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DESIDERATA GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE AND HASTE, & REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE MAY BE IN SILENCE, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT SURRENDER BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH ALL PERSONS, SPEAK YOUR TRUTH QUIETLY & CLEARLY, AND LISTEN TO OTHERS, EVEN THE DULL AND IGNORANT; THEY TOO HAVE THEIR STORY AVOID LOUD & AGGRESIVE PERSONS, THEY ARE VEXATIONS TO THE SPIRIT, IF YOU COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHERS, YOU MAY BECOME VANE & BITTER; FOR ALWAYS THERE WILL BE A GREATER & LESSER PERSONS THAN YOURSELF, ENJOY YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AS WELL AS YOUR PLANS KEEP INTERESTED IN YOUR CAREER, HOWEVER HUMBLE; IT IS A REAL POSSESSION IN THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF TIME. EXCERCISE CAUTION IN YOUR BUSINESS AFFAIRS; FOR THE WORLD IS FULL OF TRICKERY, BUT LET THIS NOT BLIND YOU TO WHAT VIRTUE THERE IS; MANY PERSONS STRIVE FOR HIGH IDEALS; AND EVERYWHERE LIFE IS FULL OF HEROISM. BE YOURSELF. ESPECIALLY DO NOT FEIGN AFFECTION. NEITHER BE CYNICAL ABOUT LOVE; FOR IN THE FACE OF ALL ARIDITY & DISENCHANTMENT IT IS PERENNIAL AS THE GRASS TAKE KINDLY THE COUNCIL OF THE YEARS, GRACEFULLY SERRENDERING THE THINGS OF YOUTH. NURTURE STRENGTH OF SPIRIT TO SHIELD YOU IN SUDDEN MISFORTUNE. BUT DO NOT DISTRESS YOURSELF WITH IMAGININGS. MANY FEARS ARE BORN OF FATIGUE AND LONELINESS, BEYOND A WHOLESOME DISCIPLINE, BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF. YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE, NO LESS THAN THE TREES & THE STARS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE HERE. AND WHETHER OR NOT IT IS CLEAR TO YOU, NO DOUBT THE UNIVERSE IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD. THEREFORE, BE AT PEACE WITH GOD, WHATEVER YOU CONCIEVE HIM TO BE, AND WHATEVER YOUR LABOURS & ASPIRATIONS, IN THE NOISEY CONFUSION OF LIFE KEEP PEACE WITH YOUR SOUL. WITH ALL ITS SHAM AND DRUDGERY & BROCKEN DREAMS, IT IS STILL A BEAUTIFUL WORLD. BE CAREFUL, STIVE TO BE HAPPY AUTHOR MAX EHRMANN This has helped me so many times in my life in so many different circumstances. And that is my truth.

In regards to the book, Games Criminals Play....look back to the second post in this thread from Nurse Ratched....she provides a link to "this book" And I remember reading it and thinking, "Nooooo! It coulnd't possibly happen! So what! -so I gave some inmate preferential treatment...HE deserved it! He's different!...you won't see ME bringing in contraband! You won't see ME looking him up after his release! You won't see ME losing MY job...........I have seen it happen....and, more than once!

dear nurse/baybie, also known as nurse baby 22; sometimes we can't see the forrest for the trees. in your original post, you wanted to know the "rules" when it comes to dating/seeing an inmate/former patient. knowing what "game" you are playing determins the "rules". i repeat a suggestion previously posted and that is read: games criminals play....!!(a link was supplied in the earlier post). the book was required reading in the correctional facility where i work. as well, and you may not be ready to truly hear this because of the youth/nievity that i'm reading into your penname,yet what you feel as "compassion" may, in fact be co-dependence....a feeling of wanting to be 'the one' who will make a difference. i speak from nearly 15 years of state prison and county jail nursing experience. contrary to what you see, i see drug abuse and theft as socio-pathic (society disease) behavior. i have more than once heard inmates claim with a smug superiority that they have never done "person-to-person" crimes..... only theft/drugs. how many times have you had your home invaded and robbed? came "home" to find the jewelry your mom left to you missing? your car missing when you return to the lot after working to midnight having parked it to take public transportation? short story: while working in the county jail, the "infirmary" section had been very heavy for a very long time. we were getting worn down. this section included not only the very physically sick, but also the needing-care castaways in mental health as well as "the hole"-housing the meanest/most dangerous of the mean and dangerous in the inmate population. we were exausted! iv's/dressings/attitudes....and along came inmate doe (not his real name). he was patient! said, "thank-you"! he was "kind to us"...and good looking ! each day in report there was an audible sigh of relief when any nurse reported on this patient.he even admitted that what he did to get there was his fault!my god how we longed to hear just one inmate take responsibility!! well, our supervisor came and sat in on report one morning. she could see the forrest because she was not thick in the middle of it. "let's just pull up his sheet and see just who this man is...you know, it is public record", she said. she printed it out. it took two pages of line after line of the same types of offenses over and over! his fault, alright! but he was bound to do it over and over and over. well, i gotta go. good luck...make the best decision with the information at hand.

How big a problem is MRSA, specifically CA-MRSA (community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus)? Is your facility dealing with a large number of what's thought to be spider-bites? If you are culturing these abcesses, are they coming back MRSA? Say that you work in a prison or jail; Are clients with these abcesses being allowed to continue to work? In the laundry/kitchen/what jobs CAN they do? If you work in the ER, are you seeing an increase in abcesses/boils/cellulitis among otherwise healthy individuals? What's your opinion? How do we protect the:uhoh21: "worried well"? Are there steps/measures to take {knowing that we can't stress enough, don't share items and HANDWASHING, HANDWASHING, HANDWASHING!} to add a measure of protection and still stay within budget? Are YOU isolating MRSA affected clients:stone ? And lastly, if you are seeing these affected clients in the ER, are you culturing these abcesses? And if + MRSA/ CA-MRSA, do you offer work restrictions that would affect ther ability to earn $? Where does your average person find the $ to buy expensive dressing supplies to contain drainage?? Thanks