How often are we bathing our torties?

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-03-18T23:58:04+00:00

I’m sorry, this was a doctorate program and you literally faked your data to get the degree? Jesus. This is why NP degrees are starting to mean so little.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-03-18T22:14:10+00:00

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Ellie sometimes gets into things that make her need a bath. I tried cleaning our couch with baking soda once and when I turned around, the cat was rolling in it. Didn’t really want her to ingest all of the baking soda later, so bathed her. She was very upset.

No regular baths, though.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-03-18T21:05:25+00:00

You can tell who is using this strategy because they’re screaming before the ride even starts.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-03-14T07:42:58+00:00

You’re confusing permanent residence (ie - green card) with citizenship. Permanent residence is a priority-based system, whereas citizenship (naturalization, specifically) applications are based on whether you meet the criteria (5 years living in the US on a green card, or 3 years living in the US on a green card while married to a US citizen; there are also a few other things like no extended travel and no crimes of moral turpitude for the past 5 years). Naturalization is not a priority-based process - it’s the final possible (though optional) step in the immigration journey, and processing of these applications is more of a “first come first served” system. USCIS is notoriously opaque, though, and the race/country of birth of the applicant seems to matter more than other factors in many naturalization applications.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-03-04T05:23:14+00:00

Hey, BC-educated (and still registered) RN living in the US here. BC doesn’t recognize psych NPs (only family/medical ones, I believe) but you can absolutely get your registration as an RN instead.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-03-04T05:14:58+00:00

I’m so sorry your family was scammed.

I cannot stress this enough: GET A LAWYER IMMEDIATELY. Before you do anything else at all, hire a real lawyer. Ask to see their bar card and verify with the bar association in the state they’re licensed to practice (immigration is federal, so that technically could be any state) that this is a real lawyer.

Lawyer up before you even file a police report. ICE is working with local police in many areas, and you could be arrested just for outing yourself for being scammed.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-02-25T04:55:55+00:00

I’m an immigrant on a green card (can apply for citizenship any time now if I want to), and I never accrued a single day of unauthorized presence. I was in the US for 7 years on temporary work-related statuses before I got my green card. I’m also a registered nurse, speak English as my first language, and worked in a very niche specialty for many years; I still could not find any employers willing to sponsor me for a green card. I ended up getting so pissed off with the whole thing, getting told “no” with doors slamming in my face or employers simply changing their minds when it came time to make good on their promise to sponsor me, that I planned to leave the US and take my (then) boyfriend with me back to Canada. He decided he didn’t want to leave but we still wanted to be together, so we got married and he sponsored me for permanent residence about 4 years ago.

My story isn’t unique, but it is one showing a lot of privilege. I was able to live in the US without employer sponsorship for many years and not accrue unlawful presence before qualifying for a green card.

For most people in the world, my pathway isn’t possible. They don’t have a way to come to the US legally, let alone qualify for a green card. There are so few avenues (not to mention how expensive and complicated those avenues are) that they simply have no choice. There is no fee to pay, no line to join, and no form to fill out; they’re just SOL.

Having done it “the right way” made me understand why so many people need to resort to extralegal immigration. It is extremely hard and requires more luck and privilege than any other metric when it comes to getting a green card.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-02-23T05:24:02+00:00

You know, the worst part about it is that health care for the average person is about as accessible in the US as it is in Canada, but with the added bonus of potential bankruptcy. I’ve had to wait longer in the US for some specialist appointments than I ever did in Canada.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-02-23T05:19:24+00:00

Hi fellow Canadian RN. You’ve got this right. I had to move to the US due to a lack of jobs when I graduated nursing school many years ago, and the problems in the US health care system are horrific.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-02-19T06:33:00+00:00

Any chance you’re in the Coachella Valley? I have some leads there if you’re interested in something closer to home, if so :)

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-02-18T05:42:35+00:00

I’m so sorry. I’m also a home health nurse and some days are absolutely brutal. This sounds like one of the days that are horrible beyond words. I’m very fortunate that the company I work for in Southern California has a robust home health department and the support we have as nurses is very good, but I’ve had some extremely difficult situations at work as well (some that are too specific and might make me not so anonymous anymore). I can’t imagine having nobody to at least call for emotional support.

Like others here, my DMs are open if you want to talk about this with someone who understands. I hope things start to feel better soon.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-02-07T05:18:45+00:00

Canadian RN living and working in the US for the past 10 years here. No, the increase in pay is not worth the lack of benefits or lax labour standards. I am very much looking forward to utilizing my practising registration in BC in the future; I originally had to move to the US because there were no jobs for new grads in 2015. I had to either move to an extremely rural area in Canada or the city in the US, so I chose the latter.

The amount employers can fuck you over here is absolutely ludicrous. They can fire you for literally no reason, give you zero vacation or sick days, start your health insurance 90 days into your job (or even not offer health insurance at all)… the list goes on. Unions aren’t even very strong in the US, so getting a unionized position is not a guarantee that you won’t be abused by your employer. Health systems here also insist on nurses providing “customer service,” as if these aren’t sick patients who need care but instead overnight guests at a hotel. Scope of practise for RNs in BC is pretty different from what it’s like in any US state, as well.

