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    Happy Mother's Day!

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to OldDude's topic in School

    Happy Mothers Day!!! All you Mothers out there I hope you have a lovely day!!! If you still have a Mom alive love her up. Mine died some years ago and not a day passes that I don't miss
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    Loss of all personal freedom.

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Runnerlives's topic in General Nursing

    Healthcare a right? Is it? Should it be? I think you can argue it is. I work at a VA hospital's ER and we can't turn anybody away regardless of their ability to pay even if they are not a Vet. I'm...
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    Loss of all personal freedom.

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Runnerlives's topic in General Nursing

    Boston, From what I've seen the mental health cases are in the minority. From what I've seen The majority are DUIs, then hot pee tests, then ancient history cases (treatment before becoming a nurse),...
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    Loss of all personal freedom.

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Runnerlives's topic in General Nursing

    YEP!!!!! Your personal freedom shouldn't cost me a dime, give me cancer or even force me to smell your horrendously stinky
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    Finally recieved received more communication

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    At least you get to go home at night. I loathed inpatient and the thing I probably hated the most was that I felt like I was locked up. I'd never do that
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    Pro Life Beliefs and Nursing

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Tuzla99's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't agree more. We are there to treat patients not judge them of their
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    Finally recieved received more communication

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah, You are in ACTUAL recovery not NAZI "recovery". Your recovery involved you recognizing you had a problem then taking the necessary steps to deal with it and its working for you. In monitoring...
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    Loss of all personal freedom.

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Runnerlives's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah it happens. Usually in two forms. First, the nurse has an incident at work and its reported by the employer or a therapist / physician treating the nurse feels compelled to report the treatment...
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    Benefits over passion?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to KJCnango's topic in General Nursing

    I work for the VA. Take the VA job. We get a ton of time off. We get paid more then our colleagues and there are plenty of opportunities to move around within the system to all over the US. I...
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    Loss of all personal freedom.

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Runnerlives's topic in General Nursing

    I can tell you from first-hand experience that the monitoring programs are hideous, expensive and demeaning in everyway possible. I got a DUI on an off-night and was never impaired at work in anyway...
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    Need ideas for safe Insect repellent

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Kel65's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Why thank you Cats. You have made my
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    Robots, automation, and A.I. tech to replace nurses?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to DannyBoy8's topic in General Nursing

    Really???? McDonalds can't even get their automated order system to work. Robot cars are running into each other. In the not too distant past Wall Street suffered a major meltdown because of...
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    Have I proceeded correctly?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Persephone Paige's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Wait, the split came back higher from the same pee test? That's BS. The test is bogus. How does one effectively explain two different EtG levels from the same pee? They didn't confirm anything....
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    Need ideas for safe Insect repellent

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Kel65's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Heck I'd love a beer or ten but then again I make no pretense of being in recovery just in a monitoring program so I will continue my mandated abstinence for the mandated
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    Finally recieved received more communication

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Perse, Unleashing a full-blown OCD Nurse on anything can be a fate worse then death. Perhaps even worse than a greedy lawyer or a scorned woman (painful personal experience talking on this one). I...
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    Finally recieved received more communication

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ha!!!
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    Finally recieved received more communication

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    It's hard to tell if this is some sort of conspiracy (I don't doubt this at all) to punish you more or simple incompetence and callousness. So these folks are either evil or just dumb and uncaring....
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    Any actual success with attorney?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah $5000 is a ton of money. But I've lost many multiples of that amount by being in a monitoring program. I thought these things were here to help nurses so I voluntarily self-reported without...
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    I finished...again!

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to carrimarie1010's topic in Nurses Recovery

    YAY!!!
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    Loss of all personal freedom.

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Runnerlives's topic in General Nursing

    Once again this isn't an argument about personal liberties. Nobody is stopping the OP from smoking. Its a personal choice. Its about economics. In fact the OP makes an odd derision of liberals in...
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    Loss of all personal freedom.

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Runnerlives's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a proud Veteran and nurse also. I'm also a long-time smoker who is quitting (vaping now). Anyway, you still have the right of personal choice. You can smoke all you want. It's a free country....
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    Finally recieved received more communication

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Nurse Girlie: First let me say I'm so sorry for all the problems you are facing. At the very least you should have been given the opportunity to complete the non-disciplinary program and given the...
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    3 Misdemeanors

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to indianastudent's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Yeah I hate to say it but you are probably going to be referred to a nurse monitoring program. This is problematic always but probably worse on a new nurse. The whole conviction thing may not...
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    NEW GRADS

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to ICCURN7's topic in First Year After Licensure

    New Grads are New Grads. They know what they have been taught and are pretty generic. I think all this stuff (and more) should be gone over in orientation in a practical hands-on
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    Compensation fair or not?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to feelix's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I guess you have to decide if it would be worth it to you. It wouldn't to me as that's like a couple days OT on the weekend. I'd do the Nancy Reagan and just say