SRbear

SRbear specializes in med/surg, neuro, ortho, cardiol.

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1. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

   SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

   Doesn't time go by in the blink of an eye........I have not nor do I plan to get back into nursing. But what is keeping me out is this dang fibromyalgia. I did hear back from the board of nursing,...

2. Things nursing school FAILED to tell us

   SRbear replied to Debbie_LPN's topic in Nursing Humor

   That a hospital hallway is the best place to fart. That diarrhea is hereditary, it runs in your genes. That if you find a man on the hospital floor and he is not...

3. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

   SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

   Thanks for your reply csemgr1. It is not right that the board is all powerful..as we all know power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Who does the board answer to, and who oversees...

4. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

   SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

   I had to go to the BON about a month ago because I had been reported to them. I was excorted to a small room with a table, and a young man asked me if I wanted to tell him about it. I could only...

5. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

   SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

   I spent 4 days last week going through withdrawal from oxycontin. I thought I would rather have pain every day then to be labeled a drug addict. Now that I think about it, I am not sure why. I have...

6. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

   SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

   When I was asked to go for a drug screen, I told them exactly what they would find. Lost my job anyway. just told them too

7. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

   SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

   Do you realize how many people out there are working and driving each day taking pain meds?? Wonder if we could find out the number of oxycontin precriptions filled each year or for other narcotics...

8. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

   SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

   Well....call it gone. When I started at the pain clinic (associated with the hospital, my doc was and still is head of anethesia there), and he started me on oxycontin, I asked him if I could work on...

9. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

   SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

   I am sorry to hear about your back cubby. I kept quiet about the narcotic I had to take, and worked for 3 years as a charge nurse on a large m/s floor, and did a good job. Some of my at work nurse...

10. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

    Thanks so much all for the responses, and wishes that I felt better...so do I ! I also have that wish for those with chronic pain..cause ya just don't know what it is like to wake up each day,...

11. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Pain Management

    So, if nurses have chronic pain, they can't work if they take narcotic pain medication, so either they have to quit, or work in severe pain. Dang it..what an option. The irony is, most of my pain...

12. RN's w/chronic pain, using narcotics

    SRbear posted a topic in Pain Management

    I am currently, and have been, for 3 years, taking oxycontin for chronic pain. My question is, Is is legal for a nurse to work while taking pain meds? I am unable to work, or hardly move unless I...

13. Relocating to Georgia

    SRbear replied to LAOB's topic in Georgia Nursing

    well hey ya'll, and welcome to Georgia !! Last time I checked it out, Kennestone Hospital had lots of openings. Pay scale should be somewhere in the neighborhood of about $20.00 to $23.00 per hour,...

14. 3rd week in home health, ready to quit

    SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Home Health

    I took call for thanksgiving....wednesday evening at 6pm, the office called and said I had a start for thursday, without going into detail..everything they told me was wrong, from how to do wound...

15. 3rd week in home health, ready to quit

    SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Home Health

    First, let me say, I have applied to a hospital...but it seems in the atlanta area, there is not that much of a shortage of nurses, and I need to believe that, because the alternative thought would...