Kyriaka

Kyriaka

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  1. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    _____________ It is intersting that you bring up Nazis. There is an opinion article today on the Terry Shiavo case written by an Orthodox Rabbi. Here is the link:...

  2. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    _______________ she is NOT brain dead. Even her husband admits to that. She is brain

  3. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    ______________ I agree. We do not know enough about the brain to understand pain. It is impossible to know for sure. What I do know is that starvation/ lack of water has driven people throughout...

  4. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    I suppose it was nice of him to allow a Priest this time. But I do find it very odd that he wasnt even there. Then the girlfriend giving information to the

  5. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    ______________ I agree. Death today is a very grey area. When I was injured I went without oxygen for 2-3 min (we will never know for sure). There were "experts" who said I would be in a wheelchair....

  6. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    ___________________ Yes. I would. If my family wanted to care for me. I do have a written directive which states very clearly that I want a feeding

  7. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Well, the latest today is that the husband kicked the family out, removed the tube...then his girlfriend gave a press conference!! The girlfriend. Not the husband. Talk about

  8. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    ___________________ In your opinion, should Christopher Reeve have been kept alive? He had to have a machine. What about Steven Hawking? A truly brilliant man..but confined. There was a story today...

  9. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    _________________ Is she was on a breathing maching and the husband was fighting to have her removed, I wouldnt have a problem with it. If she had written down to withhold a feeding tube, I would have...

  10. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    ________________ So once you sign a marriage certificate you no longer have rights? You can be treated any such way as your spouse sees

  11. Just got my ACT score back

    Kyriaka replied to NurseFlower's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    ___________ I truly believe that this is not that uncommon. My Hematologist is a PHD and MD. He used to teach Microbiology at George Washington University. He was told that he just needed to go to...

  12. Just got my ACT score back

    Kyriaka replied to NurseFlower's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I am totally against everything teetering on these "bubble timed" tests. The ACT/SAT was never ever meant to be what it is today. When I was in elementary school, I was given a standardized test that...

  13. Hopkins vs. UMD

    Kyriaka replied to JenniferC's topic in Maryland Nursing

    _____________ I also was looking at Hopkins and was so impressed. Rather than totally go on GPA and standardized tests, they truly look at the ethics and the leadership qualities of the applicants. If...

  14. Possible Diabetes Cure

    Kyriaka replied to stephera's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    You asked for it, here it is:

  15. Ethical Debate - HIV+ Nurses

    Kyriaka replied to SC RN's topic in General Nursing

    I think that HIV is treated differantly than other infectious diseases that a nurse may have. I personally dont think it should be. I have 2 ID's. I have Borrelia burgdorferi (cyst form--chronic deep...

  16. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    When did nursing become pro active euthanasia?? No wonder the Hemlock Society is able to get nurses to answer their 1-800

  17. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    __________________ she is not brain dead. right now many people are paying for her care. Her family wants to take her home to care for her. Dr.'s and nurses have offered their care FREE OF CHARGE. But...

  18. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    _______________ People have no problem with him going on. But he wont. He wants 2

  19. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    ___________ They can be any

  20. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    _______________ Yeah. He is a piece of work. But probably the one lesson from all of this is let people know your wants and your beliefs. Write it down. Make it

  21. Possible Diabetes Cure

    Kyriaka replied to stephera's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Just a note. I read on the BBC that a type III has been

  22. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    There IS life in a coma. Perhaps it is easier for some health care workers to believe that there is no life. That the person is an object. But a person in a coma IS alive. And they feel. And they...

  23. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    _______________ i guess someone needs to tell the disabled people in wheelchairs outside terri's "home" that this has nothing to do with

  24. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    _____________ You must make it your business. With this case lies the future of euthanasia & the rights of the disabled in this country. I look at this woman and think...she is on fewer machines...

  25. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

    Kyriaka replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    ____________ That is a thought. But the loser is still