[Bipley]

Originally Posted by jubeepepper

GOD staff meetings are the worst. I either try and get super involved (and angry) about an issue and get in trouble or I sit there and doodle for about 10 minutes and then have to leave early. Treatment team or team conferences have never been good either, sometimes hours long listening to the same docter tell the same patient all his or her theries on why they are the way they are. I just want to blurt out everything I know he will say fast so it an be over with. I have to carry a notebook every where I go so I have something to do, write letters, draw, pass notes, whatever....

I got in trouble once by the DON for spinning in my chair. You know, it was the kind that you push off with one foot and spin away to see if you can get dizzy. But you have to understand, first of all I didn't know the DON was in there. She walked in unexpectedly, obviously. Secondly, I wasn't the only one not paying attention to the video taped 3 HOUR long BORING inservice on safety in the work environment. In case you missed it that is THREE HOURS on what to do in a thunderstorm, tornado, flash flood, deep snow (We are in the desert for petes sake!), what to do if we find a strange unmarked package, blah blah BLAHHHHHHHH!! Others were making faces, some where doing those weird animal shapes against the screen, one guy fell asleep. I was spinning in my chair.

I got a long lecture on how expensive those videos are and I should have been paying attention.

Listening to her drone on made me wonder what she would do if I started spinning in my chair again.

[Bipley]

Originally Posted by earle58

oh Lord, the urge i get to dopeslap the back of so many heads in hopes of making them talk faster/spit it out.

I know exactly what you mean. But I don't call it 'dope' slapping someone. LOL

[teeituptom]

Im obviously one of those slow talking calm and sedate people sometimes they even check my pulse to see if Im still alive. I hear The same way too. Some of those fast talking gibberish people I just nod and smile at them and totally ignore them.

A Slow Smooth Golf Swing is Better Than A rushed Hurried swing

[Bipley]

Originally Posted by teeituptom

Im obviously one of those slow talking calm and sedate people sometimes they even check my pulse to see if Im still alive. I hear The same way too. Some of those fast talking gibberish people I just nod and smile at them and totally ignore them.

Earle58 and I would be smacking you upside the head left and right in an attempt to push those words out once and for all!

[earle58]

Originally Posted by Bipley

Earle58 and I would be smacking you upside the head left and right in an attempt to push those words out once and for all!

or better yet, blow you completely off and onto other tasks at hand.

and why is it i always have 20 tasks going at once, all incomplete?

[Medic2005]

Just a vent i was trying to help my daughter do her homework tonight, Simple fractions subtraction i just couldn't focus on her work, when i look @ that i wonder if i can not help my daughter do her math homework how will i ever survive in nursing going to see my doctor on the 26 of Jan to see if for sure it could be add, Or if i'm just having a bad mind game with myself on not bn able to focus on any matter at hand, hopefully i will find the right path to get this in order to help me to be a great nurse, it will be a long path although there is a light at the end of the tunnel.


Thanks for listening to my problems have a great year

Jerry, RN hopefull

[Bipley]

Originally Posted by earle58

or better yet, blow you completely off and onto other tasks at hand.

and why is it i always have 20 tasks going at once, all incomplete?

Doesn't EVERYONE have 20 things going at once and none of them done?

However, I propose we finish the TeeUpTime task!

[Bipley]

Originally Posted by Medic2005

Just a vent i was trying to help my daughter do her homework tonight, Simple fractions subtraction i just couldn't focus on her work, when i look @ that i wonder if i can not help my daughter do her math homework how will i ever survive in nursing going to see my doctor on the 26 of Jan to see if for sure it could be add, Or if i'm just having a bad mind game with myself on not bn able to focus on any matter at hand, hopefully i will find the right path to get this in order to help me to be a great nurse, it will be a long path although there is a light at the end of the tunnel.


Thanks for listening to my problems have a great year

Jerry, RN hopefull

Jerry...

There is ALWAYS a light at the end of ANY tunnel. Sometimes it's just not the light you were expecting. Try not to have expectations so if it turns out to be something different it's easier to accept. That sounds like I'm referring to nursing school and I am NOT! I mean the dx, it could be lots of things. Find out for sure, get treated, and have an easier life.

Why stand when you can sit ... kinda thing.

[earle58]

Originally Posted by Bipley

However, I propose we finish the TeeUpTime task!

sheeesh, forgot about him. ok 21 tasks.
wait....he's been dopeslapped already.
1 task complete.

[earle58]

Originally Posted by Medic2005

Just a vent i was trying to help my daughter do her homework tonight, Simple fractions subtraction i just couldn't focus on her work, when i look @ that i wonder if i can not help my daughter do her math homework how will i ever survive in nursing going to see my doctor on the 26 of Jan to see if for sure it could be add, Or if i'm just having a bad mind game with myself on not bn able to focus on any matter at hand, hopefully i will find the right path to get this in order to help me to be a great nurse, it will be a long path although there is a light at the end of the tunnel.


Thanks for listening to my problems have a great year

Jerry, RN hopefull

having problems with helping your daughter does not rubberstamp you with add/adhd. it could be a myriad of disorders, or simply stress. sometimes when i'm helping my kids, i become hyperfocused and cannot stop on one problem until it's been solved. and it's just not with homework.

in nsg., yes we multi-task. and yes, you can be doing 10 things at once.
the difference w/add is the multi-tasking is not intentional. we start doing one thing, get sidetracked into another, then another, remember the initial task at hand, get distracted again and your mind is one blurry electrical current. although i will never, ever be organized, i am comfortable in my mess.

if you want some insight into add, i read this book "the ADDed dimension" by kate kelly and peggy ramundo. it was spectacular.....except i forgot what it's about; but do remember it leaving a most positive impression. these ladies are also the authors of "you mean i'm not lazy, stupid or crazy?!"

but again jerry, don't try to dx yourself. if you suspect add, call your md who will refer you to someone who specializes. much luck to you.

leslie