Nursingangel

HI about six months ago I came on the this sight and asked for some advise about a abnormal mammo. I am 34 and have a strong family history of female cancers on both sides of my family. My OBGYN has been very carfull about duing ultrasounds of my breast and also pelvic ultrasounds every few years. Six moths ago we decided to go ahead and have a base line mammo. Which showed calcifacations. I was brought back and had compression views, I was then advised to come back in six moths for a recheck. I don't know I just did not fill comfortable doing that so I demanded to see a surgan. He did a exam and looked and my films and he also felt that we should wait six months and recheck the mammo. He really was not that concerend and he and 2 radiologest looked at my films and they all felt the same. So feeling more comfortable and most importantly at peace. I waited and went last week for my follow up. I had a feeling that there was something wrong because they came in and got several differant views, but I did not worry to much. So today I went to see my surgan and he says that I now have a area of microcalcifations that are around 1cc and am have a Brac of 4. So I am being schedudle for a biopsy next week. I have obsurved the procedure so I know what to expect there. But what comes next. I am a single mom of a 16 year old son and I feel that he should be in this from the begining. I want him to be able to understand what is going on and if this is bad be able to ask questions. But I am not sure how to do that. Should he come to the hospital with us. How can I best prepare my son for what ever happens. I feel that this is probley benign, Lord know that I have told alot of patents this same news and it has been fine. But I am terrified. I want to make sure that my son is ok. I know that if this is bad it will hopefully be early and I will be fine. I would like to know sort of what to expect for what happens after the biopsy.Sorry this is so long. Thank you for your support. Please keep us in your prayers.

Rome Middle is a great school. My there main issue right now is that the principle has changed 3 times in 4 years. I know that the teachers there are great and I still see them a good bit. Middle school is in general hard it is just such a change and at Rome they go from small elm schools to a huge middle school, but the way they teach, in Teams, it still feels very small. The middle school's speacial ed program is also wanderfull. I have to say that a lot of the people that were in my son's elm school, took there kids out of the Middle school and sent them to Unity the local Christion school, but the majority of those kids were back at Rome by 8th grade. Rome Middle is only 7th and 8th grade so it is not as diverse as the other middle schools. I know that Armurchee has 6th, 7th and 8th grade at there school and again is a good school. My BF kids are doing very well there. My suggestion still stands to come to Rome and go into the schools and see what they are like before you make up your mind.

Yes I to was in Rome at Model during 1993. I know what East and West Rome were like and the fear of what would happen when the schools merged but belive it or not the school is now the best one in the State. Kids from Rome High have no problem getting into any school in the nation. My point is not to decide and give advise on 15 year old info. All of the high schools have changed. Well execpt maybe Coosa and it is still red neck High, and has been since my mother graduated there in 1961. Rome is not the place it was in 1993.

We have several RELLY good LD elementry schools in Rome City two of them are West End. Which is were my son went and then I think the other is either Elm Street or West Central. Please call the Rome City School board and talk with the Director of Special Education for Rome City. She is wonderful. She her self has been at all of my son's IEP meetings. Please call or email her and she can help you find the best school for your child. please feel free to email me if I can help.:nuke:

I live in Rome about an hour north of Atlanta. Most Atlanta hospitals are "phaseing out LPN positions. Kennastone did but I think they have now stopped hiring LPN's. Here in Rome we have 2 hospital's that do hire LPN's Redmond and Floyd and in Cartersville Hospital dose hire LPN's but still about 30 min out of atlanta. Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta does not hire LPN's AT ALL!!! I applied there and interviewed and was told that if I would not use my LPN and go back to phelbotomy I could start the next day. Good luck.

http://www.romebands.org/ http://www.rcs.rome.ga.us/rhs/ http://www.rcs.rome.ga.us/ fyi! refurring to the poster before. rome high is not a getto school anymore. it is the number 1 school in the state! also, my gyn's son, who is my son's age went to darlington untill this year, and is now at rome high. darlington may take mega bucks to go to but it also has more drugs and guns than the other 5 schools put together. also, there scores just don't add up. those kids can afford them. rome does have some inner city kids but we are a team and on campus we are wolves and nothing else! please check out the above links to find out the truth about the wolves!! we also have floyd medical center, redmond reg, northwest regianal, and harbin clinic - which is the largest priveitly owned clinic in the south. we are also leading the nation in electrionic medical recourds. floyd, redmond and harbin all have state of the art imaging accquipment and are linked so that if you have a ct at one then have a mri at the other all films can be removed. this is a fantastic city to live in.

