I am just wondering if other hospitals have the same colossal amount of pain seekers? I feel like every single day I work I have a patient who only wants IV dilaudid mixed with IV phenergan mixed...
Are you saying I am not allowed to have my own personal opinion? You have your own personal opinion regarding my personal opinion...are you trying to tell me you yourself shouldn't have that personal...
I apologize, its a message board. Please forgive me. Would you be able to supply the article you are talking about? Seriously, I'm not trying to be smart, I would love to read the article. All the...
Apparently I have brought up a very controversial topic...which really was not my intent but I can clearly see how people have read my post in a variety of ways. Needless to say, I am not an evil...
Yes, I believe all the other IV medications potentiate the narcotic as they can (benadryl, phenergan, and ativan) cause a sedated effect. What is funny to me is when people ask me to give them...
TU RN, out of all the responses to my post I think you understand what I was trying to get across the most. People who have addiction problems are very time consuming and many times take up a huge...
LadyFree28, another post said something about withholding pain medication...I am not out to fight with you or single you out, I just wanted to make it clear I do not withhold pain medication from my...
For example, another patient had no abnormal testing but kept asking for IV dilaudid...even when the doctor came in to discharge this patient, they asked the doctor for "one more dose of IV dilaudid"...
I guess what really gets to me about the drug seekers is the manipulation that comes with it; I don't appreciate it because I feel they are taking advantage of people there to help
No, you are absolutely not alone. People can be very unreasonable and think that their lack of a medical degree does not mean anything, meaning they think they know everything. One of my pet peeves...