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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    Persephone Paige replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    Why didn't some alarm go off? The pixis said 'override,' didn't she have to scan the patient arm band? Wouldn't the computer send her the message that she's about to give a med that isn't ordered for...
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    How to properly dilute morphine?

    Persephone Paige replied to Almostanurse19's topic in Patient Medications

    Well, I haven't given Morphine in a very long time. And if we diluted it, I don't remember it. We just drew it up and wasted the mgs that we didn't use. But, if I were to dilute it, I sure wouldn't...
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    Pain medicine to drug addict?

    Persephone Paige replied to MrBlueSky's topic in Patient Medications

    This is my floor. We do have a few patients who use their pain medications sparingly, but most are Endocarditis, Sepsis due to abscess, etc... If they have medications ordered by their physician, it's...
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    How to properly dilute morphine?

    Persephone Paige replied to Almostanurse19's topic in Patient Medications

    The math doesn't make sense to me
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    I need some help

    Persephone Paige replied to Flossy73's topic in General Nursing

    Ask her what it is about you that makes her feel she can't talk to you and work on it. It can't
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    Tennessee Nurse RaDonda Vaught - Legal Perspectives of Fatal Medication Error

    Persephone Paige replied to Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD's topic in General Nursing

    I have never worked the high stress units the way that others here have. From a plain, old basic nurse's perspective: as soon as I see that 'override' message on my Omni-Cell, it stops me in my...
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    Colorado PAS

    Persephone Paige replied to kris10stew's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Just out of curiosity, I tried to look it up on the internet but found nothing. Your board recommendations sound very similar to the way Florida operates. I got a 2 year license suspension and 5...
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    How to find addiction psychiatrist for board eval???

    Persephone Paige replied to ksuSN12's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I will be looking forward to your posts and
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    False positive/postive confirmed??

    Persephone Paige replied to Clenurse24's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Seems like they could find a way to weed out false positives via medication. I don't like IPN, but the times that I've been sick, they did refrain from calling me to test until I had completed the...
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    How to find addiction psychiatrist for board eval???

    Persephone Paige replied to ksuSN12's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The longer you do this the more you realize that the only recourse you have is to successfully complete and get out. As long as you are on their radar, you are subject to their whims. I will add that...
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    How to find addiction psychiatrist for board eval???

    Persephone Paige replied to ksuSN12's topic in Nurses Recovery

    When/If you do find a provider, be sure to call the board and see if they are in fact an approved psych/addiction specialist by the board. I threw money out the window when one who was local told me...
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    How to find addiction psychiatrist for board eval???

    Persephone Paige replied to ksuSN12's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Here in Florida they gave me three options. They selected the providers and I could choose. One was really close, but had no availability. One was two hours away, one was four hours away. I took the...
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    Older nurses...chasing that carrot

    Persephone Paige replied to guest974915's topic in General Nursing

    I worked for 15 years in a moderate pay, but decent retirement job. I'm vested somewhere. Then, life fell apart and I with it. Now, I'm where I should've been at age 21, without youth on my side. It's...
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    Med-Surg Negativity

    Persephone Paige replied to jthoma43's topic in Nursing Career

    I'm on the worst med-surg floor imaginable. Let me explain: it's not the 'worst' because it's med-surg. The patients are all just really sick. The work is just as fascinating here as it is anywhere...
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    Honesty on resume, now no job.

    Persephone Paige replied to gumbi_12's topic in Nursing Career

    It's happening to me now, at age 50. I can do the work, my brain has always been very pliable. It's my body that's screaming at me. God, what I wouldn't give for part-time. It's always easier to find...
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    License with a criminal record?

    Persephone Paige replied to remotefuse's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    My friend did not have trouble with her pre-nursing Marijuana charges. She was able to get the jobs she wanted with no problem. I know nurses who had trouble once they were already nurses with just a...
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    Success Story— providing hope!

    Persephone Paige replied to ILRN13's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Congratulations to you, you have overcome step one. Get your arrests expunged... Step two is becoming employed, do all you can to clean up your record before job
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    If you could speak your mind...

    Persephone Paige replied to GSDlvrRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Patient with spectrum disorder screaming to the top of his lungs, all day and all night. He can't help it, but other sick patients have ZERO tolerance. I get it, but still, "what should we do, kill...
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    I am convinced...

    Persephone Paige replied to Persephone Paige's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Thank you,
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    I am convinced...

    Persephone Paige posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    that if George Washington had possessed a nursing license, I would have felt no shame asking him to pass my narcs. When I was interviewing for the job I currently hold, I was told it would be no big...
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    Nursing Board information

    Persephone Paige replied to chadprepton's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Everyone is wired differently. All of my sins are known, I try and use where I've been to help others. All of somebody else's sins might not be known and they may not feel safe disclosing certain...
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    What should I do?

    Persephone Paige replied to Thorn94's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    I had a charge that was drug related. No grand theft from an institution, or anything like that. Just a drug charge that was dropped after I completed drug-court and now it's expunged. The board will...
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    Would you be insulted?

    Persephone Paige replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in General Nursing

    ***! I'd be celebrating. I do not like to talk when I'm working, I don't like to talk period. Having to teach someone while trying to work would be the worst torture imaginable. I had a student last...
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    License investigation - over 3 yrs

    Persephone Paige replied to mississippiRN71's topic in Nurses Recovery

    In my experience this is not normal, six months to 18 mos, maybe. Most people I know heard back within the year. Have you called to follow up? I would start calling
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    is changing job for happiness right?

    Persephone Paige replied to Michnurse1's topic in General Nursing

    ^ This... I just returned to the beside after a 20+ years absence. And, very little beside experience before I left the bedside 20+ years ago. It's a mindset. If you want to, you can return someday....