Should I quit my job, sell my house and sail to Hawaii?

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  1. Should I quit job, sell house, move to Hawaii?

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      Yes!
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      No!
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      Why are you asking a bunch of strangers on the internet?

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OK, just kidding. Wondering why people ask total strangers on the internet for advise regarding major life changes. I don't want to name names, but a lot of people come to this site and ask questions better answered by people closer to the situation...

Specializes in None yet..
I love these types of questions: ...

Or my ultimate favorite "I heard that you have to give baths, take patients to bathroom and clean up their poop. I thought CNAs did that. Do I have to really clean up poop?"

Sadly, this is what some of the nurses at my LTC facility think about CNAs!

But wait, it gets worse! One RN entered the room as I was finishing a poop cleanup (and bedding change) of a woman on an air mattress who couldn't tolerate having her head lowered for more than 10 seconds. I was still tying off garbage bags when she announced that I should have cleaned the resident's over bed table, that was in my job description and takes only a minute.

(Excuse me, ma'am, you're lying in excrement and I'll get to you just as soon as I wipe down your table and neatly arrange your Kleenex boxes.)

Flummoxed, just flummoxed.

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I want to be a CNA but I don't have time to take the class and I don't want to pay for it. Can't I just challenge the states test and be a CNA. There isn't much to know anyways right. I might add I am not talking to those of you in nursing school that want to challenge the tests. Just those who think you need no training or classes to be a CNA

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Specializes in critical care.
Stop! I was just hoisting myself off the floor from your last post and now I'm back there again. Where did you get that Jeff Goldblum picture? Never mind, I'll be seeing it for the rest of my life whenever I read "no judgmental comments." ARGGGGH!

The first time I saw this pic online, it included text: "Jeff Goldblum is watching you poop." lol It's from The Fly.

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Specializes in Eventually Midwifery.
P.S. I need medical advice. My foot just fell off and there is a rotten smell. If I just put some Epsom salt on it, will it heal in time to go to a tractor pull on Saturday?

Oh, and I got fired for posting a picture of my patient on Facebook. PLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZ HALP!!!! What should I DOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Is this the good pop up?

OMG I'm seriously about to cry!

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Specializes in LTC.
I want to be a CNA but I don't have time to take the class and I don't want to pay for it. Can't I just challenge the states test and be a CNA. There isn't much to know anyways right. I might add I am not talking to those of you in nursing school that want to challenge the tests. Just those who think you need no training or classes to be a CNA

That skills test is nerve racking, especially as a nursing student who isn't really being prepared for THAT exam.

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

No!! you should not!! You might loose you're lisense! and why would you want to work in a furren country?

and my uncle's third cousin's nephew tried that so I know what I'm talking about

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i don't think it's weird at all to ask strangers for life advice. The people closest to you may not be giving objective or good advice. Even if they are, I find it helpful to ask for advice from a variety of people with different life experiences and viewpoints. I learn as much from the advice I don't like as the advice i do like.

'strangers on the internet' are actual people, with potentially great advice and new mindsets and helpful ideas you may not have considered. why not ask for advice? irl i've given and received great advice from random people striking up conversations waiting for the metro, in the park, etc. we don't need to put up walls; it's ok to open up and share with people you may not know. :-)

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Specializes in None yet..
The first time I saw this pic online, it included text: "Jeff Goldblum is watching you poop." lol It's from The Fly.

HA!!! Back on the floor!!! :roflmao:

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Specializes in Forensic Psych.

I just came here to say HELL YES, you should!!!!

But I guess not. Sad.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
What is up with the need for posters to constantly be downing other posters on this forum? Every day is another post belittling others behavior. So some people don't use proper English...or they ask dumb questions...or they come here looking for the answers to the universe...and yes, God forbid, they don't agree with you *gasp!*.

Turn off the computer, build a bridge and get over it already.

My advice to you: Turn off your computer, build a bridge, walk across the river and buy a sense of humor.

Lighten up! Life is hard enough without letting online forum answers get under your skin.

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Ur all haterz!! I hope I never have any of you as my nurse!!!

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Specializes in CCM, PHN.

*lights a corncob pipe*

Crusty the Old Bat here, to tell alla you youngins and grasshoppers jist how it's gonna be. I've been wiping butts, eating my young, wearing my old cap from my diploma program in 1873 and shaming new grads on AN since dinosaurs roamed the nursing units. I've fought management, wowed surveyors, survived 28373618 State inspections, precepted 823776278 students, saved 2938949837364883 lives, had both knees, both hips, and both shoulders replaced, have titanium feet, asbestos hands, and had a scan of the striations on my 837738 gallon bladder blown up and hung in the Museum of Modern Art.

I've seen it all. You name it, I've suctioned rats out of newborn's lungs in the NICU, I've survived swirling vortexes of C-Diff diarrhea that swallowed whole SNFs, I've straight cathed 1300 lb 90 year olds with a coffee stirrer from the break room. I remember when we wore iron corsets, had to crank the phone, charted with a quill by candle light and never had a break for more than a swig of Hibiclens for lunch.

You ungrateful brats these days have no idea what awaits you in the Grand Guignol torture chamber of poop and fluids that is nursing. It's been 68 years for me and I have one good eye left and need an ear trumpet to hear all you new grads whining incessantly, on top of the squeal of my 56K modem connecting over dialup. Let me tell you. *gestures with moderator's scepter* You are not a special snowflake! You will not get a medal just for showing up! You will not be allowed to ask questions that haven't been asked before! Learn to search the forums and use Google now, grasshoppers, before misfortune befalls you! Moo hahahaha!

;)

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