SRbear

SRbear

med/surg, neuro, ortho, cardiol

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  1. 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...

  2. 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,...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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,...

  12. 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...

  13. 3rd week in home health, ready to quit

    SRbear posted a topic in Home Health

    I started HH 3 weeks ago, had 2 weeks of a very quick and disjointed orientation. This week I was sent out on my own, and have had 2 to 3 patients a day. It may not sound like much to the more...

  14. 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,...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 3rd week in home health, ready to quit

    SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Home Health

    And the saga continues....was told today I have to work the next 2 week-ends because the week-end nurse is taking those 2 week-ends off.. let me see if I can add that right...19 days straight before a...

  18. Haven Problem.. R/T New ICD-9 Codes

    SRbear replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in Home Health

    I have just started HH nursing and before last week, I would have told you that an ICD-9 was some kind of 9 sided Intra-Cranial Device

  19. 3rd week in home health, ready to quit

    SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Home Health

    And thanks for all the replies, words of encouragement, and just listening to me

  20. 3rd week in home health, ready to quit

    SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Home Health

    I was supposed to start with 2 pts.per day this week, building up to 3 at end of week. Next week starting at 3, building up to 4, then next week, full load (and I have no idea how many that will...

  21. OASIS question

    SRbear replied to cynda's topic in Home Health

    I just started home health last week...going through orientation. I used to think of an oasis as a nice place with clear blue water, palm trees, warm sunshine, cool breezes..... that picture has now...

  22. how to change supra pubic cath

    SRbear posted a topic in Home Health

    New to home health, in fact, still in orientation...heard someone say that a pt. needed to have their supra pubic cath changed...how does one go about this?? Thanks in advance for any help

  23. What is the going per visit rate in your area?

    SRbear replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in Home Health

    OK..maybe I heard wrong...maybe this is what the company charges ....I just started, just finished first week of orientation. I am salaried...so did not pay much attention to the per visit...

  24. how to change supra pubic cath

    SRbear replied to SRbear's topic in Home Health

    Thanks so much for the help.....believe me I will not do any proceedure if I do not feel I know what I am doin !!! Just finished my 5th day of orientation for home health.....such a different world...

  25. What is the going per visit rate in your area?

    SRbear replied to Monica RN,BSN's topic in Home Health

    $65.00 a visit, $135.00 for a new