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Hello all, last night I had a horrible shift and was kicked by a patient in the stomach. I was trying to help my fellow nurses control an aggressive patient and put mittens on and somehow got injured and went to the ER the rest of my shift. I am trau...
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The prevalence of drink spiking has made us hesitant to leave a drink unattended in public places. It's a scary thought that someone could put alcohol, "date rape drugs" or other substances into your drink without you having a clue. Now, reports of...
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Hi all, I am looking for some thoughts here on the high-anxiety I’m facing as a new grad RN. I work in a busy inner-city ER that sees a fair amount of COVID, as well as a high amount of psych disorders in our local population; this area also serves o...
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Our professor gave an article (published in 2005) to read. We will discuss it tomorrow. It is about colleague violence in nursing. There is a passage in it:
Theories abound Researchers have proposed several theories to explain horizontal violen...
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METOO???April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so what better time to discuss how you can help end sexual violence. Imagine a world in which human beings didn’t have to worry about being sexually assaulted. That’s what #MeToo is really all about. T...
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I work on a concurrent disorders unit {addictions/acute mental health}. We have had one hell of a year. We had an off service admission for 8 months {an adult autistic male high on the spectrum that was extremely violent}. Here, I find myself, one of...
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I filled the anniversary of Adam's murder with busy things so that I would not have to think about it so deeply. How does one mark the day when everything changed forever? It has taken me most of my life to see past the violent details of the day. So...
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A man in Canada has punched a nurse in the face for giving his wife a Covid vaccine.
Just wondering what sort of abuse has other nurses suffered from the public or even patients and it doesn't have to be just giving Covid vaccines.
Man pu...
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My husband and I shared the same PCP. After my first visit to the practice, no one ever asked me again whether I was safe at home. I wasn’t. But no one asked because everyone had met my husband, the handsome, charming life of the party. The guy t...
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Violence is rampant across low-income black neighborhoods across the nation as police have withdrawn from their communities. Within inner cities, street violence is reaching historic proportions and the perpetrators are as young as ten in Chicago. Ch...
