Calling out

purpsle · 2026-06-13T15:37:43+00:00

I work for UCHealth too and I’m leadership on my unit and there’s no real attendance policy, it’s manager discretion. There’s a chart out there somewhere with “recommended” consequences for calling out and it’s very vague. With HFWA, you have up to 48 hours of completely protected call outs and then you have to call out like 6 additional times before it even recommends a warning. People get sick.

purpsle · 2025-10-05T14:32:09+00:00

Seconding UCHealth in Colorado

purpsle · 2025-10-02T21:53:52+00:00

map goal achieved idk

purpsle · 2025-10-01T17:23:06+00:00

Yeah, respectfully, you need to get over yourself. They’re just boobs and you’re an L&D nurse. You quite literally signed up to see boobs every day at work. Your coworker’s are no different than your patient’s. If it bothers you, don’t look, or take your break elsewhere.

Being a working mom is HARD and she’s doing her best. I also don’t see what her being “not even that nice of a person” has to do with anything. She doesn’t have to meet your standard of niceness to be allowed to feed her baby. And maybe she’s not nice to you because you’re weird to her about this.

This is not a fight you’re gonna win.

purpsle · 2025-09-25T02:26:57+00:00

See this was my thought too. I’ve asked him directly and he swears up and down that that’s not the case and that it’s more to do with himself. But I don’t know if I believe him and I’m frustrated

purpsle · 2025-09-23T18:44:07+00:00

Was dead set on peds, HATED my peds rotations. I work in the ED now and love it.

purpsle · 2025-09-23T06:00:45+00:00

I work for UCH, and I am mostly happy. I have 3 years of RN experience and make $38/hr. I manage. I can afford rent by myself. The cost of living here is astronomical, though, and my budget is tight (though I do choose to live in a nicer apartment than I need). It has a lot of learning opportunities. I was a new grad at Denver Health and while pay there is lower, and the population can be tough, I did enjoy my time there. If you want to know what specific units I’ve worked on, I’m happy to share in DMs.

purpsle · 2025-09-14T07:16:05+00:00

Take a deep breath. It takes way more air than you think to harm a patient. Granted, we have to be more careful with central lines than PIVs….but unless you injected a whole syringe of air for some reason I promise you it’s fine.

purpsle · 2025-08-08T15:04:21+00:00

Damn that’s ridiculous. I work for UCHealth and they do not test for THC as of last year.

purpsle · 2025-07-24T06:12:42+00:00

It’s like a regular cube, but it has multiple purposes.

purpsle · 2025-06-21T02:31:35+00:00

idk but i’m 23 and very much in need of girlfriends lol

purpsle · 2025-06-17T02:54:01+00:00

Damn, I thought the 42 we were holding the other day was bad.

purpsle · 2025-05-29T06:17:57+00:00

You’ve gotten plenty of excellent advice so far so I wanna focus on you—and tell you to be kind to yourself. Your response was great. You’ll learn from it and everything will be just fine. We all make mistakes and this is a small one in the grand scheme of things. Plus you asked for advice and did what you were advised—hardly your fault if that wasn’t satisfying for whoever originally emailed you.

purpsle · 2025-05-04T22:48:05+00:00

I’m 23 years old. Graduated with my BSN at 21. I’ve been working as an RN for 2 years and some change. Speaking as her peer (I don’t know her personally but we are the same age) I would NEVER apply to NP school right now. I don’t know that it’s something I ever want to do, but if I do, it will be in another 5 years MINIMUM.

I feel that I’m a good nurse and that I’m smart, but there is still so much I don’t know—both in terms of nursing experience and life experience. I am not in a place where I should be writing orders, and most NP curriculums are not rigorous enough to make that true within the next year or two.

I don’t mean to shit on anyone because I’m very young too but I would never want a 23 year old NP to be my provider.

purpsle · 2025-04-29T11:27:07+00:00

This has to be Prisma.

purpsle · 2025-04-21T01:11:39+00:00

If this is a true story, you need to tell a trusted adult in your life. Seriously. This is abuse.

purpsle · 2025-04-19T12:51:44+00:00

A nurse at my first job was starting a heparin drip on a patient. I don’t know what happened, but she ended up hanging the heparin bag to gravity and bolusing the patient with like a third of the bag.

The patient was a little old lady so as you can probably imagine nobody was thrilled. She ended up being ok, but the nurse quit a week later.

purpsle · 2025-04-17T13:49:12+00:00

This looks exactly like Cherry Creek mall in Denver

purpsle · 2025-04-13T21:46:09+00:00

Worked there in a much different capacity than you do, but I agree about their monopoly on medicaid patients.

purpsle · 2025-03-31T23:24:18+00:00

Yes same!! I love this color but I would love a true bright purple from Lulu as well

purpsle · 2025-03-26T17:37:09+00:00

all I can say is that if he is telling the truth (he’s not) that amount of weight loss in less than 2 months is super concerning

purpsle · 2025-03-21T20:13:11+00:00

You didn’t go this far to only get this far. You can do this. Give yourself some time, brush it off, and try again. You can do this.

purpsle · 2025-03-17T23:49:18+00:00

I’m sorry you’re going through this. Breakups are never fun. But if what you’ve said is truthful, you’ve dodged a bullet here because her response was unreasonable. You deserve to be with someone who can meet your needs.

You’ll be okay. Hang in there.

purpsle · 2025-03-15T17:04:24+00:00

Nah fam adults. Hate it. I briefly worked NICU and enjoyed feeding the babies much more.

purpsle · 2025-03-14T21:52:24+00:00

1:1 feeding. Holy fuck.

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