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the anti-anxiety properties of ativan work in much the same way as the vistaril we used to give routinely with demerol-but no one uses demerol much anymore.

i guess someone should cut off his **** and tell him the pain is all in his head!! :angryfire

That's what happens where I work-if you go to work sick-they won't send you home-they just say it's too late to find someone to cover................. so unless you injure yourself during your shift or have a cardiac event right in front them, you are scr....d or treated like your faking!. I've even gone to the ER in the hospital where I work on my day off (after falling off a ladder and spraining my ankle) and the PA who saw me actually dc'd me saying that there was nothing wrong with me and I could work the next day....never mind that I couldn't walk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She refused to give me crutches - I was dc'd at 4 AM and had to hop on one foot outside to find a taxi to take me home. I then stay up until 8 AM to go to my primary's office to be seen by him - my sprain was bad enough that I was off work for 4 months and over a year later it still hurts after my twelve hour shift. The primary said he wasn't surprised - (and he was a resident at my hospital) that was how employees were treated at my hospital-can you believe that? But the best part-- was that this happened on a Monday nite and I work WE alternative and wasn't scheduled to work the next day anyway!!!!!!!! .... and then when I was allowed to come back to work-they gave me a hard time because I could only start out at 6 hour shifts and they refused to allow me to work again until I could work at least 8 hour shifts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO the moral of the story is....if your call out is genuine, DON'T FEEL GUILTY!!

:Ball: I went to work one day with a migraine because I had been given a hard time about calling out (by administration) Well, that day I made a serious drug error and overmedicated a patient with narcotic!! Luckily there was no adverse outcome - but I was so stressed that I might have harmed a patient!!! Never again! If I'm sick-I'm sick - I worked too hard to earn my license and I'm not going to allow a cheap hospital administrator to make me loose it. Don't feel guilty-understand that you knew the correct action and took it. Unfortunately nurses don't speak up enough to advocate for themselves or each other.

Hey -- just remember the little gem from nursing school-- TAKE CARE OF THE NURSE FIRST!!!!!

undefinedundefined yes, that's why you NEVER stand at the foot of the bed of a patient who has a trach!!!!! :roll

TOOO OOOLLLDDD?????? Last Thursday I graduated from my BSN program! I had been an ADN prepared nurse for 10 years before that and plan to return sometime next year for a Graduate degree. I just turned 46 in June! You're only too old if you can't walk into your class. GO FOR IT and good luck!

It's never too late and your never too old...my grandfather decided that he wanted to be a dentist when he was 50 and he hadn't been to college yet. He still holds the distinction of being the oldest graduate of his dental progrm and he graduated in the 1950's! Look at it this way-you have life experience that the younger students don't have and that puts you at a distinct advantage when relating to your patients. Do whatever makes you happy.