LydiaNN

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    Andrea Yates R.N.

    LydiaNN replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    I remember after the Susan Smith tragedy, a local woman was on the news saying that she was so mortified after her own daughter had walked out and left her children in their grandmother's (the person...
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    Andrea Yates R.N.

    LydiaNN replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed, and her children were the victims of them all, plus the system that didn't protect them from a mother who was known to neglect them and a father that didn't have the sense to ensure they were...
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    Andrea Yates R.N.

    LydiaNN replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    But why would Andrea Yates have been faking it for all those years? What would her motivation be? I absolutely agree that this defense is often, maybe even usually, merely a manipulation of the...
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    Andrea Yates R.N.

    LydiaNN replied to SkateBetty's topic in General Nursing

    Agree about both of them. It's all sad to
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    Miranda, excellent post, as always. hseih, I find the idea of you being a psych nurse utterly dismaying. I feel for the patients and the families if this is the standard of care tolerated at your...
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    Oh but don't you know, cardiacRN, if you show ''these'' people compassion, they'll never be
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    Relocating to San Diego...Need advice!!!!

    LydiaNN replied to godivaRN's topic in California Nursing

    IB makes sense from a COL perspective, but if good schools are what you're looking for, plan on requesting an interdistrict transfer. If you work at Sharp Coronado, you could use that as your...
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    Relocating to San Diego...Need advice!!!!

    LydiaNN replied to godivaRN's topic in California Nursing

    I live in Cardiff, and our schools give the much more expensive neighborhoods (Del Mar, Solana Beach, Rancho Santa Fe) a run for their money. Poway schools are good as long as you don't have children...
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    Sorry... and how does the least restrictive environment theory apply to being sent off to Africa, removed from everything they've ever
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    Words and phrases that make me want to scream

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in Developmental Disabilities

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    Kids talking like nurses

    LydiaNN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Do you ever hear your kids use a clinical term instead of the common lay term? Like calling a heart attack an M.I.? Or saying PRN instead of ''if I need it''? I've heard my son describe a...
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    Kids talking like nurses

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    LOL... those could be questions on those ''ice breaker'' type quizzes they have us do at staff developments and such. Another one I forgot to mention is that my son refers to med doses in cc units...
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    I've got to agree. I've spent a lot of time honestly trying to understand what hseih was getting at, but that last comment was nothing less than alarming. I have to wonder now why it was necessary...
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    Kids talking like nurses

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    Happy or crappy... that just about covers it all, though, doesn't it?
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    Um, yeah, okay. I view borderline personality disorder as complex, because... it is. (edited so as not to be
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    How about a thread for baby names you liked?

    LydiaNN replied to Marie_LPN, RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Years ago, there was a soap opera character with that name. Davidson was the middle
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    hseih, honestly we know what the title of the thread is and we know that where you work borderline personality disorder is equated with being a manipulative drama king or queen. Part of the problem...
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    Kids talking like nurses

    LydiaNN replied to LydiaNN's topic in General Nursing

    That's funny. Proves yet again that little pitchers have big
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    Oldest and youngest mothers?

    LydiaNN replied to mommy2boys's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Out of curiosity, any reason the 30 something didn't carry the babies? That's a heck of a burden to put on a 59 year old body. I'm not gonna do that. I don't wanna.
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    I think this might be the one statement on which we can all
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    As the Stomach Turns: Drama in the Workplace

    LydiaNN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, I can understand being worried. I probably shouldn't say too much publicly about what's going on at my work, but suffice to say that it has entered my mind more than once that workplace violence...
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    As the Stomach Turns: Drama in the Workplace

    LydiaNN replied to VivaLasViejas's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, how interesting, we're having some similar drama where I work. Luckily, I'm not this person's supervisor, so it doesn't affect me quite as directly. You know what? Let her file her lawsuit and...
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    You still refuse to tell us who is going to pay for this. I assume we can all agree that there isn't a chance in Hades that public and private funded insurance is going to agree, and it is unlikely...
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    You know, it's funny you should mention 1933 Germany, because I was thinking my primary problem with this whole idea is reflected in that prayer written by a Lutheran minister about the Nazi reign:...
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    alternate ways of treating borderline personality disorder

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    It is a discussion thread. We are discussing your proposed alternative treatment, even though you haven't yet actually told us what the ''treatment'' would be. Yesyes, we understand you want to ship...