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  1. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    As a nurse and a chronic pain sufferer, this topic is very interesting to me. Ladies and Gentlemen, the way that we treat chronic pain patients is unforgiveable. I have been made to feel like a felon for going to the ER for pain relief, asking my d...
  2. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    If rose petals appearing from nowhere isn't creepy, I don't know what is!
  3. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    I hope the man in white comes to get me!
  4. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    Now THAT"S eerie!
  5. Okay, that's it. Now I'm gagging...
  6. Coaching my daughter in childbirth

    I've never had a child, so obviously I will never help my child give birth. Oh, but how blessed you are! To have had a child and then help deliver her baby! What an awesome experience! Congratulatons!
  7. And that is why I left nursing...
  8. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    You're exactly right. It would be much better if a drug addict could tell the truth. However, there's such a stigma towards drug abuse that I don't see that happening anytime in the near future. Obviously, the war on drugs is a complete failure. ...
  9. Becoming a nurse again?!

    Thank you!
  10. I read 10 pages of this thread and then couldn't resist adding my 2 cents worth. If I repeat what someone else has already posted, forgive me. I, too, am a chronic pain sufferer who hasn't worked as an RN in years. When I was nursing, before I starte...
  11. Use of Inhaler

    Preschool thru 6th. When they are really young, they can come to the office if they need assistance. 99 percent of the time the parents tell us that the child knows how to use it and when. The parents still have to fill out a medication form to k...
  12. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    Templedoll, thanks for the kind words.
  13. recent colonoscopy experience

    How could I not report it? I didn't want anyone else to go through what I did! I'm not one to hold a grudge, but to this day I would love for those nurses to look me in the eye and tell me why they didn't stop that doctor...
  14. recent colonoscopy experience

    I've had 2 colonscopies. The first one was a piece of cake. I went to a very experienced doc. They started sedating me before he came in the room Once he began inserting the scope I moaned, he said something and that's all I remember until I woke up ...
  15. Use of Inhaler

    In my school, the kids are allowed to keep the inhalers with them at all times.