I live in Rome and have a Son that has been in the Rome City schools since kindergarden. He is now a Freshman at Rome High. Rome High is large but it is also the number 1 school in the State by SAT scores. There Band is Frist class, football team is great also, along with all other sports. My son has a learning Disablity and he has truly had a wonderfull experance with Rome. Don't let its size scare you. Armurchee is also a good school. My best friends childern go there and although there High school has a littel diferant standerds in dress, ie. at Rome you must dress for scuess, shirts tucked in for boy's and no bagy pants, It is also a good school. There Band is on the way up. As you can tell my son is in the band so I know more about that. My advise to you is to come to Floyd County and visit All of the schools and decide for your self. I know that at Rome they are happy to talk with parents and show them around. As a child with a LD I could have put him in any school, city, couinty or privent and the state would pay for tuition but I choose ROME. Hope this helps.

I am a 33 year old LPN, with a family history of a maternal aunt with breast cancer, a paternal aunt with breast cancer and my Paternal grandmother died of uterain and ovarin cancer. In 2000, I found a lump in my left breast and had a ultrasound. the Dx was fibrocystic disease. Last week after speaking with my GYN we decied that since I would be 34 this year and with my family history we would start doing mammo's. Well guess what it came back abnormal. calcifcations in my L breast that they wanted mag views.:uhoh21: So this morning I went back and had new veiws. The report came back that I have some lose "clusters" of about 3-4 calcifcations close to the medial chest wall but that they are all losely clousterd, what ever that meens,. They recoumend that I wait 6 months and redo the mammo. The only thing is that I am just not sure that I am comfortable doing that. I know that Calcifications are extremly comain and that most of the time they are compleatly benign. But I am a single mom and WHAT if I am that young woman that it is malignate. I just don't know that I could live for the next six months with over my head. Please tell me your experances. I know that you can't give me "medical advise" or make this discion for me I just need to talk with some nurses that have been where I am or have pt where I am and what they did. I don't want to tell the Doc's that I work with every day that I don't trust there jugment but I just don't know if I should wait. Please give me some advise.:bowingpur Please excuse my spelling I can barly see the screen so I am sure it is bad.

I am a 33 year old LPN, with a family history of a maternal aunt with breast cancer, a paternal aunt with breast cancer and my Paternal grandmother died of uterain and ovarin cancer. In 2000, I found a lump in my left breast and had a ultrasound. the Dx was fibrocystic disease. Last week after speaking with my GYN we decied that since I would be 34 this year and with my family history we would start doing mammo's. Well guess what it came back abnormal. calcifcations in my L breast that they wanted mag views.:uhoh21: So this morning I went back and had new veiws. The report came back that I have some lose "clusters" of about 3-4 calcifcations close to the medial chest wall but that they are all losely clousterd, what ever that meens,. They recoumend that I wait 6 months and redo the mammo. The only thing is that I am just not sure that I am comfortable doing that. I know that Calcifications are extremly comain and that most of the time they are compleatly benign. But I am a single mom and WHAT if I am that young woman that it is malignate. I just don't know that I could live for the next six months with over my head. Please tell me your experances. I know that you can't give me "medical advise" or make this discion for me I just need to talk with some nurses that have been where I am or have pt where I am and what they did. I don't want to tell the Doc's that I work with every day that I don't trust there jugment but I just don't know if I should wait. Please give me some advise.:bowingpur Please excuse my spelling I can barly see the screen so I am sure it is bad.

