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  1. Emergent

    Resignation in lieu of drug test? Is random testing the answer?

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Lots of great discussion and good points being made here. I can see the difficulty with random screenings. If someone had a poppy seed muffin, they might turn up positive. I'm just trying to problem...
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    Resignation in lieu of drug test? Is random testing the answer?

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    We give our personal freedoms in many aspects of life to protect others, or ourselves. For example, many nurses here favor mandatory vaccines. Other examples might include mandatory insurance laws,...
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    Resignation in lieu of drug test? Is random testing the answer?

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    My thought is that, wouldn't having random drug testing hanging over ones head deter nurses from even starting a habit? People don't start out addicted. They have to cross that line for the first...
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    Nurse Ratchett gets vulnerable!

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Good news. Nurse Ratchet more personable and open today. She saw it was safe to open up about her feelings and be vulnerable I
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    Nurse Ratchett gets vulnerable!

    Emergent posted a topic in General Nursing

    There is a nurse Ratchett at one of my jobs, she is a day nurse in our one nurse ER in a tiny hospital. Fortunately, I only interact with her for an awkward 1/2 hr at time during shift change. She is...
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    Nurse Ratchett gets vulnerable!

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This job has a lot of down time. One thing that is a constant, however, is that Nurse Ratchet is mean to people. One morning we got a patient at shift change. She laid into both the tech, who'd come...
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    Nurse Ratchett gets vulnerable!

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, she's a sourpuss when the ER is empty, believe me. She's had so many people complain about her, it's ridiculous. I hear administration had her on an improvement plan because of her inability to...
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    How should this have been handled by facility?

    Emergent replied to LuckyLibraLPN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    It sounds like this nurse was not a very good nurse. She lied to the family about the pain meds available, and even worse, she under medicated a hospice patient. What was she worried about, that a...
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    Advice for the new hire (hint: don't show your faults for awhile 😇)

    Emergent posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A coworker and I were discussing a gal who was let go during the probationary period. She was dumb enough to show her slacker side way too early in the relationship. If you were dating a hot guy or...
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    When should nursing homes be allowed to evict residents?

    Emergent posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Here's an interesting article from NPR. It's about the eviction of one man in particular from a nursing home after he was hospitalized. He is spent a very expensive year on the state tab, paying for a...
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    Terminated. Pursue a Lawsuit?

    Emergent replied to ERgirlynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Horrifying? Being beheaded by ISIS is horrifying. So is being pursued by
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    Patient Conscious During CPR

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    There is literature and research out there regarding this. It DOES happen. Whether he was telling a big fish story or not, I'm not a mind reader, but he told the story straight. He said that the...
  13. Emergent

    Terminated. Pursue a Lawsuit?

    Emergent replied to ERgirlynurse's topic in General Nursing

    :roflmao: OMG, I can't stop
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    Terminated. Pursue a Lawsuit?

    Emergent replied to ERgirlynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you!
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    Should I SUE?

    Emergent replied to hollyday's topic in General Students

    Frankly, if this story is as you tell it, I think it's ridiculous to kick you out of school for this. I, as a nurse, would NEVER rely on a student to monitor my patients. Where was the monitor tech?...
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    Succeeding but feel kind of alone

    Emergent replied to Scrubs_n_sirens's topic in Emergency

    It sounds like you are too Pollyanna for this group. They are probably jealous and annoyed. ER nurses tend to be cynical and irreverent. Plus, some units or shifts are hopelessly cliquish. I worked...
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    Terminated. Pursue a Lawsuit?

    Emergent replied to ERgirlynurse's topic in General Nursing

    So, you admitted stealing benadryl from your employer, also had several undocumented wastes of controlled substances, and seem a little surprised and annoyed that they canceled meetings, officially...
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    Harassment, Stalking, Impersonation by Psycho Ex... Name Change?

    Emergent replied to HopefulVANurse's topic in General Nursing

    I hope you reported him to the school and
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    ICU nurse not liking my job

    Emergent replied to NURSEJSS's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My advise, short and sweet: Stick it out for a year and then move one. BTW, are you working in a particularly high crime area or something? I've worked 5 years in an ER in a hospital with lots of...
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    Harassment, Stalking, Impersonation by Psycho Ex... Name Change?

    Emergent replied to HopefulVANurse's topic in General Nursing

    This is a very dangerous situation for you. You need to obtain expert advise. Men like this can kill. They escalate after restraining orders etc. This man sounds unstable to me. Protect
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    Reporting an incident

    Emergent replied to studentbear's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The comments sound socially clumsy. I don't see how asking how lub dub is said in Spanish is discrimination. I'm interested in linguistics myself. For instance, in Polish sheep don't say 'baa baa',...
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    Year old Ativan script, drug testing

    Emergent posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    Over a year ago I was prescribed Ativan after an accident with a long rehab, I was stressed out. I ended up using very few of them. I used half of one before getting on the plane, I'm currently on...
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    Year old Ativan script, drug testing

    Emergent replied to Emergent's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I'll ask my nurse practitioner to give me a prn script for plane travel. I took half of a 0.5 mg tab, it worked like a
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    How woud you treat this patient...

    Emergent replied to zzyzx's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Why would you pace him? Makes no sense at all with a bp that high. I would get monitor on, O2 on, and start an IV immediately, if this is in ER. Cardiac protocol will be ordered, Dr will likely want...
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    Need INTERVIEWEES for paper on nursing specialties! NICU, Flight nurse, L&D, Travel nurse.

    Emergent replied to Bones874's topic in General Students

    I personally see no reason why students can't use this forum as a resource. Students are a huge part of allnurses. Why shouldn't they try to contact working nurses