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  1. Can nurses use medical marijuana?

    inforn43 replied to melisgood's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What kind of horrible profession do we work in? How healthy does a person need to be to work as a nurse? I have heard this a lot over the 25 years that I have worked in health care. Are we supposed to...

  2. Want to get out of nursing, what can I do with my degree????

    inforn43 replied to pale_pilsen's topic in Nursing Career

    Can anyone actually give some real advice here? What if she does hate it. I have hated it since I started and I hate it now six years later. It has only gotten worse. The economy is so bad now that we...

  3. Why do nurses get treated like crap? Is it everywhere?

    inforn43 replied to helikias's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am so tired of complaining about this profession. I realize now that I was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I just wish is that students would really read these posts before just saying...

  4. Telling My Boss I Need My Hours Cut...

    inforn43 replied to westieluv's topic in Nursing Career

    What ever happened with you? I am in an almost exact same position as you. I instead started working in a nursing home a few months

  5. prn med help

    inforn43 replied to EricaRN2015's topic in Patient Medications

    I was wondering how much time should you spend with nonpharmalogical interventions? It does kind of sound like torture just thinking of ways to make people who are in pain wait and try different...

  6. Providing Patients with their legal medication

    inforn43 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in a long term care facility. A couple of my patients have told me that they have their medical marijuana cards. (we live in a state that allows this). I believe that my patients deserve to...

  7. Providing Patients with their legal medication

    inforn43 replied to inforn43's topic in General Nursing

    My residents are allowed to smoke and I have worked at facilities where they are allowed to keep gallons of vodka in their rooms. But I am thinking about treating their symptoms, so us helping to...

  8. Providing Patients with their legal medication

    inforn43 replied to inforn43's topic in General Nursing

    All I have found so far is the OSBN statement on nurses who need medical marijuana. http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.oregonrn.org/resource/resmgr/imported/Medical_Marijuana-FINAL.pdf It is the same as any...

  9. Medical marijuana, role of the nurse, professional organization

    inforn43 replied to hotflashion's topic in Patient Medications

    The more I research cannabis the more stories I hear about people who are helped. I have never heard of a person that was actually harmed. We really need to stop acting like children and actually help...

  10. written up for having back pain

    inforn43 replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Please don't act like you can feel whatever other people are feeling. How long have you worked in healthcare? i doubt that you have worked long enough to have real

  11. written up for having back pain

    inforn43 replied to lawandaluxnurse's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Workers comp is a joke don't put yourself through that hell. They don't care about you and will do everything they can to discredit you. The only answer I have is to suffer. I will never understand...

  12. Do nurses get fired often?

    inforn43 replied to queenjulie's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I just got fired because my husband wrote an anonymous email to my boss with legitimate complaints about one of my

  13. *UNEMPLOYED NURSES*

    inforn43 replied to bree*'s topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Thank you for the opportunity to share this information with young people. I have worked in health care all my life and I think that young people should think before getting into the field. It is very...

  14. *UNEMPLOYED NURSES*

    inforn43 replied to bree*'s topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I hope things go better for you. I am still not working either. I don't know how we are going to pay the bills

  15. The Unemployed RN

    inforn43 replied to diamondeye's topic in Retired Nurses

    It's almost a year now, any luck? I am about to give

  16. *UNEMPLOYED NURSES*

    inforn43 replied to bree*'s topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Please have a little heart. I have been on a ton of interviews too. They are soooooo different. I have also done quite a few interviews myself. How many interviews have you been on? Some are extremely...

  17. *UNEMPLOYED NURSES*

    inforn43 replied to bree*'s topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I am with you I graduated in 2008 and have about 22 months of actually working as a nurse. I worked in an office for over a year and then the company decided to lay everyone in the office off. I still...

  18. work from home LPN

    inforn43 replied to weezer123's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    I feel like there is a lot of pressure to work in traditional nursing jobs. I have a shoulder injury after working in direct pt care for over 25 yrs. I am very excited to find other types of work. My...

  19. Shoulder Injury

    inforn43 posted a topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I wonder if anyone else has had a similar problem. I keep injuring my shoulder when I lift patients. Over the last four years everytime I get a job that requires lifting I end up deveveloping severe...

  20. Shoulder Injury

    inforn43 replied to inforn43's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Thank you for your reply this is helpful. I applied for disability but was turned down. My plan is to move to a bigger city where there will be more jobs. I have already worked doing case management...

  21. What healthcare jobs involving direct patient care do not require heavy lifting?

    inforn43 replied to kelkel587's topic in General Students

    I would like more information about RN jobs that don't require lifting. I have destroyed my shoulders working as a CNA for over twenty years. I also want to dispute the last comment. Although you...

  22. Help! Chronic shoulder pain, studying to be RN

    inforn43 replied to MelanieS's topic in General Nursing

    Help! I worked as a CNA for 20 years before becoming a nurse. When I got my first nursing job I immediately injured my left shoulder. It was not caused by lifting one patient but was something that...

  23. Any one know anything about assisted living RN?

    inforn43 replied to nd deb's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thanks Sweett I am doing this now. Personally I think the worst is that the company is out to make money and don't really care about anything else. They don't want any Res to leave no matter how...

  24. How many residents is too many for one nurse?

    inforn43 replied to arabstarRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Can someone please help me with this question? I am the only nurse at an ALF I get 24 hours per week and there are over 50 patients and no other nurse at all. I am not really the type to work a bunch...

  25. wierd/scary craigslist job

    inforn43 replied to Nierdo's topic in General Nursing

    Wait a minute people. Is everyone that posted here okay? Why on earth would you even send your resume in to a company that you don't know their name? Let alone go out to an interview. Please be safe....