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Thank you all for the advice. It is much appreciated. I will look into those jobs and see what is in my area and what fits my personality and physical limitations.

thanks for the ideas. FEMA might be interesting. That is what I kinda do in the Army.

I congratulate you on looking into nursing school. It is a great field that provides vast opportunities unlike any other profession. That said, nursing school will be one of the hardest things you do in your life. Prepare for lots of homework and research papers. The 2 yr degree has a much higher workload than the 4 yr because you have to learn the same stuff, just in half the time. The benefits are well worth it though and if you look hard enough there are plenty of grants and scholarships out there to help you with your finances.

I have been an RN for 6 yrs now. All of my nursing experience is in ER. I am also in the military and have been on active duty for 2.5 yrs now. I received injuries while in Iraq that caused me to have a L5-S1 spinal fusion and now I cannot go back to the ER. I am a couple semesters away from getting my BSN. I am just trying to get a feeling for what is out there for nurses that cannot be moving and picking up patients all day. Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks

5 mg morphine is equal to 1mg dilaudid. This is what I was told by our ER physician. either way dilaudid is a great pain medication when used correctly. I recently had back surgery and was on a morphine drip. The morphine didn't do anything but make me nauseated and get me high. Once they put me on the dilaudid, my pain was very well managed and I wasn't "high". It was like night and day. The drips are less potent than the IVP. I had an IVP of 2 mg dilaudid before I left and it about put me on the ground. I don't know how people can take 4 mg of dilaudid and 50 of phenergan and still function.