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A glimpse into my future....
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Apparently, my singleness is an issue that my friends seem to be more concerned about than I am. I don’t really care, really...sometimes it can be pretty funny, sometimes embarrassing at times, but usually just funny.... One of my friends who also happens to be a nurse, has been trying really hard to be “helpful” in this area for me, and is definitely not shy about the fact! Recently I went to (Source: Days of My Life)
Source: Days of My Life - January 18, 2012 Category: Student Nurses Authors: Jennifer Source Type: blogs
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Source: Days of My Life - January 18, 2012 Category: Student Nurses Authors: Jennifer Source Type: blogs
Nursing Stuco GiveawaysEmail this article to a colleague.
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If you're in a student council for nursing and are running a giveaway or fundraiser, you can get some help from MyNursingUniforms who will give you free coupons for their site for some free scrubs. Drop them a line to find out more details mynursinguniform @ gmail.com (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - November 17, 2011 Category: Student Nurses Authors: BNurse Source Type: blogs
Obama PLan to Increase Cost of Healthcare?Email this article to a colleague.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/28/health-care-law-wont-rein-in-costs-study-says/Disappointed with the Washington Times and their article. They have this fear mongering title of 'health care law won't reign in costs' to scare already fickle Republicans into despising the Obama health initiatives. If you read the article you'd discover that the cost of medicare does in fact increase slightly in the short term, but millions of AMericans are in fact getting additional health in return. Over the long run the plan costs less. Much less.Furthermore, the expenditures based on tax revenue still accrue far far less tha...
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - July 28, 2011 Category: Student Nurses Authors: BNurse Source Type: blogs
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Wow!! Almost 3 years since I have posted to this blog!! Where has the time gone? So much has happened since I have last posted...- I have graduated with my BScN RN degree- passed my RN exam- have been an ER nurse for a little over a year now in a small rural community (yes! Me! In the ER!!!! Who woulda thunk it haha!)- my father passed away 2 years ago after a horrible fight with bone cancerMy (Source: Days of My Life)
Source: Days of My Life - July 19, 2011 Category: Student Nurses Authors: Jennifer Source Type: blogs
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So you start your new nursing job and have to play the 'game' of unit politics. It happens in every work place pretty much> nurses aren't immune.But I wonder how many nurses are being bullied by older crankier nurses?Have you witnessed bullying?I wonder what the rate of bullying in healthcare organizatinos is versus the average office job...... (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - March 14, 2011 Category: Student Nurses Authors: BNurse Source Type: blogs
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I think I can swing it. MNU, our sponsor, is giving away gift cards in exchange for either a link on your blog, or if you write some anecdote about your day as a nurse that they'll subsequently use on one of their blogs. Comment in if you're interested. They never mentioned an end date to the offer so have at er. (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - March 4, 2011 Category: Student Nurses Authors: BNurse Source Type: blogs
Nursing Students Low on CashEmail this article to a colleague.
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Low on cash?This is not a get rich quick scheme, no, this isn't a sit at home and make 2405/month.Nope, this is 35/week if you're lucky, enough for gas and maybe some foods.What do you have to do? Sell your blood.Well more specifically your platelets.Delicious, and desperate.Do'nt believe me? Students, and heck other folks as well, are following the incentive to give blood: http://www.kval.com/news/business/115119869.htmlYou do what you gotta do in this economy..... Somebody has gotta give a little more so the corporate executives can claim millions in bonuses. (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - February 10, 2011 Category: Student Nurses Authors: BNurse Source Type: blogs
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About Nursing, and students, and nursing students. Hopefully I'll have something witty to say occasionally, so come along for the ride. (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - January 31, 2011 Category: Student Nurses Authors: BNurse Source Type: blogs
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This blog is now located at http://girlingreenwood.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://girlingreenwood.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - April 6, 2010 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Thankful 2008Thankful 2007Thankful 2006Thankful 2005Thankful 2004It has been a very busy year, with lots of good things and lots of bad things too - and yet I have a great deal to be thankful for.As always, I am beyond thankful for my smart, funny, creative, thoughtful, strong husband. We have held each other up this year in countless ways and I can't fathom life without him.And equally important, I am thankful for my fun, loving, generous parents who provide unconditional love, handyperson advice and labor, and more laughs than anyone else's parents I know.I am super-duper thankful for our new house! Moving, painting, and...
Source: girl in greenwood - November 24, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospitalby Audrey YoungI loved this book and read it in a few hours becuase I was so fascinated. I work at the hospital that Dr. Young describes with honesty and affection. In her stories about patients, doctors, families, and aspects of society, the reader gets a view inside a public hospital and the people who work and are treated there. There are two reasons why I would recommended you read this book: First, it would help you understand why I choose to work at the county hospital and why I am so proud of the work I do. The other reason is more political: reading about the p...
