LadyBugLass

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1. Do you have a diagnosis of mental illness?

   LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

   I read about someone having panic attacks. I've had them since I was about 8? It used to be at most once and year...it escalated about two years ago, and now, it is at least once a week, sometimes once a day. When someone FINALLY sat me down and act...

2. Do you have a diagnosis of mental illness?

   LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

   Hormones? You mean like the diagnosis of "hysteria" they used to give crazy women (originated from "hysto-", meaning "uterus")? God save us from American health care.

3. Do you have a diagnosis of mental illness?

   LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

   I plan to disclose; while I do not talk about my problem with depression ad nauseum, I am honest about it now. It really has changed how other people see mental illness, how common it is, and someone with a mental illness is NOT necessarily foaming a...

4. Do you have a diagnosis of mental illness?

   LadyBugLass posted a topic in General Nursing

   Well, after almost 10 years of varying degrees of hell for me and the people who love me, I may well have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Years of depression may have been not properly treated. Years of general practictioners handing me the whatever...

5. What nursing Managers fail to see

   LadyBugLass replied to Nursekat64's topic in Activism

   Hey...I AM a manager. The way I got here? BY PUTTING IN MY TIME DOING ALL THE THINGS YOU MENTIONED FOR NEARLY 12 YEARS!!!:angryfire And this case manager IS a nurse, thanks. Do I "go to meetings" because I like it? Hell no; it is incredibly dull. It...

6. Hospice and Palliative Nurse Cert. Exam

   LadyBugLass posted a topic in Hospice

   Has anyone here taken the HPNA exam? Was it REALLY REALLY REALLY hard?:uhoh21: Did you get a raise or promotion for passing? How much hospice experience did you have before you took it (HPNA recommends 2 years, but I don't think it is required.) All...

7. Donating Scrubs

   LadyBugLass posted a topic in Uniform/Gear

   I have been through TWO "new" jobs in 2005 that required certain colors of scrubs. One job required royal blue (not too bad) and one job required BRIGHT red (truly hideous, esp. with white skin and red hair, I looked like a Target store.) I have trie...

8. Is your house a mess?

   LadyBugLass replied to FNPhopeful's topic in Pre-Nursing

   That "How Clean Is Your House" show makes me feel SO much better. And I have always been in EMS and now do home hospice care, so I KNOW it's not that bad...but it ain't GOOD either. My good buddy is a scrub tech with OCD, and she thinks RN's are the ...

9. Chewing Ice!!!

   LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

   I LOVE the smell of bleach!! I guess because it is just SO clean. I think it reminds me of hotels and swimming pools from vacations, esp. when I was a kid. When I was little, we didn't have a self-defrosting freezer, so I'd take a knife and SCRAPE a...

10. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    LadyBugLass replied to Severina's topic in Disabilities

    SO glad that I found this thread. I have struggled with occ. depression since high school, started meds at 25 when it was no longer just occasional and I started to have suicidal thoughts; experienced PTSD due to a disaster response as a paramedic in...

11. Any "union" RN's here? I need advice.

    LadyBugLass posted a topic in Career Support

    I have never been in a union before, but after the year I have had (5 postions in 12 months!! I look like a total flake), I am starting to think that I need some job protection. I really feel like these businesses (and that is EXACTLY what they are ...

12. Chewing Ice!!!

    LadyBugLass replied to LadyBugLass's topic in General Nursing

    Rabbit turd ice:roll ! I call it pellet ice, and I LOOOVVVEEE the nice, chewy texture and slightly bleachy flavor. I have become an ice "snob". Braums and Sonic sell 7lb bags of it, and I go through about 2 bags a week since around last January. The...

13. heard of Excelsior College? need advice

    LadyBugLass replied to Christian_SN's topic in General Students

    Me too!! What can I say?

14. Glossary of Nursing/Medical Degrees-Certifications & Allied Heath Certifications

    LadyBugLass replied to sirI's topic in General Nursing

    MSW can ALSO be a bachelors of social work who is a MEDICAL social worker (just to add to the confusion here.)

15. Chewing Ice!!!

    LadyBugLass posted a topic in General Nursing

    What does everyone actually KNOW about the connection between being anemic and the insatiable appetite for chewing ice?? I know that it is generally acknowledged as a symptom of anemia, but no one can tell me WHY, an actual physiological reason. Hmm.