I had a pt that was a police officer and he told me that they give people in medical field profesonal curttiy because if they are shot and you are the nurse coming in to help them they don't want you to think o this is th jurk that gave me a tic,

I have had a lot of experances like these in my personal life. Probly the most amazing was when my Grandfather was admitted about 2 weeks before his death I was staying with him. He would get Sundowners when admitted and would get very upset unless one of us was with him. He was in a state of just praying and crying out to Jesus over and over again. and suddelly he went complete still and quite. This got my attention and I looked over at him. At the same time I felt my Grandmother's presents. I looked at my grandfather and his eyes were clear as a bell and he was very attentivly looking at someone. The I heard him say, "But Why Oma?" ,my grandmothers name. HE sat a listened and then said, "OK I'll be waiting" By now I was in tears and had goose bumps all over me, and I new it would not be long. From that point on that night he no longer called to Jesus but said over and over "I'll be waiting." He did improve and My mother asked him about that night and he looked at her with a beautiful smile on his face and said, "Yes, Oma came to me and told me that It was not time yet to go but that she would be back soon for me." Two days later he died. Also, Not to long after that I was sitting in Church next to a woman that was like a grandparent to me and I suddenly saw her casket sitting at the front of the church. I could not see her in it because it was closed but I knew it was her. I begain to cry and reached over and took her hand. That afternoon she told me that she new that she would be going home soon because her husband had come to her in a dream. Less that two weeks later I was told that she was gone. I have also heard storys of people that screamed and writhed at they died that there feet were burning and that their bodies where on fire. I also had a near death experance about ten years ago. I went into respitory arrest and saw a blinding light off in the distance. It was just a pin head in size but was the brightest light I have ever scene. It was so peacefull and I was not scared. I could see shapes in the light of people waiting on me. My best friend died of Lukemia at age 16. Not long after she was dx she called me and was telling about the list that Make a Wish had her write about what she wanted to do before she died. She had put the normal things that 14 yr old grils think of, Drive, date, kiss, go to the prom, get married and of course have a child. At that she told me, " I am never going to be able to have babies of my own, You will have to have them for me and I will be there Godly Mother, their angel!" Of course at the time I brushed it off and told her that if it came down to it I would but that she was going to live and have her on babies. I then forgot about it until that Thurs that I heard the news that she was gone. The thing about it was I was 16 weeks pregnet with my now 14 year old son. I have no dought that she is my sons angel and have seen her in his eyes as a baby and in the times that he has come close to danger but Miraculously came out unharmed. I Beleive strongly in angel's and that when we die that our love ones that go on before come back for us.

As for the rest of you thank you very much for you constructive coments. I have not been a nurse long and needed the CONSTRUCTIVE advise. Not put downs. If I sounded as if I was putting down all EMS I appoligize that was not my intent. I was simply upset at being so disrespected. Why does it have to be us against them? We are all or should be on the same team.

Street Doc if you will read my post above you will see that I NEVER ONCE said that the EMT should lose there license! My main problem with them was that they ROLLED there eyes at me. I a professional JUST as they are and WAS DOING MY JOB!! and I DO NOT desurve to be DISRESPECTED in this way. I did not agree with their handling of this case but I GAVE THEM THE RESPECT TO NOT SAY THAT THERE!!!!!! I was also as much our more up set about my office managers statement that I was TO CALL HER BEFORE taking care of MY PT. Quite frankly I find you post over the top.

I work in a large family practice office and had a situation this week that I would like some info on what you would do. I was called by our front office cordanator and told that a 4 yr old boy was just brought end and that his father states that he feel off a trampaline and could not move his neck. I stated that the pt should have gone to the ER as we are not set up to deal with this type of injiry. I imedatly went to my suppervisor and one of our doctors and aprased them of the situation. We do not even have a c-coller in the office so the doctor asked that we call 911 and get the perimetics out to help stablize the pt. We called and went out to the waiting room and I held the boy's head and talked with the father of the boy. It turns out that the boy had fell the night before, turning flips and landed on his Head. The EMT's got there and my superviser and spoke with them and explained the situation. The EMT then asked if a doctor had seen the pt and when I said no that we don't have the equipment to deal with this type of inujury, He ROLLED HIS EYES AT ME THEN TOLD THE FATHER THAT there was no reason for them to transport. At this point I went and told the Doctor what was going on and she went out and dealt with the situation. The next thing I know my office manger is coming and griping at me because I did not call her BEFORE I called the peramedics and went out to the pt. Luckly the doctor backed me up and said that she had told me to get out there an imobilze the pt as best I could. Neddles to say the EMT's Refused to put the child on a c-collar and WALKED him out to the ambulance telling the dad that he could just drive the boy over if he wanted that the child was fine. The doctor has filed a complant about EMS and the back talk they gave us and I seem to be off the hook as far as not calling the office manager but was told that next time to CALL HER FIRST!!! I am sorry but isn't more important to take care of the PT not her dang paper work!!!:angryfire

