Still Riding

I think they are starting to advertise a little soon, I am just graduating and am fairly young too and am having a hard time decideng what i will be doing in a day/week/month/year... well you get the picture. In 30 years i will be 53, and in 40 63years old. I don't think that is when i woudl liek to be picking up and moving to Mars... but you never know if there is a colony on mars they might be able to rewind the clock on people.

I was always taught diagnosis r/t problem as evidenced by symptoms. I jsut fill in the blanks

I was wondering is it possible to have permanent bruises or discolouration? Is it still a bruise? what is it called if it isn't? I have seen this twice, once was on a shin on a 50+ year old woman the "bruising" was 20 years old after she had a skying accident into a tree. no surgery just the trauma from impact. The other was a foot injury that occured 6 months ago on a 20 something year old. this one occured on the top of the foot where an object of 1000+ pounds landed on it. no breaks on x-ray at time of injury, still slightly tender and obvious discolouration the borders where object landed (you can tell that it had a curve on it). The second Pt stated that the discolouration is more obvious when his foot is cold. Why would this be/ Both of these cases are an injury on a bony surface does that matter? if it isn't a bruise then what is it? If a bruise is simply blood then why wouldn't it disolve and disappear? any ideas? really just curious on the physiology of this. thanx, Brenna

I love the roating shifts, but if i had to pick one and stick to one I think it would be nights. that is just how my body clock likes to operate. I love the night and get all this energy in the night. And I hate mornings, i find them painful. I actually mean physically painful. I find it hurts to wake up. just my thoughts.

For the past 4 years (almost) I have been in school for nursing, and all I can think is that I want out... I have had enough of friday night dates with my desk, and having no life and being 4 hours away from home and going to classes that I hate. I hate all my classes this semester and all I can say is that I feel like it is busy work. that they needed to make the degree 4 years so right now I am waisting my time with stupid classes. I have spent the past 4 years learnign something that I am not even sure I wanna do but i have always said i can't change until I have a plan... But I can't think of a plan that I would liek better. SO here I am. Maybe it will get better when I am in my final placement. but right now I am counting down the days, and they are going so slowly since I have more work to do than I can get done in a normal day so their is no sleeping. and when I try to sleep I feel guilty for not having all my work done yet so I can't sleep. that was my little vent. thanx for lisening, SR

olymipic Rider, probably the Jumpers, but I would settle for Eventing. So since I am not that good of a rider, and I don't have money to buy many horses, I decided that nursing would be a good idea...

I will be finishing my final clinical this winter and although I don't know who my preceptor will be this is what I hope it will be like. -I hope that she is understanding that I am learning and guides me appropratly -I hope that she challenges me, I want to learn and become a better nurse -I hope she doens't swamp me, although I would lie to be challenged I don't want to be drowning and feeling like I can never do it -I hope she is supportive and teaches me during the rotation, I want to learn that is all i can think of right now and i have to run to class I'm sure others will add some really god points I don't know about but jsut the fact that you care and wanting to be a good preceptor will make you a great one. SR

I was diagnosed with Type I in my first year of university/nursing school I was 19 at the time. I htought that it was the end of my life, truthfully I did. I had help with a dietichan and my dr. but i am currently fully controlled. i was told once i was controled we could start talking about an insulin pump. I would like on but would liek to wait until school is finished in may. I have had only one low glucose level while in clinical after being diagnosed, it was a busy day and it all jsut slipped my mind. I have to be carefull about treats at the nurses station and make sure that I carefully control my blood glucose throughout the day. hope that helps sr

Nursing school sucks. that is all there is too it. there have been times that I love and soem that I hate. But i don't need support when the times are good i love to share the good. But i really need the support of everyone when it sucks. Liek right now I am almost done and this is the worst time ever. I have dates on friday nights with my desk. and no matter how hard i try someone is always disappointed. I have two profs involved with one course each asking different things with one progect each making me and my partner redo things over and over. I didnt' really have time to do ti the first time and am resenting the four time. So right not NS does suck, and i am bitter and angry and frustrated, and really hating my life right now. and this may be the bitter angry frustrated part of my but who are you to tell me what I can and cna't write on a public bb? and NS is not roses and if you think it will be you have a harsh reality coming to you. It is not that I am dumb it is all the time that is required and all the crap that I have to put up with.

I really wasn't a goodie two shoes. But I would like to think that I got all that crazyness out while i was young and dumb and didn't have anything to loose (or so I thought) or could loose (also a delusion)

or open up your drug book...

But it also had the power to make my But look big. I would be happier with a uniform of navy Blue or hunter green. Does it have to be white?

How do you say thanx you to a good instructor? There is one lap/clinical instructor that I never have had for any length of time other than once or twice a year over the past 3.5 years in my nursing program. But she has always been a fantastic teacher and always fair and wanting to help as much as possible even if it was answering questions that were not diretly related to her class. She is the kind of instructor that not only makes me want to be a nurse and feel good about my future career but also maybe one day be a lab/clinical instructor. Is it appropriate to send her an e-mail to tell her what I think, or would that be sucking up? I have nothing to gain I have finished all my labs and classes that she teaches, I just wanted to say thanx you and let here know that she makes a difference. would that be creepy? thanx SR

thanx for the advice. this woman is horrid. she talks to the kids about how the staff dont' like her and she tries to bribe them with things to ge tthem on her side. she is only here for 3 more days I can't wait till she leaves I hope the next one will be great like the first 2 where.

Hey, I graduate in months and will be an RN. I decided to work my last summer at a camp, but not as a nurse. I am a counselor and a riding instructor. We have several nurses that coem in the summer the first 2 were great I loved them the kids loved them and the other staff loved them. For the past week we have had a new nurse that is just not stepping up to the plate. It is a horse back riding camp, so obviously kids can fall off and get hurt. When the kids are riding the nurse is surposed to be at the rings watching unless there is another issue that she has to attend too. all of the instructors carry walkie talkies to communicate to the barn and the nurse. This nurse will constantly be not at the rings and leave the walkie talkie in her room. When she does have it on her and we call her ASAP to the ring she walks down like she is out for a sunday stroll. she is surposed to be at meals and do night rounds but she is at neither. there are only 35-55 kids at this camp so it is not like it is hard to get through all the rooms we sleep all in the same building. When the kids go ask her for stuff she makes it seem like they are a pain in the but. It has coem to the point that one of the staff try to go with all the campers when they see the nurse if we can. I had a kid in my lesson fall off and the first thing she said to me was "I dont' wanna see that evil nurse" she refuses to try and learn the staff's names and there aren't that many of us, and makes comments on everything we do. We found out the other day that she doesn't lock the med cabinet and there are narcotics it there. I can't stand this nurse, all the others I could learn something from but all I wanna learn from this one is the kind of nurse that I would not like to be. But that does not help the kids for the next 4 weeks. any ideas? thanx SR