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  1. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    LOLOL id fail miserably then - sleep apnea - alcoholic hubby - TWO emotionally dosabled children one so severe he has to go to a special school for out of control kids - stress?? not much here LOL....

  2. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    many places such as the one I work at now do not alow you to smoke on premisses - you have to go off the area to smoke - which is OK as I smoke in my car anyhow - I just move it a few feet to the road...

  3. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    I am one of the nurses who is addicted to nicotine and I can tell you you will not find me out smoking anytime the urge hits - nor any of the other nurses I work with - I take my mandatory half hour...

  4. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    yor point is accurate that it stops cheating - someone already posted thier brother or a friend? uses a childs urine so they cant tell he gets high - scary to think that if given forewarning how many...

  5. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    I thin k we all need to get used to it - some places - like the last place I worked last went as far as to install a time machine that you had to use your fingerprint to sign in!! this was way beyond...

  6. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    actually no - they do it often - they say because if a person is inept at handling their personal money affairs they may be not good employee - perhaps thier lack of money is to the fact they dont...

  7. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    cigs and alcohol are legal - mj is not in the USA- so regardless where you kmay go where it is legal one should not come back expecting to get away with it. just my

  8. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    at my current place they even have you fill out a full health report including any meds you are on - I was sure id never be hired LOL with the fact I take some pain killers for fibrmyalgia dn...

  9. Drug Testing At Hospitals

    twotrees2 replied to crazylilkelly's topic in General Nursing

    any place I have worked itis policy that they can do drug testing when and if they deem appropriate - generally if someone has an accident or they make a bad error - then yes theyd test - we also had...

  10. RN with huge medical debt, looking for high paying work

    twotrees2 replied to neophyte's topic in General Nursing

    perhaps the poster did not mean the middle east as in overseas - america has an east and west coast - central etc- perhaps they meant the states in the middle east here - honestly the idea of middle...

  11. How much autonomy do nurses have??

    twotrees2 replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    i would like to say that as for autonomy we need to use it a lot not just in decisions such as wether or not to give a med bbased on thier issues ( blood sugars, blood pressures etc as some have...

  12. Male Nurses/female Patients

    twotrees2 replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    in our facility ANY person charged with ANY abuse is lead out of the building immediately wthout pay until the investigation is done. regardless of gender - we have had some come back they did what...

  13. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    yes this woman is an accident or lawsut waiting to happen and i pray i am never the one working with her when it happens - thankfully she is even less part time than i am so we rarely cross paths but...

  14. Male Nurses/female Patients

    twotrees2 replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    i am very grateful more men are gttiing int o nursing. when truth be told many men prefer a man but they just "accept " a female as that is the "usual norm" - when i am able i offer to have a male do...

  15. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    yes i can - in my facility the rn is the charge and she is the one who oversees all the lpns and cnas - i get a lesser case load cause i have to check more over what everyone else is doing vs just...

  16. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    i know one nurse who thinks she is a doc an knows more than a doc - she is married to a doc and though she has never said she is a doc she takes it upon herself to diagnose treat and prescrbe and...

  17. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    i have to add my 2 cents - just cause a [erson has a bsn or rn or any degree does NOT mean they know more- i know quite a few rns and bsns that dont know crap compared to our experienced lpns - just...

  18. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    55 an hour - holy crap i AM in the wrong area lolol. kidding - even ythough that is over twice what i am paid i wouldnt trade my small town everyone knows everyone fo rthat - hmmm - i ocul dwork less...

  19. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    i tell my cnas often and i am sure its the same with pct or cmas or whatever - without you we can not do olur jobs well. witth the increasing responsibility and paperwork for RNS we have precious...

  20. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    small areqas like ours will pay for thier cmas to take classes to be skilled and qualified in certain arweas such as ekgs and taking blood draws as they are cheaper laor than a nurse - it doesnt take...

  21. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    if i had my way and could do it all over id never be an rn id be an lpn - unfortuantely back when i was going to school they no longer offered the class as everywhere here was phasing out lpns - ha -...

  22. Differences between Medical Assistants and Registered Nurses?

    twotrees2 replied to MA2006's topic in General Nursing

    i can believe shed be making as much in chicago as a med assisitant as an RN in my small town egypt area- RNs in the big cities mae nearly TWICE what i am making after 14 yrs and they are just grads -...

  23. Threat of needle sticks!!

    twotrees2 replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    i have not worked in a doc office but my aunt did and i knmow for a fact she was ofetn full of bodily fluids - lol - so i dont know that is what you want either. again i reiterate - if you arent...

  24. Threat of needle sticks!!

    twotrees2 replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    my opinion if ya cant do it all then you wont do well even in a supervisory positon - i have never once been afraid to ask my superiors where i work now from DON to administrator to help with...

  25. Threat of needle sticks!!

    twotrees2 replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    wow - even with my essential tremors i dont think i have had that many sticks in my career- yikes - thats a lot. hope you get the hang of it