Hospicegal90

Hospicegal90 has 22 years experience.

Latest Activity

1. How do you feel about having other nurses as patients?

   Hospicegal90 replied to purplegal's topic in Relations

   Forgot to add her quote for my above answer.

2. How do you feel about having other nurses as patients?

   Hospicegal90 replied to purplegal's topic in Relations

   I was actually writing my story on that very subject earlier today. Hopefully I'll get it finished by tomorrow. Just seems so long already---covering many years.

3. prescription drug addiction

   Hospicegal90 replied to shedevilprincss's topic in General Nursing

   What happened to the term and state of being 'dependent' along with 'tolerance' and skipping straight to 'addiction'? Huge difference, and addiction carries with it a special set of lifestyle issues, changes, loss of normality compared to their life...

4. Reflections of a Private Duty Nurse

   Hospicegal90 replied to pearsoaj's topic in General Nursing

   Nursing is unique in that we all can refer to ourselves as nurses, yet what we do on a daily basis varies greatly. I prefer direct patient care whether it be a hospice job, a home care or having the same patient each day. Yes you are a nurse. You ar...

5. How was your first code blue? What role did you have?

   Hospicegal90 replied to journey2success's topic in General Nursing

   I was a student in the ER when a young man came in after a motorcycle accident less than a mile from the hospital. That was my first time doing CPR. A decision was made after a certain amount of time during the code to continue CPR and treatment to ...

6. Domestic Violence: What Leaving Feels Like

   Hospicegal90 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   The average amount of times a victim of DV leaves an abuser is 7-8 times before leaving for good. This means returning to an angry, controlling environment. There are the stages of Tension, The Abusive Incident, followed by the Honeymoon stage. As ti...

7. Domestic Violence: What Leaving Feels Like

   Hospicegal90 replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

   Ruby has written from her heart how hard it is to leave. Thank you for sharing your experiences Ruby. I've been following your other thread too and appreciate your honesty. Leaving IS the most dangerous time. The abuser can feel it, so staying silen...

8. Should I disclose a medical condition?

   Hospicegal90 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   Thank you Nurse Diane for your reply. I understand what you are saying and because I've been away from nursing I have a 'Polyanna' view of how my pump may be received. I value your years of expertise and have rethought how I will go about this. You'r...

9. Should I disclose a medical condition?

   Hospicegal90 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Beth

   This interests me greatly as I too, have been away from nursing for 6 years due to a medical issue. Thanks to advances in treatment I have been given my life back! My saving treatment was the implantation of an intrathecal pain pump. I am finding t...

10. Nursing Dx: Noncompliance of healthy lifestyle choices

    Hospicegal90 replied to jsapphire's topic in General Nursing

    Great nursing DX, we all need to watch our habits, especially at work!! Any nurse knows how hard it is to eat right...it just takes a little time in planning at home to bring those healthy snacks to work....easy to just flop down on the couch and no...

11. Love Class...Hate Clinicals! Help!

    Hospicegal90 replied to AlabamakChik's topic in LPN/LVN Students

    I was an LVN student in 1990-1991. I remember those first clinicals like it was yesterday! Now, looking back; I realize that the PLACE we were sent for that first round was understaffed, and happy to have us there to answer those call lights, yet t...

12. Welcome to our new pain management forum

    Hospicegal90 replied to Brian's topic in Pain

    Dearest Sarah, First, I am SO glad to see a NEW post on this thread!!! I have been a member here for awhile, but always had trouble logging on so I basically gave up. Now here I am! I have been a Nurse for 16 years and am back in school again...th...