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Just wait til you try to make a wheal on one of those injection pads....talk about annoying! GLad you are so excited, I was the same way my first semester!!

OH Angelfire....I am sooo sorry you are dealing with this, but I dont have much advice I guess but I too know how it fells to be the expendible member of a clan,that was one of the most thoughtless comments I have ever heard( and coming from my family that is a pretty notorious distinction!) Keep your chin up and here are a few big hugs((()))

Thanks JHansen...I am just jacked up about this totally off the wall excited~ I am hoping to come away with a great experience and a little more info on a field I find very interesting,peri-operative nursing!!!After my lap chole this spring just before I started nursing school I became rather interested in what exactly that field of nursing has to offer as it might be something I am in a place to be doing!~

Thanks for directing me to that, I appreciate it...it has tons of great general info...I wish my school would pass out something like that!!!, but still I am kinda also hoping to hear from someone who has encountered the specifc things I will be dealing with tomorrow.... thanks natania..hopefully I wont need to but will defintely be prepared for that possiblity we were told they like to put the sudents on the spot with questions..things about A&P and off the wall stuff as well~ that is what i dread most of all!

Hi everyone, I am having an observation day tomorrow in surgery (:yeah:sooo excited)and I just found out what is scheduled, so my time to brush up is short....there are several colonoscopy procedures , a hernia repair (dont know what kind) and a mass removal from a hand. Can anyone share any tips or ideas about what to expect? Best way to be prepared? what NOT ot do? Thanks so much in advance

Think about it ...if House did not treat every one around him with such distain, would he still be House? I think not! That is almost part of what makes him so lovable... at least he is predictable. and I have to admit I LOVE me some House!!!! I try to take these things with a grain of salt, knowing that I will be doing much more for my patients (eventually I hope) than any tv role could adequately portray...think of it like this , to really give nurses a fair portrail every one else in the show would have to be a secondary character, even the patients...well now that I think of it ,I am not sure it could be done in an accurate manner, and unfortunately probably not while having the high Neilsen ratings of shows like HOUSE and ER, it is that fabricated constant drama that keeps people coming back~

I have to go a different route here and say MATH 150 was my hardest (college algebra)and it was the only thing I could not pulll of an A in:( though I have complete all my Anatomy and Physiology credits~I still need medical micro though but wont be taking it til next summer between NSG 201 and NSG 301 I think it will depend on you personally...I have a flair for the scientific and I had to work VERY hard just to come out of that math 150 with a C..so while others were stressing over A&PII kidney function stuff I was far more worried about logarithms and conic sections!!! Best of luck though and go in with a positive attitude!

OhI sooo know what you mean...I have orientation next Thursday ...skills test on Friday and classes sstart the next Monday the 18th! I feel like I have waited so long for this to happen now time is just dragging by in slow-mo.I am lucky though I guess as I still have a couple things to do while waiting , keeping me distracted ..finish up on vaccines and get my last few books and what not~ Best of Luck to you ...I can barely wait!!

Our application also asked for a letter of interest BUT it was a pre-printed check off list( we got these at the schools informational pre conferences for our specific program) that required just our signature,,,no actual letter needed to be written. Maybe you could find the name and contact information of your nursing program dircetor from the school web site , a quick and consice e mail should get you more info on what they expect... Good luck BTW

So then what would the cure be for this particular situation??? I dont see a way to prevent this in the future. Would any of you say to prevent this type of incident in the future that all nurses with any mental illness(from postpartum or clinical depression to bipolar disorder and substance abusers as well) anyone who might possibly relapse...do they surrender their liscenses over to their state board JUST IN CASE? The thought of that scares me ! Is it possible to blanket all MI sufferers together like that, with no regard to whether the particular individual has ever exibited violence to self or others??? Is it safest to just assume that a violent outburst is surely in their future and therefore surrendering their liscense is the only possible route to prevent another situation like this man created? Not one of these statements sits well with me....I think any nurses should be held accountable to the highest standards of the law in a case like the OP was talking about BUT...is it feasable to expect no nurse working to have ever been Dx'd with ANY mental illness? Should it be a requirement to obtain liscensure that one has never been tx'd for or Dx'd with a mental illness in any form? I guess the point I am struggling toward here is this is sticky territory and if conditions like those listed above were ever enacted a genuine nursing shortage would soon follow....I dont pretend to know a solution , or the best way to handlle this but I dont think IMHO anything I mentioned above would be a progressive move for the field of nursing, but would rather set the profession back...but that brings us full circle....where should the line be drawn in regards to nurses with mental illnesses?!?!

Thanks for clearing that up~How ridiculous though, no wonder he got to keep his licsense...I would think an intense probe into his mental status and various conditions is exactly what they (the board)needed to do to verify how stable he could be with his medications,right? If it is not mentioned and dealt with out loud it makes me wonder how well it was handled on paper?!?!?!?

You are absolutely right Tele , it is a travesty he should remain liscensed under ant circumstances! I would be terrified if someone capable of that was taking care of me or my loved ones! I have one question though, why do you assume he is bipolar? I mean...Why automatically assume that is his mental illness and not one of dozenz of others which would bettter fit this violent behavior? Was there something that made you believe that might be his specific condition or are you just assuming?

Yeah thanks StriverSN but the melatonin I have actually comes in that specific dosage, so I am not taking too little unless 3 mg is simply not enough for me , I have no idea. I wish that was all I was doing wrong , if so,I would just take 2 a night and get some sleep! I dont know what I will do I have come to absolutely dread bed time since I know pretty certainly it only brings tossing and turning for countless hours and more frustration. I have tried relaxing music( nature sounds white noise and stuff like that) counting backwards ( and forwards for that matter)progressively talking (in my mind) through my body relaxing starting at the toes and then working up ..etc, etc, etc .I have tried it all or very nearly anyway~

Unfortunately melatonin does not work so well for everyone believe me I know, I wish it did , as I have taken it nearly every night since I finished off of my Ambien CR RX last week. I keep hoping it will work but I cant seem to tell a big difference between the melatonin and nothing at all.

I have tried the trazadone at a low dose as well and I did not love it but simply because it did not work well for me for very long only about 1 month then I had to change to something else. I did not have a problem with side effects or anything like that it just quit working as well. My problem is that once I do fall alseep my body is sooooo worn out I want to sleep for hours and hours, like 12 hours to be exact, you can almost set a clock by it. If I dont fall asleep til 4 or 5 I drag myself up at around 11 but I dont really wake up til around 4 in the afternoon I am walking around like a zombie all day!!!!