walkingrock ADN

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  1. walkingrock

    Employers' Background Investigation (i.e. social media)

    It was so long ago, I don’t remember specifically. I’m thinking it was a video of the nurse saying something that was thought to be racist by a patient that saw it and made a nasty reply to it on facebook about not wanting that nurse to take care of ...
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    Employers' Background Investigation (i.e. social media)

    I closed my facebook account for quite a few years, and reopened it with only immediate family for years due to work. I know of at least 1 RN who was fired over a facebook post, at a facility that I worked at.
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    So Happy To Be Out Of Nursing

    I’m very grateful that I retired 2-1/2+ years ago and missed all the Covid horrors. I really enjoyed my job for many years, despite the stress; but it got much more difficult the last 10 years or so, the job satisfaction gone. It was a good career ov...
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    Advice please

    Going into management at your former employment sounds like jumping from the frying pan to the fire. Management is typically the most overworked and least appreciated, especially middle management. As a manager would you really get an hourly pay, or ...
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    Case Study: An OB Catastrophe

    1. 34.2 weeks, SGA, smoker, leaking fluid, oligohydramnios. 2. Check fluid for ferning. Do L&D admit labs, start IV, place on baby monitor; may need to start antibiotics.
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    Worst Nursing Scrub Color Worn?

    Mustard yellow ?
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    Question for you retired RNs

    Retiring this week. Would have been working as an RN for 40 years in June of this year. I will be volunteering at the SPCA.
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    Worst Nursing Scrub Color Worn?

    Mustard yellow ?
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    What does your username mean?

    I had 2 Galapagos tortoises for a number of years. They looked like big round rocks moving around the back yard. So I became Walkingrock! ?
  10. That’s awesome! I agree that sleep problems are a big issue with fibromyalgia. I’ve been diagnosed since 90’s and definitely had it before that. I’ve been going to a specialist in LA for the last 5 years. I just got an adjustable bed, and haven’t sle...
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    I'm So Over Nursing. I would rather work at Costco!!

    I’m guessing your facility is owned by physicians? That particularly increases some of the issues you speak of. You may be more comfortable in a hospital that is not physician owned. Another suggestion, maybe you could get your mojo back by transferi...
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    The End of An Era

    I’m retiring after nearly 40 years, in 2.5 weeks. I’m ready. It’s earlier than I had planned, but it is all good. Lots of changes during that time, barely resembles the same job. I’ll keep my license active for another 5 years or so most likely, it i...
  13. Like others, just checking and waiting so I could make comments again!! So far, I like it!
  14. What cure did you find for your fibromyalgia pain?
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    Which specialty to choose?

    OR Not a lot of interaction with the patient or their family, routine, work with smaller group of same people. Surgery is interesting.
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    Best shoes for 12 hours

    I wear Keens with medical grade orthotics and compression stockings.
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    How Much Junk do you Keep?

    Yes, a shredding service is terrific!!
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    Forced to Chart using another employee name

    Is there any way in the electronic charting to note that the charting is being done for you? I know with ours, we can click on a button and note the person the charting is being done for.
  19. I was fairly active on AN probably more than a decade ago for a few years, then just started checking it out again in the last few weeks. I've been working as an RN for 39 years and 5 months. That is my accomplishment, just keeping at it. Planning to...
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    New Grad Terrified of Choosing Wrong Job

    Take one of your current offers. It doesn't mean you can't eventually get the job you want. The first year of nursing is rough whether you're in your favorite area or not. The important thing is to get some experience. I thought I wanted to work in p...
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    Starting my 40th year

    I think their action to your caught and interrupted feeding error is way over the top. That being your only error in 40 years is stellar; I don't know any nurses that can say that. I don't think there would be many nurses in my over 200 RN NICU unit...
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    Starting my 40th year

    Wow, you got started on your career so young!
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    Starting my 40th year

    Takes some perfectionism to work in NICU I think, although I've seen a few that didn't seem to have it!
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    Which areas in hospital least physically demanding?

    Telephone triage in my health system is a nightmare for nurses, very stressful. Not a lot of positions for an LC, and there is a lot of bending over and standing in that job. Just my 2 cents from my location and experience.
  25. Thank you!!