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  1. Sleeping nurses

    kjnsweets posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I guess I’m old school. I was taught by my parents that you don’t sleep on the job. I work night shift. I’m an older nurse but even when I was younger and worked nights I never slept on the job....

  2. Nurses! Let's stand up and help the victims of Hurricane Harvey!

    kjnsweets replied to guest042302019's topic in Disaster Preparation

    LVNS can travel. They do have a lot of needs. Favorite healthcare staffing has needs

  3. Hurricane Harvey, how to help?

    kjnsweets replied to Fletch.'s topic in Disaster Preparation

    I live in southern Louisiana. Been doing some research on this. Haven't found a lot. Will keep you updated. I know with hurricane Rita our hospital had a lot of travel nurses so check with them

  4. Charting when there are nursing students

    kjnsweets posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a question. We have students that are present at our facility for clinicals. We still do paper charting. Some of the nurses that I work with do not chart the whole time that the students are...

  5. Charting when there are nursing students

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. That's what I do but none of the other nurses I work with do this. I would think there are big legal issues with

  6. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    We had a conversation at work today about nursing students that take medication to stay awake for school. I have seen students come from the university so drugged up on things like adderol. Do these...

  7. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I understand they addressed issues they some were having individually or as a class as a

  8. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Just a board that her instructors had came up with and they picked certain students to serve on this board. That's all I was told. A board of her fellow

  9. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    She served on a board that consisted of her fellow classmates. Don't know how much more clear I can

  10. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sometimes iphone makes typos. They have voiced to to us and their fellow classmates they are on this to stay awake for clinicals. Also I meant that one of our new hires was put on a board while she...

  11. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Ok so this is what we( not just me) observed to be specific. This student in question could not stand still. His eye movement was very erratic and to try and talk to him one on one was not possible...

  12. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I do appreciate the information that you all have given me. I do believe that there are people that abuse it but there are the ones that truely need those types of medications. I really just took this...

  13. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    One question...isn't something like adderall when u have ADHD supposed to make more focused? Less hyper? Can it have an opposite effect on someone with

  14. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Okay enough bashing me. I have said this time and time again...the nursing student said that he was on Adderall to stay awake for clinicals not because of ADHD. If it had been that I would not of had...

  15. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thank you this is why I stepped out of the conversation because it was going where it didn't need to go. Several times I have said that I know there are medical reason that people take these...

  16. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I did answer it just read my

  17. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I did answer it just read my

  18. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    From what I understand that was it. Maybe issues that they as class were having or maybe just nursing issues in general, not sure. I know she said they termed it chemically cheating and that there...

  19. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    It really doesn't matter anymore but thank

  20. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Ok I am sorry about all of this. I did not mean to ruffle anyone's feathers. I take medication myself for depression as I stated earlier. I think of you missed that because it's being said that I...

  21. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Again that's not how it happened. Go back and read my posts. When did I say that I don't take

  22. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Ok he wasn't a classmate of mine. This was a nursing student doing clinicals on the floor that I work at the hospital. I do know that depression,anxiety, ADHD and ADD are all real disease and can be...

  23. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Point made. Keep my mouth shut. I did not post this to start an arguement. I wanted advice and got what I

  24. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The conversation started out as being just that one student that we had that had openly said he was on adderall(sorry about misspelling....autocorrect) and it was for that reason...to be able to stay...

  25. Nursing students on medication

    kjnsweets replied to kjnsweets's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Actually his actual statement was "I went to my dr to get a prescription for adderol so I can stay awake for clinicals". If that's not direct enough I don't know what is. We were talking about how...