Kay Shepard

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1. What's the weirdest baby name?

   Kay Shepard replied to teresab_2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Former governor of Texas James Hogg DID actually name his daughter Ima. You can look this up for yourself! I am just happy that he didn't have a second daughter....

2. Should BSN be required entry level for practicing nurses?

   Kay Shepard replied to N2000's topic in NP

   Credentials, respect, reward, and job satisfaction - it is a vicious cycle! I am a Certified Occupational Health Nurse, with 31 years of experience in several different areas of nursing. I am sick and tired of nurses eating their young! Occ Hlth N...

3. Diplopia with diabetes

   Kay Shepard replied to Kay Shepard's topic in General Nursing

   I have been treating with an internist, who knows me well and has been trying to work with me, but now I am going to go to an endocrinologist. I probably should have done so from the beginning, but thought, "Just Type II, and I'm a nurse! I can do ...

4. Diplopia with diabetes

   Kay Shepard replied to Kay Shepard's topic in General Nursing

   I find it very humbling but helpful to be put in a position of being thankful for what I have. God is good. He will make something good result from your husband's problems, and He'll always be there for you. My vision problems seem minor in compar...

5. Diplopia with diabetes

   Kay Shepard posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hope someone has some experience out there with diplopia in diabetes. I have had a strange course of diabetes & it just keeps getting stranger! I developed Type II diabetes over 4 years ago. No family history, and I'm not obese. In May I had ...

6. The Unbelievable things our Pts DO..It is true

   Kay Shepard replied to AmandaDawn's topic in Humor

   Had a guy come into the ER years & years ago - said he had a hamster crawl up his rectum & he couldn't get it out! Being young & naive, I was shocked to learn the reason he put the hamster in there. It is supposedly very "stimulating" a...

7. Polycystic Ovaries

   Kay Shepard replied to KaraLea's topic in General Nursing

   I am 54. I had such terrible periods in my teens & early twenties that I was anemic all the time. I was skinny - 5'7" and 115 lbs. I was very lucky to have 2 kids and then talked a doctor into a hysterectomy, but my ovaries were left (I was 26...

8. COHN Certification

   Kay Shepard replied to Lisabunt's topic in Occupational

   Annette, I am almost 100% certain that the minimum requirement for Certification in Occupational Health Nursing (COHN) is an RN license. Contact the certifying board at http://www.ABOHN.org for more information.

9. Anyone at Conference??

   Kay Shepard replied to wrightgd's topic in Occupational

   Didn't get to go to AOHC this year. Too many of us now have little or no financial support from our employers for continuing education. However, those who went told me it was "same old, same old". I've been in Occ Hlth 12 yrs, in a few different s...