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Does anyone else still get this? I’m about to begin my 9th year. I started crying yesterday because I have only two weeks left of break. My boyfriend, ever the chill optimist & not a teacher, said he wouldn’t even be worrying until the night before-and all I could say was “YOU DONT GET IT” through my snotty sobs. Lol. I get the same feelings every year-I don’t want to return (I actually crave routine and always feel fine after the first day is over), I didn’t do enough over the summer (I did plenty), I forgot how to teach (I never do), and what if the kids are horrible (some are, but I always manage well and it doesn’t destroy my life). Although I’d consider myself a veteran at this point, these feelings always come back. Anyone else feel this way? Or not? And why? What do you guys do when break is coming to an end-two weeks left, one week, etc? submitted by /u/miss_maestra822 [link] [comments]
Principal who plans on being a principal until retirement = they're more reasonable in their expectations, tuned in to what the school needs, and once they have a few years of experience they aren't afraid to modify/ignore district directives that don't make sense for the school. Principal who wants to move up the career ladder = god help you. annoying as fuck. lame. take every district initiative as a manifesto, no matter how much it doesn't make sense for the school. blind rule followers and kiss asses. In my experience. There are some exceptions but not many. submitted by /u/LevyMevy [link] [comments]
I find it eternally frustrating that we can acknowledge everything but parents as problems in education. Funding, lack of time, lack of resources, political environment, or other things are accepted as valid reasons why a school is not succeeding, but never parents. There are parents who are absolutely failing their kids. They don't do the basics of teaching their kids not to attack others. The don't seem to care when their child severely disrupts a classroom. They will defend their child even in the face of video evidence. Teachers and schools will never acknowledge that parents are terrible and that is the cause of the students failure. I know that means angry parents, but being honest about their child's likely outcome is vastly more helpful than ignoring the problems and just trying to shove the kid through. Why don't we acknowledge that parents are part of the problem? submitted by /u/ProudComment1211 [link] [comments]
Just wondering. submitted by /u/Technical-Vanilla-47 [link] [comments]
I honestly don't know if I just need a reality check or if something else is going on. I recently completed my master's in education and am certified to teach English Language Arts for grades 7–12 in New York. I've also submitted my CEAS application to transfer my certification to New Jersey. My only classroom experience is student teaching, so I know I'm competing against people with years of experience, but I was constantly told throughout college and grad school that there was a huge teacher shortage and that I'd have no problem finding a job. Fast forward two months, and I've applied to just about every English/ELA opening I can find in both New York and New Jersey. Public schools, leave replacements, long-term substitute positions, you name it. I've tailored cover letters, updated my resume, and applied almost daily. The frustrating part is that I'm not even getting rejected. It's just... nothing. No interviews, no emails, no calls. Complete silence. Is this normal for first-year
This “rapid transfuser”…. PLEASE! The hospital I work at is top 5 most expensive hospitals to be seen at and this is the stupid ass transfuser we have. Florence Nightingale herself made this. Patient is already dead by time it decides to start working. Had to squeeze prbcs in by hand and did a better job than this piece of junk. I love when the ED is used for actual emergencies and not urgent care, but this thing just really got me goin 😵💫 submitted by /u/carmelamacchiato [link] [comments]
I'm an RRT/Code team nurse at a tier 2 trauma hospital with 12 years experience as neuro/trauma ICU. Just started riding motorcycles this year. I'm either trying to scare myself out of riding a lot or trying to figure out what gear/protection can prevent said injuries. What's the worst or most memorable injuries you've worked with? submitted by /u/monsteez [link] [comments]
I just finished a leadership program that is mostly designed to qualify teachers to be assistant principals. The majority of the assignments and discussion topics (and every class final) is designed to get prospective admin to view their schools as failing schools with helpless students and combative, lazy teachers. They are being indoctrinated to think you and your school are in desperate need of their fundamental change. That’s the type of stuff that led people to stop teaching phonics. Having to change things just for the sake of changing things. It’s a mess. So any time your admin has some new plan or misunderstanding of educational research and policy just know they’ve been trained to think that way. submitted by /u/BearTimberlands [link] [comments]
