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I’ll go first. A few years ago, I had to move a student’s seat three times in one week cause he kept having issues with other kids. When the student came to complain and asked to move seats for the fourth time, I told them that “If you’ve been switched to three different seats already, maybe the problem is you.” Student told parent what I said and parent complained to the school. Admin told me I had to “watch how I talked to students.” The amount of nonsense I’ve had to deal with in this career is insanity. I find myself striving for less and less, retreating into my classroom just so I don’t have to accidentally expose myself to more nonsense. Got any more ridiculous stories? submitted by /u/ohmycash [link] [comments]
I’m literally about to pull my hair out with how our admin has been this year. Last year we were able to print to the color printer at the office. Apparently they got new printers and the wrong one was installed in the workroom and had to be taken out because it was 'too expensive' for teachers to print color and wasn’t in their budget. Now we have to send anything we want printed out in color to our secretary or principal for approval. I literally spent my whole plan time trying to get the printer to print only to get this email about them restricting color. All of our phonics and chapter math games are things that we need to print out and I can tell you right now it will be such a hassle trying to get approval every time to print them. Now I’m probably going to have to spend more of my time trying to find digital math activities and phonics games. My principal also decided today that she is going to sit in with me and my partner teacher while we are planning for the week. Apparently
I have a lot, but my most recent favorite is: Propofol: "I don't remember, but I ended up in the ICU." submitted by /u/Ladyqui3tbottom [link] [comments]
Just as the title says, I'm not confident that I will be good. I became a nurse recently and I am part of a training program with other new grads that got hired and we did our first simulation yesterday. I felt like a total chump, I didn't know what to do and my other new grads did the brunt of the work and as I tried to help I kept getting stuck and everyone else was just so good and had a flow going and I felt like a sore thumb. This is making me more scared of the future of when I start my shifts with my preceptor and just proving to them that I am not cut out to be a nurse. I know I am a new grad and that I am probably being too dramatic about this and that everyone goes at a different pace, but I feel like I am going to be one of the few that are singled out like this. Im sorry that this is so long submitted by /u/Massive_Cause7178 [link] [comments]
I’m a single mom to school age kids who co parents on a week on week off schedule. so I am lucky to have that. but those of you in the same boat, what’s your weekly schedule like? They also do have before/after school care throughout the school year. what days do you work? How many 12’s in a row are you doing? what are the days and evenings like when you have your children? Idk if I’m missing anything, but please feel free to share anything you think may help!! Thank you!! submitted by /u/LopsidedMortgage7466 [link] [comments]
Ooph! I get so sick of that question, and this year we have 3 different schedules weekly, so none of us can keep up with it. I got it all on one sheet of paper and made each kid stick it in the clear protector of their Chromebook. No choice. Do it! I’m banning the question now. Don’t ask. Look! I think I’m going to contact paper it to my podium too. submitted by /u/Hungry-Following5561 [link] [comments]
Complete throw away account. I have a student who has prescription Meta glasses. I already have other kids who discussed they share the same fears I do (people have been disabling the recording light). Is there anything I can do legally? I live in Texas and this feels like it would violate FERPA and the rights of our students, especially those that can’t be recorded. Should I report this to my union? Our administrators and board don’t seem to see a problem with it. I want to add that I am perfectly okay with things like district added classroom cameras, it’s not a fear of being recorded, it’s more of a student privacy and the potential of clips of classrooms being added online to be altered. Especially since we live in an age where Those things can be plugged into AI and altered to appear very real. submitted by /u/Educational_Bite_894 [link] [comments]
Lately, I feel like I have been seeing or hearing about other nurses getting fired. Is it my imagination or is this really the reality of the nursing profession? Even when I log onto Reddit (usually daily), there is a nurse reporting they got fired. And usually they are getting axed for petty reasons. I know nationwide hospitals took a hit when Medicaid/Medicare got cut. But I wasn’t expecting it to affect nurses. I know people are getting laid off. Departments downsize or lack the funds. But nurses who have been working without issues for years are suddenly blindsided. There’s something in the water… something bad . But what… and why? Who does it benefit? Because it certainly isn’t the patients. submitted by /u/Snoo_62111 [link] [comments]
Rant for today: middle school gen ed teachers should not be modifying down to 1st and 2nd grade. In masses, teachers are just passing SPED kids along and they never receive the support necessary. It’s a vicious cycle. submitted by /u/BiteThese8993 [link] [comments]
