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  1. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    krisssy replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    Hi Karen, It has been such a pleasure to chat with you and learn from your posts. Thanks again. Krisssy RN

  2. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    krisssy replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    It is our job to question an order if twice the normal amt. of medication is prescribed. It is NOT our job to judge a patient's pain. Your license is on the line if you leave a patient untreated, no...

  3. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    krisssy replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    There are many reasons why a person with chronic pain, who attends a pain clinic, may end up in an ED. Sometimes pain centers are closed or the doctors cannot be reached fast enough or the patient...

  4. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    krisssy replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    Thanks again Karen for your wise words. I grew up with a mother suffering her entire adult life from a disease process called Somatization. She was always having pain in some part of her body, but...

  5. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    krisssy replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    Karen George I really support,with great humility and respect, everything you say. I couldn't begin to express it as beautifully as you did. When a patient is in pain, we as nurses need to use our...

  6. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    krisssy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I, too, suffer from an anxiety disorder. I may start hyperventilating in a stressful situation where I become fearful. I don't know how your anxiety manifested itself in the testing situation, but I...

  7. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    krisssy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I had the same experience. I suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I was taking a refresher course in a university hospital in my area. My preceptor told me to go into each patient and...

  8. Nurses struggling with mental illness

    krisssy replied to Severina's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I have a NY license. When I applied for a Florida license they asked about any history of mental illness or drug dependency within the last 5 years.

  9. Chemical Dependency Nursing

    krisssy posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I was wondering if there are any chemical dependency nurses out there who could give me information. I would like to do this kind of nursing. I have a BSN with experience in school nursing. Are...

  10. For Those That Have Left Nursing

    krisssy replied to mammaoftwo's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated with a BSN in 1969. I worked as a school nurse teacher for two years. When they disbanded the school nurse teacher program in favor of a school nurse program, the pay went way down. I...

  11. Lessons learned: The Day I "Sat"

    krisssy replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Psychiatric

    I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article. I could have used this when I went through my divorce. Even though five years have passed and I am happily remarried, this article still helped me. Thank...

  12. Schooling to become an ER RN

    krisssy replied to spanky999's topic in Emergency

    I would highly suggest taking biology, chemistry, physics and a lot of math in high school. I wasn't properly prepared for nursing school, and I found the science courses very hard. I did get my BSN,...

  13. chemical dependency/addictions nursing

    krisssy replied to nursejllrn's topic in Psychiatric

    I am chemically dependent and in recovery. The rehab that I went to had many nurses in recovery. In fact most of the staff were in recovery or were a family member of a chemically dependent person....

  14. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    krisssy replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    working on peds 4-12 with not one parent around! I don't work peds anymore , but I hear the parents stay 24/7, which I believe is good for the

  15. feeling like there's a lump in my troat

    krisssy replied to rica75's topic in General Nursing

    My father uaws to say, you have an eye (or nose or cough) and it is different than everyone else's. The moral of the story is to go to the doctor, and if you don't get better, go to another one....

  16. feeling like there's a lump in my troat

    krisssy replied to rica75's topic in General Nursing

    I had this exact thing about 25 years ago. Doctors found nothing wrong physically. I noticed one day that I had a social drink, became relaxed and it was gone. Well , it is 25 years later, and I...

  17. RNs- Mostly first born? Alcoholic fathers?

    krisssy replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Dad alcoholic and real loving-mother absolutely crazy and never drank

  18. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    krisssy replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    That's the website I got it from. They also send another hard covered book for free called The Forty Seven Hundred. It is about the first 4700 nurses graduating from the Mount Sinai School of...

  19. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    krisssy replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    I thought I was an older nurse (59) until I read The Sinai Nurse (1852-2000). I couldn't believe what nursing was like in the 1800's. Leeches used to stop bleeds, third year diploma school nurses...

  20. Nursing Education History Sites

    krisssy replied to GoddessRaine's topic in General Nursing

    If you go to Amazon .com, you can get the books for practically nothing as used books. Also, I would check the library as was already suggested. The books weren't recently written and should be in...

  21. Nursing Education History Sites

    krisssy replied to GoddessRaine's topic in General Nursing

    I just read two books about the history of nursing that were fantastic. I sent away for one book on the website, and they sent me two books. (hardcovered) Look under The Sinai Nurse to get to the...

  22. Any past teachers here?

    krisssy replied to Mama2girls's topic in General Nursing

    Hi there, I am a teacher and a nurse. First I was a nurse, then a teacher, and now going back to nursing again. I love both jobs, because I love to care for people and get joy out of seeing sick...

  23. What is the best NYC hospital for a fresh grad?

    krisssy replied to paula77720's topic in New York Nursing

    How did you find Mount Sinai? I am interested in working there after not working for a very long time.

  24. first day on the job advice?

    krisssy replied to nursewriter2's topic in General Nursing

    When I took my refresher course, most of the nurses had these zip-loc bags filled with things they said they couldn't nurse without. I can't remember what they were except for the pill cutter. There...

  25. Need to Take Refresher Course in Florida

    krisssy replied to FloridaGirl_RN's topic in Florida Nursing

    the university of deleware offers an online refresher