Your monitoring program allow whipits?

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Specializes in Critical Care, Float Pool Nursing.

Does your monitoring program allow you to use whipits? I will confess to using whipits during monitoring. For those who don't know, they aren't addictive.

Do you, or have you ever used, whip its? Does your monitoring program forbid them?

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That is a terrible idea on so many levels.

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What is a whip it?

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Specializes in EMT since 92, Paramedic since 97, RN and PHRN 2021.

Yea, don't teens do that when they're bored. I'm far from perfect and have my vices like others but whipits, really?!?!?

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Specializes in EMT since 92, Paramedic since 97, RN and PHRN 2021.
What is a whip it?

It's when you take a whipped cream container, shake it, and instead of inverting it to squirt out whipped cream you hole it upright and inhale the gas. Not a very smart thing to do. It displaces the oxygen in the cells.

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Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

No but mine lets us smoke cinnamon to get high.

/is it 1998 all over again?

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Specializes in Healthcare risk management and liability.
What is a whip it?

It is a small cylinder filled with nitrous oxide.

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

Dear Jesus,

I have to say this is wrong on so many levels - changing substances to something undetectable - is not working a program of recovery!

Hppy

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Wow. Just wow. Was that a serious question or a troll?

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Does your monitoring program allow you to use whipits? I will confess to using whipits during monitoring. For those who don't know, they aren't addictive.

Do you, or have you ever used, whip its? Does your monitoring program forbid them?

It is a common misconception that nitrous is not addictive. Physically, not so much. Mentally/psychologically, unfortunately so. What's worse is there's little to no physical withdrawal effects, so there is no hell to pay after a bender.

That said, nitrous can cause a Vitamin b12 deficiency, especially in those prone to low B12 levels to begin with. It may also lead to broken digits and/or sprained ankles/wrists if not used while seated.

I'd take a looonnnnggg good look at why you feel the need to switch from one high to another, imho.

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It's hard to imagine a monitoring program that would be okay with recreational substance use/abuse, regardless of whether the substance is technically "addictive."

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Specializes in Assistant Professor, Nephrology, Internal Medicine.

Obviously you really need to take a hard look at your life and career. Monitoring and recovery are obviously not working. You need more help. What's more important, your RN career or your next high?

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