Do you work at the same school as your own kids, why or why not? submitted by /u/katie_54321 [link] [comments]
I’ve applied for a position in our pediatric surgery center and wanted to hear from people who work in a pediatric-only setting. Most of what I can find from OR nurses is about adults only or some brief peds patients, and some peds PACU advice. We’re a large academic level 1 trauma center with a full children’s hospital, I work in the level IV NICU currently. I’ve been a NICU nurse for almost 5 years now. The only other speciality I’d ever go into would be periop, and pediatric periop in my mind would be fantastic. Does anyone who works in a pediatric-only operating room have any comments or advice on what it’s like, how it’s different from adults, or anything to keep in mind? Pros/cons of pediatric vs adults? submitted by /u/viktoriya666 [link] [comments]
I’m an ER RN (2 years at this job) 8 years total as an RN. We’ve been drilled to just accept the stupid hydration station myth that makes absolutely no sense. Why can’t I just drink water while I’m charting at a completely different area than patient care. I did it anyway by either hiding my drink behind something so management wouldn’t see it or something else. But today was when it all clicked for me. I’ve been out on maternity leave for about 6 months and I returned to work yesterday. First day back was smooth but my second day was shit. It wasn’t the worst ER day but it was just annoying. My managers and higher ups decided to “inspect” the department and had everyone put their water bottles and coffees at the hydration station that is literally in a different part of the department. It would take me 3 minutes to walk over to take a sip of water and 3 min to get back to work. If you’ve worked in an ED, you know that’s not sustainable or logical. But they were adamant that this is wh
Must be appropriate for the student AND their parent. submitted by /u/pyesmom3 [link] [comments]
I’m teaching 6th & 7th this year and I recently had a baby, so I’m having to pump at school all year long. My administration is great about this and I have two 30-minute times to do it. One of them I’m choosing to do over my prep, but the other has to be during one of my classes. So that class is being covered by someone else for 30 out of 45 minutes every day, which is huge. What do I even tell them? I’ve debated telling the truth or maybe saying something like “I I have to go to a meeting” every single day. Not sure how mature I’d consider them (I would tell highschoolers the truth) and not sure what parents might respond if their kids tell them which I’m sure they would. What did you tell your students? submitted by /u/DuckFriend25 [link] [comments]
There are so issues plaguing the nursing profession. Nurses union vary around the country, many nurses have no union at all. What's it gonna take for nurses to rally around together to demand better work conditions? submitted by /u/0Hednavee [link] [comments]
I live in a state that added new legislation requiring districts to put policies in place to ban phone usage during instructional time. My school (high school) had previously used teacher enforced phone caddies to very little success. But to go with the new state law, we switched to a full day bell to bell ban on ALL personal devices. Large ones like personal laptops or tablets are confiscated if brought, and small ones like phones, earbuds and smart watches have to be placed in a Yondr pouch for the entire day. While the pouch system isn’t perfect, it’s still good enough to the point where it’s immediately changed the culture of the building. It feels like I’m teaching in an entirely new school this year. I haven’t seen a device once in this first week so far, and kids are actually TALKING TO EACH OTHER! It has completely reinvigorated many of us as well—suddenly it feels like I can actually do my job again without having to be device police. Anyway, I’d seen posts like this the last
I was put in an incredibly uncomfortable position today. It's the second week of school, and one of my students in an Honors course, whose mom is a teacher at my school, submitted his summer reading homework with over 50% written in a noticeably different, much more polished academic handwriting, while the other half is clearly his. I am almost certain his mom is the one who completed more than half of his summer reading. At first, I was going to go speak with her, but I'm now thinking I'll do as I would with any other student - speak with him first, give him a zero on the assignment, log it in our system, and push it on to counselors/admin and CC parents. I am very uncomfortable as a newly tenured teacher in my third year of teaching, and she has been at the school for over a decade. However, how dare she assume she/her son can get away with this? submitted by /u/boredinbrooklyn22 [link] [comments]
I recently started a job as a Plastic Surgery Clinic RN for a cosmetic plastic surgeon. I was surprised to discover that part of the job expectation is to take after hour calls from patients mostly to address post-op questions and concerns, as they arise. The surgeon I work for expects me to take 1st call with another surgeon acting as a designated 2nd call when he's out of town. His expectation is that I will answer any after hour calls from patients and escalate it to the surgeon on call as necessary. Coming from a decade of working as an OR nurse, on call hours aren't new to me...however, I have always been paid an hourly on call rate with the expectation to report to the hospital if I am called in and then be paid at a callback rate. I am currently getting paid my full hourly rate when I have to answer a call, but I am not being compensated for my time other than that. I have been asked to take nearly two weeks of call while he's out of town. I am currently in the process of negoti
