sunshineclarity

Anybody in St.Louis/Illinois know anything about Lutheran School of Nursing in St. Louis?

Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and advice! My BF is doing much better. His temp is down to 99.2, and he ate 2 bowls of soup today! (He hasn't eaten in 5 days!) Again, thank you so much! You guys are great! :-)

Walmart's scrubs are either $9.97 or $12.97 depending on the style. Their jackets are $15.87. I don't know if there is a Scrubs and Beyond store where you live, but they have the top and bottom for $14.99 together.

thanks so much cheerful!

He is 24, healthy, white male, has never had any health problems. His temp. is now 103.9, the doc that saw him in the ER said that the scripts that he wrote should "cover" my BF. He has taken 3 Tylonel gelcaps 3 hours ago and has drank two bottles of water--but he has trouble swallowing and then usually coughs up mucas. Thanks for answering me, BTW. The nurses in the ER were so rude to me!

I'm sorry to be asking you all this--please don't answer if you don't want to, but hospital in my area is not being very cooperative and I'm just starting nursing school, so I don't know. Yesterday at 4pm, my boyfriend got very tired, weak, chills, fever was 102.6. Hospital said don't bring him in, that he just has the flu. This afternoon, it reached 103.4, so I brought him to the hospital. They hooked him up to an IV, gave him anti-biotics and fluids, took blood, x-rays. They said he has pneumonia and the flu. They released him with 4 prescriptions and with a temp of 101. It's now 10 pm, he took all these medicines 3 hours ago and now he has chills, is coughing up mucus, can't move and his temp is 103.2. ER says don't bring him back up, just rest at home. I'm worried for him and don't know what to do. He's in terrible pain.

I took Lexapro earlier this year and suffered no side effects. Don't know if you considered that.

Thanks for all the replys, I wish everyone at my work felt this way! Iwill keep on feeding her. I have another question too. This same residnt has a teddy bear that she always keeps in her lap and she calls it her baby. She really thinks it is her baby and she she doesn't have any other children (she does) only this "bear" baby. When feeding her I said, let's eat for the baby and that really helped her to eat to. Is that wrong to encourage to eat using the "baby"?

It is sad! No one ever feeds her, they just say oh,she is on hospice. But if you sit downa nd help her, then she eats! People where I work just never wat to take extra time! Errr, makes me mad!

I work in a nursing home and we have a resident that was placed on hospice. She isn't eating very well and at dinner I sat next to her and helped her eat. Onice I sat and helped her, she ate almost all her food, but then a nurse came to me and yelled at me for "making" her eat. She said since she was on hospice, we don't help her or force her to eat. Is this true?!?

I decided to become a nurse and have been really excited about it and start nursing school in the spring. But I have been reading so many negative things about being a nurse from this website and many many others. Should I even become a nurse? It's something I think I really want to do, but reading all this just makes me depressed. Are there really so many unhappy nurses out there?