greenykilt

hi there, I have a probably odd question, I am a Krav Maga practitioner and my hands and arms tend to get beat up and down depending on my day. Either with bruising down my forearms, on my palms or surface "rug" or bag burns. I also practice crossfit...

For those of you that hold martial art belts and extensive experience, do you wonder if your response to a patient altercation. While even docile, would be trumped into something more because of your known fighting ability?

I can barely even breathe I am just outraged and upset and everything else. I shadowed in ob/gyn (my choice for working after graduation, if I am so lucky) and lucked out shadowing an amazing team of nurses. Its a big downtown hospital, very busy. An...

Hello, Does anyone have opinons on these two different fields? Has anyone struggled with choosing between them? And if so how did you rationalize one over the other? What are the pros and cons of OT that you see, as a career and as a professional? Th...

you and me both. Will always be haunted by those. I was a social worker for years. Have to take a sleeping pill to not wake up from nitemares. never EVER leave a child alone. They are VERY smart and know when your gone, they sense it , this I promis...

You should never EVER leave a child unattended. This is basic life skills 101. And a RN to boot. I don't quite get it. I am sorry to say that I don't know how much I would trust a RN taking care of patients who can up and leave a 8 year old so they a...

You will do amazing! You will be very focused on having superb time management skills that it will flow alot easier than some of your classmates. For me- I find it very doable (and not hard and I do go to a challenging program!) and take a laid back ...

I have another masters (MBA) and find nursing school easier. What some of my classmates are lacking is time mangement skills. Or overstudying. Especially spending say 7 hours on a saturday on something very small in scale of subject. This time could ...

you will find alot of interesting information from www.preeclampsia.org the non profit pre eclampsia (and HELLP and etc) site. Browsing the forums is very interesting as well.

another hard one is seeing a 1st of 2nd trimester baby lost to a mother who desperately wanted that child with all her heart and soul. All sorts of stillbirth, genetic and etc issues that will come thru maternity. It is hard to be non judgemental on ...

I say do it now. I just had my 3rd baby myself. If you wait the risk you run into is being very tired and "tied" up during your kiddos kindergarten and elem years, those are crucial and I will argue almost MORE crucial than other time periods! if you...

I want to follow up and thank everyone for your replies. I read each and every one of them and let reply sink in. All were valuable. Thank You. First, I have been given alot of thought to hostile working conditions. In my previous life, I was a socia...

Well it went better than anticipated. I told her that what she did was unprofessional and embarassing. She said she has been working long nites on call etc etc. I said it seems her reputation is getting a bit murky from this type of thing and she was...

Thanks everyone. I am a "older" student who has a MBA and previous VP experience and have been around many politically explosive, difficult and embarassing situations. But this one to me is inexusable. I am actually on my way to the hospital. I am d...

Alright, me again and my shadowing. Apparently I should get used to shadowing during inductions as thats all I seem to see :) Again, another eye opener on having to use critical thinking skills in addition (or in spite of?) what the patient says? aft...

ha! I will be 37 when I graduate- you? thats what I get for being on allnurses while breastfeeding my baby! hard to type! HA

you have an advantage, in my opinion. you will come across as more mature, more articulated, more professional. BTDT in terms of politics at work. Etc.

Hello, I am very new in all senses of the word and shadowed a obgyn nurse 3 weeks ago and ! and am very confused on the turn of events and am searching for some sense to a delivery I witnessed, if anyone could tell me if this is normal I would apprec...

not to be completely idiotic, but- if you have central monitoring cant you just monitor every 15 minutes remotely vs in person? am truly asking in such lazy/simple terms just to understand the scope of basic care if that makes sense!

ps she was a high risk patient, pre exsisting hypertension and thus the induction at 36.5 weeks as bp was creeping up.

thanks for all your information, its truly very appreciated. I guess what is hanging me up, is that you hear of how litigious lnd and etc is now a days, something about the look on the husbands face because of how long he tried to find her and how l...

Yes to central monitoring. Does it show the patient contractions too? or just FHR? If you have central monitoring and a patient is in "active labor past 4 cm" do you not need to check on the patient as long as your central monitoring system is showi...

I also think its BS that your claming your bowing out of the discussion - its because you cant stand the heat. I am sure your reading all the replies

Ever seen a non circ penis get infected? or seen what an unclean one looks like, or try to convince a small boy how to clean it properly? to each their own. With this kind of prejudices and feeling "sorry " for parents (how do you know how they actua...