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Hi! I'm looking for some career advice (or free therapy) in regards to my new job in the OR. I graduated with my BSN in May and began working as an OR RN in the beginning of August. So, I've been at this job for around 1 month now and I have a few issues with the training process and wondering if I am just not the right fit for the OR. My training is supposed to be 4 months. After one week, I was circulating well for a certain case so they began putting me in on my own which I did not feel ready for. I have expressed that I do not feel confident but I have been put in this situation again after I had said something. I train with a different nurse every shift (when I am not on my own) which leads me to be very confused because different nurses tell me different things and will tell me I am doing something wrong but that is how another nurse showed me. I wish there was consistency and I was with the same nurse (or rotate between 3) so I am not thrown all over the place. When I come in th
S-B-A-R MOTHER F*CKER submitted by /u/Omega_Draconis [link] [comments]
I’m still in shock and just need to share. I showed up to work tonight and my manager pulled me aside and said she had been sent a photo of me sleeping on the unit. Handed over my badge and I left immediately. I never intentionally fell asleep just nodded off while charting (utter exhaustion and adjusting to nights). The unit is an absolute mess and always short staffed, unsafe practices abound though I think all the nurses are doing their very best. I own my mistake. But honestly my gut reaction was excitement that I got to go home. But next steps? I’m very experienced in a variety of specialties. Thank you for reading. submitted by /u/Tricky_Impression926 [link] [comments]
Does what it says on the tin. Only one kid is getting an alternate assignment and reading. First time dealing with this kind of request. How do I accommodate without drawing too much attention to it? Some more details. HS English 1, Texas, and our final assignment on the original novel is tomorrow. submitted by /u/Former_Lock9367 [link] [comments]
Background Agenda-setting is a fundamental patient-centered communication practice in which a clinician works with a patient to elicit, propose, and organize topics for discussion during a clinical encounter. Various agenda-setting interventions have been developed, including patient-facing tools and clinician training, but their effects have not been systematically evaluated. We aimed to determine the effects of these interventions on encounter, patient, care partner, and clinician outcomes. Methods We searched grey literature and seven databases, including PubMed, from inception through July 2025 for randomized and non-randomized comparative studies of interventions designed to promote or improve clinical visit agenda-setting. Two reviewers independently screened articles and extracted data, with a third reviewer resolving conflicts. We assessed risk of bias using RoB 2 for randomized studies and ROBINS-I for non-randomized studies. We conducted random effects meta-analyses when outc
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Hope everyone’s school year is off to a good start for those who have started! I am in my first year as a librarian at a title l high school in a rural area. It came to my attention today that one of our students is in the 10th grade but cannot read or write. He doesn’t qualify for SPED because of his IQ. This shocked me and I didn’t understand how this child had made it so far in school without these very necessary skills… is this happening all over ? It’s become apparent to me that the school will bend over backwards to pass kids who make zero effort but I just can’t wrap my head around this. submitted by /u/Regular-Day-5611 [link] [comments]
Hi everyone, I recently passed NCLEX and earned my BSN, but after dozens of instant rejections from hospital systems, I took a staff RN role at a subacute/rehab facility to get to work. Honestly, the stigma around starting in a SNF is getting to my head. Even though I have a job, it feels like I haven't "really" started, and I'm terrified I'll be stuck here forever. I keep applying to hospital positions and just get automated rejections within hours. I didn't work as a tech during school, but I had a semester DEU preceptorship. What am I doing wrong on this resume? What needs to change to actually get a hospital interview? Thanks for the honesty. Edit: thank you so much I didn’t expect this many responses, I really appreciate this and love reading every response I wanted to add that I never really had a worked due to personal unfortunate circumstances so I have no experience other than clinical so I feel that may be a major reason why they keep rejecting me submitted by /u/AdMaximum395
