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Try mental health!:balloons:

Good advice.:balloons:

:balloons: You were right in assuming that the nurse that fell should have gone to the hospital to get checked out. Were does a phlebo get off in telling a nurse what they will or won't do?:angryfire

When he became a violent sex offender, he gave up his right to privacy.

Yes, I would do it all over again.

My area of nursing is psych. I work with veterans and some of the pts have trouble with mental illnes while others have trouble with addiction(alcohol, cocaine, crack). It sometimes gets difficult when a patient doesn't want to cooperate. For the most part it is nice.

Sometimes it is all in the way you present your mind.

I spend time on the Internet when I'm not doing my work. My work involves using the computer. I sometimes lookup medications on the Internet because this is faster than looking it up in a drug book. If I run across a disease that I'm not familiar with I can look it up on the Internet also.

I don't see any problem with lurking.

If no harm was done to the patient, I think that the place were you work is going a LOT OVERBOARD in having any kind of hearing. Have you done something to make them not like you? They need to "chill out" a little bit. :balloons:

Start by dealing with the problems closest to you. Your appetite would be a good place to start. Once you get to eating again then your body will get stronger and your mind clearer. Then when you are under pressure your mind will come up with the best solution to the current problem that you are working on. I think that you have a lot of courage because your life has been very hard after you graduated from nursing school. I pray that God will turn your life around and get it going in the right direction. :balloons:

One of the things that has reduced medication errors is a computerized medication program. You have to scan the patients arm band which through bar code(which is his social security number) tells you who he is identified as. It then brings up his medication record at the window of time which you have set. If nothing is to be given it will tell you. :balloons:

The facility that I work in uses plastic untensils. We have had pts. use even the plastic utensils to cut on themselves. :balloons:

I agree with you. :balloons:

Good Luck in your search. :rotfl: :chuckle :balloons:

What is acceptable depends on the people you work with and your supervisor.

I take 600mg of welbutrin a day and some times I use hydrocortisone cream to help with itching and skin irritations. :balloons:

I think that skilled care has a time limit on the length of stay were as a nursing home doesn't.

Before the person makes the decision to commit suicide they aren't locked into committing suicide, but once they have made the decision to commit suicide there is no going back. They feel that they must do this to maintain respect for themself. When something like this kicks in, nothing will stop them. No other party is responsible for what they do.

I want to congratulate you on your success.:balloons:

I don't think so. I still think that you need your own license.

One thing that I do is look up medications that I myself or a patient isn't familiar with. One of the things that our IS does is give us links to reputable sites that can help us. I think that someday it will be a standard that everone will have to have to complete their work. Computers are here to stay. :balloons:

I have already had the complete Hep B shots and I didn't have any flu like symptoms at all.

I think that the CNA's have a right to know what they are working with. You wouldn't try to hide it if the person had TB. :balloons:

:balloons: You might consider working in a slower paced atmosphere in the hospital.