katies

katies specializes in Cardiac.

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1. Nurse Arrested For DUI, Sober But Exhausted After 12 hr COVID Shift

   katies replied to Julie's topic in Headlines

   And I will NEVER take a field test again... In medicine if someone came in and said I have cough and chest pain and the doctor decided to diagnosis them with Pneumonia... and it turned out they had a PE... that would be actionable... not with the pol...

2. Nurse Arrested For DUI, Sober But Exhausted After 12 hr COVID Shift

   katies replied to Julie's topic in Headlines

   And field sobriety have a high margin of error.. Both people with ADD and healthcare can be mistaken for being impaired.. You add the two together and bad things can happen. I learned from this police are not as well trained as you might think.. the...

3. Nurse Arrested For DUI, Sober But Exhausted After 12 hr COVID Shift

   katies replied to Julie's topic in Headlines

   ADD is not uncommon among nurses in my experience. We're not 9-5 people. We like to be up and moving... we tend not to like administrative work. Being able to shift attention frequently can actually be a benefit in nursing. And while I know there...

4. Nurse Arrested For DUI, Sober But Exhausted After 12 hr COVID Shift

   katies replied to Julie's topic in Headlines

   Thank you I agree and I would have waited to drive a bit had they let me go. But the shaking was police induced. They took my son from the scene forcefully, IMO, and without my consent. And I realized if I don't pass this test, I might not take him...

5. Nurse Arrested For DUI, Sober But Exhausted After 12 hr COVID Shift

   katies replied to Julie's topic in Headlines

   So I must defend myself. The tired was referring to why I thought the daycare worker may have described me as "off." The reason I was shaking had nothing to do with exhaustion, it had to do with the police taking my son away, you was clearly scared...