I have a 9th grade self-contained SPED class with about 15 students. Now I’m first-year special education teacher. And I feel like I’m in for such a rough year. At first I wasn’t too concerned about the class size (I didn’t know any better since it’s my first year), but now that I have had a chance to talk with other teachers and thanks to some Reddit users, I have realized that I have too many kids in a self-contained class considering that I have no paras and I am the only adult in the room. I’m starting to feel very angry. Now that I’m starting content with my class I understand why other more experienced teachers at my school have been surprised by the size of the class, as the need for a para or dedicated aid is becoming more evident. I’m worried about doing myself and the kids a disservice this school year, especially since I teach a tested subject. What makes it worse is that there are other teachers in my building who have only one student and three students on their rosters. A
Almost 69, love my job, and yet I came home today wishing I could quit. I need some advice about how to navigate this new normal. I’m a high school English teacher, almost 69, and I genuinely love what I do. I’m outgoing, cheerful, optimistic, and I absolutely love my students. But I am miserable in my department office in ways that are surprising since one-on-one each person is great. There are nine of us, mostly late 20s to mid-40s. Four sit together and the nonstop joking, teasing, and camaraderie between them is incessant. They have their own little world. I sit there feeling invisible.And honestly, it hurts. A new faculty member has made it worse. He is a friend of the principal, and the sucking up and ridiculous buddy-buddy behavior around him is hard to watch. My department chair is part of the group, and we don't have a dean of faculty, so I don't even know who I could safely talk to. I’m afraid to say anything because I worry I’ll be seen as difficult or overly sensitive, and
ER nurse here, I’m currently worried about what this is going to entail. It went into effect on September 1st and that was my last shift on for a week. I’m concerned that this is going to increase overcrowding of the emergency departments, worsen sick patient outcomes due to lack of timely interventions, and overwhelm our ERs even more than they already are. Looking for what some fellow nurses insights are on this. submitted by /u/Silly_Gear_9716 [link] [comments]
This is sort of a silly question, but since I’ve been in healthcare, I noticed that most medical students and doctors wear their scrub top tucked into their scrub pants. The RNs and CNAs tend to wear their tops untucked. In every hospital and clinic I’ve worked, this has always been an unspoken rule, but never actually written in any of the dress codes I’ve seen. There were a couple male nurses I worked with and they wore their scrub tops tucked in, and it always looked out of place. Anyone else noticed this or know why it is? submitted by /u/Abs_995 [link] [comments]
"Your job can't just be about education." My principal told me that. With a straight face. That as a teacher I wasn't just being hired to teach but to join a second family. I don't particularly like my first family, why would I want a second? I want to work and go home. My passion is writing and English. I want to bring that but not be a surrogate parent. Yet that's what schools increasingly demand. Lots of people say to just have firm boundaries. Good advice but useless when the school won't accept it. When the school says we are the problem. My job should be to teach, not to be on all the time. Teachers try to have firm boundaries. We're burning out because the schools won't do the same. submitted by /u/Jack_the_Lizard [link] [comments]
This isn't really a rant i'm more just shocked at the fact that a good half of the seniors in my Political Science class didn't know what the emancipation proclamation was when I talked about it in class earlier to use as an example of something else we have been talking about the past week. I had to sidetrack a little bit and have a mini lecture on the end of the Civil War today. It really shocks me because Civics and U.S. History are prerequisites for Political Science in the school I teach at. You have to take and pass both classes. Am I wrong in thinking this should be something they should know? I feel like I learned about the emancipation proclamation when I was in middle school. submitted by /u/Lazy_Inevitable4077 [link] [comments]
Refreshing. I know some of you all are drinkers and/or smokers. Anyone else like hitting the bar/pub after work even during the week sometimes? It relaxes me personally, and I don’t like drinking at home alone. I always find it funny seeing a parent of a student while I’m out on one of these excursions. “Ha! Funny seeing you here. Cheers!” submitted by /u/Vast-State-4548 [link] [comments]
So my case manager and attending physician for this case are unsure of what the next steps are for this patient, I’m hoping somebody here will be able to help me… I have a bedridden patient admitted from a long term facility. She has a neurogenic bladder and chronic retention. She came in with a perforated bladder from apparently repeated trauma from a SUPRAPUBIC* catheter which was pushed so hard into her when it was placed that it went THROUGH the bladder out a pressure injury on her sacrum… she now has a new suprapubic catheter in place, performed by a urologist at my hospital. I am wondering if a report should be filed to her facility’s BON? This just seems so insane and negligent to me. The patient is currently A/Ox2, but is aware that somebody did something wrong to her bladder. I’m at a loss here. Thank you in advance! EDIT: complaint has been filed with the state. Thank you everyone for making me feel like I’m not actually crazy for being upset by this. I will always advocate f
