Happygolucky47

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  1. Nurse accuses patient of drug addiction!

    Apparantly, I need to clarify, I reread my post, and you are correct, things didn't sound right to me after I reread it, in the PACU, it is a different world than working the floor, THE patient is coming up from anesthesia, they are disoriented, the...
  2. Nurse accuses patient of drug addiction!

    I also use the vitals as a way to judge pain, as well as facial getures and posture, I BELIEVE that the chronic painers have REAL pain and i know from experience that it is HARD to get them relief, because of the amount of meds they are on, and while...
  3. Nurse accuses patient of drug addiction!

    I'm Not sure HOW you think I lied to my patient, or what was illegal, I medicated him with as much as the physician ordered, it would have been ILLEGAL had I given him more than what was ordered, ANd since he had THREE fentanyl patches on I doubt th...
  4. The Operating Room

    I Loved working in the OR, almost as much as the PACU
  5. Nurses with Fibromyalgia

    I too was diagnosed with fibro, and I tell ya being a nurse I HATED that diagnosis, because I feel that it is a "catch all" for "we don't know what it is," the main thing was I have RLS as well, and it was keeping me up all nite an making me miserabl...
  6. Nurse accuses patient of drug addiction!

    Well I have to say That when a patient asks for a specific drug (ie dilaudid is the only thing that will work) it does send up a red flag for me, however I have never outwardly accused a patient of drug seeking, I think the worse are the chronic pain...