Susie2310

Susie2310

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  1. Obesity: A disease or a lifestyle

    Susie2310 replied to TexMex22's topic in Health, Stress Management

    The fact that you had a job and were able to catch the bus/push a grocery cart home and carry it upstairs does not mean other people are healthy enough to do the same, or can find enough time away...

  2. Obesity: A disease or a lifestyle

    Susie2310 replied to TexMex22's topic in Health, Stress Management

    With all respect, it sounds as though you were young and healthy enough to take this hike to buy your healthy groceries, and that you did not have other responsibilities, such as a job, children, or...

  3. Can't get into school because of statistics :(

    Susie2310 replied to haedis's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but the math one uses as a bedside nurse in calculating drug dosages and IV flow rates is basic algebra, ratio and proportion, and while one does indeed need to be...

  4. Can't get into school because of statistics :(

    Susie2310 replied to haedis's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    It is not true that a college statistics course doesn't serve any point in nursing, although it is true that one does not use statistics in calculating dosages, as people have pointed out. A good...

  5. Can't get into school because of statistics :(

    Susie2310 replied to haedis's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    To my knowledge, not all ADN programs require statistics. Mine didn't. I took statistics for my BSN program, which I bridged to after graduating from my ADN program and passing the NCLEX. My ADN...

  6. Can't get into school because of statistics :(

    Susie2310 replied to haedis's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    While there is a rigorous requirement to pass the drug calculation tests in nursing school, and to be able to calculate drug doses correctly, in my experience the calculations didn't involve more than...

  7. Complacency in Healthcare

    Susie2310 replied to Jacqueline.Damm's topic in General Nursing

    A very important article that all nurses and health care professionals should read. Thank

  8. Nursing Dose

    Susie2310 replied to guest449786's topic in Patient Medications

    How does the physician expect the hypothetical nurse to handle this situation? Did you use your chain of command (hypothetical nurse)? Who is the next person in the chain to contact to help the nurse...

  9. Nursing Dose

    Susie2310 replied to guest449786's topic in Patient Medications

    I find this attitude very arrogant, and illegal. If one wants to practice medicine, one should go to medical school. To avoid a 3 am call to a sleeping doctor, for your own convenience you are willing...

  10. Maryland joins 21 states and DC

    Susie2310 replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This is unfortunate. The education and training nurse practitioners receive cannot be compared to that of

  11. Do patients know a "good nurse"?

    Susie2310 replied to NursesRmofun's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree with

  12. Do patients know a "good nurse"?

    Susie2310 replied to NursesRmofun's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Some patients do, of course, and some don't. Variables such as a patient's interest in and knowledge of health care/medicine/nursing, attentiveness to the care they are receiving, prior experiences...

  13. "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Susie2310 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Does the Nurses' Code of Ethics mean anything to

  14. "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Susie2310 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    RubyVee, since you were good enough to address me, I have something to say to you in return. I recall a thread you started titled: "The Worst Family Member Ever." You seem to think "venting" about...

  15. "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Susie2310 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Unqualified "nice" support is useless in terms of helping people to see their weaknesses and in helping people to improve their nursing practice. The OP's post described her practice:...

  16. "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Susie2310 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You provided details of your own experience of being a family member, and I am very sorry for your experience, but as nurses we have to remember that patients and their families are unique individuals...

  17. "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Susie2310 replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am so tired of posts from licensed nurses (your post history says you have been a nurse since 2014) berating patients and their family members/visitors on a public web site. I find it very...

  18. About paying off student loans

    Susie2310 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    Since you are just one person, with your own particular life circumstances, how can you possibly generalize about what other people, with their own particular life circumstances, should or should not...

  19. About paying off student loans

    Susie2310 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    The reality is that even community college ADN tuition, when you add in the purchase of text books and other fees, is not affordable without loans/financial help for many

  20. About paying off student loans

    Susie2310 replied to Libby1987's topic in General Nursing

    Jules A, I don't mean to be rude, but are you bragging or are you just uninformed? Surely you know that $118 per credit hour is a lot of money to many people. When I attended community college in the...

  21. Taking care of DNR patients. The point?

    Susie2310 replied to cholmes1223's topic in General Nursing

    Possibly the patient would like all measures to be taken to recognize and treat an arrhythmia before it results in pulseless arrest. As others have pointed out, just because the patient has chosen to...

  22. Taking care of DNR patients. The point?

    Susie2310 replied to cholmes1223's topic in General Nursing

    The ability to be caring on the part of the nurse is important to our patients. Nursing is not just about "us" and "our needs" as nurses. Nursing care is patient and family centered, not nurse...

  23. Taking care of DNR patients. The point?

    Susie2310 replied to cholmes1223's topic in General Nursing

    Without compassion, what is anyone doing training to be a nurse? If one is that lacking in basic empathy for one's fellow man, and has been all the way through nursing school where one has presumably...

  24. Taking care of DNR patients. The point?

    Susie2310 replied to cholmes1223's topic in General Nursing

    This is the single most offensive, callous, and clueless post I have read in nearly three years of membership of AN. Did you learn anything in nursing school? God help our

  25. Calling a transgender patient an "it"

    Susie2310 replied to Angeljho's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    zzzzz