Edit: Thank you to everyone who offered their advice. As mentioned in the original post I removed the main body to ensure the safety of my students and anonymity after getting advice. For context the original post was about observations on a brother possibly sexualizing his sister. I'd reported it to my supervisor at the time but was having doubts on whether I had done enough. I am not in the US but I am still a mandatory reporter. I have met the requirements of my state but am authorized to report further if I feel the need to. After reading your replies and talking to a helpline, I have decided I do need to make a further report, I'll contact my supervisor tomorrow to inform her and ask her for the appropriate channels. My top priority is the safety of my students, all of them. But for now I need to make sure I am mentally clear before any further actions. As much as I want to believe I am misreading the signs, my gut tells me there's more to it and that I haven't done enough yet to
How do you make it through a school year that you do not want to make it through at all? What are your tips? I'm a high school teacher and every day feels like a long, arduous emotional journey. I spend all day excited to return to the peace of my home. If the economy gods smile upon me, I'll leave teaching at the end of the year and get literally any other job. submitted by /u/yonicsymbol [link] [comments]
My hospital just started piloting this new “chart with ART” AI documentation for nurses. I was one of the chosen lucky super users to test it out. So far I have mix feelings about, I feel like it is not easing my work load, the fact that I have to review everything than see if it correct and approve and fill in everything else it did not pick up in my assessment, is actually making more time for documentation. Has anyone had success with this program? I know there are only about 8 hospitals in the US that have been is this program, but maybe some of you are on here to give me your view point. submitted by /u/Neat_Comfortable_355 [link] [comments]
Coworker found a double ended nasal cannula. Very effective equipment. submitted by /u/EtOH-tid-PRN [link] [comments]
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I currently work peri operative nursing. I work in an inpatient facility so I have the benefit of making inpatient wages which is much higher than outpatient earnings. The job is fairly simple. A lot of the patients are same day elective procedures but I still need to maintain my nursing skills because I need to monitor lab values and read rhythm strips. We hold for inpatients as well so need to manage chest tubes, traction and other monitored interventions. While we don’t fully recover patients we deal with patients that the recovery unit passes off and often have to finish recovery so we still need to keep up with advanced certifications. It’s 4 ten hour shifts. No weekends, no nights and no holidays. So, I recently heard some RN educators basically stated that the peri-op nurses are barely nurses since we just “babysit” patients for an hour or so before procedure then discharge them after recovery. For some reason this has really gotten to me. So much so that I am considering transf
24 yr old teacher, 4th shooting in my teaching career, I think I’m gonna close the book on teaching. I don’t wanna contribute to making the world a better place by being in danger, I want money and to be safe. submitted by /u/wtfnmnf [link] [comments]
This is so long but a true rant to get it off my chest :( Floated to the ER holding for the first time. I've got 8 months of experience on a PCU/medsurg/tele floor, I was excited... Was.... I had no techs, only one other nurse who was floating to the hospital for the first time. I had 16 patients by the end of the day (only 6 at once, but cycling through)-- idk if that's considered a slow day or not. At first I was doing ok, lots of running around trying to find stuff. I felt terrible some patients were a complete mess but I barely had time to give scheduled medication, let alone change linen. I realized I didn't even get blood sugars. I didn't even get dinner trays anyway.. Towards the end of the day I just got so behind, all of my labs for an PCU pt on 4 different drips kept getting hemolyzed (nobody called me, until I realized later the labs still said UNCOLLECTED-- and a 5min hold with lab to figure out what happened) I asked someone for help and didn't think about it until way lat
Hello everybody! Tomorrow I have an interview with a medspa who was searching for a medical assistant. They had mistaken me as a pa student when I was cold calling/ emailing but she (the owner, an np) had entertained the idea of an internship when I had brought it up. She said that she wouldn't be hiring me currently as a medical assistant because they do need someone who is experienced (i currently have no experience other than hospital volunteering lol), but was very kind on the phone and said an internship route could transition to me being trained/formal role on their team. She wanted to set up a virtual interview because I'm not from the area and won't be moving back for school for another couple weeks. I have seen some people say that their experience as an MA at a med spa was fine for PCE hours, but I wanted to see what others thought. I am additionally in contact with a dermatology office who told me to reach back out once I was back in the area. However, this office has had po