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Good bad weird

girl in greenwood — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Good things that have happened at work:I noticed when one of my patients had early signs of bleeding internally (increased heart rate, low blood pressure...) and got my preceptor involved right away and we ended up calling a rapid response, which culminated with the attending physician coming into the room, taking one look at the patient, and saying something to the effect of "I'll see you in the operating room in 15 minutes". My preceptor congratulated me aftewards, saying I made a good catch.I freely confess that the only reason I knew what was going on and that I needed to react quickly was because a former coworker told me about a nurse who got fired because they missed the early signs of a patient bleeding internally after surgery, and the patient died. When I heard the story, I promised myself that would not happen when I was a nurse. I had lunch with my former coworker last week and told her about my "good catch" and she was so proud of me. :)I've been handling three patients relatively independently for a couple of weeks. Yesterday, a patient who used to be a nurse told me that she appreciated having me as her nurse because every time I came in the room, she and her family felt calmer and more in control. That was super nice to hear, especially considering that she used to be on the other side of the bed, as it were.I'm down 15.5 pounds since NCLEX. I credit long days of work in addition to dieting.Bad things that have happened at work:I've gotten to the end of my shift with little charting done and have had to stay late on more than one occasion.I cared for a new paraplegic who was so positive and so in denial and he told me "I'm going to work hard and walk again!" and I actually started to tear up, it was so sad. Ouch.I just worked 4 days in a row and I am tuckered out.Weird things that have happened at work:I took care of a person who was in the trouble with the law and was guarded by a series of police officers. One of whom tried to hit on me. That hasn't happened before.Head-injured patient who is very confused and yells all the time saying to me "I HOPE YOU DON'T THINK I'M A F***ING PUSSY!" after asking me for pain meds. Heh. No, buddy. You've got broken bones, not a lack of courage.So there you go. Little snapshot of what I've been doing. I'm still orienting through the 3rd week of August, then I will apparently be joining up with my future colleagues on the new unit. (Source: girl in greenwood)

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Family guy clip - "over"

Days of My Life — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Here is another one of my favourite family guy clips... let's see how long this one stays up!! Scene from Family Guy Season 6 Episode 7. Stewie and Brian talking over walkie talkies at a construction site. Transcript for when they pull the video: Stewie: Alright Brian, I'm gonna go up to the upper level and run this wire down through the wall. Grab your walkie, I'll call you when I get up (Source: Days of My Life)

Suicide - thought for nurses

Becoming a Nurse — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:16:00 +0100

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Viva las vegas!!!!

Days of My Life — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100

A couple weeks ago I had the privilege of going to Vegas. What an experience! I had such an amazing time! The things I saw and did. I was there for 8 days and I still never got to see everything! My biggest highlight was going to see Elton John in concert at Caesar’s Palace. What an amazing show! “Elton John & the Red Piano.” Nobody else in my group was interested in going, so I went by (Source: Days of My Life)

Weekend

girl in greenwood — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Since Meeegan asked - I am working tomorrow (Saturday) for 12 hours. I'm off on Sunday, though!I forgot one thing on my list of stuff I've learned so far - working as a nurse is excellent for dieting if you can avoid the junk food in the staff lounge. I barely have time to sit and eat my lunch - and I'm not even up to a full patient load yet. Also, I'm down 10 pounds since taking the NCLEX. Just 20 more to go to get back to my pre-nursing school weight. It's like I was pregnant for two years, or something.Tomorrow I'll be moved up to taking two patients. I handled one today pretty much independently and it went well. So I hope I don't have a meltdown with two tomorrow! (Source: girl in greenwood)

