catsmeow1972 BSN, RN

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    TPAPN Question

    catsmeow1972 replied to mom35's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Once you are in the clutches of these programs, warranted or not, appropriate or not (not my place to judge) you have to jump when they say jump, pee when they say pee, etc. and live by their rules no...
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    Managing screens and work

    catsmeow1972 replied to stickybun's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I've always done the check in at 4am. I take it as a personal challenge to have no check in later than 402. Don't ask, I'm just like that. Set the alarm, wake up, hit the **** website, either roll...
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    Bad messed up

    catsmeow1972 replied to pcbeachbum's topic in Nurses Recovery

    [COLOR=#000000]" the traditional route of IPN and getting an assessment will do nothing to identify or treat these items"[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]This is the precise mistake i made. I was under the...
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    Failure in Med surg

    catsmeow1972 replied to Joy4RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    here's an opinion from someone who did it bass ackwards. I started life in the OR. I was a scrub tech. Dived right into a leveL I trauma center (forget wet feet, try swallowing lung full of...
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    Diphenhydramine

    catsmeow1972 replied to RestingNurseFace's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Cripes, don't give 'em any ideas. like there aren't already enough ways for these things to inappropriatly slap a label on someone, NOT help them when in need, ruin a career, drive a person in...
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    Who, at your job, knows about your monitoring status?

    catsmeow1972 replied to TexasMel's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My program does not do the advocate bit but my first job was so horrid. It was the type of place that you had to do some serious gymnastics to NOT tell people all about your personal life. Quite like...
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    Diphenhydramine

    catsmeow1972 replied to RestingNurseFace's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Oh yes, this stuff is wayyyyyy out of line. These things discourage anything that "is mood or mind altering." Ummmm...okay. that's like dang near everything. Where I live, i am allergic to dang near...
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    KNAP is D.U.M.B

    catsmeow1972 replied to Short LPN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I think the OP hollering about these programs being "dumb" is justified. i do feel that whatever the reason that brought us to these things there should be an opportunity at some point in the journey...
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    Witnessed UDS

    catsmeow1972 replied to Chucktownnurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Just my opinion (and we know how those are, like you-know-whats, everybody's got 'em) nobody's witnessed me for 3+ years. Without reasonable suspicion, nobody needs to start. i don't have a whole lot...
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    Negative UDS.. how on earth???

    catsmeow1972 replied to StillRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I agree with Lisacar130. Based on the fact that we give people IV Dilaudid post op Q2h, it likely doesn't stick around very long plus the hemodilution. I would wonder more about the benzo effect of...
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    Negative UDS.. how on earth???

    catsmeow1972 replied to StillRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I think if the program knows you are taking those things and/or have provided notice of the surgery or provided proof of the prescription or reason for it being given to you, then it gets logged as...
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    If not nursing what other career would you have done?

    catsmeow1972 replied to nurse2bnoob101's topic in General Nursing

    Professional violinist. I play, or at least used to, just not very
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    Refusing to change/toilet pts

    catsmeow1972 replied to ShockMe's topic in General Nursing

    I dunno...at the moment I am sitting at home being a "failed" floor nurse. After 14 years of doing a couple of other branches of nursing I tried my hand at the floor. Yep, crash and burn. Why?...
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    Bad messed up

    catsmeow1972 replied to pcbeachbum's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Maybe that came out wrong. I just think telling someone to give up like that is a bit harsh. There are options. There are certainly some hard choices ahead and there most certainly will be...
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    Bad messed up

    catsmeow1972 replied to pcbeachbum's topic in Nurses Recovery

    How nice of you to be so supportive to someone who's already beating herself up over a mistake. As my mother used to tell me " if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at
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    New to IPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to Invincible summer's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Hi, what i can tell you is that yes, alcohol is forbidden as well as just about anything else that is "mood or mind altering." Personally I've always found it mildly humorous that caffeine and...
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    Home Health on TPAPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to texasgirl77's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I think the "let's make sure you don't forget that you screwed up," even if what got you here wasn't a "screw up" yanks my chain. My last position was such that the contract business was between me...
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    Home Health on TPAPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to texasgirl77's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Seen and noted. Hence the opened term "waking up an old thread"......8
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    Florida IPN update

    catsmeow1972 replied to MFTinRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Unfortunately they had me cowed and I did not know any better. At that point I was still under the sadly mistaken impression that they were there to help. If I had only known. To this day I still...
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    KNAP is D.U.M.B

    catsmeow1972 replied to Short LPN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Scream away, hon. You and everyone else in all of these programs all over the country. Try never ever having failed any sort of drug test and getting hammered with a 5 year contract, 3 years in with...
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    Home Health on TPAPN

    catsmeow1972 replied to texasgirl77's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Waking up an older thread but reading through it did not quite answer my question. i am just a scoash (is that even a word?) past the 3 year mark, 709 days to go, of a 5 year contract, yeehah,...
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    Why do We eat our young?

    catsmeow1972 replied to nellie272003's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't think the "bullying" or "eating the young" is any different in nursing than in any other profession. Nursing as a profession is very demanding (no matter what area you work in.) I've worked in...
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    Peer program power trip...

    catsmeow1972 posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    Not exactly a new topic, but i am feeling the need to ***** and complain....again.... I am a little more than midway through the 3rd year of this torture. As screwy and unwarranted as all this has...
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    OH comprehensive psych evaluation

    catsmeow1972 replied to Kchilk's topic in Nurses Recovery

    True. What is there to "evaluate" after several years of them being all up in our business (that's the sanitized version of what I really want to say.) The only thing to find out would be just how...
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    OH comprehensive psych evaluation

    catsmeow1972 replied to Kchilk's topic in Nurses Recovery

    My state's contract (standard boilerplate thing) states that you "may" be required to have another evaluation prior to completion of your contract. My personal thought is that it probably serves as a...