scarta105

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1. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

   scarta105 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

   I find it extremely sad that patients, along with their families and some healthcare workers, must resort to forming organizations in order to educate and bring attention to the crisis of under...

2. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

   scarta105 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

   To deny pain relief to a suffering human being flies in the face of everything I thought a nurse should be. But nurses are human too and we all come with our own set of rigid beliefs, as flawed and...

3. Alcohol breath nurse........

   scarta105 replied to Sailingshoes's topic in General Nursing

   A heavy drinker will reek of stale alcohol. It won't just be their breath, but their whole body. Does he or she act impaired? Do you know for a fact that she drinks? If I were in your shoes,...

4. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

   scarta105 replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

   Wow. If this isn't a very true example of how God works in our lives, answers prayer, and has a plan for our lives, I don't know what is. I know that during a time of extreme stress and heartache,...

5. Very Important Pain News

   scarta105 replied to rn_imw's topic in Pain Management

   Bravo to you for being a voice for those patients who suffer with chronic pain. Our society has lived too long with the impression that "suffering is good for the soul." During my clinicals, many...

6. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

   scarta105 replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

   I hope this question doesn't upset anyone...not ment to, anyway, but how can a person confuse an ambien with a bp pill? Ambien is a tiny, thin, oblong tablet that doesn't look like any other pill...

7. Substance Abuse Nursing

   scarta105 replied to Now or Never's topic in General Nursing

   How would one get on with the Betty Ford Center? Could you imagine working there? I think that this would be my dream

8. Getting a verbal for being too happy.

   scarta105 replied to st4wb3rr33sh0rtc4k3's topic in Nursing Career

   I was once (back in the late 70's) given a verbal warning for saying "Okay." My boss at the time said that this word was non-existent and it should never be used (I'm from the south, "yall"). I...

9. Lost Job because of background!!

   scarta105 replied to SeanyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Multicollinarity- What state does your cousins live in? There are a few states that continue to disinfranchise ex-felons for life, but there are also many who will reinstate their rights. Georgia,...

10. Lost Job because of background!!

    scarta105 replied to SeanyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Question: Did they rescind the contract because of the felony or was it because you checked "no" on your application? My guess is because you checked "no." Adjudication basically means the "outcome"...

11. too old to be a nurse....

    scarta105 replied to nwb's topic in International Nursing

    Age is just a state of mind. I was 51, and the oldest person in my class, when I graduated from nursing school last December, but I am extremely active...I ride horses like a seasoned cowgirl, lug 50...

12. Pubic hair

    scarta105 replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

    BRAVO! I couldn't have said it any better! Not only can it make the patient more comfortable, but it can also make cleaning their bottoms quicker and easier, especially if they are incontinent and...

13. Pubic hair

    scarta105 replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

    I wouldn't have a problem doing it for a patient if that is what made them more comfortable. The OP said that the patient wanted it done because the hair became tangled in her underware and pulled...

14. Domestic Violence Survivor.

    scarta105 replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

    Nadja- you have good advice, if only my sister in law had done what she knew she should've done, and that was to leave. Leave everything and don't go back. When her abuser moved back to NJ, he did...

15. Domestic Violence Survivor.

    scarta105 replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

    In my limited experience of dealing with people who are in or were in situations in which they were being abused, were also from families in which violence was an everyday occurance. Women (or men...