Source: girl in greenwood - November 12, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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I was just thinking that when I was a kid, I read several books about patients in hospitals, and always thought "Wow, what a foreign area medical care is, and how fascinating." While reading a review of a new book about the hospital where I work, I realized that now I work inside one of the books I used to read and marvel at. That's pretty neat.(I know I haven't been blogging much. It's been a busy summer. R* and I bought a new house and have been working on fixing it up. I've been working hard, and am being rewarded for my hard work by being asked to be one of the charge nurses on my shift. R* changed jobs and while that'...
Source: girl in greenwood - October 6, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Conditions I've witnessed and am glad I don't have:Calciphylaxis in end-stage kidney disease.A colostomy resulting from a rectal foreign body and subsequent intestinal perforation.A collection of problems that were all making each other worse: congestive heart failure, acute renal failure, necrotizing pneumonia, and protein deficiency due to lack of interest in eating. Also, did you know that when part of your lung tissue dies, you pretty much have to cough out the dead stuff to clear your lungs?! Gross. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - July 20, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Today was a difficult day. My patient was 20. He'd had a drug overdose. His family had made the difficult decision to put him on comfort care. Today was the first day I'd cared for him.Today was the day he died.Normally this kind of thing doesn't get to me that much. But he was so, so young, and the family was so, so heartbroken. It was tough to watch. I cried.More than once.But you know what?I did a f*cking outstanding job as their nurse.The patient died peacefully without signs of pain.The family was all gathered at the bedside singing and praying.I reassured the family that the patient's signs & symptoms were normal, th...
Source: girl in greenwood - July 15, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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One year ago I was a brand-new nurse scared out of my mind about starting work. Today I precepted a brand-new nurse (a graduate from the same school I attended) who was scared out of her mind about starting work.One year ago I could barely handle taking care of two patients.Today I had a total of six patients with admits and discharges.One year ago I had successfully drawn blood once.Today I helped my preceptee try to draw blood for the second time. She didn't succeed. I stuck the patient once and while I had to dig around a bit for the vein, I got the blood sample.One year ago I had no idea how to put a tele monitor on a ...
Source: girl in greenwood - June 11, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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People I hugged today:-a patient-a patient's daughter-a jail guard-an MD-a nursing assistant-5 of my coworkersI kissed my husband but I didn't hug him because he was still lying in bed when I left for work, and lying down on the couch when I got home from work. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - June 11, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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One year ago I was a brand-new nurse scared out of my mind about starting work. Today I precepted a brand-new nurse (a graduate from the same school I attended) who was scared out of her mind about starting work.One year ago I could barely handle taking care of two patients.Today I had a total of six patients with admits and discharges.One year ago I had successfully drawn blood once.Today I helped my preceptee try to draw blood for the second time. She didn't succeed. I stuck the patient once and while I had to dig around a bit for the vein, I got the blood sample.One year ago I had no idea how to put a tele monitor on a ...
Source: girl in greenwood - June 10, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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People I hugged today:-a patient-a patient's daughter-a jail guard-an MD-a nursing assistant-5 of my coworkersI kissed my husband but I didn't hug him because he was still lying in bed when I left for work, and lying down on the couch when I got home from work. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - June 10, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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More conditions my patients have had that I'm glad I don't:Huntington's disease. And a big honkin' meningioma as a "bonus". Multiple enterocutaneous fistulas secondary to surgeries to treat colon cancer. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma - this was actually a patient who had undergone chemo in the past, and when it was discovered that the cancer was back, she declined further treatment and went on comfort care. She died on my shift. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - April 19, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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In nursing school, we spent a great deal of time discussing therapeutic communication. We were taught to validate feelings, express respect for the other person, and try to steer the conversation in a productive direction. Yesterday I heard the following interaction while out with a group of coworkers:Nurse 1: "You know that guy G*** with the possible mad cow disease, and how he's totally crazy?"Nurse 2: "Sure, yeah, he calls everyone "f*cking b*tch," right?"Nurse 1: "Yeah, that guy. The other day I gave him his meds and then asked him if there was anything else I could do for him, and he looked me straight in the eye and ...
Source: girl in greenwood - April 15, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Recent diseases that my patients have had lately that I am glad I don't have myself:-Full blown AIDS with Kaposi's sarcoma and C.diff diarrhea as a bonus.-TTP and resultant amputations of both hands & both feet-completely out-of-touch with any kind of reality schizophrenia (and a foot infection)-Median arcuate ligament syndrome. (No, I'd never heard of it before, either.)-spontaneous pulmonary embolism for no apparent reason.I think this may become a recurring topic on my blog, since I find new conditions that I really don't want to have on a regular basis. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - April 7, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Hey, I'm thinking of you and wondering how your nursing school journey is playing out! Update me when you have a chance. Hope you & yours are well. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - March 11, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Okay, okay, I've been promising this post forever. Consider it a cautionary tale. (If you don't like gross stories, don't read this one, ok?)I took care of a patient a while ago who was a young woman who had decided to leave her boring suburban life and plans for college to hang out with the wrong crowd. She was using heroin and while her claim was that the massive necrotizing infection in her face started when she just picked at a scab on her forehead... it seems more likely to me that she had either injected or dripped a solution of heroin into her eye. That's right, her eye was the center of the infection. And man was i...
