tmiller027

I'm in my 2nd semester. Hardly anyone gets to do anything in the first semester but wipe butts lol

I have a Palm Tungsten E which was about $199 and came iwth a free aluminum carrying case. It had about 32MB of memory on it, but I got a 512MB expansion card for about $35 from Staples. I think it works great.

Thanks for the commentsn and encouragement guys. Yeah, my instructor had thought I gave one before. She helped me with the G-tube meds then she goes "Okay, well, you know the shot goes in the abdomen 2 inches from the umbilicus, so go ahead, I've gotta help another student." then she left. I didn't even know how to get the goofy cap off the needle, but my floor nurse helped me with that, then I gave it no problem. Then I turn around and houskeeping had pulled the sharps container to change it, but she hadn't come back yet. My FIRST shot and housekeeping decided THEN to pull the sharps container So I capped the needled by the one-handed scoop method and walked outside. She was coming down teh hall with a new one and saw me standing there, so she held it up so I could drop it in. Like I wasn't nervous enough LOL

Did it today. I was nervous too. It was a pre-packaged Lovenox shot. The patient's skin was thicker than I had anticipated, but I got it in enough, and all the medicine went in. No blood, no casualties :roll

I'm a first year student and doing my med surg rotation. I have a Palm Tungsten E and I use it constantly and would be lost without it. Besides the calender, calculator, and addressbook in it, I also have Davis Drug guide, a medical dictionary, and nursing diagnoses software that includes outcomes and interventions. I would normally have to carry at least 6 books around clinicals without this thing, but it fits right in my pocket. I also have a digital bible downloaded with a daily reader so I can do devotions between classes

Those plastic pill bottles dont break down...they'd last like 1000 years in a landfill. I think its called the media stirring up a frenzy...they do that here about once a year too.

oooooohhhh....now you're making my heart flutter

Yeah..I thought the hatparty smiley would be an indicator

Don't worry Angie...I've always had a thing for girls in scrubs, with sweat beading on her forehead and hair starting to fray out of its ponytail. :w00t:

While I've come to the conclusion that ADN nurses kill more patients than BSN...then BSN's kill more than MSN's and ADN"s kill WAY more than MSNs. Thats a lot of dead patients. But wait a minute, most MSN nurses don't do beside nursing...but thats still NO EXCUSE!! GUN'S DON'T KILL PEOPLE ADN'S KILL PEOPLE!!! Tim (ADN Student)

Thanks Futurenrse...I've kind of been doing that already. I"m gonna find the sylabus and the point scale and add up exactly what I need for a C and keep a runnng total. I think that will help me too.

You know, there isn't any need for sarcasm or rudness, it was a question. Did you read all of my post and any of posts after? I'm quite aware of the differences in TV and reality.

i attended a seminar on this stuff a few years ago. assisted suicide is a doctor or someone providing a fatal dose, but the patient adminstering it themselves. euthanasia is the dr himself adminstering the fatal dose, though they sound pretty much the same to me. one interesting point one psychologist brought up who'd done a study on it said that most of the terminal patients he'd interviewed stated that their wish to die was more influenced by a. the feeling that their families wanted them dead sooner (financial reasons, etc) and b. depression. not that its not normal to be depressed, but hte point he was getting at was, by legalizing this, theres too much propensity for abuse. people shouldn't be euthanized becuase junior wants mom to die before his inheritance is spent.

Why would a bankruptcy be relevant to getting a nursing license?

Dear Father in Heaven, Be with these injured children, comfort them in their time of need, lay your healing hands on them so that they migh be well. Be with their families and the members of this town. Comfort them that they might know you are in control Lord. All is possible through you. I Jesus' name, Amen.

Thanks Leslie. I bought a book called "Physiology Demystified" and that helps some, but doesnt' go quite as deep as what he covers. Thanks for all your help. :kiss

Yeah, I've been tape recording, and trying to keep the notes up, but its like 4 hours worth of lecture time, then to listen to the tapes again and try to write notes on them, its just hard. I just want otu of this class! :smackingf

I don't know how much that would help...he teaches out of three books, talks 100 mph...and it takes forever just to find the many different things he's talking about. Just frustrating. This is like medical school stuff, I don't know how it pertains to nursing. Thank you though.

