Blue_Elder

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1. Disciplined For Helping With Disaster

   Blue_Elder replied to Blue_Elder's topic in General Nursing

   When I say disciplined for attendance I mean it went against my attendance. The concept of calling them and just saying sorry I am not coming in tonight and not giving the facility a reason why is rude and worse some of you think I should have just ...

2. Fired for a medication error

   Blue_Elder replied to stiches's topic in Career Support

   Come on you guys. Just string her up already. This field is hard enough as it is without your peers making you feel like crap. I agree about being more concerned with the nurses who don't report it. Or who are bff's with the boss and nothing ever...

3. Do we need to take drugs.. in order to do our job?

   Blue_Elder replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

   Ok...lets think about this. Medication is used to treat diseases and disorders. I don't think they should be used to treat jobs. This is just my opinion but if I get to the point I need meds to face my job I will change careers.

4. Disciplined For Helping With Disaster

   Blue_Elder replied to Blue_Elder's topic in General Nursing

   Poet, I work in a very small LTC and the ladies I would have been working with that night did not live in the area. However I do not know if they had family in that area or not. I did but was not even able to drive to my sister's house until 2 days...

5. Disciplined For Helping With Disaster

   Blue_Elder posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was scheduled to work the night a tornado hit the next town taking the town totally apart. A friend of mine who is a state police officer notified me of the disaster because he knew I had been a firefighter before I became a nurse and asked me to ...

6. Can stress really have this effect???

   Blue_Elder replied to jennielynn's topic in General Students

   Yes it can. I went through MRI's, EMG's, and physical therapy. At one point I was told that my symptoms were due to MS. After all was said and done it was stress. The best treatment I got was I was told to "get rid of it, shoot it, kill it, leave...