missmoe

im just trying to get feedback from nurses who have dealt with this before. trust me i do not want to ruin her life. at the same time though, i am worried about pt safety with her working in an icu. the more i think about it, i think that she will be caught by her work if she is doing this. using heroin or opiates is kind of hard to hide for long. i would rather her come forward and ask for help instead of getting caught and loosing her job. when i talked to my old instructor, they told me to report it to the hosp she works at, but i still am not sure what to do.

ok i know for a fact she is using drugs. the part that i have no proof of is her taking pt meds. isnt being on drugs while working in an icu a BAD THING? like i said i used to work in a rehab, i know ppl can get clean, but i know the chances of relapse are high. her past is her past, and that had nothing to do with this. its what i KNOW she is doing now!

i really dont have anyway of confronting her myself right now. and as for worrying about what happens to her if i am wrong, well i used to work in a rehab that she was a pt in a few years ago. i know that she has a history of drug addiction and she was clean and sober for about 2 years and has recently fallen off the wagon. those are things that i do know for sure. after working in a rehab, i know not to put it past an addict to steal drugs regardless of the consequences. this is not someone with a clean history so its not like these are unfounded rumors. and the ppl who told me are her close friends, not co-workers or even nurses.

Ok, I was out at breakfast with a few friends of mine and they were asking me how nursing school was going. They started to tell me about another woman they know who is currently working as a nurse (someone i also know) and they were telling me how she is not doing so well. They told me that she was doing drugs (iv drugs) and that she was taking them from the hospital. i was pretty baffled of how she was stealing them from the hospital for so long and not caught yet untill they told me how she said she was taking the meds from the pts in the icu she works in :eek: ! im assuming she is taking the pain meds when the pt refuses and charting as though she gave them. now i have never been one to gossip or spread rumors, but i know this woman, and i know that she has a drug problem. i just never knew she was a nurse, and the fact that two of her close friends both told me the same story and defended her actions:nono::angryfire. i want to report this to the hospital asap, but i am just a student and i dont work at that hospital. is there anyway for me to report this to her hospital or anything that i can do? will they even believe me or look into it? will she loose her licence or what will happen? if anyone works at allegheny general hosp and knows the steps i should take that would be great. they may not be my pts but idk. i wouldnt want this witch taking care of someone i care about. what do i do? help:bluecry1:

i never said that nothing would go wrong with my health, i already have a few problems and have had to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket for care. that's a lot compared to most ppl my age. but what i am saying is that i dont want the gov in my life anymore than they have to be. i want to make my own choices about my life, i dont want someone who doesnt have the average joe problems to make decisions about things that are important for me. and about sharing the wealth.....im not talking about not helping anyone, but i dont believe in helping those who dont even try (single mom 14 kids, no job and on welfare!)to do anything for themselves. im sorry thats just the way i feel. i dont believe in denying care to someone who smokes, who is overweight or someone who "caused" their own problems. im not "god" so who am i to deny anyone treatment?

dont look at me, i didnt vote for him. infact i was saying that exactly this was going to happen! there is not one gov. run program in this country that runs well (wellfare, ss, unemployment etc etc etc) so why will gov run health care be any different?? i know that the current problems w the insurance companies was bad too, but not like this. how is it fair that someone with an education, a good job, and what used to be decient benefits (and had the ability to pay out of pocket if they so choose) is now going to have the exact same coverage as someone who has never worked a day in their life, lives off welfare and ss? im not saying that i am better than anyone but i have made smart choices so that i dont have to worry about alot of this stuff. it just doesnt make sence to me that i have to take what the gov gives me and can not pay for any more if i want to because i would be getting better treatment than someone else who never worked for anything?

all pt's deserve care. even if they are overweight, smoke, drink, w/e. its not up to me if their life is worth living. its up to them. if someone wants treatment, i can not judge weather or not they deserve it based on their lifestyle. the gov is now putting a dollar amount on something that has always been priceless. if someone i love is sick, i dont care about the costs. they dont care about me or my loved ones, i do. they wont put the time or money into saving ppl they dont think are worth saving. so sad.

Hello everyone. For nursing school, i had to take a 2 part tb test. It has been 3 days since my first injection and has left me with a raised red bump the size of a dime. The redness extends out past to the size of a quarter on my arm. I am in the U.S. So I don't know if the medication for me is mandatory and if it is, i have been diagnosed with hepatitis c so i don't think that i would be able to take the series of meds due to its effects on the liver. I don't even know if the nursing school will take me now. I'm so worried. Please help!