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you can't give your best quality care to your patients if you can't care for yourself first:) get better!!!:redpinkhe

check out the BBC site....re: bill gates. i don't know for a fact that he's been diagnosed, so i cannot assume. i just know what i've heard. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3766697.stm

squeakykitty- agreed:) (about the tatooing) and i sometimes feel myself looking like that cat after i get off work. ha! just wanna scream! and SWNL...you are most permitted to vent on here. we all need to vent from time to time.

squeakykitty... i absolutely love your picture! too cute (and funny!) and you're right....just b/c life isn't fair isn't an excuse for people to be unfair. very well said :)

to bagladyrn.. definitely laughing about the imagination of your supervisor! thanx for the laugh (even tho it was at your expense)!

ouch!

MLOS, the sad matter of truth is, i'm a POOR, BROKE nurse! yes, that's the truth....ugh. but i didn't go into nursing for the income. i went in it because i have a true compassion for human lives. that's all the compensation i need (other than a basic income to just get me and my son by). but the income stance...maybe it's just my unfortunate luck, or my uncanny ability to be in certain places at certain times because i do, a good # of times, hear "you know, if you move to cali, you'll make X$ an hour as an RN! wow! you'll be set for life!" (yes, set for life as far as never having a huge problem of finding stable employment...not set for life as in multi-millions) the reality is, who cares! you'd still have to probably work 2 jobs to live! ugh.

welcome to the real world. it's hard. it's cruel. it's cut-throat. and some people, unfortunately, will step on so many toes to climb the ladder of success that they lose sight of what they're trying to obtain. i agree when people on here say don't waste your time nor your energy worrying about this situation. i see the frustration in it. i can see how you're irritated. but in the end, you weren't the one who stole the CD and all the other stuff that this person did. and i believe i read on here someone's post that the students w/ the best grades don't always make the best nurses. i do agree w/ that (to an extent, there are a few exceptions to this claim). the person might have all the book smarts in the world, but absolutely no common sense. and this goes vice versa. it all comes down to, this person will take the same state board as you, in the same format, w/ the same type of questions. if this person truly did cheat, hmmm...i do believe it will show on her board results. and if she's a lucky guesser, well, guessing will only get you so far. i know i would have probably got up and walked out of my board after seeing the questions if i truly didn't study and thought i would be able to guess my way through it. it was BAD. and i studied 3 months for the darn thing (i waited 4 months after graduation to take it...needed the break)! look at it this way, this ultimately does not affect you. it irritates you. you see the injustice. and you see that it's unfair. but that's life. life is never fair (ok, it's very rarely fair). but in the end, you're going to graduate, you're going to take your board, and this person will (most likely) do the same. save all your energy for the profession when you need to be the PATIENT'S advocate. and another thing.....believe in karma would ya?! good luck:)

tait, maybe "exploit" is too harsh. standoffish would be better....i'm not stand offish about my profession. it's a humbling, rewarding profession that has opened my eyes to a lot of different points of view regarding the world and i'm truly thankful for that. and i'm not ashamed to tell people (only if they ASK) that i'm an RN. i just don't go voluntarily announcing it to the entire general public. that, hopefully, clarifies my stance. and as for car break ins, i can't agree w/ you more. you're right...those who leave CDs, ipods, etc...lying on the seat are just asking for a break in. but seriously, as unfortunate as it is, people associate RN w/ $$. when i applied for my apartment, the first thing the leasing agent looked at was my profession, NOT my income. i know this because the first thing she said "oh you're a nurse!" but i do agree w/ your stance.

personally, i agree w/ virtually everyone's "when i'm off the clock, i am an ordinary, everyday person...not an RN" point of view. when i'm off of work and out of the facility, the last thing i want to do is still be a nurse. i put in my 13 hour shift, and that's enough for me for the day. and as for those who do share w/ people that you're an RN, LPN, SN, whatever....that's fine. no criticism. i respect your point of view. it's just not for me to exploit that i'm an RN. heck, i don't even like walking around wal~mart in my scrubs. what does everyone think about (sorry for those of you who have these, but i have to make a comment about this) the cars w/ the personalized tags stating "XXXX RN" ?? i haven't heard stories about nurse vehicle break ins, but it doesn't necessarily surprise me. think about it...if you're willing to advertise on your car whether it be by license plates or bumper stickers, that you're a nurse....people, unfortunately (from what i've had experience w/) relate nursing w/ $$$$. ugh. that's why the cars get broken into....or at least that's my cheap 2 cents.

