blue heron

well, after all that has, and still is, happenning in our lives, we are actually going to get away for a couple of weeks!!!!:balloons: :balloons: :balloons: It has been about four years, so we are really looking forward to the break. My question is--...

On Monday evening I recieved a call from our 24 year old son, who was living in a city about 6 hours drive from us, asking that I come get him now, that people were after him and wanted to kill him. He had felt threatened last Nov and in fact went mi...

I haven't been here for a while--I've been working nights, and trying to get my house and yard in order. Yard work is therapy for me, so this has been good. It is also therapeutic to be able to find things indorrs LOL. I've also d/c my antidepresant ...

All of the above, as well as know the format your papers have to be in--AND know it! ie APA or MLA. Ours had to be all APA, and we have some profs who are REALLY sticky about the format. It is sooooo anoying to lose marks for such stupid things. Also...

Nursecadet, the book that saved my butt on Care Planning is Concept Mapping: A critical-thinking approach to care planning by Pamela McHugh Schuster, 2002, F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia. I did not understand the process until I read this book. I ...

Thanks everyone- Daye, your message brought tears to my eyes-good tears-and yes I am trying to remember to take care of me in all this too. Mad09-pot is definatly a factor for our son, and he has finally admitted it and is addressing it. Insight is s...

Thanks for the links. We have both CMHC and Schizophrenia offices here in our city, and I have contacted them. Our hospital also has a support group for the families that we will be attending. I did not know about the mood disorder sites--and as I de...

Nothing like a captive audience!!!

A quick update, as I have been having trouble with this web site letting me on. We admitted JN two nights ago. and I have been crying off and on ever since. no real sleep the first night, went to my Dr. yesterday to talk, and get something to help me...

Thanks every one. Just coming here and seeing your posts is a help right now. Wolfie, its good to hear from you, and thanks for your prayers. You always have sound suggestions, and a compassionate heart. This is a road that is not going to be easy, ...

thanks for the info and suggestions. Both the GP and the psychiatrist discussed admission with our son, but chose not to do so at present. They did tell him and us, under what circumstances to go to ER. He would likely be certified if that happened, ...

onconnurseRT, how awful for you all. As to the question of how long certain viruses can live outside the body, we were recently told in class that Hep C can live on inanimate objects for 14 days. I'm not sure about Hep A or B. HIV is only seconds out...

Haunted, I'm so glad your son is in such good hands. That alone will help. I read your comment about being strong, and I just wondered if you really eqate crying, and needing help from others as not being strong? I sort of doubt it, esp with your ex...

Thank you for the teaching and the links!!!!!! Awesome. ?

As a student nurse, I have seen quite a few good and not so good nurses, and I don't care if they're an LPN or RN, if they'll teach--I will learn. On one rotation, the nurse on the floor with wound care training was an LPN, so I followed her on her r...

Haunted, I'm glad he has stablized, and is working at things. You are all still in my prayers. I have been on Effexor since Sept (diagnosed with severe depression third week of school, thank God for supportive faculty), and I have had very good resul...

Dear Haunted, My heart goes out to you and your family. I am praying for all of you, that God will reach down and give you help, support and wisdom, today and in the days to come. The hardest thing of all is to see our loved ones in pain, esp emotion...

a friend sent me this in our first year---and it is still true in our third year. ONLY THREE semesters to go!!!!!! :balloons: :balloons: :balloons: The top ten diagnosis for nursing students from the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, ...

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it might be useful to learn the main drug families, and the proto-typical drug for each one, as well as the effects and side-effects. The effects and side-effects of drugs in each group are very similar, and also directly relate to the system they ar...

I hear you. I am in my third year of four, and was not doing well. Ended up in counselor's office after crying every day for two weeks, not sleeping properly for three weeks, no short term memory, and a few other symptoms. Diagnoses? Severe depressio...

nurse wannabe, I am so very sorry to hear of your loss. We have suffered loss in our lives, and I can only agree with the wisdom already shared by others before me- seek support, cry whenever you need to, and stay close to your husband and son. My ...

I pulled one on my clinical instructor- got a cath bag, put foam fish, and other water animals in, filled it with lemon Jello, then with the cooperation of a patient, hung it in front of the real one. Then called the lucky instructor, because 'there'...

There's a guy here in Canada (I forget which province) that is facing several murder charges for having unprotected sex with women and not informing them of his HIV. Not much comfort for you and your brother, but it might stop her from repeating this...

My hubby doesn't quite understand why I spend so much time here (way too much sometimes, esp with my homework load), but he doesn't really care. We have our own offices and computers-empty nest syndrome - so no fighting for computer time. If I'm re...