SRbear

SRbear

med/surg, neuro, ortho, cardiol

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SRbear specializes in med/surg, neuro, ortho, cardiol.


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  1. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    Doesn't time go by in the blink of an eye........I have not nor do I plan to get back into nursing. But what is keeping me out is this dang fibromyalgia. I did hear back from the board of nursing, instructing me to go to an addictionologist at my ...
  2. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

    That a hospital hallway is the best place to fart. That diarrhea is hereditary, it runs in your genes. That if you find a man on the hospital floor and he is not unconscious,and you shock him, he will cuss.....a lot...
  3. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    Thanks for your reply csemgr1. It is not right that the board is all powerful..as we all know power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Who does the board answer to, and who oversees their decisions. What is the worst, I think, is tha...
  4. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    I had to go to the BON about a month ago because I had been reported to them. I was excorted to a small room with a table, and a young man asked me if I wanted to tell him about it. I could only assume it was because I was fired. He asked me to pu...
  5. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    I spent 4 days last week going through withdrawal from oxycontin. I thought I would rather have pain every day then to be labeled a drug addict. Now that I think about it, I am not sure why. I have already lost my job, my self worth, my self iden...
  6. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    When I was asked to go for a drug screen, I told them exactly what they would find. Lost my job anyway. just told them too late.
  7. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    Do you realize how many people out there are working and driving each day taking pain meds?? Wonder if we could find out the number of oxycontin precriptions filled each year or for other narcotics as well. We as nurses have been pushed over the la...
  8. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    Well....call it gone. When I started at the pain clinic (associated with the hospital, my doc was and still is head of anethesia there), and he started me on oxycontin, I asked him if I could work on it ,and he said yes. For 2 1/2 yrs, I ran into h...
  9. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    I am sorry to hear about your back cubby. I kept quiet about the narcotic I had to take, and worked for 3 years as a charge nurse on a large m/s floor, and did a good job. Some of my at work nurse friends knew I was taking a narcotic, somehow nurse...
  10. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    Thanks so much all for the responses, and wishes that I felt better...so do I ! I also have that wish for those with chronic pain..cause ya just don't know what it is like to wake up each day, knowing that pain is your constant companion, unless y...
  11. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    So, if nurses have chronic pain, they can't work if they take narcotic pain medication, so either they have to quit, or work in severe pain. Dang it..what an option. The irony is, most of my pain has been caused by being a nurse ! Then could someo...
  12. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    I am currently, and have been, for 3 years, taking oxycontin for chronic pain. My question is, Is is legal for a nurse to work while taking pain meds? I am unable to work, or hardly move unless I get some relief from the pain. A nurse friend told ...
  13. Relocating to Georgia

    well hey ya'll, and welcome to Georgia !! Last time I checked it out, Kennestone Hospital had lots of openings. Pay scale should be somewhere in the neighborhood of about $20.00 to $23.00 per hour, day shift.
  14. Have a question about neuro

    Facial drooping in a stroke is on the opposite side of the stroke area. A right CVA would show left sided weakness or paralysis, and left facial drooping. And visa versa.
  15. 3rd week in home health, ready to quit

    I took call for thanksgiving....wednesday evening at 6pm, the office called and said I had a start for thursday, without going into detail..everything they told me was wrong, from how to do wound care, to pts. insurance. We only have 1 HHA working a...