So far

girl in greenwood — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100

I've worked on the floor at BCH for 5 shifts and here are a few things I've learned so far:1) There is a device for cleaning out gnarly wounds called a waterpick. I did not know such a thing even existed before last week.2) Fentanyl lollipops (excuse me, transmucosal delivery systems) don't look like lollipops at all. They look like an instrument that is the perfect size to shove into a nostril, actually.3) If you are a morbidly obese diabetic man, you may want to look into personal hygiene, before you develop an infection where the sun doesn't shine. Holy crap, I've never seen wounds like that before.4) Apparently having a rectal tube (excuse me, fecal continence management system) installed feels like "having a Ho-Ho shoved up [your] butt". Or so my patient informed me. 5) If you inject heroin into your subclavian veins, Very Bad Things can happen. If that's not quite enough information for you, google necrotizing fasciitis. See? Very bad.6) Working 2 12-hour shifts on consecutive days makes my hips ache by the end of the second day. But with support socks at least my feet don't hurt.7) I really need to work on my time-management skills.8) I probably need to make myself a more structured brain sheet/to-do list if I'm going to not forget stuff. (Source: girl in greenwood)

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Worker bee

girl in greenwood — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Hello Internet, I have not visited with you in quite a while! My biggest news is that I started my new job as an RN at Big County Hospital (BCH from here on out). I had 5 8-hour days of classroom orientation the first week, which was shockingly exhausting. My brain felt swollen from acquiring so much information at such a rapid pace. The next week I had an all-day computer training which was excruciating - then I started out on the floor with my preceptor.This is a little confusing to explain, but I am not training on the unit where I will eventually be working. I was pretty upset about that when I found out, but after I met my preceptor and got started, I was no longer upset. My preceptor is AWESOME. She's been a nurse for a long time, she's smart and funny and encouraging and kind - exactly the kind of nurse I aspire to be. She's been giving me both positive feedback and constructive criticism, which I really appreciate.So working at BCH is pretty different from working at the Nonprofit Community Hospital. I have seen some shocking, shocking wounds, and I've only been at work for 4 days. Happily I turned out to be interested in gnarly wounds, and not the kind of person who passes out at the sight. Okay. Another 12 hour shift tomorrow, so off to bed with me. (Source: girl in greenwood)

New nurse vlog

Becoming a Nurse — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:29:00 +0100

Please head on over to Damon's new BLOG/VLOG: Wounded Healer. You wont regret it.It is a wonderful beginning and I am so excited to welcome this new nursing student into nursing. Please check it out... (Source: Becoming a Nurse)

I'm back

Days of My Life — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Well, it has been awhile since I have last entered anything in my blog. Partly because my life has been pretty uneventful, and partly because my blog is supposed to be half personal (for the people that check it to keep up with the latest developments in my life) and half medical (focused on nursing/medicine/health stuff, etc), and I have been out of school for a few weeks now so have been (Source: Days of My Life)

Decorator slugs

girl in greenwood — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Look at these sea slugs from National Geographic. They're beautiful! You could use some of them as inspiration for interior decorating. (Source: girl in greenwood)

Long time no vlog

Becoming a Nurse — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:52:00 +0100

Click to Play An update on my transition into nursing. Thoughts on community nursing, homecare.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. (Source: Becoming a Nurse)

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Hempy*

girl in greenwood — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Top 50 'Sesame Street' MomentsToo much fun!*the way I pronounced Sesame when I was 2 (Source: girl in greenwood)

Manipulative

girl in greenwood — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Ooh, interesting. One thing we talked about a lot in school is that labeling your patients as "drug-seeking" or "lazy" or what-have-you affects not only the care you provide, but the care that those around you think is appropriate to provide as well. "Manipulative" is one of those words, but I hadn't really thought about it before. Honestly, I had thought that some patients are in fact manipulative, so why not call a spade a spade?Then I read this piece from Maria. Here's a quote:"Consider striking the word “manipulative” from your vocabulary. Just describe what people are doing. “She says that she will kill herself if I don’t give her Vicodin” is a lot more informative than “She’s manipulative”. Furthermore, brainstorming ideas and conferring with others (including the patient) to solve this dilemma is much easier when everyone knows the specific details of the dilemma. How does one solve a problem around an adjective?"Aha! Of course. You can't make a measureable outcome in the care plan for manipulation. :) (Source: girl in greenwood)

