VANursetobe

Being that I don't have the required amount of posts, I can't respond to your personal message. If you'd like I can post my answers to your questions here or you can send me another message with your email address in it and I can reply that way.

I took the NursingABC chemistry course last year as my prereq. It is only considered a high school credit. I was able to finish the course in several weeks in order for me to get my ducks in a row to apply to nursing school. I am now about to finish my second semester at SRMC.

Thanks everyone. I tried talking to her about her nutrition and she just kept repeating she's fine she's fine she's fine. So I've done what I can as a friend. Luckily, she lives with her inlaws while her husband is overseas and her MIL has a 1 year herself so she won't be alone. Thanks for everyone's support

She doesn't give me much info (she know's I'll "side" with the dr. since dr.'s are bad guys:banghead:) And typically we just text and chat on facebook. She texted me a few minutes ago and said they've upped her to chicken broth and she's eating (drinking??) it. I told her I'm not trying to be mean or bossy. . . I just want what's best for her and the baby.

I'm newly registered though I've been lurking for a while. I'm a second semester nursing student. My question does not have to do with a patient experience but rather a personal one. I have a friend, we'll call her S. She is 39 weeks pregnant and is admitted to the local hospital for as she put it, a "gall bladder infection". Being that she is a friend rather than a patient, I do not have access to her chart and she is not very specific on what is going on. She has been having the same issue since she was at least 5 weeks pregnant (so she says). Her doctor doesn't want to do anything until the baby is born. Her diet consists mainly of fast food (as far as I know she is not on any prenatal vitamins or healthy diet). So now she has been put on a clear liquid diet. And she is refusing to eat it. She wants McDonalds or Burger King or Wendy's. She made a comment on facebook how she's refusing the clear liquid diet and now "the IV will just have to take care of her" (which I am assuming is TPN). I've tried talking to her about how she won't feel better if she doesn't listen to the drs and nurses or that she at least needs to listen to them for the good of the baby. Any advise from nurses that have delt with this kind of thing?