PrincessNur

Hello All, Right now I have studying with the MCgraw -Hill Education TEAS review by Carla Cantarella for the TEAS test. Also I am flipping thru a a HESI study guide I found, and watching youtube videos. That being said do you think buying the ATI practice Test or study guide would be a smart choice or waste of $$$$$?

Hello guys, I would like to know which wheeled backpack will hold up for 2 years. I was researching the jansport driver 8 wheeled backpack, in spite of all the good reviews some ppl said the handle came off after a few weeks.... it's also around $110, so now I hesitate to get it. Anyone have an tips for me? Thank you

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If so how was your experience?

Aha, Thank you very much for making this clear. But will we ever be expected to provide evidence that this is the choice he made?

Thank you for taking the time to write all of this. God Bless you-you are amazing :)

Jeez you are absolutely correct! I just read that zinc oxide removes the first layer of dead skin.....what the hell was my cousin doing then! Grandma's legs/feet were already raw......thats just crazy, i didnt bother to look it up before, cuz i trusted her..... :S

From my understanding a patient has the right to refuse treatment. However another family member is telling me that if we dont take my father to the hospital by force, police can arrest us or charge us. Is this true? My father said over and over again he does NOT want hospital treatment and would prefer to die in the house. He also said he does NOT want to be examined by any medical physician. we tried many times to convince him, but he is set in his ways and refuses, even tho this foot looks like it being taken over by gangrene....He started to yell and get agitated when we explained to him the severity if he wont go to a hospital...so....is it true if we dont force him to go authorities will charge us with something?

You are amazing. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond, you have no idea how much this helps me. God Bless, I'm so happy I found this website. everyone is so great around here.

Thank you for your words.Yes Ive been really anxious these past days- especially since now I believe my father might be in the end of life stages as he is around 74 ( he married later in life). For instance he can no longer control bowels, and it looks as if a couple of toes have gangrene. He is also diabetic.. He also fainted when he tried to climb the stairs and a family member did cpr on him to revive him.... He doesnt want to go to the hospital and he too wants to die at home. It's really stressful to see, especially since my grandma died last year, and the year before that an aunt died. The end of life symptoms seem to come rather quickly. So I find myself being full of anxiety.

Yes my grandma's situation was DNR.All she wanted was an IV with vitamins, and she wanted to die at home- but that didnt happen . Can the dying request a nurse to come to their homes with an iv hooked up etc? I think when the point reached where she was turning blue, if she lay down to far back, I think that's when hospitals put the patient in hospice mode? because they told us she needed to be taken home, because she is refusing the treatment, was DNR , and because she was at the hospital a week before, and she signed a document to get out. But at this point everyone in the family knew she looekd so weak and needed the hospital care, so they didnt listen about taking her out, so when I went to visit her the next day, they took her oxygen from out of her nostrils and told us she doesnt need it anymore.....and she was just laying there, looking blueish, but she talked and then slept. Will hospitals take out a patients oxygen if they know the person is going to die at any moment? The hospitals told us we could enter her in hospice cares, but again the family was too scared to do it. She died that same day....and thats when the family went crazy saying it was when the hospital took out the oxygen...when in reality she was gonna die regardless

She has a legit BSN,however I believe she is bipolar.

You know spidey mom, I remember my family and I rejecting the morphine for my grandma, because we were genuinely scared of losing her from it, because we read about all the bad side effects and because we wanted her alert for her last moments. Even my nurse cousin kept shrieking at the doctors not to give the morphine to my grandma.....and i remember my grandma her legs were peeling and bursting from the edema and it was burning her she was in pain, and the doctors and nurses would just wrap them up, until my cousin nurse told them to put zinc oxide on them which helped a bit.....I remember crying for hours straight when the doctor told me her kidneys were shutting down....now that I think about it....i wonder if it wouldve been better to give her a small dosage of the morphine....I dont know why we all expected some kind of miracle to happen and she be better again...but because my family believed this i believed in it too.....but she kept turning blue everytime she lied down..........its painful to remember, but her face glowed at peace when she died :'(

Yes of course! I remember all the time modern medicine has helped me. For example getting my tonsils removed helped my sinuses. Then the z-pak got rid of a severe bronchitis infection( I happened to get it, because the car heater filter was not clean, and the previous owner used to smoke in it alot) I was dying from the bronchitis, and I did alternative medicine, which helped a bit- but its the zpak that got rid of it! I'm always amazed and thankful for it. Then a doctor cured a menorrhagia problem with birth control pills I had due to high levels of stress-from family issues lollll. So I am very thankful for pharamcetuicals thankgod.