Rn!

girl in greenwood — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100

I passed the damn test! (Source: girl in greenwood)

I did that.

girl in greenwood — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Took the NCLEX today. It shut off at 75 questions, which is the minimum. I think I feel okay about it. I won't know my results for a couple of days. Stay tuned!Afterwards, I went for burgers and beers with two classmates, then we went over to classmate E*'s house and drank beer and watched a movie, until more classmates arrived and we gave up on the movie and gossiped instead. It was fun. (Source: girl in greenwood)

Still here

girl in greenwood — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Still here. Still studying. One week to go. I know of 5 classmates who have passed so far. There are 3 more who have taken the test but haven't gotten results yet.I really can't think about anything else. Sorry to be boring. (Source: girl in greenwood)

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Yoga today

girl in greenwood — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Yoga TodayI did not even know this site existed! They post new approximately hour-long yoga videos for free. Just click on 'em and do your practice. Very cool. (Source: girl in greenwood)

Wow

girl in greenwood — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100

This is a collection of science-related tattoos. Awesome!!!!Now I'm wondering if my dad will get some phospholipids tattooed on his arm or something... (Source: girl in greenwood)

Study

girl in greenwood — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0100

It has begun: the studying for the NCLEX. I took inventory of myself and my study habits, and then picked up the phone and called two my favorite, most focused classmates and asked them to study with me. R* and E* are both going to be my coworkers on the same unit at Big County Hospital and we will be going through orientation together as well. We conferred on which review books we had and how we should tackle this huge body of knowledge, and yesterday we started. Today we continued with an extra bonus classmate C*. So far we've gotten through 8 chapters of the Kaplan review book and have repeatedly exclaimed "why didn't they tell us this in school??" We also learned that Maslow's hierarchy allegedly contains sex on the most basic level, right next to food, water, oxygen, and protection from extremes in temperature. This led to amusing conversation about how we've never seen any doctor's orders written for sexual interventions, and how if sex really is a basic need, as a group of stressed-out nursing students with long-suffering spouses, we may all be clinically dead.Then since my brain wasn't quite full enough, classmate R* went home and classmates M* and D* showed up and we played RNtertainment for quite a while. There was much moaning and bitching about how the questions from the game wouldn't be on the NCLEX itself, but I wrote down 5 or 6 items to look up because I couldn't remember a single thing about them. Electromyography? Anyone? Anyone? Yeah, me neither.And THEN, because I wasn't exhausted enough from using my brain for 8 hours, I went downstairs and worked out and then showered and cooked a healthy dinner and now I really wish someone would rub my back and hand me a chocolate chip cookie. On that note, I spent the last 8 days watching everything I put in my face, working out more than I have in the last three months combined, logging all my food into Weight Watchers... and I got on the scale yesterday morning and there was no. change. at. all. Gahhhhhhhh. But hey, my body feels pretty good, so I guess I'll just keep at it. (Source: girl in greenwood)

Book report: electric michaelangelo

girl in greenwood — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0100

The Electric Michaelangeloby Sarah HallI'm really behind on my book report list. I read this book like a year ago. The strange thing is that I remember not liking it very much but finished it anyway. I just went back and read the Amazon reviews of the books and now I remember - the writing was really beautiful and the book introduced me to a world - a couple, actually - that were completely unfamiliar to me. But it was a sad and dark and disturbing book, and I think that's why I remember not liking it very much.Cy is a child of a single mother in a small seaside town in England early in the 20th century. His mother runs a hotel that is more of an infirmary for tuberculosis patients who have come to "take the sea air" in hopes that it will help their disease. When Cy gets a little older, he becomes the apprentice of the town's tattoo artist, an engaging and creepy character. He teaches Cy all there is to know about tattooing, including how to give oneself a tattoo with ink and a hammer and a nail. Cy ends up in New York City and gravitates to Coney Island, where he meets an entertaining assortment of carneys. One of them is Grace, who does an act with her horse that she keeps in her apartment. Yes, really. Grace gives Cy the opportunity to craft his masterpiece - a tattoo that will cover Grace from the neck down. He agrees and falls in love with her... but their romance is not meant to be.It's a sad book. Sad things happen to nearly all of the characters. I suppose that is true in nearly everyone's life, however... (Source: girl in greenwood)

