pink85

I say find a new place to work! I see a lawsuit in the making!

If you look on line for subscription offers you can find a cheaper rate!

Make a check off list! it really helps. It will cut down on the anxiety and before you know it you will have it memorized!

Oh my! Some of these facilities should be ashamed of theirselves! We had a blessing of the hands by our chaplain, a pizza for lunch day, polo style shirts with our facility name on them, and this was at the hospital where I work. At the elementary sc...

All I have to sa is I am speechless at what the MA said in the OP. WOW! Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. Most states prosecute for impersonating a nurse!

Nope. I dont see a problem. Your facility should have a written policy on this though. Ours does and it states that as long as one is not supervising or managing the other.

I write it off. Plus all my journals, scrubs, etc...

That is what I was thinkng... What is her normal b/p. If you didn't know or this was abnormal for her then the ER was certainly the right think to do. It is better to err on the side of caution. that is what I would want you to do for my family membe...

We are a large trauma hospital and ICU beds can be hard to come by sometimes. You have to be half dead to be there! You must be assessed by an ICU doc to be admitted to the ICU. Pretty much how Planeflyer described his situations earlier.

There is a saying. He who calls the cops first wins. I would contact an attorney and make the first move. If you don't protect yourself noone else will.

I am not aware of any where I work.

How about a unit tht is just better organized...

Don't take it but certainly don't stay there. Move on and do your good somewhere elsr. You owe that to yourself.

I am not on any med at this time but some days my back will feel very exhausted. Like it can't hold my body up anymore. I only get that when I try and do distance walking though. I will tell you the injections are different than an epidural, differen...

That is the first thing I think of also. Time management. What do you feel is taking a better portion of your day? What generaly causes you to run behind? The nurses that don't run behind, do you know what they are doing differently? Are there things...

My question also. What is hcp?

Does your hospital have a social worker that can help? What does the doc say that wrote the prescriptions? Are their generic alternatives? I work at a very large county hospital so our social worker can get a medication voucher to pay for patients 'i...

Yes! That sciatic pain is a killer!!!!!!!!!! No way to sugar coat that one! That pain can not even be described. I had no idea how bad that pain was that people would be talking about! Glad you are doing better yang. The steroid injections is what re...

PT did nothing for me, but that was me. Just check out all of your options. I was dead set that I was going to be out of work for months to have surgery, have to quit my other job, etccc...... very, very depressed, cried a lot. I am sure that one day...

this post has been a funny, interesting read! Makes me think about people who say they like ketchup but don't like tomatoes!

No kidding.... If this has happened before why is she still working there and/or even allowed near narcs????

That is so so scarey. Watch ypur back carefully. I feel sorry for the both of you!

Hi Canadian Girl. I have a herniated disk in about the same spot and it WAS pushing on my sciatic nerve. I never knew pain could be that bad and i had 3 kids with no pain med! I ended up having steroid injections in my back and it really helped. I wo...

Sounds like a mess. Since we don't really know the situation you should speak with upper mgmnt at your facility and go up from there. Go to jcaho or your state work force commission.

Our charge never takes patients. Thank goodness for this site. I always griped about our unit but I have learned that we have it pretty darned good on a lot of things from Christmas bonus to staffing!