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I took care of a pt who had a daughter who truely was borderline personality disorder. DeLing w/ her was crazy, as those familiar w/ bpd know. The pt was end-stage and the daughter's vehement; furious demands were contrary to the patient's best in...

Bpd = borderline personality disorderNOT bipolar.

Maybe I should contact the person at the DOH to whom the daughter spoke?

Suanna, too bad you are wrong. The suspension was without pay and there was no investigation, just falling over themselves choosing a disciplinary approach to me. No questions asked, period. The suspicious thing is, is this woman had already talke...

This just in, boys and girls: AGH is going to team up with Highmark and Cleveland Clinic, and all patients with Highmark insurance will HAVE to go to AGH. That is going to cut patient admissions to UPMC facilities by 25%--ooh, cut on the chin to th...

I'm sorry for your situation.

Even with West Penn downsizing dramatically and so many of those nurses flooding the job market, UPMC is hiring nurses all the time. Passavant just underwent a huge hiring period. McKeesport has lots of positions listed. UPMC East will be hiring to ...

Both Hershey and Geisinger have outstanding reputations, all the more amazing in that they are well outside the areas of the 2 huge cities in PA, those being Pittsburgh and Philly. Country living, tertiary facilities.

It's been 2 years since I withdrew. For those in the same shoes, you can't let it ruin your life. It took a while to recover from what I truely believe was PTSD, and I could have stressed out over the debt. I'm past that now. You will not become...

The question being asked is not about schools that do not require the GRE at all, but those that waive if for people who have already taken it. two thoughts 1. just why should one be required to retake the GRE if you have successfully completed an ...

I'm going to stand by my "pretty clueless" assessment. In no other Advanced Practice role education would this subject even come up, let alone having been condoned for decades. When I envision APNs, I think of mature people with true self-respect a...

It's been a while since I posted to this thread. I agree with the person who said that hazing is condoned and perpetuated because of political reasons. That hits the nail on the head. It has everything to do with the need CRNAs have to be seen as ...

I think the OP significantly overstates the patient assessment and intervention done by OR circulators. I spent a year as a SRNA and, believe me, it is the CRNAs who have that major role. The surgeons do the surgery, the CRNA takes care of the pati...

Gilli, I sent you a PM. Please read it before you decide.

There seems to be a real hiring slow-down in Pittsburgh. The stock market slump affects hospitals capitol improvements but the decrease in Medicare reimbursements affects the daily operating budgets of the same hospitals. This seems to be a time to...

Wow. This kind of thing is always a team effort. Two or three nurses working their butts off at this bedside for hours. I am amazed that he suffered no MOSF. Whenever I interview nurses for CTICU positions, my main question is, 'do you like ad...

This is not a school thing--it is a clinical site/individual CRNA-MDA thing. Many clinical sites have students from more than one school. So many of you want to think that it is 'some schools', and that if only there were a list of programs to avo...

I'd say prob. 10% of SRNAs have only good clinical experiences, incl. reasonable pimping, helpful feedback, friendly and supportive CRNAs/MDAs. I'd say prob 10% have really horrific experiences. Finally, I'd say that half of SRNAs experience what I...

No one has ever survived brain death. This is not persistent vegetative state. What if your child were critically ill and there were no available beds in the ICU, and your child, who was neither brain dead nor cardiac dead when they needed ICU car...

Brain death isn't something that's just 'used' in organ donation. If a patient has a massive stroke, or suffers massive traumatic brain injury, and if they show no signs of brain function, it is perfectly legal and acceptable to do brain death crite...

You are thinking of persistent vegetative state. That is not brain death. People do not 'wake up' from brain death. You do not 'diagnose' brain death. You verify it. The criteria are strict. It is not gray--it is black and white. Of course, n...

Great post, WitchyRN. I am a firm believer that it is each persons right and responsibility to set boundaries regarding how they let others treat them. However, there are some situations that make this extremely difficult, being a student, being o...

A patient can have brain matter oozing from a wound and NOT be brain dead. There are specific criteria used to determine brain death. Response to ice calorics, apnea test, brain blood flow scan, EEG. Definitive is no brain blood flow. You do no...

This is not a matter of 'not letting go--poor family'. Sorry, but dead is dead. You don't have to ask a family if their loved one is dead. Brain death = dead. Period. Why have to check twice? And you don't have to get a family permit for brain d...

Just keep telling yourself that......