Tagged - 8 random facts about me

Days of My Life — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0100

Well, for the first time, I have officially been “tagged.” (Technically a couple weeks ago, but, as usual, I am a little behind.) So here goes….. ******************************************************* In 8 facts about yourself, share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. Then at the end you tag at least 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going. Here are the rules: RULES:* Each (Source: Days of My Life)

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Change of shift

Days of My Life — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100

It has arrived! Another fabulous edition of Change of Shift. Check it out here. My "Definition of a Hero" entry was even accepted this week (I am honoured!) (Source: Days of My Life)

Definition of a hero...

Days of My Life — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100

Copied with permission from a MySpace friend who is a fire figher and EMT in the US. I think it is beautifully written and gives you something to think about: I wish you could know what it is like to search a burning bedroom for trapped children at three am, flames rolling above your head, your palms and knees burning as you crawl, the floor sagging under your weight as the kitchen below you (Source: Days of My Life)

The big 3-0

Days of My Life — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100

I didn't realize how much time has passed since my last blog entry; in fact I have even missed a few Change of Shift entries! Time has just been flying by! Speaking of time flying by: Today I turned 30. I have been dreading this day for almost a year. It would make me angry, sad, scared... But last night that all changed. I had a wonderful night out last night on my "Last night of my 20 (Source: Days of My Life)

Hoosier registered nurse!!!!!!!!!!

Hoosier Student Nurse — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0100

It's amazing how a random series of numbers/letters can change everything. The boulder on my back is gone. I desperately wanted to share this with my husband and of course, he is not in town. Poor guy was wakened at an unacceptably early hour, but he understood and I could hear the smile when I didn't even say hello, just "I passed." Right this very second, life could not be better! (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

Boards blow.....

Hoosier Student Nurse — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0100

I did it. I took my boards today. May I add that I didn't definitively know the answer to more than five questions on the whole damn test? I would get through one "check all that apply" to be greeted with "first priority". Then would come "what would indicate immediate attention to patient who had XYZ" and all of the possible answers were things I didn't have a clue about. Because of Big Brother, and the agreement that I won't share a single horrible question of that test, this is as specific as I intend to get, but know that I guessed my way through the whole thing. I had a ton of med questions (of which at least two were check all that apply) and I suck more at that than anything. Those bullshit study guides didn't help me one bit. The thousands of practice questions I did didn't help me one bit. When I was getting to 60-65 questions, I was praying that I was one of the people who would have to answer everything so that I would at least have the advantage of volume. When that computer shut off at 75 questions, I was numb. If feeling confident in my ability to critically think my way through that is an indicator of whether I passed or not, I'd be seriously leaning toward failure. $250.00 down the drain is all that is running through my head right now along with the dread that I may very well have to go through that again. Shit. (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

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Change of shift

Days of My Life — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0100

As usual, I am late in my updating, but a new Change of Shift is up. Check it out here. (Source: Days of My Life)

Whirlwind!!!!

