Aunt Slappy

Aunt Slappy

hospice, LTC, public health, occupational health

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  1. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    RIGHT?! I worked with a LPN who was over 70 and still doing bedside care, 12 hour night shifts in inpatient hospice. The units are 10-18 beds, staffed with 2 or 3 nurses and only 1 aide on night...

  2. taking a job but quitting in 4 months?

    Aunt Slappy replied to direw0lf's topic in General Nursing

    I'm the first to tell people that loyalty to an employer is usually a foolish business, because they don't reciprocate it. However, even to me the idea of taking a job knowing for certain you're...

  3. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe this is where part of the disconnect is happening, why we're not getting each other. Because my job in no way defines me. It is not "who I am." It is what I do while I'm on the clock. I'm...

  4. Are nurses and doctors equal?

    Aunt Slappy replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    Gawd thank you! I was rolling my eyes over here. Of course we know we are to question orders if necessary, but generally we implement a doctor's orders. We as nurses cannot give orders to doctors....

  5. Are nurses and doctors equal?

    Aunt Slappy replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    That's Animal Farm,

  6. Burnout as a CNA and the impact on nursing

    Aunt Slappy replied to YKA9727's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Only one CNA on the floor and the nurses are not helping with personal care? Why does anyone find this acceptable?! YKA9727, use this experience to light a fire under your butt to NEVER be that...

  7. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Vitriol.

  8. Are nurses and doctors equal?

    Aunt Slappy replied to SisterofMary's topic in General Nursing

    Bottom line, a doctor gives me orders and I must complete them as an obligation of my license. I can do no such thing with doctors. We all hold important roles, but no, nurses are not equal with...

  9. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    When it's used to induce guilt and keep paying a nurse who is not performing satisfactorily in her job and burdening her co-workers with her assignment in addition to their

  10. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Many people will tell you, loudly and proudly, all about it. If you lie, and people believe you, whose fault is that? Anyway, my comment was that IF Barbara is one of those people who actively chose...

  11. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    That's not what I said at all. I made my statements only about people who CHOOSE not to have a family. You need to re-read what I actually

  12. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    You're absolutely right. Good thing I didn't say

  13. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Vast majority =/=

  14. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Never said I thought you did. If you didn't choose it, my comments don't apply to you, do

  15. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    If people actively choose never to marry or have children, they're choosing to be old and alone, aren't they? I mean in the sense of having people who love them and will care for them as they age....

  16. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I don't, which is why I qualified my statement. As to your statement about no one choosing to be old and alone, that's patently ridiculous. The fact that some people don't like how their choices turn...

  17. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    As to the issue of her not having a spouse or kids, and being alone as she ages, the vast majority of the time that's a choice. I have sympathy for people who are alone because they suffered...

  18. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    All of them should be written up over and over and then fired if they don't reform and do their jobs. My answer to you is that those nurses are actually worse because they are choosing not to pull...

  19. Torn between jobs

    Aunt Slappy replied to Vmurill1's topic in General Nursing

    All the obligations of full time work without any of the benefits that make it worth the commitment?

  20. Torn between jobs

    Aunt Slappy replied to Vmurill1's topic in General Nursing

    This is not universally true. I may go back to school and become a RN someday, but after what I saw working as a CNA in a telemetry unit, I will die happy if I never work acute care again. There are...

  21. Full time vs Part time vs Per Diem

    Aunt Slappy replied to KerenAvneryRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'd love to be able to work part time on a PRN or per diem basis, but since I carry the health insurance for two adults and five kids, no dice. The benefits at my husband's job suck and are expensive...

  22. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Point taken. I should've used "her" and "she" instead of

  23. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    macawake's post is a perfect example of how you keep caring about people while being honest about their true

  24. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    *sigh* It was a general

  25. Old nurse won't retire

    Aunt Slappy replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    That doesn't give you any justification to keep collecting a paycheck for a job you're not