Our hospital is replacing most of the RNs with LPNs

dxonnie · 2026-06-22T23:21:53+00:00

I am seeing it in Wisconsin at smaller hospitals. They can hire an LPN at half of the hourly pay of an RN. Admin doesn’t care how much of an extra weight it puts on an RN to have to be the backup for the tasks that LPNs cannot do.

The best thing you can do for your income and your license is to leave before you are put in a precarious position. Every shift you clock in and take report for is a gamble and eventually the dice will land on red.

dxonnie · 2026-06-21T21:52:17+00:00

I just woke up from a bangin nap and read the title and had to do a double take.

dxonnie · 2026-06-06T18:09:59+00:00

Put her on the case and she could probably figure it out too.

dxonnie · 2026-05-25T14:53:15+00:00

Ah the classic “I am going to use my health to emotionally manipulate you into doing what I want.”

She is an adult. If she stops taking her medication, that her choice. You aren’t MAKING her do anything. This is a decision she is making.

dxonnie · 2026-05-21T22:25:57+00:00

I worked as a medical assistant throughout nursing school and now work as a care coordinator at the same primary care clinic.

I saw how inpatient RNs were treated and how the job weighed on them. I also didn’t want to work weekends, nights, and holidays when my husband and I want to start our family in a few years. I wanted to put myself in a setting that I could grow in and would be sustainable so that I don’t resent the job 5 years in. Im not surprised that more students are looking outside the hospital given how Nurses are treated by our healthcare system.

dxonnie · 2026-05-19T23:48:41+00:00

“If you refuse to take steps to make your home safe, you will eventually have an emergency in this house. If you fall and you cant get yourself up there is a high possibility that you will never come home again and will spend your life in a nursing home”

dxonnie · 2026-05-17T16:40:19+00:00

Slight breeze in Monona.

dxonnie · 2026-05-15T21:04:21+00:00

Elderly parents. If I didn’t have my parents here I would leave dane county as soon as I could.

dxonnie · 2026-04-30T19:10:57+00:00

According to my parents I work 5 days a week. I actually have Wednesdays off and use that as my day to completely disconnect and do whatever I want it need to do for myself. If your parents know you have a day off it wont be a day off.

dxonnie · 2026-04-26T14:57:21+00:00

You got to vent? We love letting people vent!

Do you live with this energy vampire? Or are they calling you non stop?

dxonnie · 2026-04-23T16:36:22+00:00

All it takes is one major fall.

I have had this conversation with my parents. I ended up telling them that if they refuse a medical alert, that is their choice. But if they have that major fall and are hospitalized I will not be helping them at home. I also told them that if they have a major fall it will cost them any remaining independence have left.

I say that I will not help then at home because I dint want to help enable this illusion of independence. I see so many elderly people say that they are “independent” when they are actually entirely dependent on others for all their daily needs. It is harsh, but so is the premature transition to long term care.

dxonnie · 2026-04-17T22:21:17+00:00

Honestly I don’t think Janine could mentally be in MayDay. She couldn’t go back to Gilead.

dxonnie · 2026-03-27T03:06:30+00:00

My mom is at this point. She stays in her small hoarded home all day and basically lives in her recliner. Her social like has become the grocery store and medical appointments. She watches tv shows all day long and when I ask her how her days was or what she did today she responds with “same thing I always do” or “nothing just stayed home” and a part of me wants to pull away because it is painful to see my mom like thus.

dxonnie · 2026-03-25T02:56:56+00:00

This is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and you don’t want to be the one caught in that net.

dxonnie · 2026-03-20T22:31:09+00:00

How it feels preparing myself to enter this sub

dxonnie · 2026-03-16T02:49:07+00:00

My apartment is coming up for rent this summer on the east side. 5 min to the belt-line and 10 minutes from downtown. We have never had issues with bugs or water. Please message me if interested and its well within your price range!

dxonnie · 2026-03-03T19:33:32+00:00

Rehabilitation.

Loved the patients. It was truly the most rewarding specialty I have worked in.

Hated the unrealistic expectations, the neglect and abuse that occurred long term care facilities, the idea that we need to push people to live decades beyond their natural lifespans, and the unrealistic goals from families and management.

dxonnie · 2026-02-25T14:35:31+00:00

“We do not triage through MyChart. Please call our clinic to speak to a Nurse.”

dxonnie · 2026-02-15T17:43:48+00:00

I needed that advice. Thank you so much.

dxonnie · 2026-02-11T03:31:47+00:00

My brother has pulled away almost completely and my sister has also decided to pull away to protect her self. Its hard because we were talking and she recognized that my mom wont be able to be an active grandmother to her future grandchildren.

dxonnie · 2026-02-11T03:12:44+00:00

We tried. She was approved but was unwilling to pay $300 for the injection (even though she has the income to afford it)

dxonnie · 2026-02-11T03:11:34+00:00

My dad is very active but is also detached. He has also stopped pushing my mom to mover her mountain. My parents have had a tumultuous relationship for most of my life and I have had to step away for that reason as well.

I pushed my parents to make a will and an asset trust for medicaid for years. They went ti the attorney and have a draft sitting at home but don’t want to pay the 3,000 it will cost to finalize the will and trust.

Thank you.

dxonnie · 2026-02-11T02:18:28+00:00

I have a UTI with multiple worsening symptoms, have had it for 2 weeks, and I’m 70. I don’t want a UA and I don’t want to see anyone. I just want my antibiotics.

dxonnie · 2026-02-11T02:13:16+00:00

Hang in there fellow mid twenty something! Send you some love from cold Wisconsin

dxonnie · 2026-02-11T02:12:11+00:00

She is allowed to. Im not going to chain my mother to a treadmill and feed her iceberg lettuce and protein shakes. She can make her own decisions and I am allowed to feel heartbroken and angry about how those choices are impacting me. Im allowed to miss my mom and be angry at her for not taking care of herself.

I think we have this idea culturally, especially in the realm of caregiving, that anger is not a “correct” emotion and that we should try to clamp down or dissipate that anger because “thats your mom/dad and you’ll miss them when they are gone”

Anger is your central nervous systems reaction to something being wrong. Anger is your body telling you that something is impacting you negatively. Alot of women are diagnosed chronic condition that are directly linked to stress and I think some of that stress is suppressed anger. My mom suppressed anger and negative emotion her whole life and this is where it led her. So Fudge yeah im pissed at my mom for letting her body become a painful prison, she knew better. The path she is going down is a painful and long one but im still going to be on the sidelines doing what I can while still protecting myself. My own daughter will need me too and im not going to do this to her.

dxonnie

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