hppygr8ful ASN, RN, EMT-I

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    Need advice, transgender nurse on probation

    hppygr8ful replied to Sweetheart RN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I would offer you these words of encouragement - you have come so far through so much these last hurdles will be small ones. Does your agreement with the BON require you to be in a peer support...
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    Another nurse bites the dust due to facebook

    hppygr8ful replied to siringe's topic in Nursing News

    Actually in the US the Constitutional Right to privacy is decided by the court on a case by case basis. It is generally argued that a person only has a right to privacy in situations where a...
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    Never thought it would be this bad

    hppygr8ful replied to ajacks65's topic in General Nursing

    I am going to second this advice - it could very well be that float pool is a bad fit for you. On another note have you considered Psych nursing. It's not as physically demanding (I've done it for...
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    Personal Address Disclosed to the public? what does this mean?

    hppygr8ful replied to Kate.Med/Surg RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would say that this is a gross over generalization of psychiatric patients. I have been working in acute in patient psych for 17 years and while I agree that many of our patients are pretty...
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    Support Planned Parenthood Today!

    hppygr8ful replied to elkpark's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I totally concur with this statement. As a realist I know abortion isn't going away but Planned Parenthood should not be funded by federal tax dollars. There are a ton of filthy rich liberals who can...
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    Letter from the attorney general..

    hppygr8ful replied to aflahe00's topic in Nurses Recovery

    The only thing you can do at this point is honestly tell the truth. They will either give you a 2nd chance or they won't. Either way you can't change what you don't acknowledge.
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    "Is it OK if I" vs "I just need to" vs "Could you please"

    hppygr8ful replied to Philly85's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work in Psych so I always ask before I touch - but even when I worked acute care I was taught that any touch without permission could be viewed as assault. So for basic stuff when it is not an...
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    Severe anxiety

    hppygr8ful replied to Socrates12358's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I concur. Not really medical advice but personal experience - I suffer from PTSD from childhood abuse and for almost 5 years crippling anxiety with symptomatic galloping heart rate. I was without...
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    Probation?

    hppygr8ful replied to Bayounurse7's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I was in a voluntary diversion program in California for 5 years and my license showed valid and unencumbered the whole time. It was part of my contract unless I screwed up.
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    Input Needed - What brand of scrubs do you prefer?

    hppygr8ful replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Scrub Star from Walmart, Black , wrinkle free and reasonably
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    How to protect yourself from infections after work?

    hppygr8ful replied to NurseIAm0613's topic in General Nursing

    Outside of the universal precautions that we are all familiar with I take no special precautions other than leaving my hospital shoes on the front porch when I enter the house. I work in Psych and we...
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    Lawyer Advice

    hppygr8ful replied to mississippiRN71's topic in Nurses Recovery

    If you are already in a program and have signed a contract it may be too late to have lawyer represent you. Unless you try to claim that you didn't understand the terms you were agreeing to or that...
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    Participating in Protests?

    hppygr8ful replied to wanna_be's topic in General Nursing

    Also you can protest in a manner that allows for participation without going overboard - marching and carrying a banner stating what you support should be no problem - dressing up as a giant lady...
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    Need help with wording.

    hppygr8ful replied to Cattz's topic in School

    I am so glad my son is now old enough to stay home alone with a mild illness. We forget that many parents have no one to watch younger children and face the very real fear of losing their jobs if they...
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    Bullying at Work - What is your experience?

    hppygr8ful replied to compassionresearcher's topic in General Nursing

    I see your point but for your study to be valid you would need a control group of nurses who were not bullied to compare your data to. I for one am not convinced that bullying in nursing is as big a...
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    BON investigaton

    hppygr8ful replied to dialysisrnmom's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If it were me I would call my malpractice company and get an attorney to draft a letter to the facility stating that they provide evidence of this accusation and if they cannot to cease and desist or...
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    Should I self report?

    hppygr8ful replied to Sunnywd's topic in General Nursing

    They are not likely to report this to the board - modern electronic medication systems like Pixis and Omnicel - generate Anomaly reports and facilities use these to track med errors and possible...
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    UGH- Head Lice- But for real, a serious question

    hppygr8ful replied to Supernrse01's topic in School

    I think I would treat her at school and have her come to the nurses office every am to be combed out with repeat treatments weekly times three weeks. Still the problem is likely to reoccur since she...
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    Roll call...status call...

    hppygr8ful replied to MizChelleRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Hppygr8ful sobriety date 10/22/04 Diversion completion date may 2009 Currently working In-patient Psych and loving
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    Almost fired for med error

    hppygr8ful replied to mellybelly27's topic in Emergency

    I believe that you are experiencing unfair treatment and certainly know what it's like to feel as if you have a target on your back =. Best thing to do is hold your head high and get back in there....
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    Gov. Christie impose pain pill limit: 5 days for initial RX despite N.J. docs objections

    hppygr8ful replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    I don't think there is anything unreasonable about this though I didn't think the governor could just go ahead and do something like this. As a law it would have gone through the New Jersey...
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    Psych nursing is easy

    hppygr8ful replied to studentnurse9806's topic in Psychiatric

    You are so funny
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    I want to help people not hurt them

    hppygr8ful replied to julesjameson3333's topic in Psychiatric

    Jules, Kudos to you for being willing to think outside the box. I am very familiar with the neuro-diversity concept as I am Neuro-typical and my husband has Asperger's or High Functioning Autism...
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    Resetting dislocating WHATS?

    hppygr8ful replied to WyVy's topic in School

    Perfectly appropriate - Just make sure she signs liability waivers!
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    recently let go of a job

    hppygr8ful replied to Starseed6389's topic in General Nursing

    Good Advice, Also if the subject of being terminated every does come up it will be far enough in the past that the clinic will likely on verify dates of employment and you can always use the "It just...