ngtgle

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1. Brain injuries and fraud-please direct me to a resource.

   ngtgle replied to Sherbear's topic in Rehabilitation

   PPL has hit it on the dot. I am one of those who looks fine and healthy on the outside. I walk(a bit funny now), I drive, I function like someone is normal individual who doesn't have a brain injury. This is where the discrimation comes in. I had for...

2. Brain injuries and fraud-please direct me to a resource.

   ngtgle replied to Sherbear's topic in Rehabilitation

   How funny I should come across this....I was an acute care nurse for 9yrs and this Feb, I ended up as a single car-near drowning victim and now diagnosed with anoxic brain injury. I cannot do my job right now because I had forgotten how. The one to t...

3. Doctors! Rudeness does it go hand and hand?

   ngtgle replied to dinirn's topic in Relations

   Dinirn, I too work in a small rural hospital with "everybody knows everybody and more" and I too am a nightshift worker. I've been there for 8yrs and the rude one's never change. I look at it this way, I know more about their patients than they ...

4. Why the Prejudice against LPNs

   ngtgle replied to prozac1853's topic in LPN/LVN

   I've been an LVN for 8yrs and in transition to upgrade my license. As a single mom, it's hard to do. I do experience prejudice in the workplace mainly by new RN grads who have more theoretical than on hand patient experience. They constantly try to...