Thank you NightNerd, I really liked your details and I will shadow a nurse. As I stated I have grown up with superstitious family members who lack medical experience. And my cousin nurse is always grumpy and I believe to be bipolar. I dont know how she is still working as a nurse. She once told me that doctors order lots of blood from anemic patients so they can give another patient the room. But then again I dont know why I listened to her, when she takes l ike 20 different vitamin pills on an empty stomach each morning and tries to encourage me to do the same. I believe I will find much relief when I begin my nursing education. I am done with these stupid horror stories ppl tell me. I cant wait to become educated.

Thanks again for your advice :) . I have stayed overnight and in and out of a hospital with an aunt for 7 months before and with my grandma. Also I have a cousin who is a nurse... but I guess most of the fear comes from family members who have not taken medical studies sadly. For instance I remember my grandma's edema in her feet. And my family refused to acknowledge this. They kept saying it was caused by some kind of herb. And my grandma died like three times in the house, but was revived in cpr. Then when she died at the hospital all the family started saying she had a chance to live and it was because the hospital took off the oxygen that she died, others started saying it was because too much blood was drawn out, others say it was the change in her medicine. No one wanted to acknowledge the old age or that she was diabetic, she had stress issues, and was overweight. I think all they yelling from family attitudes and their lack of knowledge built in me a fear of hospitals. Ive been told since I was young the hospital is a place to die, where the student doctors are just practicing for the money etc etc. And the nurses are vampires. And for a while I started to believe that to hospitals we are just a number and not a patient. But now I really want to bust all these myths my family instilled in me and begin to educate myself. My family is all on natural medicine and i like natural medicine too, but you need a balance of both alternative and medical areas of study. Whats the point on relying on natural herbs if one is already damaged organs in their body and need medical assistance at the hospital. Doctors arent out there to get us. I really wish to gain knowledge and not be in the dark anymore. So I apologize if my questions seem really negative or stupid. MY family is really supserstituous, phobic people and I dont want to be like that anymore. Reflecting on it now, my grandma wouldve died earlier if the paramedics didnt shock her or do cpr. Hospital staff really do save lives and they mean well. And I want to save lives too one day and be a great nurse. I really want to learn and am interested in cells and how the body works. I want to gain knowledge so that I can prevent my family from going to the hospital in the first place, and to be able to know what to do in case of an emergency. Thank you so much for your comments you always answer me. Thank you i appreciate it.

You have no idea how much you just comforted my heart knowing this. I was seriously beginning to fill up with anxiety, because I really want to be a nurse to help others and dont want to hurt them. All nurses feel the same. One more question my dear friend, if hospital staff know the person is dying, will they start to back off from the 2-3 times blood drawing and just do it once daily...? Thank you so much nursespeedy god bless u.

So I am not a nurse yet, but I would like to enroll in a community college to become one. My concern is that when a doctor orders me to draw blood 2-3 times a day to an elderly patient, this will hasten their death. Or if he orders me to give them morphine or something which also accelerates a patients death. I am not being cynical or anything. I know doctors are out there to help people. But I just remember a time, where a nurse would draw blood from my grandma three times a day, and the head nurse shouting "this is BS, THE LABS DONT NEED THIS MUCH" And the doctor refused to listen to the head nurse and said the blood is a must for lab work. I really want to become a nurse, but this has put fear inside of me. As a nurse if I feel it's too much blood to draw from a patient- do i have the right to tell the lab and doctor, "sorry, if we take anymore, the patient's death will be hastened." plz helps, I'm scared on this.