Inkleberry

Look at the american STATS for obesity. All of america is in trouble pretty much..from overweight, to obese, to morbidly obese. See my doctor is wonderful with the weight issue. I have lost 38 pounds doing low fat and she congratulated me on it and said when I stall i should do low carb. But that was it. No one made me feel bad about my weight....I look around me and see that just about everyone is in need....so I think..'so what?" As for coming home to the stress of kids after a discouraging day, Sorry to hear about that....I can completely relate.....Cheer up and look around you...know that everyone has imperfections....

I am not a nurse yet, but have worked in health care for a number of years. I worked with mentally and physically disabled people in a residential setting which is privately owned. Each house had up to 14 residents. The house I worked at lost a resident to heart failure the year prior. I worked the evening shift. Near the end of my shift, Relli (co-worker) and I were cleaning up and getting food out for the meals the next day. All the residents were in bed. I heard knocking on one of the bathroom doors down the west hall, in view of the kitchen. Relli stayed in the kitchen while I went to investigate, no one was near or in the bathroom and as I stood there, there was knocking. Talk about hair raising. Well I ran back to the kitchen and saw RElli pointing with surprise down to the end of the hall I was just in. There, at the fire door stood a man in a plaid shirt, dark rimmed glasses and blue pants. He waved. I knew he was not a resident of this house and called out to him. There was no light on in the hall, but we could tell what this man looked like as there was some light from the kitchen and the exit sign....I reluctantly walked down the hall and flipped on the light...as the light came on, the man disappeared....I thought I was crazy but Relli saw it too...we told the night shift about it and Juanita laughed and said "Come here honey, I wanna show you somethin," she was a bubbly woman. She pulled out a scrap book and pointed out a man, the man I saw in the hall..."Is this the guy?" I said "yes how did you know?" She chuckled and said "That's Henry. He likes to say hi to new people...he isn't harmful, he died last year and his room was down there.."

Apnea -pause in breathing Anoxia=condition in which there is an absence of oxygen supply to an organ's tissues Hypoxia is a condition in which there is a decrease of oxygen to the tissue in spite of adequate blood flow to the tissue. Asphyxia-Suffocation as a result of too little oxygen or too much carbon dioxide in the blood. Can be brought on by high ambient carbon dioxide concentrations which can restrict the ability of he fish to excrete carbon dioxide. Dyspnea-Difficult or labored breathing; shortness of breath DYS difficulty in...like dysomnia-difficulty sleeping

Your job is to see that the residents get the propper care and that the CNA's are doing that. If they are not doing as they are told, there have to be reprimands in order, warnings via verbal, written..etc. They are most likely assuming that you think your pooh doesn't stink....hold a meeting....make sure you are approachable...but do not worry about befriending....your job is the residential care.....

Eyes can be gross, I had to see eye surgery....I felt faint with that! But when it comes to fluid and such....I have to agree with smegma. I can handle fecal matter, fecal emesis is bad but managable, Smegma is deffinately a stomach turner

You have a good point. The instructors I have met have been very professional and very difficult. My advisor also keeps me well informed on where I need to work harder etc. She is many of the students advisor and she has recommended many of the students to pick another field of study. When judging the few students that I suspected would either flunk or get dropped, I took into consideration their maturity level. They were the social introverts in class, forming cliques and nit picking others, much like highschool. Mind you, it has been 11 yrs since highschool for me so I tend to forget how they act. I also viewed their integrity and in most cases lack of. They came to class when they felt like it, never did home work and showed up only for tests and failed most of them. Clearly they were not nurse material. Like you, I met a few excellent students that were in their final semester. A few ended up flunking because of sloppy paper work, slacking in clinical and not getting their assignments done, not doing the proper amount of research for papers and care plans. These were generally astute people with good GPA's. I play it safe and meet with my advisor when I feel confused and insecure. Nursing is not an easy field of study and many prospective students assume it is a cake job. They watch these drama's like ER and HOUSE and think "that would be so cool". In reality, a patients life can lay in our hands. If we misread the doctors scribbles, we can kill a patient. There is a lot of stress in any medical field and ethics are a must. We will all reach a point where we will think "what was I thinking" and become insecure in our decisions. That is when we must re-evaluate our path. If a person is in it from the heart, they belong and should never give up. The nursing field needs them.

I began nursing because I love medacine, I enjoy people. I began this study in '94, dropped out because I got married, had some children and ended up working other jobs. I was a vet assistant and loved it. Caring for animals was so interesting and sad but just the same. I did not pick the vet tech program because where I live, it is not demand. I also found it frustrating as these patients cannot tell us what hurts, it is a guessing game. I began college in the fall of 2004. I had to get the pre-requisits out of the way and this fall I begin actual nursing. As a child I always had my nose in a medical book, diagnosing friends and myself. I love surgical pics and am hoping to be a med/surg nurse and letter persue forensic pathology. Just recently I learned how much I love microbiology and pathology. Anyway, there are a plethora of people in the program at Alfred State. I was amazed with how many young ladies and gents were in it. I learned my first semester who would end up flunking out or getting kicked out. There are several girls with various facial piercings that refuse to remove them. They have been dropped from the program because not only is it unclean, but nursing isnt a freak show. The other girls and some guys had interpersonal issues, social anxiety and no people skills. Two that I personally know dropped out, the others, well it is a matter of time. Once we begin actual nursing, I believe they will be dropped. Alfred State has a very strict and professional program. Many things are not tolerated because they realise nursing is in demand and many students are in it for money alone. By the end of the final year, the class size shrinks dramaticly. Unlike Jamestown Community College, they pass you either way, bad attitude or not.