Specializes in EMT since 92, Paramedic since 97, RN and PHRN 2021.
Damn, Bill. I am so sorry!!
Thank You!!!!! I am so frustrated right now. The pain is just about unbearable. I have to be at the pearson vue at 9am tomorrow morning since this happened today and its too close to reschedule.
UGH!!!!!
I think I'm gonna have my wife hit me over the head with a hammer. Maybe that will distract from the pain in my foot!
Why can't anything go right for me today........ So i have stated that i have been out of work since i had a stress fracture in my foot. Anyways, got out of shower today, took a step and..................Crack, Felt and heard a crack in my right foot, the stress fracture foot. Call my wife on the cell phone, she comes home, i am almost in tears because of the pain. She takes me to the local ER. A PA comes in, doesn't do a full H&P just palpates my foot, which almost put me through the ceiling in pain. I tell her i feel nauseous from the pain. I rate it at an 8. She says ok, let me get you something for the nausea and pain. RN comes in with 4mg zofran PO and 5mg Vicodin. I take the zofran but tell the nurse that i cannot take the vicodin as I have been on Buprenorphine since I had my Anterior Lumbar Fusion done. He says ok let me go see what the PA wants to do. Nobody comes back in until the tech takes me to get an XRAY.
I come back to the room and am waiting. .......waiting.......waiting........ I am getting paler from the pain my wife says. Finally i ask her to get the PA, who is sitting at the desk outside my room. I ask her if my foot broke, she says yes, the at the 5th metatarsal. I then ask if i can have something for the pain. She says "i was told you refused the vicodin", I then go into about buprenorphine and how the vicodin won't work. I tell her I am versed in buprenorphine and advise her I would need 100-150 mcg of fentanyl to displace the buprenoorphine and then .5mg-1.0mg of dilaudid for pain relief.
She says " I never give dilaudid for a fracture!" . My eyes almost popped out of my head. I got so mad I told my wife to get me out of here. The PA says well i have to put a splint on your foot. I say to her, which i admit i was 1/2 in pain and the other half in a rage, "if you touch me I will file charges for battery". She stopped in her tracks. My wife at this point got a wheelchair and i hobbled in it. The PA says you can't go until you sign the AMA paper. I begged to differ and had my wife push me to the car and she drove me home.
So now I sit here, typing with my computer on my lap, bottle of advil next to me, and my foot up with ice on it. I cannot put any pressure on my foot and have to wait for my son to bring home crutches from my mothers house.
I just get so frustrated when someone will not listen, apparently discounting my pain, and would not do an appropriate history and physical.
Thanks for listening to me rant.
Bill .............OUT!!!!!
!!!!!!!!! Ohhhhh !!!!!!!!!!! Don't let this stop your concentration. Just think about how exciting your EC experience just got....makes for a very interesting read. My CPNE experience was surrounding by loads of drama: husband filed for divorce the day before it began; grandfather died and I slipped and fell on the ice (required a week's therapy with a chiropractor) the second morning of the exam; and to top it all off, it was Valentines Day weekend, meaning I'd never be able to forget it! But nothing can change what we know. I went battered, bruised, and in physical AND emotional pain. But I came out a winner.
My CPNE experience was surrounding by loads of drama: husband filed for divorce the day before it began; grandfather died and I slipped and fell on the ice (required a week's therapy with a chiropractor) the second morning of the exam; and to top it all off, it was Valentines Day weekend, meaning I'd never be able to forget it! But nothing can change what we know. I went battered, bruised, and in physical AND emotional pain. But I came out a winner.
I remember all that, OMG ... I think the entire EPN was full of righteous indignation on your behalf! And then your one-woman march on Macon — girl, I would NEVER get in your way!!! lol
Okay, now I need to hear this story? What happened in Macon?
It was back when Georgia was starting to implement preceptorships for EC grads, but Ms. BSNbeDONE met the requirements for licensure without a preceptorship. After NCLEX, the BON was dragging its feet in issuing her license, without good reasons, so she went to the BON in Macon and said she was staying until she had her license. And she left with it that day. At least, that's how I remember it!
Specializes in EMT since 92, Paramedic since 97, RN and PHRN 2021.
It was back when Georgia was starting to implement preceptorships for EC grads, but Ms. BSNbeDONE met the requirements for licensure without a preceptorship. After NCLEX, the BON was dragging its feet in issuing her license, without good reasons, so she went to the BON in Macon and said she was staying until she had her license. And she left with it that day. At least, that's how I remember it!
That's awesome! Good for her! Was it an excelsior thing, where the BON didn't want to deal with excelsior grads, or something else?
That's awesome! Good for her! Was it an excelsior thing, where the BON didn't want to deal with excelsior grads, or something else?
Excelsior thing. Currently Georgia requires a preceptorship for EC grads who weren't LPNs or whose LPN education doesn't meet certain criteria, or LPNs who have not been working in acute care.
I am so sorry!!
!!!!!!!!! Ohhhhh 
!!!!!!!!!!! Don't let this stop your concentration. Just think about how exciting your EC experience just got....makes for a very interesting read. My CPNE experience was surrounding by loads of drama: husband filed for divorce the day before it began; grandfather died and I slipped and fell on the ice (required a week's therapy with a chiropractor) the second morning of the exam; and to top it all off, it was Valentines Day weekend, meaning I'd never be able to forget it! But nothing can change what we know. I went battered, bruised, and in physical AND emotional pain. But I came out a winner. 
Ahhhhh yes! Macon! 
Lunah, MSN, RN
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Damn, Bill.
I am so sorry!!