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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 work settings where availability is certain, frequen...

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 such a critical issue as this. To accuse or even...

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 complete an assignment. We have no knowledge of the "do's...

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 happened. When you apply for a job in the future you are ...

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 inappropriate I respect that and will abide by the...

: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 remains vivid to this day. I'm defining a "miracle" as...

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

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 someone's personality for sure - but we DO need to ...

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 the obvious ones like this that grab our attention. ...

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 in writing - and it makes all the tears you will sh...

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, psychological, and spiritual vulnerability, -ANYONE can s...

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 Registered Nurse with 34 years of experience. I am resp...

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 randomization, which would be meaningless. Thanks for ...

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 that.

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

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 nurse or a seasoned nurse with 50 years under your b...

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 stethescope. Twenty-eight years in acute care, a...

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 apologies to the poster for my oversight there. ...

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 prosecutable. Every Nurse who meets the standards for lic...

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" at the time. I think the comic relief is in the fac...

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, - mental and physical alike. He was to be discharge...

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 "question" the wisdom and counsel of dear old dad. ...

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 participated in intensive rehab and the Diversion...

Hi fawnsternurse, I read your post and am jumping in here as a member of the "sisterhood" of Nursing for the past 32 years and with a broadbase of experience in Nursing.........primarily acute care. I don't know anything about you, how old you are, e...

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. Just a few comments to add in response to it all: ...