Brittneesher

If you do take the other job, most likely your position will be filled. However, if you do pass up the offer now and stay at your current job, there is no guarentee you will still have this opportunity when your liscence expires. I don't think you should have any hard feelings about taking the offer, because when you promised your current boss that you would stay, you proabably didn't expect an offer this good to arise. If your current boss really wants to keep you, tell him the other place pays $3 more and see if he will match it. Good luck.

if they are leather or leather-type, you can get the kiwi shoe protectant (in a tin and looks like wax). this should put a protective coating on the shoe and allow them to be wiped clean more easily and protect from stain. there is also that white dab-on shoe polish you could use every couple of weeks or so, but i wouldn't use that every day because it could get cakey. hope this helps.

Beautiful name! :) I love Gaelic and Irish names. Has anyone ever said it correctly on the first try?

Must be crazy to do that! I've heard several stories of needles dropping and a thick shoe being the saving grace. Also, seems like a lost cause to dig a pill out of the sharps container. What's the use? Surely she didn't plan on anyone actually taking the pill after it had been mixed in with all the contaminated materials. Apparently she doesn't have much fear of catching disease. That or is just plain ignorant. I'm thinking yes to the cracker jack box idea.

That is really interesting. Makes me wonder whether they are actually allergic to the diphenhydramine molecule itself or an additive, dye, or preservative inside. So I guess there are no OTC alternatives to treat allergies if one cannot take Benadryl. Probably would need an epi-pen or something.

how much debt am I willing to incur because of school? I figure it out like a true economist. lol. Compare the amount of money I currently make ($22,000) to the amount I could potentially make with my degree (at least $40,000). By obtaining my degree, I will make about $720,000 MORE money in my lifetime than if I had not gotten the degree. Even if I incur $30,000 worth of debt to get the degree I want, that's a really small chunk of $720,000. Not to mention that having a degree will allow me to have more optinons, be proud of myself, and be overall happier person for sticking to it.

Have any of you ever heard of a patient having a true allergic reaction due to benadryl or diphenhydramine? If so, what are their options as far as treating an allergic reaction?

I must make a correction.... the product giving me H/A was NECTAsweet not NUTRAsweet. It definitely was saccharin. Aspartame doesn't give me the migraines. I suppose it affects people differently just like most other chemicals.

I know this topic is about aspartame, but I have a little rant about saccharin. I bought these nutrasweet tablets for my coffee (I think they were on sale almost free and now I know why). I recently started to get severe migraine headaches immediately after drinking coffee when I've drank coffee for years and never had a problem. In fact for me caffiene usually cures a headache. I finally made the connection that the saccharin was causing the HA. One of the tablets was equal to a package of sweet-n-low and I'd put 2 in my coffee and drink about 3 cups... so 6 tablets of saccharin. Chunked it down the trash! Anyone else experienced the same?

University of Texas Austin

hello, I am a student at UT austin and I think we both have a lot of the same questions. If you would like to talk to me direclty about Austin or UT, I'd love to help any way I can! If you have AOL instant messanger, my screen name is longhornbrit, or you can email me if you want at [email protected]

I am a student at university in a mild crisis right now because I can't seem to choose a career path/major. I am stuck between pharmacy and nursing(I had a super long post a few days ago and thank you so much to all of you who replied it really helped). I have heard that Nurse Practitioners are usually more satisfied with their jobs than RNs due to the advanced degree and increased salary. Is it hard to get into NP schools? Is it worth the extra schooling to become an NP compared to RN? Are there part time positions for NPs? What are some of the duties of NPs? If you are currently an RN, do you wish you would have gotten your NP? Is NP basically like Physician's assistant? Is it a myth that most NPs say they do Dr's work for 1/4 the salary? Please add anything else you think I would like to know about nurse practitioner.

Hi everyone! I'm Brittnee, a 2nd year student at the University of Texas at Austin. I have been studying pharmacy since I got here, but now I am considering changing to Nursing (BSN/RN) and then possibly entering a family, neonatal, or pediatric nurse practitioner program, or maybe Physician's Assistant. I am struggling inside right now trying to make a decision about a career path, and would greatly appreciate any advice or experiences you have to offer me. I'll try to make it breif. I have worked as a pharmacy tech at Walgreen's since I was 16, and I love my job. There are many things I love about pharmacy. It is challenging, a science related field, always something new to learn, fast pace, good pay, clean surroundings (except the occasional cough in my direction, haha), friendly co-workers who respect each other, opportunity for part-time work, and most of all helping patients who come in to get their meds. I love helping people so much, and often times someone will come, and we will end up talking for 20 minutes. I love that. Probably the biggest complaint the pharmacy staff has is lack of one-on-one time with the patients. Maybe it's because I work for a retail chain and they try to cram as much workload per person, but often times we get so busy I feel like a factory worker "Just count out as many pills as you can". That takes away the most rewarding part of my job, and I hear the pharmacists sometimes say the same thing. They are expected to have so many prescriptions ready in a certain time frame that they rarely have time to counsel patients properly on their medications (which is what they went to school for 6 years to do anyway!) Yesterday, for example, we had so many prescriptions that we had to tell people it was going to take 3 hours to get their medicine ready. We don't want them to have to wait that long, but we physically don't have enough manpower or staff to get it done sooner. It feels so wrong to make somebody wait that long for their medicine when you know they need it right away. I started thinking about nursing because I thought it would allow me to form closer relationships with people, make a connection with them, and feel like I genuinely helped them. I have always been a people person, and without a personal connection to someone my life feels meaningless. That's what gets me going. There are so many times I am at the checkout counter with someone for 30 seconds, talking to them as I ring up their medication, thinking to myself how amazing it would be to have a person-to-person conversation with them - about anything. I just wish there was more interaction with people. I brought up my thoughts of changing to nursing at work the other day, and one of the pharmacists said "Don't DO IT!!! Bad idea, we don't have time to talk about it now but just whatever you do, don't do it. Nurses are overworked and underpaid." Is this true? I came to college so certain I wanted to study pharmacy and become a pharmacist someday, but now I have started to question my innermost self as to why I even want to do it. I think mostly it just made sense, because I already "had my foot in the door". But, I went over to the nursing building today and walked around, just to get a feel for the environment and types of students/faculty. I don't know how much intuitive feelings should play a part in my decision, but I have to say that whenever I was walking around in there peering into the classrooms, I felt like I belonged there. Everyone I passed in the hallway smiled at me, genuinely, and asked how I was doing. I felt such a positive radiance in the air. This might sound silly. But that's my point! All these mixed feelings are making me crazy! And I really need to make the decision soon because I am supposed to start pharmacy school in the fall and if I want to make a change it's pretty much now or never since I have to send in applications soon. I talked to my cousin earlier today (whose parents are head of the respitory therapy department for 25+ years) and she was basically telling me to think about the pay. She was saying that in the end when I have my own family I am going to want to job with the best pay for my hours so I can have more time for my family. It just is hard to keep my own judgment straight when I've got friends and family on different sides of the fence. What do you all think? Do you think the rewards of nursing are also found in pharmacy, but it is just my job that doesn't let me see that aspect of pharmacy? Do you think the complaints I have about pharmacy are also found in nursing? What do you love/dislike about nursing? What are the best nurse jobs? Are you paid fairly for your work? Which nurse specialties seem to be the most rewarding? Comments from anyone are welcome, and I would especially love to hear advice or past experiences from some nurses out there.