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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. I was always taught that is stealing time from the comp...

LVNS can travel. They do have a lot of needs. Favorite healthcare staffing has needs https://bon.texas.gov/hurricaneharvey.asp

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 maybe

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 here. I choose to do my own narrative charting becau...

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 this.

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 students realize that they are putting patients liv...

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

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 classmates.

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

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 was in school and that was an important issue for th...

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 for not being able to stand still long enough. I wa...

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 student at his word. Even if he had said I take t...

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 ADHD?

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 a problem okay. If I felt that he was still act...

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 medications and most of the people that have commented on t...

I did answer it just read my quotes

I did answer it just read my quotes.

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 were a lot of students doing it and being open about ...

It really doesn't matter anymore but thank you

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 don't think things like depression are real diseases. ...

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

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 treated with medication. And I do know that people ...

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

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 awake for clinicals. It was said by one of the ne...

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 much energy he had. That was his comment.