Hoosier Student Nurse — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0100

I've been on my floor orientation for a week. Some days I've just followed, some I've taken a patient or two, just whatever the preceptor wanted. Since I'm not an RN, I can't do IV pushes or hang chemo yet, but everyone has been so good about running in and saying, "I've got a patient about to -fill in the blank- so do you want to watch/do it?" Thanks to them, because yesterday (my first full 12 hour shift), we had a very full house. Every bed occupied with one poor man in the hallway for two and a half hours while we scrambled to discharge someone to find him a spot. One nurse called in and there were no floats available. An hour and a half into the shift, my preceptors child got sick and she had to leave PDQ. The charge nurse asked what I wanted to do since there were now four patients who needed a nurse and everyone else had four or five. I gulped and said, "What the heck, I'll take them all." I did it. All the meds got passed, charting got done and on time to boot, beds and baths done, and one got discharged with all paper work done and one got transferred with all reports and charts with her. I have never been so tired in my life. I have never had so much fun in my life. I love these patients and the nurses who work on this floor. Despite any awful things they say amongst themselves, when they are in the rooms or within earshot of patients or families, they are pros of the highest order. You have never seen such a caring group of women. I am so lucky. (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

Full panic mode

Hoosier Student Nurse — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100

The test that will complete this journey is scheduled to be taken on Thursday. This weekend I pulled out the review book just to brush up on things I haven't seen in a while. The list of stuff I don't know is a mile long, and it is unreasonable that I'll learn them in the next three days. I did a practice test and instead of the usual 70-75% right, I scored a 60. I'm going to be in deep shit. Bummer. (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

I hope this isn't a sign...

Hoosier Student Nurse — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Is it a bad sign that the first patient I cared for as a nurse died 12 hours later, especially since I said a quiet prayer that she would? Cancer is a mean, hard, cold, heartless bitch. Godspeed. (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

Authorization to test

Hoosier Student Nurse — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Got that today. Went online and scheduled my test date for January 3 @ 10:15am. Now I'm pretty nervous. I should do OK. Gotta keep my confidence up! I'm through with hospital orientation and will start my floor orientation tomorrow. I'll be working 8hr days for the first week, and then go to 12 hour days after that. After a while, they'll put me on nights which is what I was hired to work. I'm cool with nights, but I hope I get used to it pretty quick. I get tired by 10:00, so this is going to be a real adjustment. I get so amazed by the various jobs all of the people I've been blogging with all this time have decided on. We're doing PICU, school nursing, telemetry, ICU, Peds, ER, Med Surg, and of course, oncology. I felt funny yesterday, because the NCM from L&D came down yesterday, and she asked what I'd be doing. She'd asked me to come see her when I graduated, but I never considered it. I like the sick patients, and though seeing a baby being born is pretty much a miracle, I don't want to care for healthy patients. I want to take care of people who might want to just have someone hold their hand and listen to them when they tell you they're scared. I want the patient to know that when their bodies are racked with nausea from some shitty chemo, I'll keep bringing them bags to throw up in and antiemetics to try to help, plus maybe find a tasty snack to try to keep them nourished. I want to celebrate with them when they find out their screens and scans are clear, and help someone die with some respect and dignity when the scans aren't good, and we're at the end of the line for treatment options. i want their families to know there is someone who they can come to when their parent/spouse/sibling needs something and they don't know how to provide it. In other words, I CAN'T WAIT TO BE A NURSE!!!!! (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

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Make every minute count...

Days of My Life — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0100

I saw a clip advertising a TV movie playing this weekend and the words kinda jumped out at me: (paraphrasing as usual) "What if you could have one more day with the one you love...." I found that kind of ironic, as it touches a little too close to home right now. I am sitting at home right now in bed, with my beagle, Molly, sleeping in my lap. 24 hours ago I was a total wreck and at a complete (Source: Days of My Life)

Who's getting pinned tonight?

