malamud69 BSN, RN

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    Overwhelmed & Recovery?

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Indeed...I was actually told recently what would "help my case best" is...are you ready?...a "sponsor letter" I almost fell out of my chair...utterly
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    Overwhelmed & Recovery?

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    After reading many of the above posts I must state..."recovery" depends...like so many things "medical" upon the definition...as this word is so often thrown around in this atrocious world of 12 step...
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    Overwhelmed & Recovery?

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'm pro
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    Suportive Advertising ?

    malamud69 replied to Oogie's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Well...wether you drink that "kool-aide" or the stuff that comes with the equally disgraceful ads for rehab facilities is of no concern...as a number you are simply expected to spend
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    Life after monitoring

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Please show me the actual "scientific" data from a study that is not created by the 12 step industrial complex! Please! Those numbers mean nothing...lets see what the JAMA and/or the Lancet
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    Life after monitoring

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh...c'mon now...where I come from the "magic" number they randomly choose is 2 years of "clean time" (would they count this if people didn't bathe???) Certainly I will need many hot showers to wash...
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    Affinity is Useless

    malamud69 replied to Ash2213's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Why would you think anything else about for-profit, corporate america??? Being that we are all nothing more than numbers on a ledger to these despicable characters must come at no surprise to
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    Rehab Success Rate???

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Sitting in AA meetings actually helps very few people...actual science proves this...oh wait...we can't talk about evidence based practice...can we? It goes against the illogical grain these hokum...
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    Meetings

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    A lot of posts have been about being checked... can they check your attendance...or is anybody looking at your attendance excetera excetera excetera...its completely against the "anonymity" hogwash...
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    Rehab Success Rate???

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    We are not addressing the underlying issues...our healthcare system is reactive not preventative...the industry wants and keeps people ill...its very lucrative. The extension of this tragedy known as...
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    Rehab Success Rate???

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Again....read : "The Sober Truth" by MD Dodes...it has real science in it and
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    Meetings

    malamud69 replied to SpankedInPittsburgh's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Sad and disrespectful that we are coerced into going to what amounts to nothing more than ruminations on junk science with religious hokum abounding! The so called "recovery" movement literally side...
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    Watching your social media

    malamud69 replied to TKsprivatenurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Ahhhh....yes...anonymity....just like having meeting logs signed. Adding more to the heap of absurd, intrusive, punitive hypocrisy based on junk science and religious mumbo jumbo...at
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    Weight loss supplements

    malamud69 replied to stickybun's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Yes! Beware the INDUSTRIAL REHAB COMPLEX...read: "The sober truth" by. L Dodes MD A book of actual/real science!
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    Weight loss supplements

    malamud69 replied to stickybun's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I love THIS! At my regular meetings with my so-called "advocate"/case manager (insert any absurd title here) ...hmmmm...lets see...reports from my work "safety person"...psychiatrist and additional...
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    is it hard to get a job after two years off of nursing?

    malamud69 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'll echo...5 yrs here...not work related...hypocrisy and incompetence run rampant...oh yeah...did I mention I could "possibly" be "released" early as long as I see their snake oil...
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    Managing screens and work

    malamud69 replied to stickybun's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The whole same-day check-in thing is absurd... Many a nights I'm awake at midnight as well checking in... Why we can't check in say the evening before and then plan head... Well wouldn't that be just...
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    Managing screens and work

    malamud69 replied to stickybun's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Up at 430
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    Unfair, unfair, unfair

    malamud69 replied to hppygr8ful's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Like medical diagnosis the 'issue" is multi-faceted...what works for one may not for another...so why not reign in the rhetoric? The rampant hypocrisy does exist and does ruin people's
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    Don't "rescue" shifts

    malamud69 replied to faith6616's topic in General Nursing

    Its 100% up to the "corporation" to "staff adequately"...I know...its almost as if those words have zero meaning in our current (for-profit) climate...if I can (and I do because I live in america and...
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    Nurses Notes - A Thing of the Past?

    malamud69 replied to Smb411's topic in General Nursing

    Less is
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    Peer program power trip...

    malamud69 replied to catsmeow1972's topic in Nurses Recovery

    There is a very funny "old" Saturday Night Live episode where a guy keeps leaving a burning bag of crap outside another guys door and he is always opening the door in dismay...only to stamp out a...
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    What are you doing with your BSN?

    malamud69 replied to chwcbesteph's topic in General Nursing

    Where I live and work that (BSN) does not make much of a difference. Although, I did get it in the name of "future job security" and I like continuing my education so it bolsters that ideal...once I...
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    Drug testing

    malamud69 replied to Lostitall's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Personally, all that I put in my body (liquids) is H2O, seltzer H2O (avoid all tonics), coffee and almond milk. Why chance any of it? I certainly wouldn't trust any case manager involved in any of...
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    Help! What's next?

    malamud69 replied to Justme0400's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Cynical or not...here goes...you (most likely) now will become a number that will spend thousands of dollars to P in a cup as you enrich the for profit P/Rehab industrial complex based on psuedo...