LydiaNN

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    Abandoning babies at Hospitals LEGAL?!?!

    LydiaNN replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    My heart breaks for the babies that are left in hospitals or fire stations, but they will be found by people who will take care of them so that they have the opportunity to be adopted by parents who...
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    regarding borderline patients

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    I have a lot of trouble following your rationale sometimes. Yes, the purpose of the forums is discussion. That's what we're doing here. Discussing. Also, your comments are all over the place, so it is...
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    Police Killed Our Patient

    LydiaNN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Um, yeah, allrightythen. I sure do hope you have a nice
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    Is Spanish a very impt language to learn in California?

    LydiaNN replied to bernskiw's topic in California Nursing

    I agree, it will help you a lot. I only speak a bit of Spanish and it is a pain to have to schedule activities around the availability of interpreters and/or
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    Police Killed Our Patient

    LydiaNN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    I guess what bothers me the most about the posters that object to public scrutiny of police actions is their protestation that it isn't fair to rush to judgment without the facts. No, of course it...
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    Lost Finals??????

    LydiaNN replied to WannaBTraveling's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    IMHO, if they had been lost, the most fair thing would have been to give the students the option of whether re-test, or keep the grade they had going into the test. I've never heard of such a thing...
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    regarding borderline patients

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    BPD is not a developmental disorder, it is a mental illness. Repeating your claim to the contrary doesn't make it so. And comparing Peace Corps volunteers to people with psychiatric conditions is...
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    regarding borderline patients

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    Um... no. I can't tell whether you are serious, but in case you are: not in a box, not with a fox, not in a house, not with a mouse, not in a boat, not with a goat... I do not believe we should be...
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    Police Killed Our Patient

    LydiaNN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Again, the debate should be whether the killings are justified by a case by case review (and in my opinion, sometimes they are). The debate shouldn't be whether the OP should have used some other...
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    Police Killed Our Patient

    LydiaNN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    What she said was that a cop killed a patient. If the cop used the taser and the patient is dead, then, yep, the cop killed the patient. It could well be that the killing was justified. That...
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    Police Killed Our Patient

    LydiaNN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    For someone who lurks a lot, I'm surprised you aren't aware of the many discussions we've had on these boards about bad nurses. Way, way more discussions than those about cops, or any other...
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    regarding borderline patients

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    You refer to Africa an awful lot, so much so that I just have to say that we're not sending anyone to Africa, nor are we adopting the way they do things in Africa, and as far as I'm concerned, that's...
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    Police Killed Our Patient

    LydiaNN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    We have Psychiatric Emergency Response Teams in this county. The way our's work is that the family is referred by their Regional Center service coordination, County Mental Case Worker or private...
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    Police Killed Our Patient

    LydiaNN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    This is a problem in the autism community as well. Although people with autism are less likely to be violent and to my knowledge, none have been killed by cops, they are frequently arrested and...
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    Police Killed Our Patient

    LydiaNN replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Being mentally ill and agitated is not in and of itself criminal, but those conditions don't exclude a person from criminal activity. Have these deaths been investigated? After a series of such...
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    Raising Their Wages......

    LydiaNN replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    These stats don't reflect the cost of living, though. I haven't read the article which is linked (I, too, prefer links that people can actually access without ponying up, and a great many reputable...
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    regarding borderline patients

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    I say that one has nothing to do with the other and there is no valid way to compare the two propositions. I also say that in this country, we aren't about to look to the practices of which you speak...
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    Raising Their Wages......

    LydiaNN replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    Difficult doesn't bother me. You presuming to speak for all nurses in CA does. We'll speak for ourselves, thankyouverymuch. It bothers me when other Californians assign themselves our...
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    Raising Their Wages......

    LydiaNN replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    I don't know how things work in Texas, but your implication that all Californians feel the same about anything... unions, Kerry, or whatever else it is you seem to think you have a handle on our...
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    Raising Their Wages......

    LydiaNN replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    That doesn't actually change the fact that your assertion about unions have little or nothing to do with higher wages isn't true in the case of Kaiser Permanente (or numerous other employers, as it...
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    Raising Their Wages......

    LydiaNN replied to mark hamel's topic in Texas Nursing

    What the union reps choose to do with their money is entirely their own business. I base my participation on what the union does for me, which was always much more than the employer would've done for...
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    Having a blue Saturday

    LydiaNN replied to sunny2006's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Of course, you have a chance to pass! If it is any comfort at all, just know that many (most, probably) people feel like you do coming out of that test. Good
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    regarding borderline patients

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    Inferences about nursing skills? Who drew those? The problem with asking people what they think is that they're going to tell
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    regarding borderline patients

    LydiaNN replied to hsieh's topic in Psychiatric

    Do the people that hired you to care for borderline patients know of your... uh, let's be polite and say unconventional... viewpoint as regards this diagnosis? I can't imagine why one with your...
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    What is the youngest mom you have seen?

    LydiaNN replied to texas-rn-fnp's topic in Ob/Gyn

    There was an 11 year old at the University of San Diego a couple years ago. I am told that wasn't the only 11 y.o. they've had, but she was the only one I saw. It was very sad, the social worker...