Hoosier Student Nurse — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

SO VERY TIRED..... I took my last regular test on Wednesday. Only made an 88, but that's ok. I can make a 26 on the final and still pass the class, so I'm not sweating it. We had clinical evals yesterday and I made an A. Pinning is tonight and since I have no family here, only my husband and a couple we hang out with are coming. I don't even care. When they hand me the packet that I can send into the state to schedule my boards is when I'll truly feel like a nurse.My kid had what is supposed to be a blood clot in his heart near the prosthetic heart valve. He was in the hospital for several days getting massive bolus's of Heparin and clot buster drugs. It dissolved and all is well, but that wasted five days that I could have been getting ready for the final. I don't regret it though since I would have been a basket case if I hadn't gone to Nashville to be with him. He seems better but I still have a lot of uneasy feelings about him both physically and emotionally. I have to learn to let that go since it is out of my control. Easier said than done. For my morning rant. I went to pinning practice yesterday and was asking everyone where they are going to work. There are some who just haven't started looking since they want to be off for the holidays, but there are lots who just plain haven't been offered a job though they've applied for several positions. We are somewhat unique in this area in that the nursing shortage is not severe here. Sure, there are some less than stellar hospitals in Indianapolis who are trying desperately to get their staffing increased, but for the most part, decent hospitals can be fairly picky about who they hire. You won't see hiring bonuses or be guaranteed that you'll walk into your first choice of jobs or first hospital choice (I was very, very lucky). The actual shortages in the nicer hospitals in Indy is about 3% (we're close enough to Indy to be able to commute) and it is even less here. Nevertheless, there are those who are insistent on applying for positions they don't have very little chance of getting. About the only almost guaranteed jobs are PRN float positions and these deluded students keep applying for jobs they will never get. I think when you've got your heart set on Peds or OB or whatever, and you've interviewed for a couple of jobs at the large children's hospital, and they've never called you back, you may want to rethink your goals and start at a job you can get and then try again later. A friend said she tried to advise one of these women about making a good impression, and the woman totally blew her off and said she was sure all would be good since there is such a big nursing shortage. Since the hospital she wants to work in offered her nothing, maybe she should have listened. Another girl told me yesterday she wants to commute to Indy for weekend options days. I KNOW they have waiting lists for these jobs for both the day and night options (work 24 hours weekends only and get paid full time) from those within the hospital, so there is no way she will be getting one of these jobs straight out of school. I really don't know what is wrong with people. Maybe it's because they've never been out in the "real" working world and fail to understand that sometimes you start below where you want to be to get your foot in the door, then work your way up. There are those who will say that it's easy for me to comment since I got my choice job, and I am not the only one by any means, but I would have been perfectly willing to take a float position until an oncology job opened up at my hospital of choice (I wasn't willing to compromise on where I work). One of my classmates also wants only oncology, and he took a med/surg job until there is an opening. One other wants OB, and she took a float until there is an opening. Yes, it's possible to get what you want, but it's also possible that you won't, so have plan B in place or plan on sitting at home. (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

Much to be thankful for..........

Hoosier Student Nurse — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Happy Thanksgiving!!! There is much to be thankful for this year. My RN program is winding down. Because I'm not continuing the BSN track that I planned, I'll have a six month reprieve from school which excites me beyond all reason. I got the job I wanted. My son is semi OK, my husband is great, and all my babies (kitties and doggies) are the best. I just got a letter three weeks before the end of the semester that I received a $2000.00 scholarship I applied for. I'm doing very, very well in school. Unless ATI is a big fat liar, I'm ready to pass the boards. All in all, a pretty good year. Now if my car will carry me to work and school for one more year, things will be pretty perfect. I'm pretty sure this is where we are going to stay. I always thought this was just a way stop until I graduated and we could get back to Texas, but we've grown to like it here. I love the hospital here, and my husband likes there being four real seasons (a bit too cold and humid for me). I'm within a very reasonable drive from my son. The bad is that our parents aren't getting any younger and we are a considerable distance from them (especially the in-laws). That means we also don't get to see our nieces and nephews as often as we'd like, nor our best friends and god-children in Texas, but that is the price we have to pay. It is just as affordable here as it is in Fort Worth. You can live in a perfectly nice house here for under $150,000 and a really nice one if you're willing to spend a little more. All in all, the benefits outweigh the negatives, so I think the decision is made. Now...if a great job happened to open up in Texas that my husband is drooling for, all bets are off, but he's already turned down the chance to go back for a lateral move. Yep, I think this is our home town now. Everyone have a great holiday and take a nap after dinner! (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