Source: girl in greenwood - March 11, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Hey, I'm thinking of you and wondering how your nursing school journey is playing out! Update me when you have a chance. Hope you & yours are well. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - March 10, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Okay, okay, I've been promising this post forever. Consider it a cautionary tale. (If you don't like gross stories, don't read this one, ok?)I took care of a patient a while ago who was a young woman who had decided to leave her boring suburban life and plans for college to hang out with the wrong crowd. She was using heroin and while her claim was that the massive necrotizing infection in her face started when she just picked at a scab on her forehead... it seems more likely to me that she had either injected or dripped a solution of heroin into her eye. That's right, her eye was the center of the infection. And man was i...
Source: girl in greenwood - March 10, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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I started this entry back in October... but it's still relevant to me so I'm posting it anyway.****************************You know what's funny? I precepted a newer-than-me nurse this weekend. And it went really well. I think that was partly because the new nurse is EXCELLENT. She was a nurse tech at Big County Hospital for the last year, so she is already very familiar with the work environment. Partly it was because I am so recently finished with orientation that I remember it keenly, and have lots of opinions about what makes for good vs. bad experiences. At the end of the first day together, she thanked me for helping...
Source: girl in greenwood - February 25, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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We visited Vancouver, BC over the past weekend and had a marvelous time! I want to make some notes for future reference, and for anyone who happens to be looking for information online.We took the train from Seattle to Vancouver - it was cheap and easy. Actually, we got on in Edmonds, which was a good choice because only a few other people got on at the same stop, so there was not much waiting in line. We did have to wait for a quite a while to get through customs at the Vancouver train station, but oh well. It was nowhere near the 2-hour wait at customs at Blaine that some of my work friends described recently. Wedgewood ...
Source: girl in greenwood - February 23, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Spotted on the fridge in the break room at work. My coworkers are sooooo mature. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - January 20, 2009 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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Hack Attack: The Cordless Workspace (sort of)Wow, this is genius! We have that exact desk in our home office. I'm thinking we should do this the next time we have to deassemble and reassemble it. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - December 18, 2008 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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I can't believe I didn't mention Eyeball Girl before! In the vaguest possible privacy-protecting description, she was a young woman with a heroin problem who got a necrotizing infection of her face.Okay, now keep voting. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - December 17, 2008 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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This year has really flown by. My workmate E* recently pointed out that we've been employed at Big County Hospital for 6 months, which is astonishing. It's turning out better than I could have hoped - I work with a fantastic bunch of people. I'm somehow surprised to find R* & I still in our rental house - intellectually I know that we planned to spend about two years here, but it's already been an entire year? Wow. This little house has been treating us well - it is completely free of poo in the bathtub and the furnace is working like a dream. Not to mention the guest quarters for anyone who needs to stay with us and the g...
Source: girl in greenwood - December 17, 2008 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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I can't believe I didn't mention Eyeball Girl before! In the vaguest possible privacy-protecting description, she was a young woman with a heroin problem who got a necrotizing infection of her face.Okay, now keep voting. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - December 16, 2008 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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This year has really flown by. My workmate E* recently pointed out that we've been employed at Big County Hospital for 6 months, which is astonishing. It's turning out better than I could have hoped - I work with a fantastic bunch of people. I'm somehow surprised to find R* & I still in our rental house - intellectually I know that we planned to spend about two years here, but it's already been an entire year? Wow. This little house has been treating us well - it is completely free of poo in the bathtub and the furnace is working like a dream. Not to mention the guest quarters for anyone who needs to stay with us and the g...
Source: girl in greenwood - December 16, 2008 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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I can't believe I didn't mention Eyeball Girl before! In the vaguest possible privacy-protecting description, she was a young woman with a heroin problem who got a necrotizing infection of her face.Okay, now keep voting. (Source: girl in greenwood)
Source: girl in greenwood - December 16, 2008 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
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This year has really flown by. My workmate E* recently pointed out that we've been employed at Big County Hospital for 6 months, which is astonishing. It's turning out better than I could have hoped - I work with a fantastic bunch of people. I'm somehow surprised to find R* & I still in our rental house - intellectually I know that we planned to spend about two years here, but it's already been an entire year? Wow. This little house has been treating us well - it is completely free of poo in the bathtub and the furnace is working like a dream. Not to mention the guest quarters for anyone who needs to stay with us and the g...
Source: girl in greenwood - December 16, 2008 Category: Student Nurses Authors: girl_in_greenwood Source Type: blogs
