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Aside from its anti hypertensive and portal hypertension indications, propranolol is actually prescribed for significant stage fright and/or fear of public speaking. Also commonly prescribed to surgeons to counteract hand tremors secondary to performance anxiety.

Get a little more life experience dear before you start qualifying how others spend their non-working hours. Camping? With your boyfriend? Bless your little heart....

Go to eeoc.gov for more info. I've found that educating myself about the law instrumental in asserting rights as a disabled employee. Although an employer's affirmative duties under anti-discrimination laws as enforced by the EEOC and other federally mandated leave protection laws are very clear, it's appalling at how often employers intentionally and repeatedly disregard their legal obligations and interfere with and deny employees from exercising their legally protected rights out of ignorance and/or pure greed. Some of the workplace discrimination experiences that fellow AN members have shared on here are absolutely gut-wrenching and infuriating as they illustrate how cutthroat and unethical employers (healthcare especially) can be; how many view their employees as no more than disposable warm bodies whose values depreciate if and when a disability or other protected class challenges their bottom line. As I'm sure you can tell, this is something about which I'm very passionate :) Good luck with your situation!

I think it's important that OP gains a better understanding of the implications of playing Nancy Drew in the future. Whether you agreed with this coworker's "libelous" statement, that's actually not relevant. You might be interested to know that even in non-unionized workplaces, discussions amongst employees regarding workplace conditions-even on Facebook-may qualify as FLSA-protected behavior and cannot be prohibited by the employer. You're certainly entitled to inform your employer about allegations of illegal employment practices, but the fact that your coworker published that allegation on FB wasn't a "boo-boo".

In the U.S., it's illegal for an employer to ask whether an applicant has a disability prior to a job offer. Technically speaking, an applicant and/or employee isn't required by law to disclose a known disability before, during, or after the application process unless the disability interferes with their ability to perform the essential job functions without reasonable workplace accommodation.

What are people's thoughts on a single color scrub for everyone? Starting next year all nurses, CNAs, transporters, etc have to wear navy scrubs embroidered with the hospital's logo because apparently patients were overwhelmingly in favor of it to help identify their healthcare team. Personally I think everyone wearing the same color makes absolutely no sense and will go over like a fart in church....

I'm so sorry you're going through this! No matter which profession you ultimately choose, you've gotta do you first! Since you're 75% through your BSN, have you considered pursuing your MSN in nursing informatics? Congrats on your success so far, but please take care of yourself!

This thread's given me great ideas. My hospital uses an annual peer review performance evaluation that coworkers, one physician, and myself evaluate my performance over the preceding year. I'm going to write down every instance of my going above and beyond for patients, their families, and my coworkers and reference that list on my next year's evaluation!

There's a world of difference between a confused patient who isn't capable of distinguishing between right and wrong and a patient who understands that threats of and/or physical acts of violence to intimidate others are generally frowned upon; whose inability to play nicely in the sandbox is a conscious decision. It's the latter that warrants swift and decisive action by management in order to discourage similar behavior. If management isn't willing to stand up for their staff's safety, instead choosing the needs of that patient over its staff, nurses ought to be involving their organizations' risk management departments, employee health, employee assistance programs, compliance officers and anonymous compliance hotlines, even state and federal regulatory agencies including OSHA and Joint Commission.

My hat goes off to you! At what point during the AIDS epidemic did your hospital decide that the safety of healthcare workers outweighed the cost of gloves and other PPE? My colleague said that in school and as a new grad, the use of gloves was frowned upon because they detracted from patient comfort and made patients feel like a patient.

That's something that I can't wrap my mind around.... I guess I just assumed that gloves of some sort had always been available to anyone who came in contact with blood, spit, puke, and poop. I had been a nurse for over 3 years before I learned that hadn't always been the case from a colleague who shared her experience with me as a new grad nurse in the mid 80s..... Wow! I had to manually disimpact my daughter earlier this year. It was my own kid, but I can't imagine doing that without the assistance Mr. Don D. Glove!

Actually, a major component of the informed consent as required by EMTALA is that the transferring physician discusses transportation arrangements with the patient. The nurse is responsible for assessing the patient's understanding. Questions posed by the patient to the nurse in front of the physician, IMO, possibly reflects the physician's failure to obtain informed consent.

zenitude: If not already, have you considered seeking evaluation by an immunologist? I graduated from nursing school mid 2009, and became pregnant with my 2nd child in 2010. Since giving birth in 2011, my health has undoubtedly taken a nose dive to the point that I've had to seriously contemplate giving up nursing completely. I began seeing an immunologist earlier this year who's been able to find the cause of my deteriorating health: specific antibody deficiency (SAD), a primary immunodeficiency that was likely triggered by pregnancy which prevents me from producing protective pneumococcal and tetorifice antibodies. Left untreated, SAD is considered to be a precursor to a potentially disabling primary immunodeficiency, common variable immunodeficiency (CVID). This has been an eye opening experience! It's thought that primary immunodeficiencies are significantly under diagnosed in people of all ages; CVID in the 3rd to 4th decades of life. I received my first Ig infusion last week, and am already feeling an improvement in the constant sore throat that I've lived with everyday for the last 2 years and markedly increased amount of energy! The real test will be this winter, but I'm hopeful! Best wishes!