poppycat ADN, BSN

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    3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    poppycat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Is this sarcasm? Don't break my bubble by telling me there are things on the internet that are not true! I might
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    Nursing with Depression

    poppycat replied to badmanRN's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I will never encourage anyone to go to their employer's EAP. I went to EAP once at a former employer. I thought everything I talked to the counselor about was confidential. Not true. The next day,...
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    Words You Hate

    poppycat replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Talk about
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    3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    poppycat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I have absolutely no regrets about having started antidepressants. I was first tried on tricyclics but couldn't tolerate those. My blood pressure dropped every time I got a dose. That was in the...
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    3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    poppycat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Medication costs are ridiculous. The biologic I take every other week for RA is almost $1,000 per dose! If we didn't have the great insurance we do, there's no way I could pay for
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    3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    poppycat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    But blue actually makes me happy &
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    3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    poppycat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    My opinion is that anyone on any antidepressant (or any other psych med) can come to the
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    3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    poppycat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I really don't look good in pink. Could I please wear
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    3/12: what I learned this week: ALWAYS taper your SSRI

    poppycat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I'll join in on the Lexapro party. I have bipolar 2 & am on a tiny dose of Lexapro along with a mood stabilizer. This week has not been treating me well. It's starting to look like I may need to...
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    Community College nursing classes

    poppycat replied to Dgardella's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Just to clarify for you, ADN prepares you to take NCLEX-RN. You don't have to wait until you have the BSN to be an
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    Nursing with Depression

    poppycat replied to badmanRN's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I agree 100% with Viva. I have never disclosed my mental health diagnosis with any employer. Unfortunately there is still much stigma attached to mental illness. Would it be possible for you to...
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    Words You Hate

    poppycat replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    But "falling on" random objects is what sends lots of people to the
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    poppycat replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    My brain hurts just from being
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    poppycat replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I think it's probably both because if the pee was full of parabens & got into the couch then the couch would also be full of parabens. Is that
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    poppycat replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    Also, in your question, was it the couch or the pee that was full of
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    Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    poppycat replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    Who told you I peed on the
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    Words You Hate

    poppycat replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    One of my pet peeves is people writing "ect" instead of "etc" for et cetera. ECT is a whole different
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    Words You Hate

    poppycat replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    I learned the correct term is
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    Feel like giving up

    poppycat replied to Anon22's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm sorry you're going through this. Whatever is going to happen with your license is going to happen. What you need to focus on is your recovery. If you don't have that, nothing else will be any...
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    nurses with Bipolar Disorder

    poppycat replied to KThurmond's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I actually read the original post on the day it was written but chose not to respond because I have been in kind of an angry mood for almost a week. On Wednesday I finally realized that's my first...
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    Jury Duty

    poppycat replied to lpn954's topic in General Nursing

    I don't need your advice on how to budget. I just missed an entire month of work, unpaid, for medical reasons. There went our savings. As far as grand juries voting for pay raises for jurors, I have...
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    Jury Duty

    poppycat replied to lpn954's topic in General Nursing

    To the person who said juries are summoned on Mondays: not always true. When I was summoned several years ago, it was for a
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    Jury Duty

    poppycat replied to lpn954's topic in General Nursing

    If you consider $17.50/day being paid, then I guess we get paid for jury duty. However, I served on a jury about 4 years ago & by the time I paid for parking at the train station, train fare both...
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    Jury Duty

    poppycat replied to lpn954's topic in General Nursing

    I'd be more than happy to "contact the court clerk directly". Do you have a number where a human actually answers the phone? Because there is no such number in my
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    2/20: what I learned this week: people do not understand TB

    poppycat replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    One month ago today my brain took a little vacation (i.e. I had a stroke). I saw my doctor for follow up Friday & was released to go back to work starting last night. I'm so happy to be back! I...