Like to the butt long hair. Jealous and want to try new hairstyles. Scared to do so for many reasons though. submitted by /u/nonameanonymousone [link] [comments]
Anyone else have a principal like this? Little nugget that gets added to emails. Our meetings begin at EXACTLY 7:59:59 and anyone not already seated with listening ears is shamed. Look I also don’t like waiting 10-15 minutes for meetings to start late but this feels like going from one extreme to another. I also don’t feel like a person’s personality archetype should be a management style. This is one of those little unnecessary things that make me feel negatively about going back. “Remember, to be early is to be on time!” 🙄🙄🙄 submitted by /u/SeaworthinessHot5310 [link] [comments]
I work in ED. There is a nurse on my unit who is obsessed with talking about how you can’t stop heparin for any reason. At least once a shift she brings it up. Now, we are pretty lucky in that we don’t typically have to board patients. So we don’t keep heparin gtts that long before they go to their next destination. But at other jobs I’ve sometimes had them for at least the first coag draw. I’ve been a nurse for 6 years, and never have heard that it is the cardinal sin to pause heparin even for a couple minutes. But this girl goes on and on about it. She went off about EMS changing pumps over when taking a heparin drip one time because “you cannot ever pause heparin”. She even told me that another nurse had a “pretty big med error” because she paused the heparin to draw the coags (now she didn’t have a second line to draw it from and that’s a whole big different thing). So my question for nurses who manage heparin for longer than I do — is it really as big of a deal as she makes it out
Been on nights for a few years now and somewhere along the way I started keeping a pretty detailed spreadsheet of my actual takehome after differentials, overtime, and the random shift pickups. Not because I'm obsessive about it, just because the numbers genuinely looked different than I expected when I first made the switch and I wanted to understand why. What surprised me was how much the differential adds up over a year when you actually sit down and run it, but also how much gets quietly eaten by the lifestyle tax. Sleeping weird hours, ordering food at 3am because you're not cooking after a 12, buying blackout curtains, paying for things other people just handle during normal business hours because you physically can't. It's not dramatic but it accumulates. Day shift friends in the same pay band consistently think they're in a similar spot financially. They're usually not, in either direction depending on how nights is treating them. Curious whether other night nurses have actuall
That’s it, that’s the story. Sad day in America. submitted by /u/foundit808 [link] [comments]
I work on a med-surg floor. I was helping an A&Ox4 independent patient covered in feces who refused to let anyone clean him. We had to practically BEG him to agree. The entire time we were trying to clean him, he yelled every insult you could imagine, cursed at us nonstop, and tried to throw things at me. And despite this, along with other things, he still calls me “lazy ass nurse” lol Funny when this is not even my patient. Why are we always tolerating this bullshit? Why do I have to put up with people like this who refuse care/tests/treatment and pretty much come to the hospital to abuse staff and treat them as their personal maids when they are perfectly capable of being independent? I became a nurse because I genuinely love caring for people. I still get excited when patients take initiative to improve their health, when I learn something new, or when I see someone recover. It reminds me why I got into this profession. I can normally separate work from life, but this might be my la
Throwaway because…fml I was an idiot today (along with several other factors that I’ll spare the full details of) and during a procedural sedation in the ER, I gave 10 mL instead of 10 mg of Propofol when the resident kept yelling for “10 more.” Patient ended up getting 245 mg total over a few minutes. Went apneic. Realized my mistake and told the doctor. LMA placed and patient was bagged for 14 minutes then she woke up, airway was removed, she was a/o and doing great, recovered fine. I’ve been a nurse for 14 years but was away from bedside for a while and came back recently. Terrified I’m going to get fired. Terrified the patient will end up having some complication later. Feeling stupid and embarrassed and scared. Ugh. Just…sharing I guess. I feel like shit. submitted by /u/No-Marzipan-9845 [link] [comments]
