sissykim

sissykim

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  1. Patients and the race card

    to dream nurse2b, when i signed up for nursing school the guidance counselor (who was a eurocentric man) told me there were no seat left, all the slots were taken. i was set to settle for secretarial...
  2. Patients and the race card

    We will never have:down: retribution payback, retaliation, we lost a mind, a body, a momma, a daddy, grandma, heritage, thousands millions. A mickie could never amount to what was stolen from us. And...
  3. congratulations, what is
  4. feeling down and discourage..

    I am not a good verbal communicator. It is not that I cannot speak it is that I don't want to speak or talk. I almost lost a job for that reason. But my skills are good, great, stupendous so I knew...
  5. What can get you fired??

    Wow! That is funny. I was canned for attendance, documentation. But mostly attendance. OTHERS cursing clients, but if the DON likes you can throw medication in the trash, get it out, and administer...
  6. help! may have needle tip broken in deltoid

    You will be alright. The needle is strong, point and all. Take one and see how difficult it is to break the
  7. How to cope with stress overload??

    Please say "NO" before it is too late. One misshap and you are toast. The board of nursing is waiting for nurses just like you. I was one. They were there when I arrived to greet me. They had not one...
  8. Spin off: how do you deal with DNP haters.

    I too am in a doctorate program, I was confronted with the same attitude. Doctors we are, physician we are
  9. Patients and the race card

    :uhoh3:It is so obvious that we(nurses) are devided in every way imagined. No concensus. No agreement. It makes sence now that anyone and everyone who wants to challenge us, pay us unfairly, employ...
  10. Patients and the race card

    :jester:I experience the stinking race card. It hurts like heel. I am a northern girl living the southern mentality. I have had clients refuse to have me care for them, I have been called the N word....
  11. Ohio Recovering RN with Felony Conviction

    Dang, you have a double whammy, felony and drugs. You just have to keep on keeping on. Go to another state. There is work out there. I trust there is. It took me a year to find a job and once I did...
  12. Violation of privacy

    I recently received a letter from the board of nursing informing me that the process for collecting urine. Now the tech. will have to actually watch as I void. I understand some people may cheat but...
  13. Wrong for all the right reasons?

    You should have taken the test. Nursing law is not about principles, nursing is about evidence based practices. I don't understand how the count only got wrong as your tour of duty began and you are...
  14. Just took random drug test

    I am sorry again. Some of us are angles of mercy and some are jusy angels who never lie, cheat or steal. How did every thing
  15. Violation of privacy

    Thanks to the angels of mercy for engaging with me in a thoughtful dialogue. I appreciate my career, my profession and my fellow nurses. You all let me know how much passion we hold as a group and...
  16. Any other CDDP patricipants out here?

    Look I am all for corrective measure, really I am. The measures the board imposes are not corrective they are punitive and double jeopardy, It is again my rights as an
  17. Any other CDDP patricipants out here?

    I know no one wants to hear this but if we some how had a union a voice, I bet the board would calm down. Do you remember when the IRS were terroist? Even inmates fight for their rights. We just lie...
  18. Violation of privacy

    do you realize there is no such thing as protecting patients? are you so serious? is your nursing experience so narrow that you do not realized the atrocities imposed by healthcare on the human life?...
  19. Violation of privacy

    Of course I will abide, I will give up my pee, allow all to watch, pay my penitence, stay clear of hand sanitizer, food coloring, soy sauce, fabreeze, all sorts of controlled substances, alcoholic...
  20. Violation of privacy

    That is my point exactly, another $26.00 for what? To watdh me void? This is a rip off. I will abide but what will be the next rule the lab and the baords cohort to drum up business and extra expenses...
  21. Violation of privacy

    Thank you Trauma and all repliers. I was just saying. I truely believe next it is going to become standard to have bladder catherizations for urine collections. I will pee, infact I have been selected...
  22. Violation of privacy

    I think we should began to fight the system. I would prefer my blood be examed as opposed to some trick watching me void. Take my hair every three months something just don't degrade me for some...
  23. New to forum, Intro and ? re: IN BON

    I understand the delima. But *** ever happened to privacy? HIPPA. What is it to the freaking board what you did with you life and body? Why don't they ask, have you ever molested a child? Have you...
  24. Just took random drug test

    My suggestion to you is to get a job now. Hurry. After the you are reported the board may post an investigation sign over your liscence which employers check for verification. Run, go to the nursing...
  25. alcoholism

    I am sorry for the position you find yourself in. Your life is getting ready to change. Ask you supervisor if you would be able to keep your job if you self-report? If not, take actions to live life...