As a Mod on the General Nursing Discussion Forum I have read a lot of threads over the last 10 years but I will always remember the theme of my first post
It was a desperate thread about NCLEX-I took the NCLEX in January 2005 to enable me to come and nurse in the US! I felt ill will anticipation of the result and needed to read some supportive information from others in the same boat!
I did an engine search and allnurses popped up and the rest is history!
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I had to look at my account to see when I actually joined...it was '01 so I was in my last year of the ADN program. Needless to say after 14 years I have not a clue what my first post was. I do remember finding the site while researching some homework assignment, probably one of the many papers or maybe a care plan question. A lot of helpful links kept showing up from AN and eventually I joined. I do fondly remember Daytonite, very helpful and compassionate toward the sometimes foolish questions we students asked.
In reference to a previous comment.....you're not lying to the person who has dementia. It's called validation. You're meeting that person where they are in their world. There's no purpose served in arguing or challenging the beliefs of someone who has dementia.
Oh I agree completely--that's pretty much what my response was. :)
I found it on Google in 2005. I had been recently diagnosed with MS and booted out of my job. I was sad and lonesome being from another part of the country. I found friends and comfort. It's going to be 10 years here this year.
In 2012, I "liked" the Nurses Rock Facebook page, which often had links to allnurses articles. At the time, I had 10 years of LPN experience and was intrigued by the idea of connecting with other nurses. My first post was in response to a thread asking "Does Nursing Make You an Angry Person?" I have evolved from being an occasional participant to an allnurses addict, checking the boards several times a day! My most joyous post was on a thread started by RNsRWe last June, where I shared that I passed the NCLEX-RN!
OK, I got curious and looked up my first post. It's kind of funny because other than the numbers, this is pretty much the same as current posts on the same topic...this thread was titled "what are you worth in pay?" and started on May 20, '01
Wow! Lively discussion, but no matter how you cut it health care staff(from nursing to dietary to housekeeping and laundry-we all keep the place running way more than the desk jockey administative staff)need to be recognized with better pay, decent benefits and tolerable staffing levels. Do I see us getting it any time soon? Unfortunately not. I've been working in a nursing home for 8 years, first as a CNA then as a Nurse Tech (I'm an RN student in my last year), and every time I think the staffing can't get any worse it does. The work load has increased incredibly and the pay has not kept up. Our highest paid floor RN is getting less than $17.00/hr. after 18 years with the company, new hires are getting around $15.00. The average cost per day to each resident is $140.00. That's over $51,000 a year each resident pays for what I know to be substandard care, and I don't care how much corporate screams "overhead costs and poor medicare compensation" I guarentee what the company pays it's vital staff is a small percentage of their net profit. We need to ask where the money is going if not to us.
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