Amazing how much hasn't changed in sixty some odd years. " MRS. REYNOLDS NEEDS A NURSE " was once required viewing in many nursing programs. Well back in day anyway, not sure about modern times. "One of the most important films about nursing made in the 20th Century, "Mrs. Reynolds Needs a Nurse" was written in 1963 by Dolores Little, MN, RN, a nursing supervisor at the University of Washington Hospital, Seattle who had just completed her master's degree. The film documented a case study of an elderly lady who was transferred to the university hospital in multisystem failure, accompanied by her husband and multiple suitcases of her belongings. Mrs Reynolds was a needy and demanding patient whose fears and anxieties were expressed by her annoying attempts to get attention, treating the nurses like servants and complaining about much of the care given to her. Mrs Reynolds' 8-month-long hospitalization showcased the importance of individualizing care, being aware of both emotional and phy
I work at a SNF in AZ.( Posting from throwaway account). A caregiver at my job committed suicide 2 weeks ago today right in front of me. She jumped from the 14th floor and landed on the side walk right in front of me as I was walking into work. I tried the EAP line, I’ve talked to friends and family, leaned on my coworkers but it’s just really hard to deal with mentally. I’m 4 months post partum with my first baby and dealing with some baby blues and stress from the horrible heatwave that’s kept be basically home bound. My family lives on the other side of the country and my husband works long hours so I’ve just kinda spent most of my time home with the baby letting my feelings fester. I’ve been trying therapy, didn’t find it helpful. I can’t really work and I can’t not work for financial reasons. I don’t really know if or when I’ll be able to work without panic attacks, and I’m trying to do the best I can for my son but like I’m just human. I feel like I’m a nurse and I’ve seen death
I'm curious about when you intend to retire. I am eligible to retire at 55, but I am not sure I will stop then. I'm curious what goes into the decision for you. submitted by /u/Evening_Fisherman810 [link] [comments]
Idk what my plan is. I'm just tired of being tired all the time. Im only 36 but I feel so much older. I feel night shift is quite literally killing me. I'm on BP medication, and feel like garbage for over 24hours after each shift. Has anyone here switched to days after a long period of night shift? If so, what changes did you notice in your life? submitted by /u/New_Satisfaction4543 [link] [comments]
Teaching a pop culture elective for the first time this year! I have a lot of resources already and a good chunk planned out, but do you, the wonderful and talented educators of Reddit, have any suggestions or recommendations? -11th and 12th grade title one high schoolers. -Class is within the social science department. - Approved to fulfill university college prep elective requirements -Years of focus are 1940-Present. Each unit is a decade. -Movies, music, television, fashion, technology, video games, toys, fads, aesthetics, social media, internet, books/comics, advertisements, etc - Mix of history, sociology, cultural studies, etc -I’m not a new teacher in general, just for this class. Thanks for your contributions! submitted by /u/JarOfKetchup54 [link] [comments]
It’s been about a month (I’m searching for something new) but this job is ridiculous. I work M-F, 8-5, and I have coworkers and families constantly texting me after 5pm. Thursday I had a coworker message me about a patient at 7:30pm. I didn’t answer until the next morning at 8am. Saturday I had a coworker call me at 1pm. I didn’t even answer because YOU’RE the on call nurse not me. Look in the chart for questions. It’s currently Sunday at 10:15 pm. I showered to wind down from applying from jobs and being anxious all day and I just received a message from a patient’s family member messaging me about medication refills. There’s literally NO work/life balance with this job position. People are CONSTANTLY needing SOMETHING! Putting my phone on silent isn’t enough when I pick it up and still see things about work. Then I start call this week. Not to mention they NEVER trained me on death visits and/or admissions. I’m hoping for an interview soon. I hate this job. submitted by /u/considered
I am a teacher myself so I understand how special these notes and gifts can feel. Recently, my husband's grandma had to move out of her 2 story house and into a retirement community. We are now selling her house and need to get rid of a lot of stuff including her big display of student gifts. She is having a hard time getting rid of most things and I know this is going to be especially hard. Is there anything special we can do to make the transition easier? Anything helps submitted by /u/Specialist_Oven_2565 [link] [comments]
