Mezcalero

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  1. Social Worker Wants Me In an Impaired Nurse Program--I am NOT Impaired

    Mezcalero posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    In 10/09 I was hired as a graduate nurse at a fairly large hospital. I was hired into the float pool, which made things even harder since I had to know different procedures for different units, etc....

  2. How Do You Feel About Nursing Schools Still Milking the "Nursing Shortage" Lie?

    Mezcalero posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    You see them everywhere, especially here--sponsoring this site. The other day I read in the paper of a university offering an open house to entice (perhaps the better word is "lure") candidates to...

  3. Social Worker Wants Me In an Impaired Nurse Program--I am NOT Impaired

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in Nurses Recovery

    ^ Hey babe, trust me--I am completely on your side. I was homeless, lost my family...everything. I had to fight like a mad dog to get back to where I am--a second chance at life, so to speak. Impaired...

  4. Social Worker Wants Me In an Impaired Nurse Program--I am NOT Impaired

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I don't look at impaired nurses in a negative light at all. Look, we were both addicted and attained our degrees, were functional, took care of our kids, etc. I'm sorry if I offended you. Maybe what I...

  5. Social Worker Wants Me In an Impaired Nurse Program--I am NOT Impaired

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Well explain 2 years clean after a 24-year addiction, with no desire to return to use. All without NA, AA, support groups, outpatient therapy, etc. Sure, the desire to stay clean has to be there, and...

  6. Social Worker Wants Me In an Impaired Nurse Program--I am NOT Impaired

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Also, an interview with Dr. Deborah Mash:

  7. Social Worker Wants Me In an Impaired Nurse Program--I am NOT Impaired

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Start here: http://www.amc.edu/research/CNN/cnnresearcher.cfm?ID=130

  8. Social Worker Wants Me In an Impaired Nurse Program--I am NOT Impaired

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Thank you for the information, and the time you took to type all that out. But I should tell you that I quit cocaine on my own through 80% willpower and 20% through the use of an African psychedelic...

  9. Social Worker Wants Me In an Impaired Nurse Program--I am NOT Impaired

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Agreed. In this case honesty was the worst policy and in my still-exhausted state I was naive about the nature of the "interview." My union reps tell me there is no case for an "impaired nurse status"...

  10. I don't know what to do...

    Mezcalero replied to sunluvarn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Anyone who would say this to a new grad (or even a seasoned nurse) has a serious stick up his/her **s, I if I were you I would tell her straight-out "I will not tolerate this kind of BS in a...

  11. Recent New Grads: Job Search Poll

    Mezcalero replied to muesli's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm somewhat the anomaly, as I went to nursing school to backup a career that was still viable when I graduated: Graduated May, 2006. Passed NCLEX and was licensed September, 2008. After job searching...

  12. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Hi Y'all, First a brief autobiography: I graduated from nursing school in May 2006. For various reasons--in equal parts ties to my old career, family problems, custody battles for my nine-year-old...

  13. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ^ Well I won't believe anything is for sure until I see the first paycheck, y'know? :) And I'll keep the hospital's name on the hush-hush because I think in situations like that, taking the high road...

  14. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ^ Well Toronado, I still have to move 350 miles, but that's not a big deal. BTW, I love your blog, congrats on the new career and best wishes for your future.

  15. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ^ Well thanks for the good wishes. The particular hospital I'm starting at is very cutting-edge, with electronic charting and patient-bracelet/medication barcodes for scanners--this is used to reduce...

  16. New Grads: How was your day today???

    Mezcalero replied to Misslady113's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Wow, these are great replies. I'm starting my orientation in September, and I'm a scared

  17. Getting seriously depressed

    Mezcalero replied to rnffemtguy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Dude, read the last post in my "Loser Looking For a Job" thread (just kidding ) and you will realize that if I can do it, anyone can. I was told I had a bad attitude for not wanting to involve myself...

  18. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I want to give everyone an update. FIRST THE BAD NEWS: I was flown down to this rather large hospital in East Texas with the expectation of interviewing with the director of the cardiology ICU. I was...

  19. Is my career ruined before it began?

    Mezcalero replied to ize4love's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It doesn't matter how long your hair is. They will only take the first 1.5" from the root so it will only go back 90 days max. The Federal courts have been relucant about delving into a person's drug...

  20. My last two NCLEX questions were the same...and then it shut off

    Mezcalero replied to rainbowbright2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My understanding is that the computer adapts the questioning so that by the end, the difficulty will be that you are answering 50% of the questions correctly. It then looks at the level of difficulty...

  21. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    ^ They're not offers yet. Even if neither of the two pan out, at least I'm finding ways--other than sodium pentathol (or waving an ice axe)--of getting them to talk.

  22. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    eldragon: if neither of these opportunities pan out, I'll start "adjusting my attitude" about that... nigeria: thanks for the kind words. That quote actually comes from the Winston Churchill School...

  23. LICHSON vs. Dorothea Hopfer

    Mezcalero replied to rp23's topic in Nursing Career

    Well IMO, the degree is the same, you're paying and attending classroom/clinicals for a piece of paper: the ADN. You can learn what you need for NCLEX out of textbooks and your actual nursing skills...

  24. Very mad but most of all humiliation

    Mezcalero replied to Orenda's topic in First Year After Licensure

    And what kind of doctor would want a letter of apology from someone ensuring the welfare of his/her patient? Not saying the doctor even knows about said situation with the nurse manager, but if he/she...

  25. 7 Months of Searching: Still No Job, About To Give Up

    Mezcalero replied to Mezcalero's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm not sure if Texas is going to pay my way down for the visit--it doesn't matter though--I'll pay my own way if need be. To be sure, the job isn't a secure thing. However, Watertown called back and...