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    Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo immediately

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in General Nursing

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    Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo immediately

    Ashera posted a topic in General Nursing

    Don't know what exactly I need help with - except everything. Very emotional and sad day. I'm a single nurse in Texas - my son, 23 yo, is in Air Force stationed in Grand Forks. He visited earlier...
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    Update: Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for checking on me! Just posted an update under oncology. He's on his way to Mayo - again - this weekend to start radiation. Biopsy not possible. They are thinking and proceeding along the...
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    Update: Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in Oncology

    Thank you for your prayers - and know mine are back with you and your mom! Please let us all know how she
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    Update: Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in Oncology

    Ah! Yiddish I should know already...Ashera (Hebrew for Blessed & Fortunate)
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    Update: Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in Oncology

    Thank you carolladybelle - for your response(s) but I have to say now to everyone - Please don't let this vere off in a direction I don't need. My 'update' just posted was after a long letter one...
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    Update: Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in Oncology

    thank you so much craig - i appreciate this link - it has so much info in it - it is filed away...hopefuly not to be needed - but i have a gut feeling i'll be referring to it again. many warm wishes...
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    Update: Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in Oncology

    oh thank you!!!! this is wonderful information and several of these places i'd not seen yet! a good way to spend my saturday afternoon! bless
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    Update: Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in Oncology

    I do appreciate your letter, although it did feel like I was being scolded. Speak to others about life in general? This...happens to be my life in general right now. And this board is also a place...
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    Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo immediately

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in General Nursing

    Gary - thanks so much for your lengthy reply - I posted also under the oncology forum and have had other replys as well - I read them to my son - and have filed much away to refer to in the coming...
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    Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo immediately

    Ashera posted a topic in Oncology

    Also posted in MN state forum: Don't know what exactly I need help with - except everything. Very emotional and sad day. I'm a single nurse in Texas - my son, 23 yo, is in Air Force stationed in...
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    Help?? 23yo son dx'd with brain tumor referred to Mayo immediately

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in Oncology

    Oh my! You guys have no idea what a comfort and balm you have been for my heart in just the last 24 hours ! The way everyone has reached out and just...been there. We can't ever forget - as nurses,...
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    What is the silliest complaint someone has ever made aboutyou?

    Ashera replied to SharonH, RN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I was called in for a brief mtg with the DON of a hospice in pt facility where I'd worked for a year. One particular nurse had complained because I was too upbeat and positive when I came to work and...
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    Help! Need more CEUs for license renewal

    Ashera posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    Got the dreaded letter saying I am being audited before my Jan 07 renewal date - and must provide evidence of 20 ceu's in the past 2 years. Not realizing that CONTACT HOURS are not the same as CEU'S...
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    Help! Need more CEUs for license renewal

    Ashera replied to Ashera's topic in Texas Nursing

    Thanks for all the advice! And I did remember the bioterrorism needs and have already done that. I really worded my original question wrong. It does take 200 contact hours to provide 20 CEU's - not...
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    TEXAS nurse/patient ratios?

    Ashera replied to smk1's topic in Texas Nursing

    San Antonio - bad to worse in many of the hospitals - Med Surge/ Acute Care/Telemetry - average 6-7:1 sometimes CNA's mostly not - after 7am - draw own labs in several facilities Physicians horrible...
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    Looking for Overtime

    Ashera replied to becca1's topic in Agency Nurses

    Funny you should mention this - but the same is going for me as well in Texas - I work in one city - and the early morning before shift call-center that makes or breaks your day, calls on Labor day...
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    Personality Disorder Test...how do you stack up?

    Ashera replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Psychiatric

    VERY HIGH IN HISTRIONIC!!!!! The other scores simply make me interesting!!! Are we having fun with
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    Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    Ashera replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I am sorry you were offended by my comments. That was not my intention. Please accept my apology
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    Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    Ashera replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    44 M - AIDS, open lesions, scabies 19 M - DKA/pancreatitus - blood sugar on admission - 700 - insulin drip - moaning about not being able to party anymore 55 F - non-compl DSM - sugars 280's - 465 -...
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    Thinking about traveling to San Antonio, TX

    Ashera replied to BSN2004NSU's topic in Agency Nurses

    I am agency - had a long contract with Baptist - and it ended in late spring. They did not renew. They are having extreme problems with very low census - and have also - I've been told - recently...
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    Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    Ashera replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I am having a real knee jerk reaction to your note. I know you meant well in your heart but I feel you 'led the witness' projecting your own beliefs system on her. In asking her if she knew the...
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    Hourly Rate For LPNS

    Ashera replied to thundercat LPN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Work agency in San Antonio, TX - steady rate per hour is $23 - however I could make up to $29 if I was willing to commute an hour. Right now - at an inner city hospital - Tele and step down and acute...
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    Baptist Hospitals in San Antonio

    Ashera posted a topic in Agency Nurses

    Agency in San Antonio I will work with places many of their nurses in the Baptist system. Any advice, info, experience or inside opionions on these facilities? Agency friendly? Posted same question...
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    how do you introduce yourself to patients?

    Ashera replied to panamama's topic in General Nursing

    Good Morning - I'm Pamela and I'll be your nurse today... and I write my name on the board along with the aide, the charge nurse, the floor manager and any other pertinent person that pt will be...