mamajapko

Hi Everyone, I'm mamajapko (aka Becky). I am a LVN here in Texas and I love school nursing. I started last year as a school nurse. Before this job I was working in a psych hospital and a cardiac unit at another hospital. This job allows me to use all my skills and develop new ones to deal with administration , the kids:yeah: and the parents :angryfire. I work in a school with high school students who are at risk for dropping out. I love being able to provide the students with care and education regarding their health and emotional needs. Some of them are a challenge due to their family history or psychological problems. I don't get to the this board as often as I would like because I'm pursuing my RN by taking my prereqs. When I get my RN, I plan to return to school nursing. I think it's the best nursing job for me!

texascna06, I have a word of friendly advice for you. Please reconsider going to the LVN program. I know it seems to take forever to get through the pre-reqs but I am recommending this as a graduate of the LVN program at ACC (and it is a great program-they taught me so much). However, I wish I had taken the extra time to get to my RN. The pay is so much better as an RN. Nursing is a second career for me and I didn't know how much I would love nursing . So again just my You're young and you have time. The one year to become an LVN will slow down your career track if you decide to pursue your BSN or MSN. I am taking pre-reqs myself for the Mobility Track and I am only able to take one class at a time at this point since I work full-time. So I fully understand how it can seem to take forever. One thing I keep in mind, is that time will go by whether or not I take a class. So if one class is the best I can do, I'm at least moving forward by one class. I wish you the best.

I have lived in Austin for over 40 years. At the beginning of nursing school (2005), they asked what was our main criteria for a job. I said I wanted to work 10 min from home. Most people thought that was an unusual idea but I think most would agree with me now. What used to take 45 min about 5 years ago, now takes up to 2 hours depending on the time of day. The only way to deal with it is to be sure to have plenty of :smilecoffeecup:

Hi everyone, I am a married 44 year old mother of 2 teen boys. I was accepted to start LVN classes this Fall. I am so excited and scared at the same time. I have to take CPR classes this summer and fill out more paperwork for my financial aid. I hope to be a pediatric nurse/school nurse. To gain some experience I am volunteering at the children's hospital this summer. Hope to soak up alot of info. I will let you know what it's like to be there. By the way when I received my assignment a couple of the other college volunteers thought I was an auxillary volunteer. :chuckle I just smiled and told them I was a returning college student. Do any of you plan to review for the fall? What would be a good book to read before classes? Hopefully, this summer will be productive. Good luck future nurses !

You could after some experience become a nursing instructor in high school. Our school district has a program where you can become a LVN when you graduate. I wish I had done that, but that was a hundred years ago. Just my 2 cents. Good luck, you sound like you have a good head on your shoulders. Keep it up.

Makes you grateful to God for all your blessings and not to take anything for granted. Please pray for this family. "The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace." Mother Theresa

Makes you grateful to God for all your blessings and not to take anything for granted. Please pray for this family. "The fruit of silence is prayer; the fruit of prayer is faith; the fruit of faith is love; the fruit of love is service; the fruit of service is peace." Mother Theresa

6-year-old brain-dead boy dies Debbie Hummel THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY -- A 6-year-old brain-dead boy whose parents fought to remove him from hospital care, hoping that alternative treatment would cure him, died Friday. Jesse Koochin, of Clearwater, Fla., was declared brain-dead by doctors but was ordered kept on life support by a judge after the parents insisted he could recover. He was brought to St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City by ambulance just after 1 a.m., according to hospital spokeswoman Deb Reiner. Doctors were unable to resuscitate him and he died at 1:30 a.m., Reiner said. The hospital said the family requested privacy. The boy had been in a coma after suffering complications from brain cancer. Doctors at Primary Children's Medical Center said he was dead, but his parents maintained that he still was alive and capable of recovery. After winning a restraining order Oct. 13 that kept Jesse on life support, Steve and Gayle Koochin took him home two days later. Jesse had been hospitalized in three states and in Mexico, as his family went to great lengths to treat his cancer. His father maintained that Jesse had previously fallen into a coma and was given about a week to live, but then responded to treatment in Mexico. He believed the same would be true in Utah, and after the boy had been released to the family Steve Koochin gleefully reported every twitch and response to touch his son made. Meanwhile, the family with the help of a Hospice worker, tried to nurse Jesse back to health with alternative medicine and fed him organic juices intravenously. The Koochins came to Utah to see a local doctor who could provide alternative treatment designed to rehabilitate his immune system. The boy was so ill, however, the doctor sent the family immediately to the emergency room at Primary Children's, where he was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer. The size of his tumor more than tripled in the few days he spent at the hospital and his brain stem was eventually pushed down through the base of his skull. Two separate doctors, following rigorous protocols, declared the boy brain dead. Dr. Chris Maloney, Primary's associate medical director for medical services, said Jesse's brain had even begun to decompose and that would eventually lead to cardiac death. Primary Children's declined to comment on the boy's passing, except to say, "the staff here would express their deepest sympathy to the family," said spokeswoman Bonnie Midget. A call to the family's attorney in Salt Lake City was not immediately returned. In Utah, there is no case law regarding whether doctors have to keep patients they believe are dead on life support. The law says a person is dead if physicians have determined "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem." Statutes provide guidance in cases where a patient has an advance medical directive or family members want to remove their loved one from life support. But they do not state what should happen when a family disagrees with a doctor's determination of death. On the Net: http://www.jessekoochin.com This story appeared in The Daily Herald of Utah County on page D3.

The same thing happened to me when I was pregnant with my second son and I had some spotting early on. The doctor said the heart beat was not steady and asked me if the baby was moving. He was very active especially after they gave me some orange juice to drink. They hooked me up to a fetal monitor and found out he was ok. I always feel bad when I remember because there was a lady next to me and her baby never moved. The physician's assistant checked me at the next appt. and said, " You've got a squirmmer in there." That's why the heartbeat was hard to hear. He kept moving all the time. Just be glad your baby is ok