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Shanice, sorry to hear that you were in that situation. I am also in a similar situation. If you are working at a hospital and your supervisor praises your work, then you can try to request a letter of reference from the employer. Hopefully, your supervisor's letter of reference can help convince your dean of the nursing program. That is the best solution in my mind.

Hi, I am a 2nd year nursing student. I was wondering if there is research on whether solely nasal breathing will prevent infection compared to mouth breathing. I have been experimenting with nasal breathing for 2 weeks through hiking, sitting on desk, and sleeping. Anecdotally, I feel less anxious and take control of my emotion more often. But more importantly, Patrick Mckowen who teaches Buteyko Method to reach optimal CO2 and O2 level with Bohr's Effect. https://oxygenadvantage.com/science/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteyko_method I read that some people have been stressed out from the pandemic. I wonder if changing the breathing method have been tried by you guys or have been recommended to public and patients? Patients with comorbidity may have more difficulty to gradually adapting to nasal breathing, but I thought this could be a simple forgotten way to cope stress.

I just wanted to get on the jump wagon as a psychiatric aide at a mental clinic. I first applied to the psychiatric aide position because my awesome nursing mentor was an RN for the company. I chose to work as a psychiatric aide over working as a CNA. During my mental health clinical, I was impressed by how mental health professionals and nurses attempted therapeutic communication with patients on the inpatient unit. My mentor worked at a crisis clinic, where ER patients requiring drug rehab, medication management, or domestic crisis were referred to the crisis triage. I enjoyed working at inpatient unit for some adrenaline rushing time where multiple staff needs to pay attention to a patient's not medically threatening mental crisis. At that time, while attending nursing school, I was still uncertain about my goals. Initially, I enjoyed communicating with patients in mental health facility, but I feel like the depression, anguish, and mental illness started creeping in me. Maybe, I just did not have a personal answer to the origin of each patient's crisis. Whether an middle adult was suicidal, or the same mental patients returned to the crisis unit, expecting them to make better choices. At my facility, as I worked closely with peer counselors, one bottleneck problem I found was housing is becoming more expensive, and these folks have hard time finding a job. It is my personal thought, but is also supported by Dr. Paul Conti M.D a psychiatrist from Johns Hopkins University and a guest on Joe Rogan Experience said that medications should not be the first level treatment for patients with mental illness. I heard from the podcast that Hydrocodone is one of the most prescribed antidepressant. What struck me was patients often perceive sadness and depression as unnatural. Of course if sadness and depression are the default feeling, it is a problem. However, people like Viktor Frankl, a Jewish survivor of Holocaust or some grandparents who witnessed WWI and WWII or were born in the era survived a lived a good life. Of course, Viktor Frankl is a rare survivor, but isn't his popular enough for people in crisis or mental health professionals to guide patients to Dr. Frankl's own logotherapy? If patient had horrific trauma from their family, shouldn't we address problem at the familial level? The above is part of my thought where I began thinking why are patients receiving too much medications for depression. By the way, I am a male and identified as an introvert, regular built. I had several depressive episodes, but I never used medications, but sought college therapists and church young adult virtual groups. I am doing way better and became a believer of minimalist approach that "you can do more with less." Based on minimalist approach, I just cannot imagine how more antipsychotic medications will solve depression or crisis in young adults. Also, I also became aware that I feel the pain for people who don't have enough wealth, but I also believe that wealthy people do deserve that money.

Hi, I am requesting a petition letter to my professors. I did not pass a second medical-surgical clinical, not due to family problems, but rather not reviewing and applying what I learned from the past 2 years. My clinical professor mentioned that I should I needed to review basic skills, documentation, medications, lab values, diagnostics. I also need to practice prioritization when providing patient care. Therefore, I have been improving those areas and also improving to seek advice from close ones and advisers. I tried to say as objectively as possible with positive spin, rather than critique my mistake. I am sure that professors wants to hear my plan more than anything. Do I need to specify my plan even more? Petition for Reentry Dear Professors, I am requesting for reentry into the second year of --- --- Nursing Program. I successfully completed the past four quarters and three out of four classes in the fifth quarter, but I had difficulty in the second medical surgical clinical. I believe my weakness was from not having enough exposure in a clinical environment. Currently, I am working as a treatment aide at a Mental Health Services. Since the Summer of 2019, I have experience in assisting activities of daily living and mental health of patients. Now, I am seeking different clinical responsibilities. Therefore, I am applying to several nursing assistant positions at hospitals and at --- assistant program. From working in a clinical environment, I will time manage in caring for multiple patients. I am completing a virtual medical-surgical simulation and accessing unfolding case studies from National League of Nursing. Practicing those tools will help me apply the anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, dosage, and pathophysiology that I learned in the past 5 quarters. Therefore, I am also solving NCLEX questions to practice critical thinking in decision making. Currently, I am practicing daily head-to-toe assessment, focused assessments, and measuring vital signs on my family members. I am reviewing the normal and abnormal assessment findings to accurately assess and document them. With my plan, I will enter the program with a greater experience in applying nursing processes. Therefore, I respectfully ask professors to allow me to retake second medical surgical clinical in Winter of 2021. Sincerely, --- ---