curleysue

curleysue

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About curleysue

CNA, EMT, 1 year away from an RN. Love anything that has to do with medical!

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  1. Applying for 2006

    I went to Linfield McMinnville campus for 2 years and then to the Portland Nursing campus for 1 year until I got sick with meningitis but anyways, yes its super expensive, I owe like $30K and I still have 1 year left of my BSN. And that is with grant...
  2. Mt St. Helen's

    You must live really close to Mt. Saint Helens. I am from Eastern Oregon so I don't feel it. I heard on the news channel today that the USGS service is thinking with the increase in magnitude and activity of earthquakes, the mountain might have anoth...
  3. Hey All- I just found out about these awsome shoes called MBT that can almost guarentee to tone your muscles in your feet, ankles, hamstrings, thigh, butt, stomach and back. I went to a home show we had in our town and there was this exhibit about th...
  4. foot wear

    Wow, no replies yet. There are a lot of nurses on this forum who would probably know a lot more than me but I felt bad that no one had responded yet. For nursing school I used dansko clogs which were awsome, I was just uncordinated and tripped in the...
  5. recent colonoscopy experience

    Spaniel-- You welcome for the post. Actually I think propofol is an excellent drug to use for scope procedures cause it has a short half life and patients who are on a lot of pain meds for chronic pain are usually tolerant to versed or other drugs gi...
  6. recent colonoscopy experience

    Hi all- I just had a colonoscopy and endoscopy yesterday due to my hemoglobin and hematocrit falling rapidly for reasons that we don't know. So my doc said he wanted to find out if I was bleeding from an ulcer or other spots in my GI tract. Because o...
  7. Where am I bleeding??? I am scared!

    RJFLYN- Thanks for the reply. Yes its a tough case. Since I was 18 I have been so sick with meningitis twice, DVT's 4 times, PE's bilateral 2 times, oxygen therapy for 2 years, 8 surgeries, polycystic ovaries, multiple pnemonia and pnemothorax's. Its...
  8. Where am I bleeding??? I am scared!

    Thanks for all the wonderful information. I am definetly not using this site to be diagnosed I just thought I would get some input on other medical professionals. Hundreds of heads together is better than one! To answer some questions: No I do not ta...
  9. since october 2004 my cbc labs have been dropping significantly. my labs are as follows: type date results reference range hemaglobin 10/04 11.3 12.4-15.7 ...
  10. Typical Day For A Home Health Nurse | Life of a Nurse

    I can't report all the stuff I do cause she already told me that they are not paying me for all those extra stuff that is not on my job description list. I know I will lose my job cause my supervisor is going out for a visit to her house to actually ...
  11. Typical Day For A Home Health Nurse | Life of a Nurse

    Hairstylingnurse- Sometimes I do feel like I am doing way too much housework and not enough nursing care! Both of my clients manipulate me, and I take it cause I cannot afford to loose my job. Today I got into an arguement with my client cause she wa...
  12. Mt St. Helen's

    I live near Portland, OR and saw the mountain burp at about 5:30pm when it spit out a bunch of ash and smoke. It was an awsome site. I was just excited for lava flow!! Curleysue
  13. Drug Seekers- the Wrongfully Accused

    Future nurse- I know how frustrating it is waiting for your doc to call and at five till five you call again saying, "Now what am I supposed to do?" I have a doc like this right now who has denied me my twice a week magnesium infusion till he can see...
  14. Your least favorite patient.

    Its kinda hard to learn the difference between drug seekers and the real pain cause as a nurse its hard in some cases cause sometimes you just cannot figure out which patients are just abusing the system to get their 'high'. I know a lot of nurses ha...
  15. Nursing Issue - Medication Aides

    And plus the sad thing is, the assisted living facilty that I worked at who's RN was hardly there, she trusted the MA's to fill out the MAR sheets on their own even with new meds and all that. We had one of the med aides who was actually working as t...