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    doctor's office accessing of scripts

    SuzieVN replied to morte's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    You're going to have a change of heart come January,
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    how to deal with abusive patients?

    SuzieVN replied to melbot's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You're gonna get nasty patients- some will even look like Betty White- and will stick attack you and degrade you. Just cross your fingers that something, anything, happens to get them transferred out....
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    Sexual Orientation Question

    SuzieVN replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I understand confidentiality, you bet I do. I've been taking HIT classes full time for the past two years- so I can assure you that confidentiality is a thing of the past, that it no longer exists....
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    Expunged Record

    SuzieVN replied to MsNancy's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Your record will 'never' be clear of the felony charge. All you can do is tell people upfront what happened, and in what order. Society will never forgive
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    California NP's

    SuzieVN replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Is this the same California, the one in which half the people I know there have a 'medical marijuana' card, that just in 2012 determined that a first time DUI conviction is grounds to automatically...
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    Sexual Orientation Question

    SuzieVN replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Off kilter analogy, of sorts: I smoked 'heavily' for 25 years, 2-3 packs a day. Marlboro, Reds, Box, only (I still miss them 10 years later!). Every time I got bronchitis and went to the Doc, he'd...
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    Sexual Orientation Question

    SuzieVN replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Aside from closeted gays that aren't about to tell you their 'secret', are straight females that like unprotected receptive anal sex going to admit that to you? Point made. Is unprotected anal sex a...
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    Sexual Orientation Question

    SuzieVN replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have explained. One, everyone is getting everything, from any and everybody. Two, lots of people aren't about to tell you they are gay. Three, is doesn't matter, since STDs have officially become a...
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    Sexual Orientation Question

    SuzieVN replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There is still a stigma, as evidenced by these young people suiciding, with being labeled- again, it's not safe to disclose that to anyone, depending on where you are. (Kansas, in paricular). Hate...
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    LPN going into business for him/herself?

    SuzieVN replied to ionatan's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Forgot- if your state requires a license from the department of health, or whatever, to provide non medical care- then you also are required to be supervised by an RN, as you will be working under...
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    LPN going into business for him/herself?

    SuzieVN replied to ionatan's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Depends on your state law. Most states require a license from the department of health to even provide non medical home care. A few do not (CA,AZ). If you do it in a state that does, without obtaining...
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    Is floor nursing making you fat?

    SuzieVN replied to OCRN3's topic in Health, Stress Management

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    Is floor nursing making you fat?

    SuzieVN replied to OCRN3's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Funny, I was thinking the same thing. Being under intense pressure ought to make you burn calories- but it does have the opposite effect- no matter how hard you have to
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    Waiting for LVN license in Ca

    SuzieVN replied to dlandin21's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Five years ago I applied for my license in CA. I mailed it on Monday. I received it back in the mail that Friday. Again...how times have
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    Reckless Driving & Licensure/Employment

    SuzieVN replied to blueorchid981's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Unfortunately, you were arrested for "DUI", and that arrest record will be permament. Doesn't even matter if it had been dismissed- that arrest for "DUI" will never go away. And you probably were...
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    Intro to Home care, needing some advice

    SuzieVN replied to petluvr's topic in Private Duty

    Please
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    Want to quit nursing school.

    SuzieVN replied to dpf112's topic in General Students

    GA is FAR more practical today than nursing, are they smoking
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    How much urine CAN a bladder hold?

    SuzieVN replied to SuzieVN's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I forget what can happen if a bladder that full were to drain all at once, I recall it could be serious. Again, good thing I had to keep coming and going. His mental state didn't seem to change, he...
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    the way I vew things or the way healthcare has become??

    SuzieVN replied to blugreeneyez's topic in General Nursing

    It's impossible. There are so many data bases, you'd never get through them if you
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    Finally decided to quit nursing

    SuzieVN replied to jennjen512's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Being a fitness fan, myself- I have to admit I can't stand to be around people that let themselves go to hell, and expect to be waited on. I get flat out disgusted to see an obsese person, and smoking...
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    Sexual Orientation Question

    SuzieVN replied to wish_me_luck's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    [quote=logank622; My short answer to the OP's question is that no, sexual orientation shouldn't matter anymore. The only gender-specific teaching should happen during puberty when bodies are changing...
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    Lack of Healthcare Accessibility Affects Every Patient, Every Nurse, Every Hospital.

    SuzieVN replied to RNGoldie's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    \\It's not your imagination. And too bad once that baby is born, those 'christians' then punish them and their mother by cutting their access to healthcare, the second
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    SNF's that accept pt on vent & receiving Hemodialysis

    SuzieVN replied to spejsa's topic in LTC: Directors, Assistant

    Plaza Healthcare in Scottsdale- they collect trachs from like a 7 state area. Used to live across the street- every day there was a long line of ambulances waiting to get to the door. Total HH. Was...
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    What shift does the 7am med pass?

    SuzieVN replied to keepitsimple0025's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    And fights over who's gonna give
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    The most gruesome situation you've encountered?

    SuzieVN replied to SuzieVN's topic in General Nursing

    What's weird is I was mesmerized, rather than grossed out. The most interesting thing, he cut into her bladder, and the balloon from the catheter was still in there. I used to recall that every time I...