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I just made i 119...pathetic...but i do have 2 ask how many of us are afraid 2 even ask r colleagues 2 do this in case they rat us out to admin? nurses do eat their young n they bite n claw 1 another all too often... there r other boards, u can usua...

unfortunately true; sad tale but it's 2 things. 1st w/o some regs few orgs or even ppl will do the right thing. after all they had to pass a fed law about safe lifting. 2nd is they tend 2 go overboard b/c they know this. but u can go on their site n...

"I sent that email on March 16th and finally got a response back from my rep. Here's what she thinks about safe staffing... 'While I appreciate the goal of H.R. 4138, I think we should first focus on assuring that we have enough nurses to fill all of...

integrity will get u screwed most of the time, but i still practice it...i answer to a higher authority that expects me 2 act that way. don't snow them it isn't right n the PTB will find some way 2 get u if they really want 2.

the docs said i had lupus, then no, RA when the ANA went to nl, then yes, lupus even w/o the positive ANA b/c not every1 has a pos ANA, then no, RA, b/c ANA is neg, then yes, possibly lupus d/t borderline ANA...now finally it's fibro, but i still get...

there is now a federal safe lifting law that hc facilities had to have a committee in place by early 08 and a lifting policy to reduce injuries by 7/08 and it was 2 include things that make the place little or no lifting by hcws. that's not a lot of ...

i've been tested on n off 4 RA n lupus, i get a butterfly rash when i feel really sick but they say it's just fibro...n i can rel8 2 all the other things u have w/ urs, me 2...have had 1 strong n 1 weak ANA rest r negative, sed rate is always pretty ...

i also fought this dx.but i didn't know some consider it a form of RA...do u have n e more information on that? Pls? :thankya: i m thinking that may b why the other poster mentioned some1 she knew of getting remicade, plaquenil, mtx, etc. 4 fibro...

i have a gf very close 2 me who has that n had 1 surgery, facing more. she insists that is what i really have but neuro claims i don't, he's not a surgeon, can u tell me how many n what types of MD u had 2 c b4 u got a firm dx for this? i swear somet...

if working as a cashier hurts u might want 2 get this under more control b4 u try, but i understand. take care in opting 4 this, c 1st what it takes 2 stay on an even keel. doing what ur doing now 4 ur health, tho, i kept working 4 22 yr b4 i had to ...

THX THX THX. i have never attempted suicide but have had days that if it all ended i would not have fought it 1 bit. i can understand why! the pain is awful, it wears u out n things that help w/ pain don't work 4 fibro...u can give me a narc, it will...

i didn't know n e 1 would give u remicade 4 this, i have other autoimmune syndromes n believe this is also autoimmune. nsaids cause me problems i can't take them often, have also not heard of getting plaquenil or methotrexate 4 it, NSRIs, yea, not SS...

Lyrica isn't bad 4 some, u have 2 c if it will help, i know someone it does wonders 4 but she did gain lots of w8, me, i swelled up n at 1st it seemed 2 help i felt a lot better n then i just crashed...same thing happened w/ acupuncture. Like n e thi...

Nice 2 c someone else w/ these same issues! helped me 2 start using nondominant hand more. Try that, u won't be a math genius but it might help w/ no. reversals and such. I have no. inverssion, reversals, tons of coping mechanisms. i figured it out m...

Disable n was working but i m incredibly sick now from what they r doin w/ my sched. I had a job I could mostly manage b4, but it was decided I couldn't b/c they were going 2 change it around n up the ante, n sez they'd put me in 1 I could manage; ma...

I'd like to know anything I can find...getting too sick to continue and hoping they'll let me go on disability v. just termination. These days places only look at what the insurance cost is for a person, and say find some reason to terminate. Not the...

Also, sorry, in the excitement that there may be others fighting the same battle: At Sea, hugs. I understand. Don't have the same problem, but I get it. I wish more did. There are tons of disabled people working out there. Did you find any? It's har...

Can an employer get away with dodging ADA by saying reasonable accommodation for a disability was too burdensome? Would burden of proof still rest on the employee to prove that the company could have made the accommodations without repercussions and ...

Why can't we get rid of the qwerty keyboards on computers and put in Dvoraks? It would be easier for people who can't type worth doodoo. And some of the computer systems for healthcare do require typing. We can put a man on the moon, why can't we hav...

Have had so many in my career I have lost count but this one is funny. Setting is during the late 70's. Doc is humping his office nurse on a routine basis, every chance he gets. Dads in the delivery room is a new phenom - doc's dressing room got c...

Respiratory goo was my absolute worst. But I got used to it, as used to it as it is possible to get. I even hate my own! I had experience w/ colostomies when I was about 13 - my grandma had to have a transverse loop back in the days before karaya -...

:) So cool an idea! We really DO need it here, our pts are so spoiled compared to the NHS pts in GB. Having seen the NHS up close I can see how they get abusive, really, some operations that you can get here in a month or less have a 5 - 10 yr wai...

Folks, I and other military spouses who lived in foreign countries WERE NOT PERMITTED TO BE A NURSE THERE UNLESS COMPLETELY FLUENT IN THAT COUNTRY'S NATIVE LANGUAGE! Caps intentional for emphasis. Literacy tests in the country's language were admini...

Oh, remembered another one. Twins named North and South (middle name). Dad was a twin and he and his sister had East and West already as middle names. First names were normal, thank heavens, but their last name was either Side or Ramp, it was a while...

Tequila Margarita because that's what she was drunk on when she got knocked up and she didn't know who the father was, either. One story I have heard is in a Central American country one was named Usmail after that pretty truck that brought her lette...