sharpeimom

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    Using Your Photo As An Avatar

    sharpeimom replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I'd never post a picture of myself as my avatar on any internet site! I use several usernames on different sites too. We have two shar pei and nine cats, so usually I use a cat or dog picture as my...
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    Does your employer make accommodations for your disability?

    sharpeimom replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    Before my stroke, I had epilepsy. I have had seizures since an aneurysm ruptured at age 13 months. I know well what my seizure triggers are and despite the fact that I remain conscious, can carry on...
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    Taking GE class as pass/no pass?

    sharpeimom replied to zeno33's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It would depend entirely on the policy of your school and possibly the nursing dept. itself. It may well also be up to the gen/ed dept. Ask your department chair. He or she will either know the...
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    My poor coworker:(

    sharpeimom replied to MomRN0913's topic in Home Health

    The last time we had a routine vet appointment, someone called with a similar question. Here's what the receptionist said: If a dog bites a family member or friend, it does not legally have to be...
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    It wasn't funny...at the time.

    sharpeimom replied to Sterling-RN's topic in Nursing Humor

    I was working night shift in a psych hospital and had dressed much to quickly because I was late for work. I noticed the male techs and a few patients were openly staring at my rearend as I moved...
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    Would you give a drug someone else pulled from a pyxis?

    sharpeimom replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Medications

    Sure, as long as the blister pack is intact. In a pill cup? No
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    Agoraphobia...anyone with experience?

    sharpeimom replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    A neighbor's daughter has agoraphobia. It apparently began when her husband left for combat duty and she didn't hear from him for about ten days. The national news reported a bridge being blown up...
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    You know its a seeker when . . .

    sharpeimom replied to BostonTerrierLover's topic in Emergency

    Pain control for anyone has become a loaded issue. I don't know what the answer is but I wish I did. A quarter century ago when my mother was dying of cancer and her usual internist had her pain well...
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    NP with a beard?!?!

    sharpeimom replied to Erclifton85's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    logank brings up a valid issue with regard to lip reading. My husband occasionally has students who rely almost exclusively on being able to read their professor's lips in order to succeed at all in...
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    NP with a beard?!?!

    sharpeimom replied to Erclifton85's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't see any problems with your having a beard. My husband keeps his beard well trimmed and the guy who cuts our hair trims it every month, along with his nose hairs, eyebrows, and ear hairs. The...
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    Manager wrote defaming remark on IR that also goes to county

    sharpeimom replied to soregonnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Whenever I made a meds error, I had to sign the IR at some point. (Not the same issue, but the same principle applies) My lawyer mom's suggestion was to add any pertinent comments just below my...
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    Pay check??

    sharpeimom replied to All Star_Pre Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I was living in Chicago. I paid my rent, bought groceries, and bought four rolls of el tokens. The rolls of tokens were $10.00 apiece and that was a major expenditure! While I was at the bank, I...
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    Eligibility To Sit For The NCLEX

    sharpeimom posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    A student of my husband's is currently enrolled in the prenursing program asked him a question today that he came home and asked me. All I could think of was to ask the PA BON. However, the more I...
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    Eligibility To Sit For The NCLEX

    sharpeimom replied to sharpeimom's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Thank you to both of you for your well thought out answers. I'll pass them along to my
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    Nursing gear passed on from older generation

    sharpeimom replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    I have locket style gold watch that belonged to my great great aunt who was a trained nurse in the Civil War (or the War of Northern Aggression, as my husband had to call it in elementary school.)...
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    Awkward situation while putting in 2 weeks notice

    sharpeimom replied to nurselove757's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    When I applied for a new job after working for a new manager who absolutely would not comply with a neurologist's order not to assign me rotating shifts. I had been fine if I worked days and 3-11, OK...
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    Munchausen by Internet: The Lying Disease that Preys on the Heart

    sharpeimom replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I too have shared some of my medical history on allnurses and have wondered whether people now question my veracity. Can't help it if they do. I have a neurological history so unusual that parts of...
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    Pain Medication addicts

    sharpeimom replied to rgvnurse85's topic in Patient Medications

    There is so much misunderstanding about patients requesting their prn pain meds on a regular schedule. The only way a patient who has severe unremitting horrible pain has to gain any measure of...
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    What annoys you the most about your nursing coworkers?

    sharpeimom replied to kobebryant's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What annoyed me were the nurses and techs who'd come running in about ten minutes late and want report RIGHT NOW! I was all set to give you report when it was due, but when you were late, decided to...
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    Munchausen by Internet: The Lying Disease that Preys on the Heart

    sharpeimom replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, they did. It just shows that sometimes medical professionals leap to some pretty outrageous conclusions. It didn't sound like MBP to me either. An aunt shared that story with me...
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    Munchausen by Internet: The Lying Disease that Preys on the Heart

    sharpeimom replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Good article! When I was 13 months old, I was a healthy, developing right on schedule baby and one day, with absolutely no warning whatsoever, I began having seizures, and suddenly woke up from a nap...
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    Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    sharpeimom replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I prefer to see the FNP at my MD's office almost every time. She treats me like a human being whereas my PCP usually treats me like Grandma Moses. She doesn't rush me or make me feel as though I'm...
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    Should have gone to Dental School?

    sharpeimom replied to procrastinator911's topic in General Students

    When I was a senior in college, I signed up for an experiment in the university's dental school. We weren't told quite what it would be until that Saturday morning when we went. The experiment...
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    New Nurse can't eat lunch

    sharpeimom replied to NightOwl0624's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a new nurse and worked 3-11 on an orthopedic surgery floor, we were required to leave the floor for ALL breaks and half hour meal breaks. Sounds good in theory but it wasn't practical...
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    BSN student w/LD+ADHD scared to begin J1 clinical - help/advice appreciated

    sharpeimom replied to acerbia's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    If you have a note from your internist or neurologist verifying that you have ADHD and other learning disabilities, take the note(s) to your college's Office of Disabilities or whatever it's called on...