Susie2310

Susie2310

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  1. Obesity: A disease or a lifestyle

    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

    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. 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. 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. 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. 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

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

    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

    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

    This is unfortunate. The education and training nurse practitioners receive cannot be compared to that of
  11. Do patients know a "good nurse"?

    I agree with
  12. Do patients know a "good nurse"?

    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"

    Does the Nurses' Code of Ethics mean anything to
  14. "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    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"

    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"

    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"

    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

    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

    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

    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?

    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?

    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?

    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?

    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"

    zzzzz