heyday

I'm in my first year of nursing school, and I just learned about the underground issue of "snowing"--giving patients enough morphine to keep them out of pain but ultimately totally depressing their respiratory centers. I have never heard of this euthanasia-like thing before, and I wondered if the decision comes up for most people. And what could you do if asked to do this but did not feel comfortable with it? Thanks!

Every morning before I have my clinicals, i always tell myself to make sure that i wash my hands EVERYTIME i do something with a patient. But it really is difficult to remember to do that.:imbar Today, we talked about infections and antibiotics in class, and i was pretty scared looking at in increase in statistical data for infection and antibiotic resistant organisms. Nosocomial infection rate is incredibly high, and as a nursing student, i am right there in the middle of the field. So, i am determined to carry my hand-washing duty even more diligently than before. Well, hand washing will definitely help all of us to not carry organisms from one to the other. I was just wondering if everyone else, who are in nursing field, feel the same way as I do. :)