Delawhere_RN
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deep breath :) Studying for boards I had 3 books that I used - An overall review book, a 2000+ questions NCLEX "practice" book (with explainations as to why that answer was correct) and my Tabers dictionary. I wrote 2 notes for myself and put one on my study table and the other on my Tabers. One said "Just get it done" which reminded me that I'm actually learning more if I get it wrong, because I'm learning why it was wrong and about what was right. The other said "Pass not Perfect" and that was because I can be SO anal about anything I had to just stick to the basic prnciple and not go overboard trying to be perfect. The books covered what I needed to know and the notes to myself kept me on track. Good luck!!
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We had a retention teacher in our LPN/RN school. I was told, for me, to draw out my info. So, I made asthma attacks in a family tree lay out. Top was green for the allergy/stimulus and each level was another color until I got to the "asthma attack" which was red. I rememeber doing blue bloater as a figure 8 person with a cracked heart in the right hand. Stuff like that. I'm not 18 any more and the whole depending on raw memory doesn't work quite as well LOL. I wish I learned it a lot earlier. Don't know if that helps any though as I'm not to the BSN program....yet :). So I glanced over the text and notes before class, took notes during, reread the notes that night and then whenever I had a minute, drew out the notes. Did I get alot done? No. But I remember them all. I think I would have done better if i learned about how I learn earlier and got used to the process.
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I don't think I read anything about having an "new" alternative cash crop for the country either. If it was farmed - there would be MJ, hemp, etc which could go further in industry to make clothes, etc. More jobs, more stuff, more market. There would have to be a lot of work done though: security of the crops (worried someone would come mow the fields at 3am lol), then regulations: growing with miracle grow, etc that could all be issues (have no idea how tobacco is grown to get ideas from) As far as being addictive, phychologically is the worst of all of it. Hence the answer to why puffs of a cigarette is more relaxing/soothing than the patch. There are people in Narcotics Anonymous that are addicted to pills, THC, whatever, legal or not so there is a place to go if the addict realizes they need help. Which is also the same place jails, parole officers, judges, etc send people when they are in "trouble" with MJ. People may actually go to get help faster if there is less process in between. (Believe it's their decision not some one elses) If one is worried about what would lawyers, PO's, counselors, police, etc do with less traffic there is always the idea that they would have time to focus on other cases. I have developed these opinions after having family in recovery for 22 yrs, volunteering at a detox facility for 7 yrs, living in a rural area and having a son who is a police officer and knowing many others upon having other life attributes.....so based iton what i know.....kind of stuck my neck out here, normally don't get into "debates" that have a legal vein running thru them.
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ROFLOL! :rotfl:
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I totally understand, but I'm sure they are trying to make work more than "just work" kwim?? You can always go to management and suggest something different, or ask that there be "better" prizes. I love suggestions to improve things! It's something that is patient involved -probably makes them feel good, can be competetive on a safe scale, so people are on their toes, and in all reality seeing something obvious is motivational. But yeah maybe paper stars on the hall bulletin board or something - then it would be more obvious and more people might be involved and more of the results mngt maybe looking for. Mngt likes things they can "advertise".lol.
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I graduated in Dec and am job searching now. I am in that "whatever is available" mode right now, and feel that each potential is a "diamond in the rough" because really I like alot of aspects of different branches in nursing. Where I'll fall in love (with my job) I have no idea, so where I go is an adventure, hopefully I won't hate it. But I have the goal of staying somewhere 6 -12 months before moving on, take inventory of what I like and don't like, get involved with things that has to do with nursing and healthcare and see where the next move is. But I actually thought, before nursing school, that there was nothing to nursing.....boy was I pleasently wrong!
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Are any of those emails geared to Nationwide where I could search here on the East coast too(for LPN)? Thanks for posting!
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As a current *mature* student nurse, I have some insight, yet not enough experience to say I'd love being a nurse -simply b/c I'm not all the way there yet. BUT I love going to clinicals, I love my paperwork (even though challenging and stressful) simply b/c I love to learn. I love people and I'm old enough (maybe mature is a better word LOL) that I know that not everyone will like me nor like themselves. So with that comes people who are hard to deal with in life and I'd assume especially nursing. I relate school to raising children, challenging but well worth it. I appreciate the knowledge I have and appreciate the knowledge my teachers and other experienced nurses have so much more now. I want to be that nurse.....the one that has 30+ yrs under their belt. I think there are people who are just supposed to be nurses and that they will make it to that path eventually - but need a little knowledge, so recommending doesn't hurt :0) Some pmake better nurses in Peds, others in Psych, etc. We all have a special place to call ours LOL.
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Found a great site for the syncope diagnosis, treatments, etc - just in case anyone searches this topic through the search engine like I do first and runs across this thread.. it's http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?doc_id=6468#top
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TY, I think I will have better luck with that. I started with risk for fall, then changed to Alteration in Cardiac Output r/t hx of irreg heartbeat aeb pacemaker, but that didn't quite hit me right with not being overly obvious to do with syncope. Is there any web site that you can reccommend to give info on diagnostic tesing for syncope? The head tilt test results, etc? I've read many of your posts while visiting this site and have gone to almost all of them, I'd say, just to check them out. The care plan constructor is awesome. Thanks again for all of your input on the threads.
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I haven't read the 5 pages of responses, but this is obviously an appropriate topic for nursing school! For me nursing school is one of the most intense things I've tried to accomplish in my life next to raising children. It's a process not an event and that in itself speaks volumes. It's an ongoing thing for semesters, not just a few days of class. LPN degree vs CPR class kind of thing. There are a ton of due dates and for me that in itslef is huge simply because my support system (family) and our work schedules have to change to accomidate the need school demands. More easily expressed I'd say "It's hard to take care of your present and future at the same time." My cries come from just being flat out overwhelmed. December can't come fast enough. I didn't cry until this last semester - and I've earned every tear LOL. Stress/overwhelmed, but also I am the venting board for my family and their feelings of the new responsabilities they have b/c I'm in school and not here. So I feeel I get it from both ends. It'll all pass though and be worth it when I get that degree!!
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I usually have no problems with care plans but I'm doing a process paper on syncope and based on the ABC's can't decided how to write a diagnosis or which one to do. I'm torn on oxygen getting to the brain and how to phrase that or risk to fall.. Pt has orostatic B/P, is 83 (normal aging process tuff there) elevated resp and hx of heart issue (pacemaker, HTN, afib). It's the last part of this paper. Thanks in advanced. DelawareCNA