Sari_noel
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I'm a student at Alpena Community College, yes AGH does cardiac cath's.
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I'm in nursing school so these are from reading the local newspaper....... No matter how much fun it sounds like, never ride your snowmobile at over 100mph, trees aren't very soft or forgiving.. Never ride your snowmobile, by yourself, across any frozen body of water, there could be soft spots.... The deer you just hit may not be dead, just knocked out, not a good idea to put it in your car.....
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I really think I'm just going to give up trying to talk to my family about this. OMG, I didn't realize how stupid they can be. I know it's not nice to say this about your family but that's what they are being. The only thing I'm going to try is to print off info on his meds and diagnosis and let them read it for themselves. Maybe that will work.
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Thank you all for your replies. I went to see my brother over Christmas, found out a few really scary things. One, he is not taking his meds (can't pay for them), two, (perhaps the one that scares me the most) he says he thinks about stabbing himself in the chest over and over again, the only thing that stops him is his kids. When he told me this I didn't know what to say, I didn't want to act to emotional (give him some type of power over me) so I just told him how that wouldn't help anything, only hurt those he cares about (his kids, me, our parents etc.) I also found out that his wife (hopefully soon to be ex) is living with her girlfriend ( I really don't have a problem with this lifestyle just that it had to come at this time, he doesn't need this on top of everything else) I am trying to keep my feelings distant from all of this, it's just so hard. He is my baby brother, it's my job to protect him. Okay, I know it's not my job, but I was raised to take care of him. Again, thank you all, I will try my hardest to follow your advice......
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He's 22 and sort of bullheaded if you couldn't tell from my earlier post. Thank you for your reply. I am really at wits end dealing with this. I want to help, but I can't take all his problems on on top of going to school.
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My brother was in a psych. ward for about a week(a little over a month ago) He was diagnosed as bi-polar, schizophrenic, homicidal, and suicidal. He was put on Depakote, Paxil, and another med that starts with a z(can't think of the name right now) He won't go to his therapy, say's he doesn't want to talk to a stranger about his problems so he'll just talk to me. I'm in nursing school I don't know enough about anything to help him. I don't know how to talk to him to make him understand he needs to go the therapy. I am trying to be supportive, but I really don't know what to do. Any help you can give would be wonderful. Thanks in advance!!
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My current (not to be sometime in the near future) sister in law had her first child at 15, and got kicked out of her mothers house, she lived all over for the two or three years before she and my brother got together. Since then they have had to beautiful children 2.5 and 1 year old (the oldest child is 8 now). Not that I don't love her, but she is a very selfish person. That is the reason they are getting divorced. I think she is trying to regain the freedom she lost by having a child so young, it just scares me what might happen to these three wonderful children because she won't take full responsibility for them and their needs. I hear stories of teens having babies and I get worried and a little sad. I have a few friends who had babies young (about 17) one is doing great just got done with college, the other never really did much. I could not imagine having a child so young.
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In my clinical you can miss a day, with a reason, but if you miss 20% or more of the clinical you fail and have to restart again next year. Also, you lose points every time you miss or are late, so it can really add up even before you reach the 20%
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Here's a little different spin on the "washable bruise" when I was about 5 I broke my arm about elbow area. I had a huge bruise on my wrist, mom thought it was marker and tried to wash it off. Can we say pain??? I won't ever let her live that one down:chuckle
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I was really worried my ability to handle the "yuckies" when I started my first clinical. (Had a bad experience with a trach. suction a few years before hand) But, when I got in there and started dealing with the pt's I realized that the person was way more important to me then the "yuckies" were.
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In the program I'm in we had 4 hour lecture, 3 hour lab for a pre-req, at the time I hated the class(got an A somehow??) I understand why I need a basic knowledge of chem, but if it would have been directed more at the medical aspect it would have been more useful, I don't think doing a ton of experiments with water and heat really taught me anything I couldn't have gotten from phys.
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At the school I'm attending the pre-req's were supposed to prepare us for the nursing classes. Way off, pre-req's were hard, I did great though (Deans list the whole way) now that I am in nursing classes I just hope to get the 3.0 required to continue, most of my classmates feel the same way. Don't get down on yourself though, I'm sure the majority of the students around you feel the same way.
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I have been pretty lucky when it comes to respect. I'm on my third week of clinicals at a LTC facility. The nurses have been great, maybe it's because I show so much enthusiasm about the job I'm going to be doing one day. If they ask if I want to see something (wound care, cath change, FSBS) I jump on the chance. The only problem I've had is with one of the CNA's who likes to try to tell me what I should be doing next. I guess my clincal instructer doen't know what's important for me to do.:chuckle
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I've had the same problem when it comes to using the double stethoscope at clinicals, I can hear with my Littman just fine, I always hear the last beat of a BP just fine, picking up that first beat is really hard for me. Hope you find something that works for you:)