This may not be a nursing topic necessarily but I figured I might find some reliable advice here. I’m a psychiatric nurse in an inpatient setting. I work with women specifically with psychosis and thought disorders. I’m a new grad and about to be off orientation. Well I’ve been taking the entire patient load now and my preceptor is just there for moral support. I had a patient acting up today who had some pretty wild attention seeking behavior (diagnosed personality disorder). We also just got a new psych tech on the unit and she seemed nice enough. Well this patient was acting out and said something kinda funny while I was in the nurses station. Me and my preceptor started giggling while discussing what to do about the patients behavior bc it was kind of a new thing I’d never dealt with before for. Another tech was deescalating while I was about to start pulling meds. The techs on my unit are amazing and show a lot of care to our ladies detangling matted hair and making up fun group a
what are you doing lol submitted by /u/themintgreeno [link] [comments]
Hi all!! Soo, I live in VA and I’m really starting to consider a career in healthcare, specifically nursing. My mom passed in Feb from lung cancer and it really ignited a passion in me that I didn’t know I had. I’ve been a dog groomer for the past 8 years. I’m a little worried about admissions & background checks. I was convicted of 2 misdemeanors in Nebraska in Jan of 2026 (original offense happened last summer) one being possession of marijuana & the other being FTA (living in VA, mom was dying of lung cancer and I missed my court date) but regardless I was convicted. I am speaking to attorneys currently about potentially getting a set-aside because expungement isn’t an option in Nebraska. Fines only, no jail time/probation/arrest. These are my only convictions, I’ve never even gotten a traffic ticket. I did email my state’s board and they essentially said everything is case-by-case and there is no charge that is an automatic denial. Has anyone been in this situation & has any advice
Black comedy about a nurse on a 12 hour shift. It's on netflix right now submitted by /u/judiefoodie [link] [comments]
Hello! As the title states — I’m leaving the CVICU!! I have two offers and would like a little bit of insight/help. Background - I am transferring within the same hospital as there are only two major hospital systems and the other one was going to pay me 5$ lower an hour so decided to stay. I have an offer from the EP lab & another offer for Infusion - oncology! EP lab 4 10s 6:30-5 Pros: no weekend, no holidays, get paid 40 hours no matter what(even if you leave early), highly marketable to device companies, niche skill set Cons: 6:30AM 4 days a weeks start time (I am not a morning person), staffing crisis (they all left for the industry), cold dark room all day, seemed chaotic (still better than cvicu) Infusion oncology, 4 9s 7:30-5 Pro: 7:30AM start time, I love that speciality, way more chill & predictable, doesn’t feel like I’m in a jail cell. Cons: 1 weekend day requirement, holiday requirement (no Christmas or thanksgiving tho), not as niche but could still be marketable to pharm
I need advice and open opinions I’m 35 week’s pregnant, i can literal give birth at anytime. I failed out my ADN program in May by a few points. I feel if i stop or take a break I’ll never get back to finishing school. Alot of the programs near me start orientation and school the end of this month or early September.( I’m technically due September 8th with my baby.) i want to go back and do my ADN but my husband feels LPN would be quicker. BTW my only support system is just my husband and we have two other kids 6 and 7 besides the one that’s on the way. I’m afraid to start school freshly postpartum and leaving my newborn home for hours while it can be my bonding time but I waited so long to get to this point for school. Should I try it and just do it? I hear a lot of other moms say they did it but sounds like they have more help or maybe not. I switched my curriculum to health science degree at my school and have just the next two semesters to complete to graduate with that but not sur
1st time poster, long time lurker 😌. Year 4 in education here, 3rd year here in good ol' Texas. Not to dox myself too much, but in one of the school districts that TEA recently took over. Just kinda wanted to make a post about some things being implemented that I haven't really seen anyone post about. To preface - not HISD :). Just going to list and give some minor details about what is going to make this year fun! Here we go: 1.) Cell Phone Policy: \- Last year Texas passed a bill to ban student cell use during school hours, it was up to each district on how to implement it. Mine said ey, the kid will keep in their bag - 🤪. This year there are 5 steps/ course of action if the student(s) are caught with a phone. Preface - all parent pick up, 1.) End of Day. 2.) 7 day confiscation. 3.) 14 day, 4.) 30 day + 6-10 days OCI 5.) Rest of Semester and get sent to Alt school (DAEP). 👀👀 2.) Teacher Expectations: \- Going to preface this with, I don't necessarily think some of what is being impla