I just got an email from my advisor...I'm in a bit of a pickle. I have to make up this advanced physiology class because my ANP credits didn't transfer. This class is HARD HARD HARD..even the MD who teaches it says it should be a 300 or 400 level class. The class average for the first exam was 69% which is a D...I was still below that, there were at least 3 people I know who got in the 40s, and about 5 or 6 in the class who've taken it before. So I took this NLN test for ANP a couple times to try and test out of it, I just took it for the 2nd time and I feel like I did much better on it...but I was just told by my advisor that if I don't pass it this time, I MUST stay in the stupid class, and if I stay in and don't do well, my GPA will drop and I'll be bounced from the nursing program. :angryfire Sorry, just worked up..and the sick thing is I have to wait almost 2 weeks before I hear if I even passed or not. I got Med surg coming up, so I don't know how I can handle two hard classes like this.

Oh okay. Well, letting nature run its course on a child or anyone who cannot be saved isn't my concern. Its just the stuff like in that article mentioned about retarded babies or something.

what do you mean by non-viable?

The only other thing I read besides my textbooks is my bible...I need all the help I can get

The place I used to work at required a Dr.'s order.

Me? I only have time to read my textbooks

And if that didn't get you.... Netherlands grapples with euthanasia of babies Hospital carries out procedure on few terminally ill infantsThe Associated Press Updated: 4:53 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2004 AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A hospital in the Netherlands-the first nation to permit euthanasia-recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives. The announcement by the Groningen Academic Hospital came amid a growing discussion in Holland on whether to legalize euthanasia on people incapable of deciding for themselves whether they want to end their lives-a prospect viewed with horror by euthanasia opponents and as a natural evolution by advocates. In August, the main Dutch doctors' association KNMG urged the Health Ministry to create an independent board to review euthanasia cases for terminally ill people "with no free will," including children, the severely mentally retarded and people left in an irreversible coma after an accident. The Health Ministry is preparing its response, which could come as soon as December, a spokesman said. First nation to legalize euthanasia Three years ago, the Dutch parliament made it legal for doctors to inject a sedative and a lethal dose of muscle relaxant at the request of adult patients suffering great pain with no hope of relief. The Groningen Protocol, as the hospital's guidelines have come to be known, would create a legal framework for permitting doctors to actively end the life of newborns deemed to be in similar pain from incurable disease or extreme deformities. The guideline says euthanasia is acceptable when the child's medical team and independent doctors agree the pain cannot be eased and there is no prospect for improvement, and when parents think it's best. Examples include extremely premature births, where children suffer brain damage from bleeding and convulsions; and diseases where a child could only survive on life support for the rest of its life, such as severe cases of spina bifida and epidermosis bullosa, a rare blistering illness. The hospital revealed last month it carried out four such mercy killings in 2003, and reported all cases to government prosecutors. There have been no legal proceedings against the hospital or the doctors. Catholic organizations outraged Roman Catholic organizations and the Vatican have reacted with outrage to the announcement, and U.S. euthanasia opponents contend the proposal shows the Dutch have lost their moral compass. "The slippery slope in the Netherlands has descended already into a vertical cliff," said Wesley J. Smith, a prominent California-based critic, in an e-mail to The Associated Press. Child euthanasia remains illegal everywhere. Experts say doctors outside Holland do not report cases for fear of prosecution. "As things are, people are doing this secretly and that's wrong," said Eduard Verhagen, head of Groningen's children's clinic. "In the Netherlands we want to expose everything, to let everything be subjected to vetting." According to the Justice Ministry, four cases of child euthanasia were reported to prosecutors in 2003. Two were reported in 2002, seven in 2001 and five in 2000. All the cases in 2003 were reported by Groningen, but some of the cases in other years were from other hospitals. 10 cases per year Groningen estimated the protocol would be applicable in about 10 cases per year in the Netherlands, a country of 16 million people. Since the introduction of the Dutch law, Belgium has also legalized euthanasia, while in France, legislation to allow doctor-assisted suicide is currently under debate. In the United States, the state of Oregon is alone in allowing physician-assisted suicide, but this is under constant legal challenge. However, experts acknowledge that doctors euthanize routinely in the United States and elsewhere, but that the practice is hidden. "Measures that might marginally extend a child's life by minutes or hours or days or weeks are stopped. This happens routinely, namely, every day," said Lance Stell, professor of medical ethics at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., and staff ethicist at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C. "Everybody knows that it happens, but there's a lot of hypocrisy. Instead, people talk about things they're not going to do." More than half of all deaths occur under medical supervision, so it's really about management and method of death, Stell said. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6621588/