Jobs in health care

Nursing Student Hell — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Jobs in wellness attention offering you the opportunity to positively impact another person's life -- a great manner to gain a living! What sort of occupations are available to you in the healthcare sector? That's what this article is about. In it, I will discourse with you respective options you may wish to pursue, when it come ups to occupations in wellness care.The fact is there will always be a demand for wellness care. The lone clip there won't be a demand is when people halt getting sick. Besides being a physician or specializer surgeon, there are many other occupations in wellness attention that don't necessitate you to finish 10 old age of schooling. For example, all hospitals, as well as nursing homes, demand nurses and nurses aids.In fact, you don't even necessitate a formal instruction to be a nurses aid, as there are programmes that volition aid railroad train you.Also, many healthcare occupations are available to those who have got good administrative skills. While this doesn't intend you directly assist attention for ill people, you indirectly assist them by making certain the healthcare installation is well run, and that resources are appropriately used. This is just as of import as anything in the healthcare industry.One type of calling that is rising in popularity is a patient attention technician. You can go a certified patient attention technician by completing a programme at an accredited college. The programme will offer you the accomplishments needed to execute specialized undertakings such as as piss analysis and hematology. In addition, you will have got the capableness to work in a hospital, a nursing home, and place wellness attention facility, or an drawn-out attention facility.Remember that occupations are not just related to the infirmary environment. For example, a physical healer is a great occupation for helping ill people acquire better, especially the physically sick. Think of all the occupations that are related to physical therapy, or being a physical healer assistant.Finally, the healthcare industry trusts on the ability to quickly share information. This agency that there are occupations in wellness attention related to information technology. You can utilize your computing machine accomplishments to assist effectively pull off and collect databases, as well as guarantee patient safety is being administered.In conclusion, I have got given you respective different occupations that you can utilize as thought starter motors to assist you research occupations and wellness attention even further. (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

India - the new employment destination

Nursing Student Hell — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Several centuries ago on 31st December 1600 a grouping of enterprising British merchandisers were accorded 21 twelvemonth sole monopoly privileges to carry on all trade in the East Indies by the English royal Charter by Elizabeth Ii 1. These merchandisers incorporated these rights under the East Republic Of India Company and set afloat for the Indian shores to set up their first mill at Surat. This was undertaken following the grant of permission by then Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1615 to Sir Seth Thomas Roe, the envoy of King Jesse James 1. The corporation was of overriding significance for it laid the low fountains of the British Raj in Republic Of Republic Of India beginning as bargainers to the hatchers of administrative and military mathematical functions of India in 1858 and was brought under the direct administration of the Crown. This went on till 1947 when Republic Of Republic Of India gained her independency from the colonial regulation contributing much to her foreign Masters at the disbursal of her fiscal abuse, racism and dearth leaving her native population impoverished and mental slaves of her old masters' civilization and society.India picked up her togs from the start and by exclusive determination; mind and difficult work of every sector of her population raised to a topographic point where it could at least base to confront the human face the world. Today in 2007, the human race equations have got changed and are tilting in favour of India. Indians who were compelled to go forth their fatherland for greener pasturelands station 1947 are now despairing to come up back. It is not just emotional connexions but also let's confront the fact that Republic Of India is the most occurrence planetary destination. Republic Of India is also benefiting from the expertness of these foreign returned eccentrics adding to her impulse in every sector of her economic system ranging from research and development in the IT sector to manufacturing to biotechnology, drug company and respective others and getting high value work for world's best corporations.Here again we are fast falling in the same barbarous tidal dullard as four hundred old age ago. The cognition and patents of invention that consequence from these Roentgen & Vitamin D laboratories are unfortunately going to its proprietors in the West. The lone good thing for Indians is that it is creating many well paid occupations for the locals of course of study besides the substructure that it is laying down. The demand of the hr whether in Republic Of Republic Of India or abroad is however for the original, originative and advanced minds who are ego motivated for the interest of that thought and of course of study the investors and smart troughs that are capable of translating these thoughts into pattern effectively.Interesting in this tendency of contrary to the East and rediscovery of otherwise characterless finishes is the avidity of the immature Westerners to come up and work in India. They ground that brands them come up here it is the exhilaration and the work content offered that motivates the expatriates. And this they state is not forever but only till the thrill, exhilaration and a state of affairs in which they can leverage work experience gained in Republic Of Republic Of India to their advantage of begetting desired places back place is available that they mean to stay.With many more than concern alumni from the abroad apprehensive to add 'India tag' to their curriculum vitae one is left wondering is human race actually shaping up on the 'global perspective' visualized a few decennaries ago. With the immature and the fresh in the Occident dying to travel to the East and the contrary being eternally true, the immature are enterprising and thirsty for upper limit exposure that this portion of the human race is currently offering. The exile immature are fast filling the slot in every possible avenue in North American Indian marketplace be it airlines, IT, existent estate, tourism, healthcare, banking, engineering, mass media and many other. The pecuniary additions and the criterion of life may be not up to the criteria of their topographic point states but then the varied experience and occupation enrichment to work in an bewitching and adventurous finish called Republic Of India presently the most occurrence place on the planet, the trade is not bad. (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

