BabyLady

It is a lack of practice. Seriously....this is probably the #1 mistake that people make in math...they rush through their homework, don't do enough of it, etc. I am not a strong math student, however, I have never seen math that I cannot eventually master if I practice at a particular problem enough times.

We had one that was charged with a violent crime and she wasn't allowed to come back to clinical (she could attend class) until it was resolved. She was ultimately convicted, dropped out of the program and will probably never be a nurse...b/c she had previously had a felony expunged...and the judge agreed to the expungement so she could attend nursing school. No loss to the nursing profession...that's for sure.

If you get a copy of an NCLEX study guide, they should be in there. Don't obsess with minute measurements of start and end values...these will always vary slightly by text. We were told that on the NCLEX the value will be VERY out of range...not borderline. The instructors were correct.

I had this same procedure done under general anesthesia and I was shocked at how fast the recovery was. I never even took a Tylenol.

Why are you concerned about what someone else posts on their OWN Facebook account? Would you want someone monitoring the information you post on yours? Sounds like the only people that find it irritating are probably jealous.

Court order overrules HIPAA...all day long. Think about it....a biological mother loses custody of her child due to a COURT ORDER...does that STILL entitle her to medical information? Absolutely not. Follow the court order and tell her she needs to check with the legal department before the family files a complaint with the court and your boss ends up IN court.

But seriously folks...is this situation even that unusual that the OP described? I would think that pharmacies would very savvy at picking up these fake call-ins and to me, it wouldn't take but rattling off a little pharmaceutical jargon before you could trip up easily to someone that did not have medical training...might be harder with a former nurse. However, I think that this probably happens all the time..more than we know. I am sure those that have worked in a pharmacy would know.

I am curious as to how other facilities handles situations where the mother comes in or desires to room-in with a baby and has come in obviously impaired or if they are already rooming in, an impairment is obvious such as apnea alarms, fire alarm, etc going off and the parent not waking (or flinching).

It's not that simple...I wasn't contradicting myself at all...in fact I said that the only crime that MAY have been committed was identity theft with regards to the OP...but that isn't for me to decide, that is for the local police department. Reporting someone for identity theft and them being CHARGED with identity theft..two different things. Every state has their own guidelines as to what constitutes identity theft....I never said that she shouldn't report it to the police, I would just to be sure the situation is documented.

As a person that has been a victim of identy theft MULTIPLE times, I can tell you now that identity theft does NOT automatically go through the FBI...it depends on WHAT part of your identity that was stolen, who stole it, where it was stolen and how it was used. Example: If you had a bank card number stolen...that goes not through the FBI, but through the Secret Service Department because it is under the department of treasury. If you had someone to take your name/address and try to open up a utility (but did not use your SS#), then that is a LOCAL police problem...the police has department $$$ limitations based on what the District Attorney is willing to prosecute...this affects what they will and will not investigate for. If you have your social security number stolen. THAT goes through the FBI, because that is part of the Social Security Administration which is federal. That is how it works. Been there, done that.

I'll be honest..you have been watching too much CSI. 1. What is she going to report to the narcotics officer and what PROOF is she going to be able to provide? Nothing...absolutely nothing...because it is the PHARMACY, not her, that took downt he information. 2. Identity theft is the only thing that is even close to being her case...and even THAT is subjective, depending on which state. Some require something more than just a name, such as a license number or a SS#. 3. The pharmacy is already doing an investigation, she needs to report it to her physician...let those that are in the AUTHORITY to ake care of it..take care of it. 4. If your brother-in-law is a former officer then he should know that he said/she said is NOT SUFFICIENT to convict in a court of law..."beyond a reasonable doubt" is required...hard to prove a money exchange when no evidence of one took place. 5. There IS DOCUMENTATION...it's called a traced call from where the precription was called in from....if it wasn't the doctor's office or a phone number to tie the RN into it (her home or her cell), then no proof exists she was involved. She cannot legally obtain phone records without a court order...the crime has legally been committed against the pharmacy...in fact, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE TO KEEP HER INFORMED of how the investigation is going. Seriously...some people are blowing this WAY out of context. This is a good time for critical thinking! Not imaginative play.

I agree they need to be more understanding and more professional. That is one of the reasons why I aspire to be a nursing educator. Because there are too many in the profession that have ZERO business teaching.

Well, that isn't the series of events you mentioned in your original post (please go back and read). Also, considering you agreed with a co-worker regarding confusing assisted suicide with a patient's legal right to refuse treatment...it was a logical conclusion in my mind that you might be equally confused on how a DNR can be revoked. So yup, I wrote that because it was warranted.

I'll be honest, I am not a fan of nursing instructors. 80% of them have chips on their shoulder and it is only in the BSN program that I am currently in that I actually realized that there was a such thing such as a quality instructor. So trust me, I feel your pain, however, you have to find a way to work through it because being worried about it, scared about it, upset about it, isn't going to fix it. You have to focus on what you have control over and let go of what you don't.