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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 treatment/non-treatment of pain. Our society has been bo...

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 predjudiced as they may be. The older I get and th...

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, unless she is obviously working impaired, I think I wo...

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, it's hard to see and accept that this may be a par...

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 experienced and older nurses would complain that "so...

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 I've ever seen. The shape alone should have a been c...

CrunchRN, I agree with you. I think that the original poster has "it in" for the student who took the drugs without consideration that the students who gave them to her are equally, if not more so, guilty of drug dealing. I understand pain, but com...

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

i don't see this situation turning out any good for anyone, including yourself, kabin. you've got two students in your class who admitted to you that they diverted their left-over oxycontin pills to another student who now, you all believe is exhibi...

I don't think I would do anything. All of it could be hearsay, and none of it the truth, but then again, it could be true. Who really knows for sure? I wouldn't want to be the one who ended up passing on false information about someone and possibly e...

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 asked him what he preferred that I say, and he said to...

Our school forbid the use of tape recorders once we began our nursing classes, however we were allowed to use them during our prereq classes. We were not even allowed to tape the lectures. Why? I don't know. It didn't make sense to me since no ...

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, for one, automatically restores a felon's voting r...

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" of the criminal offense. I'm guessing your felon...

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 lb bags of feed, swim almost everyday, and I can ...

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 unable to do their own hygiene care. I want my pati...

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 and I know how uncomfortable this can be. I don't t...

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 so because he had just gotten out of jail from almo...

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 for that matter) grow up watching their mothers be b...

I managed a credit reporting and collection agency for 15 years. Bankruptcy reports on your file for 10 years from the date of discharge and is expunged automatically. Credit information is reported electronically from your creditors and most files...

My first child was born 2 weeks after her due date at 8lbs, 10oz-doc never mentioned induction and just let nature take it's course. My second was born exactly on his due date at 10lbs, 7oz. No problems with either of them. Both my doctors believe...

Accepted and began studies for ADN (after finishing with my pre-reqs) at age 50 and graduated last month after turning 51. I originally graduated from college in the 70's, but because it was so long ago, I had to retake all my pre-reqs.