4 hours in the auditorium listening to our superintendent press us to vote red and listen to someone try and sell us their book for 4 hours while we eat breakfast. THEN we get to turn around and have our campus meetings to finish out the day "YAY so excited!" Also by day I literally mean we have a 4 hour morning meeting then a quick lunch and another meeting that lasts until 3:30....not one drop of time for our classroom. Seriously....why they do try and hype us up? I just wanna get to work instead its an entire day filled with meetings. I realize its this way every dang year but good grief how do yall veterans do it? I'm year 6 in and ready to pull my hair out. submitted by /u/Educational-Hyena549 [link] [comments]
How do you manage working out? Stress levels? Diet? I am worried about getting enough time and energy to work out (not sure if I want to do it before or after school) plus having a short lunch where I have to bring something that doesn’t need to be in a fridge, plus stress and everything else. How do you do it? submitted by /u/TallCryptographer106 [link] [comments]
So I’ve been volun-told to be the chair of the Employee Engagement Committee. I truly do want to make the workplace better for our nurses (as a fellow in the trenches nurse). So seriously, what could a committee do to make your workplace better? I’m not talking better ratios, more pay, etc. I am waaaaaay too low on the totem pole for that. But I’m also not a fan of red plastic tablecloth “red carpets” or “heroes work here” signs. All I’d want is free food truck iced coffee vouchers, but I’m looking for ideas that don’t make you want to punch these tone-deaf committees in the face 🤗 submitted by /u/18pagesfrontnback [link] [comments]
I had 3 patients last night on a step down floor. In ranks of sickest. Patient 1- maxed out on bipap satting in the 80s Patient 2- on heated high flow 40 percent and some ABX Patient 3- had been weaned off levophed 48 hours prior to my shift. nephrology still debating on whether to do dialysis or not due to BUN and Cr trending up. Also their toes were turning blue but day docs were convinced it was bc of the levophed. Patient 3 all of a sudden is agonal breathing and mottling on legs. Code blue called. Keep in mind this patient was oriented (but confused), satting 100% on RA, gave them a bath earlier in the shift. Patient now intubated in the ICU and to my knowledge, coded again. I could’ve told you they were one of the most stable patients on the floor. I have a feeling they went into kidney failure because there UOP was next to nothing. submitted by /u/Dry-Draft9248 [link] [comments]
Started this because I’ve seen some horrible advice on here and have been through years of horrible “veteran teacher” advice. Folks, nothing worse than a teacher who knows everything about teaching and wants to mentor all the newbies. Be wary and cautious. Choose your school tribe and who you get advice from carefully. Sometimes teachers with less than 5 years of experience have better advice than the 30+. Trust people in real life over reddit. submitted by /u/cejacksonttu [link] [comments]
About to start year 3. Year 1 was insane, as is typical. Year 2 was wayyyyy better but still exhausting. Year 3 starts in just a few days, and I’m dreading it. I love teaching. I love most of my students. I love my subject matter. I am fine with the school I’m at. It isn’t amazing but it could be a lot worse. I like my coworker team. My department admin is good enough. It isn’t the bullshit I’m dreading. Nor the annoying martyr coworkers, the extra unpaid duties, the toxic positivity. It isn’t even the student behaviors or the crazy parents. Above all else, I am dreading the pure emotional and physical exhaustion. While all the things I just previously listed contribute to the exhaustion, it isn’t any particular one of those that I’m dreading in specific, but rather the end result, the accumulation, the exhaustion. I have boundaries when it comes to work-life balance. I never show up early. I never stay late unless I absolutely MUST. I show up to events I’m required to be at and no mor
