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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 get some relief from the pain. A nurse friend told ...

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, instructing me to go to an addictionologist at my ...

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 unconscious,and you shock him, he will cuss.....a lot...

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 their decisions. What is the worst, I think, is tha...

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 assume it was because I was fired. He asked me to pu...

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 already lost my job, my self worth, my self iden...

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 late.

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 as well. We as nurses have been pushed over the la...

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 it ,and he said yes. For 2 1/2 yrs, I ran into h...

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 friends knew I was taking a narcotic, somehow nurse...

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, knowing that pain is your constant companion, unless y...

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 has been caused by being a nurse ! Then could someo...

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 experienced, but I have never done home health, I have...

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, day shift.

Facial drooping in a stroke is on the opposite side of the stroke area. A right CVA would show left sided weakness or paralysis, and left facial drooping. And visa versa.

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 care, to pts. insurance. We only have 1 HHA working a...

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 be that no hospital wants ME. I had quit my last j...

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 day off. Oh, and this is the big one...the day a...

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 !!

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

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 be). This is what was told to me by the nurse orient...

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 forever been changed !!!!!!!

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 given

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 rate......maybe I should have !!! lol

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 than the one I am used to..(25 years working in ho...