chad75

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1. Help please, Nurse Compact

   chad75 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Okay, I am thoroughly confused by the nurse compact. I am relocating soon and need to figure out what licenses I need. My current home state is Arkansas, which is a compact state. I am moving to DC, which is not a compact state I plan on doing ag...

2. Urgent Question about Urine Drug Test

   chad75 replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in General Nursing

   No I wouldn't think anything in Immodium would cause a false positive. However make sure you tell them all the meds you are taking when they ask :).

3. Blatant Nursing "No-No's"........what's your worst???

   chad75 replied to anndoodle's topic in General Nursing

   I don't see how this wrong unless there was an order to administer all meds via NGT. I have had many a GI patient with NG tubes to LIS take meds PO (after clamping the NGT). If someone has difficulty swallowing or isn't concious enough to take meds...

4. My license is probation & I need interviewing advice

   chad75 replied to BeckyJN's topic in General Nursing

   You received 2 years of license probation for 2 reported med errors in a two year period that didn't result in harming the patient !!!?!!! Much less a documentation error... Oh you forgot to sign off a med, guess what your on license probation! ? W...

5. "On your unit, what are your duties as CHARGE NURSE?"

   chad75 replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

   I think the nurses that do charge for anything less then a 5$ differential have lost their collective lost their minds. You are responsible for the unit, depending on the unit that can be a lot of responsbility.

6. licensure regs

   chad75 replied to racerx65's topic in General Nursing

   Thats the sort of BS I hate about some SBON's. Go to school for a couple years, get a few thousand dollars in debt, then we will decide if you qualify for a license...The board of nursing needs a "fair practice act" of its own.

7. How many of these

   chad75 replied to stephera's topic in General Nursing

   It depends on if your family is a full time job, would need more information..do you have help? How many kids? Can you hire babysitters etc.? A&P 1 & 2 are pretty heavy courses General Psychology is pretty easy depending on your instructor. ...

8. Renowned Child Heart Surgeon Commits Suicide

   chad75 replied to ERNurse752's topic in General Nursing

   Can you copy/paste the story? I really don't want to have to sign up for an AoL account to read the story.

9. Iv's and blood draws

   chad75 replied to stephera's topic in General Nursing

   We did it on a fake arm, then eachother, then patients. After 6 years its still hit or miss with me, I can walk up to someone that no one else could get an IV started on and hit him/her the very first time with no problems, then get a young patient ...

10. General concensus of floor nursing

    chad75 replied to chad75's topic in General Nursing

    I hear ya, this is my last hurrah. I haven't had a full time traditional floor nursing job in over two years. Strictly agency and contract. Alot of the hospitals/facilitys out here though have over 50% agency/travelers as their nursing staff. Its...

11. General concensus of floor nursing

    chad75 replied to chad75's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, the pros to nursing are awesome. It was enough to keep me working this long, the scale is getting weighed the other direction every day for me. I know my post was bitter, and not representative of every floor nurse, in every hospital in every ...

12. General concensus of floor nursing

    chad75 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've been coming to allnurses for a while. Mostly lurking. I have been a nurse for about 6 years and I am curious if nursing is really as bad as everyone says it is. We all know its just "nurse nature" to come here and write about an awful day the...

13. I don't like what my job has become...

    chad75 replied to StephMSeattle's topic in General Nursing

    In this day and age working any sort of LTC or RCF setting is like playing russian roulette with your license, especially if your on the front lines. If you go look at your SBON's website (if they list such actions online) you will almost always see...

14. How many nurses here have their license currently suspended?

    chad75 replied to Sheba817's topic in General Nursing

    Well, your biggest mistake was refusing to take a UDS, unfortunately I think a refusal is considered an admission of guilt by the powers that be. I will take UDS any day, any time, any where. My job could call me up right now and I would drive up a...

15. How many nurses here have their license currently suspended?

    chad75 replied to Sheba817's topic in General Nursing

    No offense but I really don't think we are hearing the full story. To my knowledge unless you had a med error which caused a death or an adverse reaction I don't see why the hospital would report it to the BON, there just simply is no reason to. If...