CFitzRN

Okay got it. Thank you

Can you elaborate on that? Plan what things?

It infuriates me that any medical professional would even consider allowing any alarm to sound for up to 1/2 hour at a time without being addressed (and potentially ongoing indefinitely after the alarms are addressed!) Besides the liability for the nurses, this is fundamentally abusive to the patients. These sick people MUST have the ability to sleep in order to recover. Constant interruptions in their sleep could be the difference between recovery and death. This is just one example of why being in the hospital lately is worse than ever. They need to implement a central monitoring system, period.

Me? I'd take the 9-5 all day.long. No question whatsoever.

It sure sounds to me that you did everything right and in a timely manner. The fact you were so affected tells me you are a good and conscientious midwife, and one I'd have loved to have with me during/after the births of my 4 sons. I worked mother/baby for several weeks after graduating nursing school so I was pretty closely monitored and didn't experience anything as visually scary as that. My own grandson struggled badly after birth though, and spent a week in NICU. He was really struggling with his respirations. No one was too sure why. That was frightening. I prayed over him whenever I'd go spend time w him in the hospital. He is now a beautiful, smart, healthy 6 year old boy. I'm guessing your pt was a breastfed baby and likely wasn't properly latching, or mom wasn't making adequate colostrum? It happens. At least you were on top of monitoring well enough to treat the issue quickly with no repercussions.

It is very difficult to discern exactly what happened here. Also I'm not familiar with an ED program (ADN?). If you're asking whether to continue at your current school to get your BSN or pursue your ADN at a much closer school, I would probably go with the latter and then pursue the BSN allowing the hospital to cover your tuition. Can you clarify the allegation made to the Dean though? If you're determined to pursue your BSN, it may be that you just need to go in with hat in hand and get it out on the table that it was a poor choice you made under duress while ill. Just remember, nursing requires very critical thinking so in future, reason things out before acting.

The scratching & banging on the walls is pretty freaky ?

And that, right there, is the peace of God that passes all understanding. That's exactly what it is. His word is truth.

I am so touched by your story, especially how you turned to our Lord at the darkest moment possible and allowed Him to hold and heal you. I am so inspired. God bless you.

Oh look, more condescension. Imagine my shock.

The basic premise of this article is condescension. "We are right, they are wrong, so how do we make them do what we want?" And this is what I find with the gene-therapy pushing crowd. They won't consider any of the evidence that the gene therapy injection may NOT be what's best, or listen to the statistics indicating that some populations with the highest injection rates are acquiring more infections now. We "laggers" are educated and trained. We can think critically and make decisions for ourselves. We, too, consider the science and the research. How about you trust that we have valid reasons for our hesitancy and not treat us like children who need to be convinced to your side of the argument?

(To Doc WorkADay) I had somehow missed this, but enjoyed reading your story. Without going into detail (which would take the better part of a week, undoubtedly), I am a practicing Catholic who has experienced what no one could deny was an encounter with evil. It was targeting my young son. My husband - an engineer and a very logical, linear thinker - witnessed the entire encounter. His world view changed 100% after that, and it was the turning point in our family. It was a watershed moment that proved to us that God and satan are real, that the preternatural world is not just the musings of some ancient superstitious men. That said, you reacted to the attack in the only way that would have been effective. However, these beings do not usually go down without a fight, so be vigilant and please, never go looking for this kind of trouble again. You are wise to forgo any further ghost tour-type activities because, although they're usually done all in fun, the powers of evil are no respecter of men, and they will take any opening you permit by consenting to contact them. Just to be clear, I am the most normal, boring person there is, and if this can happen to me and my family, it can happen to anyone. Satan's most effective weapon is to convince people he does not exist and lull them into a sense of safety or unbelief. When they let their guard down (as in the case of dabbling in occult-type "games," seances, Ouija, witchcraft, etc) his minions will get a foot in the door. It may not lead to anything obvious such as what you or I experienced. It can manifest in a myriad of ways which lead to destruction. At any rate, thanks for sharing your story!

Broken families cause far, far more damage than most people will admit. Sure, there are a bunch of us who came from divorced parents, blended families, childhood trauma, and we didn't turn into mass murderers, but along with the soaring divorce/single parent rates now, there is also less support from the community, more isolation, declining social mores, increased violence in every conceivable area in kids' lives, widely-available obscene/violent Mediaography (which causes its own brand of misery), sky-high substance abuse, easier access to firearms - it all leads to the perfect storm of rage and a lack of conscience. Guns are most certainly NOT the crux of the problem, though they clearly provide a means to great harm - but until our society learns what love really is, what marriage really is, what selflessness really is, and begins valuing and strengthening the nuclear family unit, this is all going to get much worse.

I don't think there is any one singular cause of these shootings, but I believe one of the most obvious and stark causes is the breakdown of the family. Missing fathers and America's broken boys - the vast majority of mass shooters come from broken homes | Fox News

Rhetoric like that doesn't help. There are something like 300 million guns in the US, so even if all law-abiding gun owners turned over their firearms, there would still be tens of millions of guns out there, and unarmed citizens would be at the mercy of armed criminals. I have firearms that I've been trained to use, and I store them securely and safely, while also having quick access to them should I need to defend myself or my family. The way things are now, banning guns would do nothing except ensure that only criminals have firearms.