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.

I would disagree with you on that...it is NOT how the NCLEX is structured. When you miss a question on an actual exam, you automatically lose points...period. The NCLEX requires you to get 50% of the questions correct on a determined level of difficulty..that means if you answered the first 30 or so INCORRECTLY and then start answering them CORRECTLY, you can still end up passing the NCLEX. So no, that doesn't prepare you for the NCLEX in any way whatsoever. It is just because the OP has teachers that are too lazy to grade tests. Grading exams at the college level is much more than just knowing who missed what.

I think you are confusing the right to refuse treatment with assisted suicide and I cannot believe that educated healthcare professionals are confusing the two. You cannot LEGALLY not provide treatment without a physician's order or the patient verbally refusing. From your post, the patient didn't even verbally refuse oxygen for comfort and hospice until after they signed a DNR. I also hope your staff is educated in the fact that a DNR can be REVERSED AT ANY TIME by the patient and they DO NOT have to sign anything in order to do so if a signature at the time is not reasonable...ie. the patient being unable to breathe and begging for help...you cannot stand there and say, "Well, you signed a DNR, sorry!".

What is the moral issue? The patient WAS NOT on a DNR at the time you got an order to help get their O2 sats back up. THEN they signed a DNR. THEN they refused additional treatment. To me, that is a patient's right and respecting their right to choose. I personally, would have zero issue with it. You cannot force treatment on them.

LOL...yeah. She is.

This isn't new...but an established fact. I have a cousin that was recruited by TWO internationally known modeling agencies and turned them both down because she had no interest in modeling. She is THAT pretty. However, she has bare minimum education and got a job straight out of college, with zero work experience, working as a buyer assistant at freaking ARMANI in NYC making a good salary, even by NYC standards. Three years later she left Armani to work for another major label and now makes over 6 figures. So yeah, looks matter when it comes to getting a job.

Good Lord, you have NO CONTROL if someone uses your name in the commission of ANY CRIME. Somebody could get arrested tomorrow and use my name. I don't worry about things like that. You can report the person for identity theft..but other than that, no crime has been committed against you...it was against the pharmacy. That is why they can trace calls, etc. Seriously...let them do the investigation and don't worry about it. Your license is not in jeapardy.

..on a side note..this is why it is a good idea to have a life insurance policy, even a small one, on your children. I never thought about it either until someone said, "If something happens to your child, are you going to want to take 4 days of bereavement and go back to work?" Uh no...I am probably going to want to take a few months off if something happened to one of my kids.

I can understand not giving bereavement for every relative or friend...think about it...some people have families that are so large that they would never work if they were allowed off for every funeral. However, I have never worked for a place that did not permit it for in-laws...the parents of the in-laws, no...but you should be permitted to support your spouse who has lost their parent or a sibling.

Look at how little nurses get paid compared to a CRNA. Nurses have a ton of responsibility because some nurses kill people every day. CRNA's know the pay before they take the job. If they want the "big bucks" there is nothing stopping them from medical school. I fully support MD's making more money...b/c if they are going to invest a huge portion of their life in school, then they should be compensated for it.

Yup, lesson learned. If MJ is that important to you then I would probably consider another career option. No sympathy here. PS: Does anyone find it odd that this would be reportable on a PRE-EMPLOYMENT drug screen? The OP wasn't even employeed yet.