miranda819 BSN

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1. New Grad RN with lupus/First Job

   miranda819 replied to Ashlee245's topic in Disabilities

   I hope you find a way to continue to work. I have an autoimmune disease called dermatomyositis. I am on methotrexate, plaquenil, and muscle relaxers. I have been unable to work for over a year now. I desperately want to go back to work, but I don...

2. do you gain or lose weight while working

   miranda819 replied to Valsabatini's topic in General Nursing

   Gained on night shift, lost on day shift. There seemed to be way more food laying around during the night shifts, and more pot lucks. Day shift was just a constant run with hopes of getting to sit for 15 minutes to inhale your food.

3. Question for NM's/ Mother baby nurses

   miranda819 replied to RunninOnCoffee's topic in General Nursing

   Once you have the answer from the company, you will need to approach the directors of ob/gyn, mother-baby, NICU. If interested, the directors would know where to take it up the corporate path to get approval.

4. I smell something rotten.

   miranda819 posted a topic in Disabilities

   I had been working full-time at a LTC, and I really liked it! That is until my health took a nose dive and I had to take leave back in April. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia with small fiber neuropathy. I also had extreme muscle weakness and was...

5. Unable to work.

   miranda819 replied to miranda819's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for all your responses. I'm going to go by work sometime this week and see what we can work out. Thanks for the ideas and advice! It's nice to know I have a place to come and get some of this off my chest. Thanks everyone

6. Unable to work.

   miranda819 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm an RN working at a LTAC, and believe it or not, I really like working there. I was full-time with a 6a-2p schedule. Perfect for me and my family. Until bam, out of no where my body started to give out. I had uncontrollable wide spread muscle ...

7. Crossfit

   miranda819 replied to pugmom79's topic in Stress 101

   I hope your surgery goes well uscg2RN.

8. Crossfit

   miranda819 replied to pugmom79's topic in Stress 101

   I do know how to properly hydrate; I've ran and successfully completed 4 1/2 marathons. Please do not insult my intelligence. Everyone's circumstance is different, but mine involved medication that was already taxing my kidneys way too much. So be...

9. Crossfit

   miranda819 replied to pugmom79's topic in Stress 101

   I did crossfit about a year ago, for 2 whole days...then ended up hospitalized with rhabdomyolysis. For almost a week I couldn't move my arms and it took almost 8 months before the swelling and pain went away. I don't think crossfit is a bad workou...

10. Grass is always greener...maybe?

    miranda819 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I think I am suffering from 'the grass is always greener on the other side' syndrome. I find myself searching for jobs, even though I have only been in my current position for 3 months. I constantly go back and forth in my mind, is this what I want...

11. What could I do as a volunteer RN?

    miranda819 replied to firefly101's topic in General Nursing

    I volunteered a few times at the med stations for marathons and 1/2 marathons. It was only for 1 day, but it was fun and interesting!

12. How did you change?

    miranda819 replied to openyourmind's topic in General Nursing

    While in nursing school I always said I would never do postpartum, nursery, L&D..I had done enough of the patient side of that in my real life. So silly me, fresh out of school I went into Med-Surg and quickly found out it wasn't the place for m...

13. Not all nurses wear scrubs

    miranda819 replied to rosen60's topic in Professionalism

    Hi! I too have felt the sting of 'your are not really a nurse', but I think it was more self inflicted than anything else. A few weeks ago I left a very busy Mother-Baby unit to go into a non-profit center doing case management/home visits. I love...

14. What did you get for nurses week?

    miranda819 replied to BSNbeauty's topic in General Nursing

    A bag of trail mix, that was it.

15. Leaving a hospital job

    miranda819 replied to miranda819's topic in General Nursing

    Maternal and Early Childhood Health Programs | Nurse Family Partnership - NFP It is a great program where nurses make home visits to first time mom's early in their pregnancy. We provide health support, make sure they are getting to the dr appts, ta...