scarta105

scarta105

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  1. I find it extremely sad that patients, along with their families and some healthcare workers, must resort to forming organizations in order to educate and bring attention to the crisis of under treatment/non-treatment of pain. Our society has been bo...
  2. To deny pain relief to a suffering human being flies in the face of everything I thought a nurse should be. But nurses are human too and we all come with our own set of rigid beliefs, as flawed and predjudiced as they may be. The older I get and th...
  3. Alcohol breath nurse........

    A heavy drinker will reek of stale alcohol. It won't just be their breath, but their whole body. Does he or she act impaired? Do you know for a fact that she drinks? If I were in your shoes, unless she is obviously working impaired, I think I wo...
  4. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

    Wow. If this isn't a very true example of how God works in our lives, answers prayer, and has a plan for our lives, I don't know what is. I know that during a time of extreme stress and heartache, it's hard to see and accept that this may be a par...
  5. Very Important Pain News

    Bravo to you for being a voice for those patients who suffer with chronic pain. Our society has lived too long with the impression that "suffering is good for the soul." During my clinicals, many experienced and older nurses would complain that "so...
  6. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

    I hope this question doesn't upset anyone...not ment to, anyway, but how can a person confuse an ambien with a bp pill? Ambien is a tiny, thin, oblong tablet that doesn't look like any other pill I've ever seen. The shape alone should have a been c...
  7. Suspected Drug Addict Student Nurse

    CrunchRN, I agree with you. I think that the original poster has "it in" for the student who took the drugs without consideration that the students who gave them to her are equally, if not more so, guilty of drug dealing. I understand pain, but com...
  8. Substance Abuse Nursing

    How would one get on with the Betty Ford Center? Could you imagine working there? I think that this would be my dream job.
  9. Suspected Drug Addict Student Nurse

    i don't see this situation turning out any good for anyone, including yourself, kabin. you've got two students in your class who admitted to you that they diverted their left-over oxycontin pills to another student who now, you all believe is exhibi...
  10. Suspected Drug Addict Student Nurse

    I don't think I would do anything. All of it could be hearsay, and none of it the truth, but then again, it could be true. Who really knows for sure? I wouldn't want to be the one who ended up passing on false information about someone and possibly e...
  11. Getting a verbal for being too happy.

    I was once (back in the late 70's) given a verbal warning for saying "Okay." My boss at the time said that this word was non-existent and it should never be used (I'm from the south, "yall"). I asked him what he preferred that I say, and he said to...
  12. "Tape" Recorder Suggestions...

    Our school forbid the use of tape recorders once we began our nursing classes, however we were allowed to use them during our prereq classes. We were not even allowed to tape the lectures. Why? I don't know. It didn't make sense to me since no ...
  13. Lost Job because of background!!

    Multicollinarity- What state does your cousins live in? There are a few states that continue to disinfranchise ex-felons for life, but there are also many who will reinstate their rights. Georgia, for one, automatically restores a felon's voting r...
  14. Lost Job because of background!!

    Question: Did they rescind the contract because of the felony or was it because you checked "no" on your application? My guess is because you checked "no." Adjudication basically means the "outcome" of the criminal offense. I'm guessing your felon...
  15. too old to be a nurse....

    Age is just a state of mind. I was 51, and the oldest person in my class, when I graduated from nursing school last December, but I am extremely active...I ride horses like a seasoned cowgirl, lug 50 lb bags of feed, swim almost everyday, and I can ...