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  1. This is "how" Nurses divert drugs for their own use.

    WriteStuff posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is the "how" Nurses divert drugs for their own use. The extent to which this goes on depends on availability. In the hospital setting, Nurses who are in advanced stages of addiction pick...

  2. "Red Flags" of Drug Diversion

    WriteStuff posted a topic in General Nursing

    Listmates, My post is intended as a way of "helping" us in our work settings to possibly identify a peer or colleague who might be actively diverting drugs. None of us wants to "rush to judgement" on...

  3. Need to interview active or retired charge nurse/nurse manager for a paper

    WriteStuff replied to EarthChild1130's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Hello EarthChild, I've been a member of allnurses.com but haven't posted in a long time for "long" reasons I won't go into......but I'm back and saw your post. All you are doing is seeking to...

  4. reinstated license after suspension

    WriteStuff replied to bclily's topic in General Nursing

    To bclily: If you successfully completed a Diversion Program through your Board of Nursing, including a probation period, your records are then "expunged" = destroyed as if nothing had ever...

  5. Caregiver killing caregiver

    WriteStuff posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm posting this thread without knowing whether it has been posted already or not, in some other version or by some other title, but here goes anyway. (And at the outset, if the Moderators feel it's...

  6. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff posted a topic in General Nursing

    :balloons: :Melody: :balloons: :Melody: :balloons: :Melody: After 34 years in nursing I've witnessed lots of "miraculous" outcomes. There's one in particular that has stood out, and...

  7. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    No miracle story is ever "too long" CCURN! Thanks for sharing that - it brought tears to my eyes too - tears of joy and

  8. Caregiver killing caregiver

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    I have always said this about the "caregiver killers" - "What you see on the job (their attitudes, their personalities) - is exactly who and what they are, outside of the job." You cannot change...

  9. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    I just love to read these anecdotal accounts. I simply believe there are "miracles" happening around us all the time and we miss them because we're so distracted by the business of life. So, it's...

  10. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    Well John - take my advice - start keeping a journal NOW. I look back and wish I had done that for my entire career because the most rewarding moments come by "surprise" and SHOULD be memorialized...

  11. Nurse doing cocaine HELP

    WriteStuff replied to llgrn1987's topic in General Nursing

    Thank-you Miranda. I just want to add that NO ONE is "immune" from the seduction of addiction. Given the right ingredients, i.e., timing, availability and accessibility, mental, emotional,...

  12. Nurse doing cocaine HELP

    WriteStuff replied to llgrn1987's topic in General Nursing

    I read all 8 pages of posts on this topic. My name is Bonnie. I'm a recovering, alcoholic, addict who will celebrate 10 years of continuous sobriety this August 8th, God willing. I am a...

  13. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, TriageRn 34, I can totally relate. I am also convinced that the way in which our lives unfold has everything to do with "design" and "forethought" by a Higher Power - rather than chaotic...

  14. What's Your "Miracle" Story?

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Stitchie, Unfortunately we did not stay in touch, but I got to meet "Elijah" one time, and it was another "basket-case" moment for me, LOL. I moved from Phoenix not long after

  15. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    WriteStuff replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Glad you saw the humor in it. Metal bedpans and bedside commodes with a Spring-loaded platform went out of "fashion" right after that.

  16. MedError/Dismissal...What2Do

    WriteStuff replied to brotherbear's topic in General Nursing

    Hi 50cal, Every Nurse has made med errors - some of them serious. We are human. If a Nurse ever tells you she has "never, ever, made a med error", she/he is lying. Whether you are a student...

  17. Sad and confused

    WriteStuff replied to javanurse2000's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    nursewendy.....I don't know how old you are, how much experience you've had in nursing so far, but I'll be 61 next month (God willing!), am a Registered Nurse, and have 34 years of experience under my...

  18. Nursing without license

    WriteStuff replied to jansop's topic in General Nursing

    I see that the orginal poster is a "registered user" and does not identify as a licensed health professional. That being the case, the poster may very well not know that licensure is required. My...

  19. Nursing without license

    WriteStuff replied to jansop's topic in General Nursing

    Now I'm curious why the question was posed in the first place, go figure. Isn't the answer fairly obvious? It would be in complete violation of the Nurse Practice Act in every state and...

  20. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    WriteStuff replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Fortunately Adam, he was NOT "bobbitted" that day, not even seriously injured, thank God for that! And you know...not only my story, but others of our stories we're sharing were not all that "funny"...

  21. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    WriteStuff replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was in my last year of Nursing School. We were doing our geriatric rotation in a small community hospital. My patient that day was a 91 year old gentleman who had all of his "faculties" intact, -...

  22. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    WriteStuff replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    The long and the short of it is: the "dreamkillers" made me do it! :angryfire We're talking the early 60's here, right out of high school of course. I grew up in a family where you NEVER dared...

  23. Update - Nurse in Recovery

    WriteStuff posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just read through all of the messages posted relating to drug addiction and the most recent thread. After eight years of being clean and sober and still practicing in my profession after having...

  24. This is "how" Nurses divert drugs for their own use.

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    All of you, too numerous to name individually have given such excellent input, insight, feedback on this ugly subject. And I couldn't agree more.......one that we don't even want to discuss....

  25. This is "how" Nurses divert drugs for their own use.

    WriteStuff replied to WriteStuff's topic in General Nursing

    All of the responses are insightful, heartfelt, and appreciated. Thanks to each of you for your own open-ness in sharing your experiences as well. To "mamabear"......CONGRATULATIONS to...