Thanks for the reply. I hope to eventually plan to become a Neonatal NP. I plan on taking about a six month break and the starting on bridging into a RN program. I would not mind working in a office but I can not handle working in a nursing home. I grew up with a stepmom that was a DN at one and I break out in a cold sweat now if I even go into visit. Not to mention I don't have the patince to put up with old people that have no mental history but think thay can act like a 2 yr old. I also can see working in phyc because of a personal history with phyc. I can not handle being locked in. I know that a lot of hospitals are cutting back on LPN's but I did not know that it would be this hard. I decided to go this way because I wanted the extra clinical time that RN's around here don't get in school. I was in the hospital 3 days a week from day one, when the RN students I knew where in the hospital only a few weeks a semester. I wanted all the hands on traning I could get to start off with. Not to mention I am a singal mom and I could get my LPN faster that my RN and needed the income/insurance ASAP. I am trying to just leave it up to the Lord to find me the job he wants me to have. I know that this is what He wants me to do with my life and He will provide the answer. It is just hard to keep the fath sometimes.

I just Grad. in Sept. and just got my license. I am about to get discauraged I can not find a job. It seems like there are no entry level jobs out there. Are we supposed to Grad. with 1-3yrs experance. I have been at a local hospital for two years as a phlebotomist and even they say it my be Feb or March before I can go to the floor:imbar . Is anyone else having this prob? I even had one HR tell me that they could give me a job tomarrow as a Phleb, or aid, and maybe I should think about just working as one of these until I can get my RN:angryfire . I have put in apps. in three states and so far nothing. Just wanted to vent. LPN FINALLY.

This was what my school considered a Critical insantant. We were told on the frist day to NEVER document appoinons on pts. #1. and if we were to talk to a pt that why our director's head would have spun. She could look like the girl in the exersist when she was ticked off.:roll

I am so sorry that you, your friend and her daughter are going through this. I work at a crisis pregnacy center, and I have heard so many stories like yours. It is truly a night mare and I hope and pray that everything will be ok with her. Please know that at my center, at least, we stress to the young women we work with to #1 TELL YOUR PARENTS, we even will go with them to talk with there parents if they are to scared. The secound thing we do is tell them to go to THEIR doctors first, and if they don't have one we help them find a good doctor to talk with her. Also, even though we are pro-life we tell them that We love them and will support them NO MATTER WHAT THEY CHOOSE!! It is my prayer that no young woman ever go through this alone. Please know that there are groups out there that do truly love these grils and are not just on a mission for what they think is right. We also provide post-abortion consuling. Please incouarge your friend to find someone for herself and her daugther to talk to. Someone that want judge but love them. I have faith that she will be healed in body and soul. Also remeber that there are people out there that care and want to help!!!!

You know you are a nursing student when ---you have diagnosed every strange person in your extended family with some type of pysh disorder. ---and your 12 yr old child ask you if you are ever going to be able to play video games with him again. ---and when you can tell anyone and everyone how meny days left untill graduation down to the min. "Just 127 days, 8 hrs, and 18 mins left until I am free to panic about boards, not finals!!"

I am a LPN student in a small town which also has a RN school. The RN students continusly look down there nose at us. When we get to the clincal sight we jump in and do anything we can to help and learn, but the RN students will say, " We don't wipe butts or give baths that is what LPN's are for." They don't care if the nurse they are working with is a BSN and is "wiping butts" they are to good.Even there instructers look down there noses at us. They assign the RN's students there pts. the night before and so the pick the most intresting pts for them, and then if a new pt is brought on the floor they try and take them too. If the charge nurse on the floor does not stand up to them for us our instructers have to step in and fight for us to get a pt. It is not right that we end up getting stuck with the grunt work and they get the best learning experiaces. The thing about it is that the staff nurses tell us that they would much rather work with us for these reasons. I just don't understand there attiude we are ALL STUDENTS!!!! I mean because they are going for the RN and we are going for our LPN is there really that much differance in the clinical setting we are all JUST STUDENtS and all must learn essancially the same things!!! It also really burns me up that when it comes down to it on graduation day I will have alot more clincal experance than they will! but yet they are to good to "wipe a butt." I hope that when we are both working on the floor as graduates they don't expect me to do there grunt work for them. I also work for HCA, and will have my on pt to do total care on. I hope that the wake up a smell the coffee.

