. Yes, diagrams. A pros and cons diagram could do wonders for clearing up...
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    Oh my. I just looked up the word "crony". It didn't mean what I thought. I thought it meant older people lol. Yeah, cornies is the right
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    Funny you say "cronies" though. I often say "Don't take your experiences as everyone else's reality". So, I realize, this is only my experience but: I find a lot of the local govt. appointed jobs...
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    Hmph, my mind didn't go there. Maybe it should have, maybe not. They're banning specific words, not playing musical chairs with who runs things. That could happen though I guess. I'm taking the...
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    What did you do after nursing school graduation?

    AutumnApple replied to mstaurus2016's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Not gonna ask when you graduated, that's too much like asking someone's age. But I wonder which of us graduated first. Either way, one of us is a copy cat. That's the exactly how it went for me,...
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    What did you do after nursing school graduation?

    AutumnApple replied to mstaurus2016's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I started working, literally, the week after graduation. Finished school on Friday, weekend off, started orientation on Wednesday. Three days orientation, then full time on the floor orienting the...
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    I was actually thinking that after my last post Seriously, I said to myself "You are a bit consumed with money matters all the time. Maybe it's the same thing, but the tax bill is the
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    I guess from that POV, it can be disturbing. It's almost like......as you said, a symptom of something. Like having a light headache that is cured by Advil, when the problem is a brain tumor that'll...
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    Why do some nurses hate it in others pump at work?

    AutumnApple replied to remotefuse's topic in General Nursing

    I too have seen this exact problem come up. What I witnessed was: Some days, the nurse would go and "pump" and there was not a whisper about covering for her or anything else. Other days, she'd go...
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    I do get what you mean. And I would further that the attitude that leads to banning such words from discussion is a concern. I'm just not confident they are going to be effective in their attempts...
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    Meh, I guess were different with this issue then. I'm not convinced it's anything more than posturing so that we believe they're hard at work. And I can't think of anything that anyone wants to say...
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    ICU Nurse Activity Trackers

    AutumnApple replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Exactly what my experience was with them. The hospital admin. were all gushing about them for months. Emails were going out by the hundreds about "Be prepared for them" and "Any nurse caught not...
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    CDC now banned from using "evidence based" and other words per White House

    AutumnApple replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    Maybe it's just me, but I have a hard time seeing the point of it. If any crime has been committed here, it's that *this* is what they came up with to improve the healthcare process. It'll have no...
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    Graduating from lantern to flashlight.

    AutumnApple posted a topic in General Nursing

    Florence Nightingale. AKA: The Lady with the Lamp Born on the 12th of May, 1820. Adored by nurses and the general public alike. Her story of going from privileged status to a nursing career, as she...
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    I want to like my preceptor, but...

    AutumnApple replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    Any other Game of Thrones fans here? "Everything that comes before but doesn't
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    Repealing ACA

    AutumnApple replied to OnceMorewithFeeling's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Just a general question for those who are of the point of view that the healthcare system is working in Canada (or anyone else who wishes to respond). Why do you believe it's working? I've heard it...
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    Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    AutumnApple replied to All4NursingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hmph, like I said before: Not liking to precept and outright refusing to are completely different things. If, as you said, "every nurse the manager approached refused", then what needs improvement...
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    Hung my own blood! :-)

    AutumnApple replied to JBMmom's topic in General Nursing

    The title of this thread threw me off. I thought there was going to be a story about you were hanging blood on yourself.................. Yeah, your story makes much more