Not sure if this was a glitch or what but this is a coworker I considered a friend. They were talking about me, she was telling him things I had complained about him earlier that week- I told her in confidence of course (some lies added). I also learned from that call that she’s jealous of me and seemed to be trying to make my supervisor hate me. I also realized just how close they are. I knew they talked but they’re REALLY close. They share very deep personal things that seem inappropriate but whatever. I cut her off that same day. Only communicate about work related stuff. I don’t know if they ever realized that I was on that call briefly. There’s a part of me that wants to subtly say something, bad idea? submitted by /u/6044home [link] [comments]
Clearly my co-workers aren't in the sharing mood today 🤣 submitted by /u/vowwels [link] [comments]
This is my first post on here but I have been reading a bunch of related posts so I feel like I have an inkling of what people might say however I would still like advice/opinions. I have recently been accepted into an ADN nursing program at my local tech school. I start in about 2 weeks and I will be taking A&P2, fundamentals, and pharmacology (i believe). Already I know this will be hard as these classes are hard. I have a full time job at an inpatient psychiatric hospital about an hour from my home and school. My main question/concern is do yall think it would be doable to work full time with the commute and being a full time student? Should I just call it quits now before its too late and I struggle balancing school, work and life? My schedule for school looks like this mon/wed 8:30am-12:45pm, tues 11am-3:15pm and thurs 8:30am-3:15pm. I will be off of school fri-sunday. My work schedule would be one weekend on one weekend off and then tues/thurs 5pm-11:30 and the rest of the week (
I was horrified to see a highly upvoted post saying "call angry parents, don't establish a paper trail, if you put it in writing they'll use it against you". Omfg NOOOOOO. Establish a paper trail! They will absolutely lie on your name, don't give them the chance. Meetings or phone calls have their place, however only if an admin/department head is present. submitted by /u/LevyMevy [link] [comments]
I start new staff orientation in about 12 hours. Kids start next week. Wish me luck! submitted by /u/TallCryptographer106 [link] [comments]
I have a background in ED and L&D nursing. This summer I have moved to a new state and thought that private duty nursing sounded awesome (mostly because of the schedule flexibility). I like to give new things a try so I said, what the heck. My first (and only) shift I have taken was in my opinion terrible. It was for a pedi patient who was nonverbal. Her parents were home and stayed in the bedroom the whole 9 hours I was there. That's fine, they are entitled to that, however....I literally felt like a babysitter. A battered babysitter mind you. This child was kicking me, hitting me, and pulling my hair. She had absolutely no toys in the house and we had Mrs. Rachel and Cocomelon on ALL DAY. If this is how peds private duty nursing is, I just don't know if I can do it. I have 3 kids of my own and I feel like if I wanted to work at a daycare I would have applied to one. Help. submitted by /u/kr168q [link] [comments]
Beginning year 32 in the classroom this week. In my career I’ve had over 2 dozen principals and assistant principals. Every 3-5 years some new principal thinks they’ve found the key to making our school the crown jewel of education in our state. I’ve lived through data walls, reading groups, curriculum mapping, posting the learning goal on the board (I have 6 preps a day, I’m not doing it) and so many more pet projects. Too many to remember. ALL of these “initiatives” share ONE THING in common. They’re ineffective, useless and they’ll die a slow, quiet death that goes largely unnoticed because the admin who pushed it either gives up or leaves. The amount of time I’ve wasted sitting at a computer plugging in data and filling out forms that NO ONE will ever open and NO ONE will ever look at is infuriating. The last great push was to make us an AVID school. It looks great on the surface. But it disrupted our master schedule something fierce. The principal (not anymore) pushed it hard and
Hey everyone! I’m looking for some advice from teachers who have been in or have knowledge about a similar situation. My wife recently received an offer from the district where I work for a position that would be 0.5 classroom teacher and 0.5 building substitute. She currently has a 1.0 teaching position in another district. The reason we’re considering the move is that working in the same district would make our lives much easier logistically (commuting, schedules, etc.), and the salary schedule in my district is significantly higher over the long term. The dilemma is that, in the short term, she’d likely make about $10,000 less by taking the split position than if she stayed where she is. On the other hand, if she were able to move into a full-time teaching position in my district within a year or two, she’d end up making around $10,000 more than she would by staying in her current district. For those of you who have experience with split positions like this: - What are the biggest p
