angelfaceLPN

My first profession is as a licensed cosmetologist, usually if someone had rusty water and they were showering in it the hair that is directly hit with the shower water will turn orange-y reddish colored. I don't personally know without looking up the details about the super high iron levels if that would affect only that particular part of the hair. Logically, it would be all of the hair or none of the hair if it was related to the high iron issue. There are treatments out there that can be done at the salon or in the home that strip iron from the hair, so if it was my family member or patient I would check into that as well. Let us know what you come up with!

We had to have a 3.0 (B) to even be considered. A 1.0 (D) not going to get her/him in the nursing program.

I actually went to Maine and a few other places, and they thought I had an accent (I'm from Michigan)! I had a difficult time understanding many people there!

Yes, that is just as annoying! "I have an i-deer, go and warsh yer hands!" LOL!

It annoys me when people say, "I have an ideal" rather than, "I have an idea"~

OMG, just sayin!

I can not fathom the loss of a child. I would, without hesitation, lay down and die for my kids this very instant. I have lost patients and it was very sad. I lost my dad suddenly and got the phone call while I was a chaperone for my then kindergarten aged sons class. If you want to silence a bus load of screaming kindergarten children, let them hear or see the devastation that came with that phone call to me. I lost my mom after almost 17 years of her being in a persistent vegetative state, not on any type of life support just tube feeding and a trach. I had a brand new boyfriend who woke up to me screaming and collapsing to my knees on the floor when I got that phone call. There isn't even a word for people who have lost a child. If your parents die you are an orphan, your husband/wife dies you are a widow/widower, but not one for the parents of a lost child. I lost a baby, that they told me was a tubal pregnancy and it turned out that I had an appendicitis, after 3 weeks of methotrexate injections that didn't stop the pregnancy that they told me could or would kill me. I woke up from emergency surgery to hear the doctor telling my step dad that they took out my appendix and gave me a D&C. It was a terrible couple of years.

If you are going into nursing just for the money, since both of your posts stress the point that you wonder if you should pursue a career as a LVN and you state that the going rate in that area is $14.00, maybe you should re-think your decision and go into a different field. That is just my 2 cents.

In addition to my previous response, I have another point to make. If in a clinical situation you gave the wrong medication or gave a medication to the wrong patient because your instructor erroneously told you to do so, you would be held liable for your mistake. Why should students be rewarded with extra points for incorrect questions in class so they can go along and pass a wrong med and potentially injure or even kill someone.

Of course the student should fail if they missed the question whether or not the instructor keyed in the wrong answer. If a student is barely passing and that one point made the difference if they passed or failed in the program it is their own fault. There is only one best answer on a test and the ones who got one point taken off their exam total deserve to have it taken off if they were wrong. Why should it really matter if an instructor keyed in the wrong answer? Maybe those students who failed the program should have studied harder instead of whining harder.

I think that if you feel like you hate the ER why don't you just find something else that you would maybe enjoy. Something slower paced, maybe not in a hospital and instead in the home care field or maybe corrections nursing. There are a lot of different options out there and just because you don't like the ER doesn't mean you don't like nursing in general. I would try and get into a different department or area all together. Good luck and keep your chin up! It can only get better! :)

I suppose somehow on here it is inappropriate to ask who you or your family is/are, lol! Adrian isn't a bad place to live, kind of middle of the road type of town.

Nope, she took them all and I had to wait another month before I could get them refilled. I am certain that I could have called the pharmacy back and the Dr and got a new Rx but I didn't want to deal with the hassle and I am sure the police would have ended up involved. I guess I spared myself that headache, only to deal with the real ones. Nice, huh?

I personally never even considered the thought of being a nurse. I can recall being 4 years old and someone asking me what I wanted to be when I grew up and my response was a hair stylist. I cruised through beauty school and was a cosmetologist for 15 years. I still do hair in my spare time. My mom had been scheduled a simple tubal ligation, an outpatient procedure, she would be home by noon (about the time I would be getting up after working late night shift at a carry out and being in beauty school). Things didn't go as planned, there was some sort of problem in the operating room. She died on the table and they brought her back when they finally realized she had died. Yeah, it turns out the equipment wasn't up to par and monitors weren't working properly. When she came out of surgery, the doctor told our family that he wanted to keep her "over night" for observation. (A rational person would think that would mean that she would be fine and good to go home the following day, right?) Nope, she was moved to ICU and was on a respirator, had monitors all over the place, tachycardia (190-200 bpm) We demanded that she be transferred to a hospital that had a neuro intensive care unit. They couldn't life flight her because of an ice storm so they had to ambulance her there, about 45 minutes away. She remained in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years in a nursing home before she finally died and was at peace. During those years I saw many bad nurses and some good nurses as well. After seeing how literally stupid some of those nurses were I decided that I would go to nursing school so I could take care of her. Unfortunately two days before I started my final semester of the nursing program she died and it was only because of the education that I had been getting that I knew she wouldn't make it to see me graduate. I knew that she would die before I could start the final semester. The doctors and all who were in the OR that tragic day have long since quit, retired, or were fired from their jobs. The part that gets me is that because people are only interested in covering their own a$$es and they won't tell us what actually happened in the OR. I guess it's like going to Vegas right, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens in the OR stays in the OR. I was even told that in nursing school. I, for some reason that I don't even know, decided to look at my moms abdomen that first night after "surgery" when she was moved to the new hospital, and there wasn't even a mark on her. They tried telling us that the incisions were in her umbilicus. Ummm, hello that isn't even possible. In 1991 when they did that surgery laparoscopic surgeries were fairly new and even today I don't believe that a laparoscopic surgery can be performed through incisions only in the umbilicus. Anyway, as Mother's Day approaches, I am reminded that I do not have one, incompetent people who were or were not called into nursing, surgery, anesthesiology took her away.

Yeah, illegal is more the word that I was thinking! She was a friend of mine and she knew that I took that prescription. She just by chance called the pharmacy and I was due for a refill so she took it upon herself to get it. She also was one who got the DEA number from the doctors office and was actually calling in her own prescriptions!!! She was working at the same hair salon I was and had gotten into my purse and checked out my Rx and saw when it would be time for a refill. That was how she got the info. We just kept our purses in the break room. It was a small salon only 8 people worked there, never had issues with stealing before, so it was "safe" to leave purses back there. I learned my lesson! With friends like her one does not need enemies!