oh the happy, happy, joy, joys of working LTC! our residents, depending on their diagnosis and condition, needed prior approval from their MD before going on an extended LOA (anymore than 3 days, depending on the MD). we actually had one resident change MDs and lose her LOA privileges. the former MD allowed the resident to go out-of-state for a week to visit family. when the resident switched to the house MD, he denied the resident any longer than a 2 day LOA stating "if you're ok to be gone for a week, you should be ok to not even be here at all." personally, i think this is a violation of the resident's rights; but i'm not the MD. but this resident had gone LOA for a week before out of state and did just fine. good grief. i felt awful for the resident. us nurses tried to pull through for the resident, but the MD wouldn't listen. anyway, we do have some residents who will go out for the day and that's not a problem, but those little white envelopes do get kind of annoying! and before we changed pharmacies, our meds were still wrapped individually in boxes. we just now changed to the bubble packs when we changed pharmacies. it was a MESS when i left full time and went PRN. we couldn't send the boxes back because ins. wouldn't cover them, so the residents would be out a whole heck of a lot of money. awful. and we got new carts that are absolutely ginormous. and i'm saying that because , well, i'm 5'nothing, 105# soaking wet. pushing those things down the hall was horrible for me! i always joked that i needed a separate license issued to me to "drive one of these things!" anyway, i just thought i'd throw in my 2 cents. i'm only doing PRN now. but that's where i began...LTC. i feel like i've lost some of my skills as a new nurse, because we really never had any IVs, we didn't take vents, and we didn't take fresh trachs. oh well. have any of you dealt w/ kaplan university? i've signed up for their online certificate for forensic nursing, but i think i might call tomorrow and back out. i'm having a funny feeling i can't quite put my finger on it...hmmm...

don'tcha just despise this? i had this constantly happening to me when i was doing LTC. fortunately, for the majority of my employment at the facility, the pharmacy we contracted with allowed us to call them at least 72 hrs in advance and they would pre-package all of the resident's meds for the length of time that he/she was going LOA. UNFORTUNATELY, they didn't do narcs...so what we did, at the suggestion of our DON, was use the narcs the resident already had in stock, take the specific amount of pills for the length of the LOA, sign them out in the narc book as "given LOA" and have the resident co-sign. it still was a lot to do, considering the # of med passes per day, and the length of time it took to do med pass, AND the fact that the resident "needs the meds right now because he/she is leaving in 2 hours and can't possibly wait another 5 minutes!" however, we have since changed pharmacies and the new pharmacy doesn't pre-package. ugh. fortunately, i changed my status to PRN before i had to deal w/ this atrocious mess. but i know the nurse on the other wing had to package 5 days worth of meds for a resident, and she about went ballistic!

yes, i agree. it is one of the worst feelings in the world, and at the time, i'm sure it IS the worst feeling in the world. i went straight for my RN and bypassed the LPN. i also had only 75 questions, and i frantically started cursing (in my head) at the computer thinking there should be more. i took mine on a tuesday and found out that i passed wednesday evening. since you took yours yesterday, you might not have your results until late monday evening. i know a friend of mine that i graduated w/ took hers on a thursday and didn't get her results until the following monday. and i know there is a phone number you can call, and for a fee of like $7, you can get your results. anyway, i know this is easier said than done, but relax. you made it through your LPN, you made it through the transition course LPN-RN. you will be fine. :) spend time w/ your family and uh, "try" to forget about it for awhile! ha! i should've given myself the same advice when i was waiting for my results!

i know that it is a very mild form of autism classified under the autistic spectrum disorders. those who are diagnosed with this d/o differ from those diagnosed w/ autism in the fact that there was not a speech/language delay as there, more often that not, is w/ autism. those diagnosed w/ aspergers are said to be "little professors" in that they speak so well that they often sound like a little professor. they do, however, have a difficult time in social situations. they have a difficult time maintaining a two-way conversation. they focus so much on their topic of interest that if the person they're conversing with, per say, changes the topic, the person w/ aspergers will go right back to talking about what he/she was talking about before. They have a difficult time understand irony, puns, and figures of speech (i.e. "when pigs fly"). they take what is said to them very literally. they present with abnormalities of voice inflection and repetition, and are more often than not clumsy. they do tend to focus on a major topic of interest (trains, door hinges, door knobs, etc....) but i tend to dismiss this because what child doesn't have a favorite toy or interest? anyway, i hope this helps. i don't know if this is info you might already be aware of, but i've read a lot about this d/o as well as autism, high-functioning autism, SPD (semantic pragmatic d/o), etc. p.s. did you know that it's been said that Bill Gates has aspergers? interesting, huh?