A Montana nurse was hiking Granite Peak when he slipped and accidentally got impaled by his trekking pole. Using his medical training, he checked himself and realized he was stable and the pole had likely missed any vital organs. He contacted search and rescue but decided not to request a helicopter because he felt he could safely hike out, wanted to avoid the huge cost of an air rescue, and had two experienced friends with him. He ended up hiking more than 10 miles with the pole still in his body, made it to the hospital, had it removed, and recovered quickly. submitted by /u/Strikelight72 [link] [comments]
For the longest time being the black sheep at my district or as a teacher in general has bothered me. I was the only teacher at my district that wasn’t in a relationship or had kids. I felt like everyone treated me differently because of this especially parents. I’m also very introverted and don't go to many school events or activities like a lot of teachers do. I’ve always felt left out and unincluded because of this. Im starting to realize that I like being the black sheep. I don’t have to worry about the drama and can just keep to myself about things. I can focus more on myself and my own time. I’ve finally realized that being different is a blessing and that I should embrace it rather than let it bother me. I’m not sure if anyone else out there is feeling the same, but I wanted to make this post to ensure everyone that it is good to be different from others. submitted by /u/Aki_Bunny [link] [comments]
How do you guys deal with the pre-clinical dread? I hate literally everything about clinicals. I’m very introverted and being stuck with one nurse for 12 hours and having someone over my shoulder constantly is my own personal slice of hell. Pair that with the fact multiple people in my cohort have gotten in trouble due to mistakes made during clinical that were equally the nurse they were paired with fault, and I am just feeling such intense dread for my upcoming clinicals. It’s worse than simulations. How do you guys mentally prepare for clinical? submitted by /u/unethicalfetus [link] [comments]
This is the time of year that I am often asked about advice, as I’ve been teaching for a long time. You might get an angry email - maybe multiple from one parent. Never put anything in writing because they WILL use it against you. Offer a phone call. “Thanks for letting me know, Mrs. X. I am available tomorrow at 7:30am for a phone call. You can call me at xxx-xxxx school phone number.” Here is the trick: I have sent this email dozens of times. NOT ONCE has a parent actually ever called me. You will learn that these Karens don’t actually think they are right enough to go head to head with you. They just wanna be pissed. Good luck this year! submitted by /u/AgeOfWorry0114 [link] [comments]
An alert and oriented patient who can use the urinal themself in dim light, ambulate with some supervision, sit up, decent ROM etc...asked me to rub cream on their genitals while smiling about it a bit too much for my liking. I calmly refused and explained why I believe they are capable of doing it themself, but I offered to get things set up. They are claiming they cant rub the cream on themself due to poor eyesight. Day shift nurse doesnt mind doing it, and even hinted at "who cares if the patient gets a kick out of it?" The director of nursing is demanding that I do it next time. I explained that after a thorough patient assessment, it is clearly within the patient's abilities to do it themself. Am i tripping, or does it seem weird to be in situations as nurses like this? I havent lost my cool even after being groped or assaulted as a nurse, but part of the way I stay safe is by trusting my instincts about when to say no. For more context, i'm the type to take over all cares for a p
I work in an EBD program. I teach 3rd-5th and I don’t have a planning or lunch during the school day because all three grades go to Specials/Lunch/Recess at different times. There are 4 of us teachers in the program and none of us have lunch/planning. My lead keeps saying they’re “talking to the district” and trying to get us more para’s, but I don’t think this will be solved unless we hired a whole other teacher and multiple more para’s. I’m new and the returning teachers said last year they also didn’t get a lunch or planning. This is very illegal. I feel silenced in a way because this is a very competitive county to get into, and I want to teach somewhere else in the county eventually, but I also don’t want to go without lunch/planning an entire year without any extra compensation. Anyone had a similar situation? submitted by /u/Responsible_Mud_4091 [link] [comments]
Ya girl just ripped her favorite pair of jeans. submitted by /u/SeriousAd4676 [link] [comments]