TDCHIM

Fair enough. I stand corrected on how much of her child's life she would see if she lived the exact average lifespan of an HIV+ patient post-diagnosis. She'd see the child to the verge of high school. Again, certainly not an ideal situation (and it w...

No, the disease has no cure. However, the life expectancy of an HIV+ individual has expanded to such a degree that people have a significant possibility of dying from some other type of condition long before they might be expected to progress and die...

Apparently if you aren't 100% healthy, at an optimum weight and BMI, under 35, and guaranteed by a licensed fortune teller to live without disability or major illness at least until your kid graduates from college, you shouldn't be reproducing? Peop...

The ADA makes provisions for those with disabilities to be given reasonable accommodations to perform jobs within their abilities. It doesn't give someone carte blanche to run around making massive mistakes without repercussions. It sounds like you'v...

I have a similar need for strong pain control, and I sympathize from the bottom of my heart (and the twisted wreck of my spine). I'm so sorry you're going through this. Is there no way your physician's office will replace the medication, given the ci...

Is it possible that the person from HR called without knowing that higher-ups had arranged for you to get help? Can you try appealing to the people who came to your office and verbally stated you would be treated. citing the promise made by the RN/VP...

It may irritate you, but "orientate" is a real word that may legitimately be used interchangeably with the word "orient". Using "orientate" for "orient" doesn't mean someone is using poor grammar, misusing a word with a different actual meaning, or o...

The OP added her post mentioning the student's possible plagiarism as I was composing mine, so no, I didn't get to include that in my reasoning. I do think a lot of the same questions remain for the original scenario, not really for this student but ...

@TrishJK: Your own response is fairly self-righteous as well. Now, that being said, I am uneasy at the tenor of some of the responses to this thread. Let me make it clear: I believe this student should have been expelled. Reporting the matter to t...

By nature I'm a major privacy advocate, but I see no issue with fingerprinting nurses. People are extremely vulnerable when being cared for in a hospital, so to me it makes sense to fingerprint and thoroughly screen those who would have contact with ...

You're going to need at least a couple of years of experience before you can land one of the from-home coding jobs (they usually include an orientation period of six weeks to a few months before you start at home anyway). And before you can get that ...

Well, you appear to have reached your decision. I'll enter one last caveat: don't discount the workload of your program simply because it's online. The issues of having to be somewhere at a specific time will probably lessen (unless you frequently ha...

In order to give you the best possible answer I would need a little more information. Are you desperate for F/T money? Is your BSN program F/T or P/T? (I'm hesitant to make an assumption in either direction, though if I had to place money somewhere I...

Money matters to a point. We all have responsibilities, and I'm here to tell you that no matter how fun/enjoyable/fascinating the job may be or how supportive your colleagues, trying to have a family of three live on less than $30K a year is no picni...

Wow. I thought I'd heard some out-there requests from employers in my day, but asking that you give the company permission to peruse your medical history? Good lord, no, don't sign that paperwork! And while you're at it, an anonymous tip about the si...

When it comes to a challenging and time-consuming program like nursing, if you think your honors program will give you the opportunity to do something that will enhance your marketability or experience level with regard to what you actually want to d...

Could you be a little more specific about your interests and what led you to change your mind about nursing? For instance, are you having difficulty with some aspect of the nursing curriculum? You mentioned wanting information about positions that st...

There are other forms of informatics that don't necessarily require bedside nursing experience. Healthcare/health informatics is a very similar growing field. It's one of my interest areas, only I'll be going into it from a background in HIM as oppos...

I have made my case in two posts regarding the overarching, longstanding connotation attached to the word gluttony. That negative connotation exists in everyday usage not due to any personal standard or belief of mine, but due to 1400 years of wester...

In theory, perhaps. In reality, most people are going to be more far more receptive to being told "According to your weight today, you are overweight" than they will be to being told "According to your weight today, you are a glutton." In the everyda...

Gluttony is a term with a long-standing negative connotation. It is one of the seven deadly sins best known from Dante's The Divine Comedy. There is no way in which gluttony can be taken as a neutral term. By longstanding Western cultural tradition, ...

Given that you're an RN, you might consider the role of a clinical documentation specialist if you're looking for a change. Here's a link to a description: http://www.psqh.com/online-articles/231-the-clinical-documentation-specialist-a-key-member-of-...

As other have noted, lots of different food colorings can do this, along with strongly-colored foods like pomegranates or black raspberries. The weirdest stool color I've ever seen came after I let my son eat some of those Robin Egg candy-coated malt...

This one is for both you and the OP: HIM is a cool field because, like nursing, it has many different areas of specialization. It's also growing quite a bit because of the push to move health records to an electronic format. When that data is availab...

I'm an INTJ on Myers-Briggs, although I don't place much faith in those sorts of tests. In the end, we are what we make of our opportunities and gifts; we aren't predetermined to succeed in one field and fail miserably in another simply due to a jumb...