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    Terrified again

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to nurse_girlie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You did accomplish something!!! This is a giant roadblock that you have to work through but you can!!!! The blackest & bleakest days of this program is when you are facing the uncertainty of...
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    Clinging To Hope

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Persephone Paige's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yay Recovering
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    Behavioral Interviews Explained: Tips and Tricks

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah sounds like dumb-games management types play. No wonder they often hire such horribly, unskilled
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    Completely at my wits end on how to start my nursing education

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to sanb26's topic in Nursing Career

    Yeah $30K to be an LVN is insane. Don't do it!!! Lots of us had jobs while working on our RN. That for-profit LVN program sounds like a complete
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    Interested in Fitness nursing?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to PrettyNerd's topic in Nursing Career

    never heard of it
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    Garbage Report

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to chacha82's topic in General Nursing

    The worst report I've ever received was when I was a floor nurse and we had a nurse who would simply talk for as long as you let her. Usually it would have little to do with the patient. I put her...
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    So now I have to accept being screamed at by Admin because I am "less than"..

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to StillRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I am sorry this happened to you. Yet another babbling, idiot nurse. It's amazing how they always seen to find the one nurse who can't or won't fight back and dump crap on them. I get minimal BS...
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    Clinging To Hope

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Persephone Paige's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Its hard not to get discouraged in these programs. Honestly sometimes its hard to see your way out of the despair and wreckage caused not only by our choices but the punitive nature of the programs....
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    Positive Drug Test TNPAP

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Bevel_Up's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah the false positive. I like to say that I'm careful about what I eat or drink. I certainly wouldn't ingest anything that had ETOH or some other banned substance on the label. However, I have no...
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    Can nurses live a luxurious life?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Aa1Bb2Cc3's topic in General Nursing

    Yes it
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    Isolating, Obsessing, Life on hold

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Recovering_RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Cats, Cow-Pies have usefulness. They help you grow stuff & I'm pretty sure they sell the stuff at home depot. These programs have no use. My attempt at just shutting up at my nurse support...
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    Inappropriate Conversations in the Workplace

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    The people I work with are in no way my second family or even my friends. They are just the people I work
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    Isolating, Obsessing, Life on hold

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Recovering_RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ha!!! Recovering I feel ya!!! Totally!!! No a day goes by when I don't plan my next drink which will be as soon as I have a written piece of paper in my hand saying I'm done with this little trip to...
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    ISNAP DRUG TESTS

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Red<nurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah I'm pretty much the same way recovering. I just want the test done so I do it first
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    HPRP unfairly being treated

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Wolfpuppy31's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yeah the years-long monitoring program is stupid. The whole mark for life thing is
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    Isolating, Obsessing, Life on hold

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Recovering_RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    There is nothing to do Tiff but get through these three years. I wish I could say something positive about the BS but I simply cannot. For me counting down the milestones have helped. First I got...
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    Types of questions...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Randomnurse3's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm gonna try cats!!! Are these things actually supposed to be therapy sessions? I know I've never got any level of "support" there. Its just a requirement to be completed to get through this
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    Types of questions...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Randomnurse3's topic in Nurses Recovery

    gotcha!!!! I have to go to my nurse support group meeting tonight and am going to try not to speak if at all possible. At the last one some nurse was going on and on about some personal issues and...
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    New RN needing prioritization advice

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to zombie nurse's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    First, take a deep breath. Welcome to Nursing!!! Your first job reminds me of mine. I worked on a very busy surgical step down / high observation unit filled with all sorts of patients from fresh...
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    Inappropriate Conversations in the Workplace

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    YEP!!! Those are two hot button issues in our ER. First, the cop thing. Some ER nurses feel the need to bow down in front of the Police no matter how stupid their request / attempted orders are....
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    Cautious ask: If you hated being a RN, would you enjoy NP?

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Yeah, I don't think being an NP really has many similarities to bedside nursing. I'm an ER nurse and have been one for a long time. I'm getting ready to graduate from my NP program. I don't believe...
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    DNP Required???

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to makana16's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I'm going through a DNP program for my NP studies. The reason I choose the DNP program was the extra clinical hours and course work pertinent to the actual day to day work of being an NP. However,...
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    Types of questions...

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Randomnurse3's topic in Nurses Recovery

    whats a cadeusis
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    And you think it can't get worse

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to Eris Discordia BSN, RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Only after its been through my intestinal track it usually takes about a
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    Entering inpatient rehab today...good vibes please

    SpankedInPittsburgh replied to DistressedRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    You have my thoughts and support. I loathed inpatient and certainly hope you will have a better experience. However, even if it stinks this too shall pass. I wish you the very best of