treysdaddy08

First union I can recall, was led by the founding fathers. Second was led by Abe Lincoln, and continued by Rosa Parks, et al. A union is a group of people that sacrifice, so that their successors can have it better than they did.

Bump.

Oops...sorry for the double post

Still rotflmao...hilarious!

Still rotflmao...

I seriously want to make that my tag on...everything! now. Lolololol!!!

Med aids are a step above CNA's and a step below lpn's (although it's a big step lol). The reason most of them call themselves nurses, I believe, is that they are told (I believe in their classes, but can't be *positive* that they have the same job as nurses for lower pay.

It really depends on how you learn. If I read your post correctly, you've got at least *some* college under your belt, so that helps a lot. You know how much you had to study to get the grades you got. The classes aren't, "easy", but they aren't overly hard, imo. At least, the pre-req's and first 2 quarters weren't (that's how far I made it before I dropped out; outside school reasons). You will have to do some seriously studying, but I always thought that the, "2-3 hours per hour of class" was asinine. If you're in class 3 hours a day, four days a week, that's 12 hours of class, plus, 24-36 hours of study! I personally studied probably 12-20 hours a week, max. Depends on the class and how well I felt I was grasping it. Again, you know how you learn. Some people it takes a little longer, while others pick things up pretty easily. Good luck!

I think the nursing shortage will come back with a vengeance. You'll have the pre retired nurses likely retiring again, those who were delaying finally getting to, and now millions of people who didn't previously have insurance will have it. People will go.to the doctors for EVERYTHING now. They'll need nurses worse than ever, imo.

You could ask them, "Do you think its possible that God is healing you by assisting us in helping you?" Or some variation of that.

Well, also realize that when the economy finishes it's turnaround, all the nurses that were retired will most likely re-enter retirement, plus all the nurses that were headed that way anyways. On top of which we have all the baby boomers hitting retirement as well. So all of these positions will be at a sudden loss, with a sudden influx of tens of thousands of geriatric patients. The good part being new nurses should have a lot more opportunity for work, the bad part being there will be a lot less experience to help guide the new nurse through the difficult times.

I should have been more specific. My mo was an aide fir 25 years in a hospital and was 51. She new what she was signing when she chose to go full code status.

This will probably be a bit of a long one... So I started my pre-req's for the local nursing program 5 (yes, 5!!!) years ago. I completed them in the normal time frame of 2 years. I didn't apply the following year to said nursing program b/c I didn't have speech done and I didn't think that I would get in. I did apply and get in the following year (2 years ago) but due to some personal circumstances I dropped the program at the end of the second quarter. My wife and I got married, we were expecting a child, I wasn't doing as well as they wanted me to with my care plans (one of the clinical instructors had nicknamed herself the care plan nazi) and my family had just found out that my mother was diagnosed with endometrial cancer and was given one year to live. this was all in jan-feb of 08. Well, this year I had applied to a different Nursing program thinking that a change of scenery would be good and I got accepted. But then the tragedy hit...my mom went to be with our Lord on May 31st of this year. I was pretty emotionally hit by that as she grew up my best friend. Watching her die for 3 days was not something I wanted to witness again. I emailed the school that I had been accepted to and withdrew my application. I have now come to realize that being with sick people, helping someone in thier time of most need, is what I've always wanted to do. Unfortunately b/c of my withdraw, I'll have to re-apply next year and not start until next september. I'm not worried about being accepted since I have already been accepted 3 times into various programs. But the waste of this next year, not being in school at all or getting closer to my degree and finally being done, is wearing on me. I want to be able to support my wife and son, and I want to start my career. I also HATE the thought that it will take me EIGHT years from start to finish, albeit 3 of those years I wasn't in school at all. What I could really use now are words of encouragement. P.S. He was born Sep 23rd of 2008. 6lb 12.3oz :)

Are you, "Allowed" by HIPPA to talk about a pt at the nurses station? No. Why not? It's a violation of that pts privacy. If you walk up to a pt in the middle of the store and ask, "how they are feeling" then you are divulging that they were in the hospital which is a violation of HIPPA in-and-of itself.

My mom is full code, and has stage 4 endometrial cancer. She was given 6-12 months to live 15 months ago. She now appears to be on "deaths doorstep" and still chooses to be a full code. Should we tell her that she shouldn't be because it annoys you? She shouldn't want an extra few weeks with her grandchildren before she passes on? She shouldn't want to see her son's birthday wich is just a few weeks away, maybe see her youngest grandchild crawl for the first time? Just tell her, "You're going to die anyways, why not get it over with". Code status is a persons choice and NO ONE should feel like they "have" to go before their ready. P.S. On your 80th birthday are you changing your code status?