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  1. Pain scale

    I have to say it depends on the situation. I once had a patient who had pain meds ordered Q4 hours PRN for post-op pain. She would set an alarm to go off 3 hours after she got her medication and then you immediately start hitting the call button de...
  2. Not Enough Backup-CPS?

    I don't know what the laws are in your state. But in my state if you don't report something like this, then you could lose your license. The nice thing is you can file a report online anonymously and it will give you a case number. If you keep the ca...
  3. I've been an RN for a dozen years now. And I have family member with the type of hearing loss you're talking about. I hate to say it, but if I was to lose my hearing to that degree that I would be looking for another career the next day. I'm getting ...
  4. A coworker made me so mad!

    How would love to hear some of the things coworkers have done at work that just make you mad and frustrated. For example, the other day we had a lady who was clearly terrified of needles. Now we all have patience claim they're scared of needles. But ...
  5. Would You Report Me for This?

    I've been thinking about this ever since I read this thread a couple of days ago. Today I remembered something. My very first semester of nursing school I had a teacher who told us something before our very first clinical. She said that any time we h...
  6. why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

    I've been doing this long enough now that I think I actually know what happens. The fact is the only time anyone gets in trouble for calling themselves a nurse is it they are lying and actually working as a nurse without a license. It does happen. An...
  7. why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

    Oh don't get me wrong, they get mailed if they use the title RN or LVN. The states mail's out a list to all nurses every quarter of people who are in trouble and being prosecuted for just that. What they let them get away with doing is saying quote "...
  8. Drug seekers

    1 milligram every 6 hours. I would never question it. In fact I'm wondering why so far between doses? Is it an elderly patient or do they have some disease that will keep them from metabolising the drug. Do they even stock vials of 1 milligram dilaud...
  9. Would You Report Me for This?

    If they do it with one med, they will do it with others.
  10. Would You Report Me for This?

    If you charge that the patient took the Med then you are saying in a legal document that you witnessed them taking the Med. Say you went to a patient left them at their bedtime bedside in for 3 days in a row they drop the pill on the floor and it rol...
  11. Accepted the job, now what?

    I begin my career with seven years in pediatrics. Then I transferred over to the ER at the ER directors request. Lo and behold we got a new er director shortly after that. A year and a half later I did what many of us do, I quit my boss and went to w...
  12. why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

    In my state, Texas, you can call yourself a nurse if you work in a doctors office. You can do this with even wirhout getting a high school education much less any further training. It is an old old loophole the doctors used to use to get inexpensive ...
  13. Every other weekend & holidays??

    if you don't want to work nights, holidays and weekends, then basically you need to get out of nursing. You are going to need a lot of experiance before you get anywhere close to the hours you want. As for the money, if I quite working nights, weeken...
  14. Nurses and Financial Freedom

    I have a co-worker that went the D Ramsey route big time. She went on a working rampage for 3 months and pain off $48K of her mortgage in three months. For the next 6 months her husband worked 2 jobs. They not only paid off their house-along with eve...
  15. Cannabis, the cure all?

    Well said.