I have not had the honor of being with a patent as a nurse when they die but I can tell you what has happened to me with family and friends. A few days before my Grandpa pasted away he was in the hospital and really confused. At one point he through the telephone at his room mates family and was saying that the nurses had stolen his gun from under his pillow. Needlest to say they called my mom and I to come stay the night with him. My mom had been there all day so I told her that I would go and stay that night. My grandpa calmed down as soon as I got there and started to pray, Jesus, Jesus, I am ready over and over again. I was sitting in the bedside chair reading a book and all of a sudden I got the most peacefull feeling and could since that my Grandmother was in the room I looked over at my Grandpa and for the frist time in hours his eyes where focused and he was looking at my Grandmother just above his bed. He then said, "but omie, my grandmothers name was oma but you know who we are in the south we always add something to a name, I don't want to wait I want to go home now!!!" Then he got still and was lisining to something she said and he said, "Well Ok I'll be waitting" He than began saing I'm waiting, I'm waiting over and over. I had tears rolling down my face and had no dought that my grandmother was in that room with us that night. It was one of the most bueatifull moments of my life. I came home the next night and told my mom what had happened and told her to be rpeparied that it would not long. Later that day my grandpa got a little better and was with it enough that my mom asked him if her remimbered Grandmother coming to see him last night and she said that he smiled the most bueatifull smile she had ever seen and told her that my grandmother told him that it was not time for him to go home yet but that she would come back to get him soon. Two weeks, to the day, later we got the call and he was gone. I have no dought that she came for him to lead him home. Also, I had a dear friend that was like a grandmother to that told me that one day she had laid down to take her daily nap and suddly heared someone come in the back door. She said that at frist she was scared because she lived alone and had the back door locked. When she sat up she saw her husban that had been dead for 5 yrs, and he asked her what was for lunch.He allways came home for lunch and a nap every afternoon while he was alive. As I was sitting there lisining to her I happen to have glanced at the alter and saw a beautifull pink casket there and just new that it was hers. I burst into tears because right then I knew that it would not be long until she went home. Two weeks to the day later we found out that she had died, and guess what she was placed in the exact casket that I saw that day. I also had a uncle that waited for my mom and grandfather to get there before he past. He died the secound that they walked in the room and spoke to my aunt and cousans. I am a phelbtomist and during my clinicals I was getting blood cultures on a man that had already coded twice that night and was really dead already. you could just tell that eventhough he had a pulse, although light, his spirt was already gone. So as I was sticking him I said a sileant prayer that the Lord would take his body and stop his suffering. As soon as I said amen He flat lined. They were not able to bring him back this time. I could not help but think Lord I did not mean right that secound when I had a needle in his arm. Needlest to say I don't pray that way anymore. You have to be very detailed when you pray. After hearing all of the stories her on the thread I don't know how anyone could not belive in God.

I just wanted to tell you that you are in my prayers!! I have a friend that has been going through the samething with her husband. She finaly just gave it all to GOD and let him work it out. He has since rededacated his life and even though he still likes to play the games he is now spending time with his wife and kids. God can work through ANYTHING!! I know it is hard but make your choices with God's will in mind!!! As for your job when one door closes God usually has a better one ready to open.

I am a phlebotomist where I live and RT's are responsible for ABG's in my hospital, but I do know that in one hospital in the area that phlebotomist do draw but they must go through extensive traning. I have never seen a doc do it either.

I am a phlebotomist where I live and RT's are responsible for ABG's in my hospital, but I do know that in one hospital in the area that phlebotomist do draw but they must go through extensive traning. I have never seen a doc do it either.

I think start pay for LPN'S in Atlanta is around 18-21 hr. The cost of leaving is awfull here.