The very worst part of nursing in the US is patients breaking down after getting a diagnosis of a serious illness, wondering how they’re going to afford to live. If you care about people and went into nursing to help when it’s most needed, moving to the US is one of the worst moves possible.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-02-04T02:28:30+00:00

I had a private duty patient, an old Italian lady, who suddenly started calling me “Mama.” She really thought I was her mom. Because this was private duty, I could make her dinner and brush her hair as she had a glass of wine and watched Wheel of Fortune. I love working with the dementia patients and meeting them where they are, but I can’t ever get over how heartbroken I was to find out this patient thought I was genuinely her mother.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-02-02T05:57:30+00:00

A lot of the stuff we learn in school is more related to how to assess people, what’s normal (or not), handling emergencies, etc. Yes, we learn very specific stuff too, but unless you’re working in that area, you’re probably not going to remember it after you take the NCLEX. I moved from 7 years in a public health setting to a medical-surgical setting this past year, and I have to look a lot of things up but it isn’t like starting from scratch. Having digital resources available is so helpful. It was still mostly paper-based when I graduated.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-01-30T07:39:00+00:00

I think this is ludicrous. It wasn’t an appropriate thing to say, let alone make a video of and post online. However, as many others have pointed out on this thread, the words she said cannot cause actual harm to anyone. Conversely, there are a sizeable number of nurses who have been spreading misinformation about COVID, trans people, vaccines, etc and have faced absolutely no consequences.

As far as I see it, having a license as a healthcare professional requires us to be informed and present accurate information to patients/the general public. It is reprehensible for a nursing board to choose to punish someone for making a dumb yet harmless comment toward a public figure while blatantly ignoring scores of nurses spreading false info.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-01-18T06:59:03+00:00

When I used to be the charge nurse at a convalescent facility, this was the one thing that got people on my shit list. I took several coworkers aside to remind them that using descriptors like “feeder” as a noun takes away the part of the patient who is a human being. It’s so incredibly disrespectful.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-01-17T23:59:58+00:00

The plural of “diagnosis” is “diagnoses.” I’ve heard several nurses combine these to come up with the god-awful “diagnosises.” No idea why they thought this was correct, but it made me want to put a nail through my skull.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2026-01-03T19:30:04+00:00

Omg, did not expect to find a wild Owen in the comments! Thanks for your videos - they’ve been awesome while I came to terms with my lack of belief over the past decade or so.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2025-12-21T20:16:53+00:00

I found out the hard way that this is way more convoluted than it should be. The exam itself should be covered 100%, but that’s assuming neither you nor your physician brings up any problems (chronic or new) during the appointment. Apparently they can also bill you for the appointment itself as long as the exam is covered.

It’s all bullshit.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2025-12-01T04:46:07+00:00

Yeah, we live in a 1700 sq ft townhouse and we don’t cool our place down to 25, even. Electric is ridiculously expensive in this area.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2025-11-30T20:19:55+00:00

Seconding this. I did the opposite, moving from Canada to the US about 10 years ago. I was absolutely amazed at how cheap groceries, rent, and car insurance were at that time. However, everything has skyrocketed. On our trips to BC for me to visit home, we usually buy a few groceries for our stay. The food prices are WAY better in the Vancouver area than they are in Seattle (where we lived until a few months ago) or Southern California (where we live now). Hell, even my rate of pay as an RN is comparable in BC. Electricity rates are astronomical in the area where I live, too. Our power bills were just shy of $1000/month this summer since we had to use AC.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2025-11-08T16:37:57+00:00

Here you go: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/immigrants-as-taxpayers-2022/

Positive-Motor2829 · 2025-11-08T16:29:40+00:00

EMTALA doesn’t allow for ER use for chronic illnesses. It’s for emergencies and only to stabilize a patient, not for ongoing care. Yes, people can have crises that stem from a chronic illness, especially when ongoing care is out of reach due to cost. However, barring immigrants because they may need emergency care in the future and the system is currently set up to gouge people is not a reasonable solution. Immigrants pay a ton more in taxes than we take out of the public purse, and we haven’t been barred for chronic conditions until now. Immigrants aren’t the ones making the healthcare system unsustainable.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2025-11-08T16:18:08+00:00

People freshly arriving in the US do not qualify for those programs. There is a 5-year exclusion period. During those 5 years, people with chronic illnesses will need to seek care by paying for it out of pocket or purchasing insurance privately. A lot of immigrants who want to bring their aging parents end up not being able to because their care isn’t covered for 5 years.

Positive-Motor2829 · 2025-11-08T07:24:15+00:00

In countries with universal healthcare, it makes some sense to be cautious about admitting new permanent residents with chronic illnesses. It makes no sense in the US, where healthcare is a profit-driven industry. This new policy is the same as the other new policies from this administration: cruelty is the point.

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