2. When meth is combined with cocaine and booze, it can destroy a 28 year old heart.
3. When you have one random patient across the unit from your other patients, and that patient is the only patient without psych issues, that poor patient is unfortunately going to be a bit neglected.
4. A discharge with EMS transport, ICU transfer and admission happening simultaneously (literally all less than 5 minutes apart from one another) 2 hours before you're supposed to be giving report means you'll be giving report before your last round of (very late) meds will be given.
5. Never been happier for vacation time. (Today is day 4/15.)
6. All play and no work makes ixchel a very happy girl. :)
That's all I got this week! Not much to learn when all I've been doing is playing! :)
Mb3082,LPN my son loves Taylor Swift too. He calls her Swift,Taylor LOL. He loves shake it off. Sometimes we have to change the radio when he is in the car.
Juice. Get the blood sugar up, then offer snacks again. My kid is on a med that makes him not feel hungry, even though he is, and he's a complete monster when he decides he won't eat, even though he really needs to.
HA HA we try everything, and he says "I am never eating again" LOL.
That sleep deprivation can cause an acute psychotic state. (Be very careful fellow night shifters).
That 2.5 mg of Haldol, is my best friend when the psychotic sleep deprived patient hits the code button twice while the sitter stands by and let's it happen! UGH!
4. There is a time when the radio must be censored when young children are in the car. Taylor Swift's "Shake it off"...not so bad... "Ooh Baby I'm Worth It!" being sung in the tub before bedtime...not so good. Too bad I cannot tear the speakers out of my husbands work vehicle....
I cringe when I hear my speech delayed 4 yr old singing "Uptown Funk"...... yeah, does not sound like "funk"!
That the word "cohort" is really, really annoying. Really.
When did this word become popular? WHY did it become popular?
Seriously, the more I hear it, the more I just want to bite. Irrational? Probably. But true, nonetheless.
This came up a couple of weeks ago, too. I use this word to describe the group of students I was in school with. Is that appropriate? Y'all got me thinking I'm using it wrong now!
This came up a couple of weeks ago, too. I use this word to describe the group of students I was in school with. Is that appropriate? Y'all got me thinking I'm using it wrong now!
It seems to be fairly new terminology.
Back in the day, the entire body of students enrolled in school with you were the "Nursing class of 19__". The students in the same rotation as you were your "Clinical group".
I've learned that some people will never understand the hell that is addiction and that while it's not okay to say obese people don't deserve medical care because they did it to themselves it is okay to say addicts don't and that they should just put a bullet in their brain. Saying that about any other type of person people would be scrambling over each other to declare the wrongness of that statement. But saying a junkie should just put a bullet in their brain, no one bats an eye.
I learned this week that I'm still so thankful that I did not actually put a bullet in my brain like I wanted to so sooo badly every single day of my life that I was a pill crushin IV slammin junkie, and that I am grateful that I had the chance to get better and live a happy productive life.
I learned that reading about your recovery made me happy and gives me hope.
Too many of my friends from high school and college have become addicts and I will never give up on them because of people like you.
I cringe when I hear my speech delayed 4 yr old singing "Uptown Funk"...... yeah, does not sound like "funk"!
During my 6 yr olds field trip I was the chaperone. On the bus all the kids started shouting "uptown funk you up!" My dtrs teacher had the reddest face Ive ever see and yelled stop it right now! She thought they were dropping the F Bomb. Lol
I learned that reading about your recovery made me happy and gives me hope.
Too many of my friends from high school and college have become addicts and I will never give up on them because of people like you.[/
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This actually made my eyes a little leaky! I know that addicts are truly one of the most difficult groups of people to deal with, I know its not easy...but I also know that underneath all that sickness is a human being that never sat around as a child and dreamed of becoming an addict when they grew up.
I also know that addicts make some really bad choices that put themselves into that position, but that there comes a time when it stopped being a choice a long time ago and that's when the real hell begins.
I know too that one day an addict has to take responsibility for those choices and has to decide they will no longer live that way and are willing to do anything to climb back from that pit of despair and that nobody but them can do that.
I also know that for most addicts getting to that point will come a long way past the point that a sane person would think they'd stop at. A sane person touches a hot stove and learns from it and doesn't do it again. An addict burns themselves over and over and over thinking hey maybe this time will be different, maybe if I touch it this way it won't burn or if I touch it for 5 seconds instead of 3 it'll be okay this time. It takes a lot of burns for them to stop and I can't imagine what it feels like to the people that have to sit there and watch it, who patch them up time and time again only to see them go right back to it.
My only hope for every addict is that they live long enough to make that choice to stop, and that when they do, there will still be someone left for them that didn't give up on them. Addicts make horrible choices but it doesn't mean they're horrible people and it definitely doesn't mean as a previous poster said that they should just put a bullet in their head. We do recover 😊
nrsang97, BSN, RN
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Mb3082,LPN my son loves Taylor Swift too. He calls her Swift,Taylor LOL. He loves shake it off. Sometimes we have to change the radio when he is in the car.