sissiesmama ASN, RN

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    Any advice/info on Louisiana 30-day residential treatment programs??

    sissiesmama replied to puppylove504's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Hey - just wanted to check back with you, and see how things were going. PM if u need to. Anne,
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    Any advice/info on Louisiana 30-day residential treatment programs??

    sissiesmama replied to puppylove504's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Hey! Glad to have u on the recovery forums. I am an RN in Louisiana and been in recovery since 1999. I was SO overwhelmed when I was caught diverting at work. I had no idea what to do, when or how....
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    If us nurses could invent something, what would we choose?

    sissiesmama replied to nursn4u11's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Some type of collar they all wear and admin. a "little" jolt every time they say something stupid or treat a nurse like a ***. Anne,
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    Best thing you saw come in on New Year's Eve

    sissiesmama replied to mybrowneyedgirl's topic in Emergency

    Not working now due to health issues, but hopefully the last NYE would count. A guy in his 30s who our EMS brought in. post truck vs ped. He had a syncopal episode in the bus, but came alive again...
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    Dilemma about reporting some no-no's

    sissiesmama replied to DogWmn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No doubt!! It can come back and bite you, even if you have someone's best interests at heart. Leslie, u are right - there is a vast diffeence between the "ideal" or textbook world and the "real"...
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    Dilemma about reporting some no-no's

    sissiesmama replied to DogWmn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think that's three of us!
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    Dilemma about reporting some no-no's

    sissiesmama replied to DogWmn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sue! I love it!! I think she's busy playing the Virgin Mary role -
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    Dilemma about reporting some no-no's

    sissiesmama replied to DogWmn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ???? Anne,
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    Failed pre-employment drug screen

    sissiesmama replied to OlderRNinGA's topic in General Nursing

    :yeah:
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    Failed pre-employment drug screen

    sissiesmama replied to OlderRNinGA's topic in General Nursing

    Hey - please don't make this your last post. I have been in the situation before,where I have taken someone else's med. I was with some of my in laws for the holidays one year, and did try to be...
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    Failed pre-employment drug screen

    sissiesmama replied to OlderRNinGA's topic in General Nursing

    I'm with u guys. There are circumstances - not everyday but there are circumstances where I would do the same thing,and have done the same kind of thing before,with an injured family member and an ER...
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    Failed pre-employment drug screen

    sissiesmama replied to OlderRNinGA's topic in General Nursing

    I agree,
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    Nurse charting stuff she did not do.

    sissiesmama replied to Peetz's topic in General Nursing

    And when it's NH or something, it gets a lot stickier with the Medicaid fraud, doesn't it? Been so long since I've tried to remember any of that.
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    Nurse charting stuff she did not do.

    sissiesmama replied to Peetz's topic in General Nursing

    I've worked with two nurses that I became aware of doing this. Both from same facility. Both were terminated, and the PCP of one of the patients filed a formal complaint with state boards and they...
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    swabbing off iv ports or saline locks before hooking up fluids

    sissiesmama replied to tjnurse67's topic in General Nursing

    :lol2: Anne,
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    write-up for insubordination because I turned my back to cry...

    sissiesmama replied to farmernurse26's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Cool, Bortaz! I didn't know u were on fb! Send me a friend add! Anne,
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    same thing all over again?

    sissiesmama replied to faithnow's topic in Nurses Recovery

    WOW! Co workers did that to u?? Sound like a few I've worked with in the past. Anne,
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    swabbing off iv ports or saline locks before hooking up fluids

    sissiesmama replied to tjnurse67's topic in General Nursing

    Hey to u!! Great minds think alike! I was wondering what u've been up to also. Hope ur T giving was great! Anne,
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    swabbing off iv ports or saline locks before hooking up fluids

    sissiesmama replied to tjnurse67's topic in General Nursing

    Bahaha!
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    swabbing off iv ports or saline locks before hooking up fluids

    sissiesmama replied to tjnurse67's topic in General Nursing

    Yup! Anne,
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    swabbing off iv ports or saline locks before hooking up fluids

    sissiesmama replied to tjnurse67's topic in General Nursing

    Well, u can put a tux on a turd but it's still a turd. (Please don't flame me, OP). Sometimes on a forum such a ours, comments are taken one way when the poster meant it in a totally different way....
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    syringe to collect specimen from foley?

    sissiesmama replied to nursing81student's topic in General Nursing

    The only times I have seen UAs collected from the bag is when we're placing the cath and collect the urine at that time. Anne,
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    Any Nurses recieving SSD/SSI

    sissiesmama replied to Poochee's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I wish that had been the case with me. We live in Louisiana - I filled out my applications online and hand delivered to the local office. I had an appointment with a case worker there, and they gave...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    sissiesmama replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Amen!!!!! :yeah:
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    sissiesmama replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    To the family member at bedside that watches me and is SO sugary sweet while I'm in the room, and talks about how wonderful I am, ect then before I can even get the door closed, she changes her tune...