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Romney plays down health care

Nursing Student Hell — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

The narrative sounds like classic stump-speech material. A concern leader and friend of then-Gov. Hand Romney suggested he could do his grade if he solved Massachusetts's wellness attention woes. Romney, a former consultant, took up the challenge, crunched the Numbers and developed a model for insuring nearly everyone in the commonwealth. Two old age later, through an impressive deed of bipartizan cooperation between the governor's business office and the legislature, he signed the country's first comprehensive effort at cosmopolitan wellness coverage. "An accomplishment like this come ups around once in a generation," he said on the twenty-four hours he signed the measure in April 2006. But that's not the manner Romney negotiation about his experience reworking wellness attention in Massachusetts. And the clever, complex policy his state developed - which required occupants to purchase insurance, reorganized public finances and bucked up private insurance companies to construct better merchandises - is not a major board of his platform as Romney political campaigns for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Romney's thoughts for national wellness attention policy are far less revolutionary, drawing on more than traditional Republican themes, such as as taxation credits, deregulation, and state-based solutions. The Bay State wellness program come ups up when Romney campaigns, as an illustration of his ability to attain across the aisle, as a presentation that he can work out tough problems. He have not set wellness attention reform at the top of his agenda, nor have he embraced the cardinal end of the Bay State program - cosmopolitan insurance - as an appropriate mark for the country. But the Bay State experimentation in wellness attention reform is reverberating loudly in the presidential race. It have got go the design for Democratic proposals and, some wellness attention analysts say, have pushed the Democrats to believe larger on the issue than they would have otherwise. "I believe it had an tremendous impact," said Henry Martin Robert Blendon, a professor of wellness policy and political analysis at the Harvard University School of Populace Health. "I make not believe they would have got come up in with this scale. I believe they would have got come up up with something more modest. There's a war; there are other issues; there's a immense deficit, and wellness attention hasn't always been a good election issue."Those analysts believe the Bay State wellness attention experimentation may calculate more than prominently in Romney's political campaign if he attains the general election. Formulating a planAccording to Tim Murphy, who worked as Romney's secretary for wellness and human services, staff inch the Romney disposal worked dutifully and quietly for two old age to set together pieces of the proposal, which the governor unveiled in unsmooth word form in a November 2004 Op-Ed in the Hub Of The Universe Globe. "It will not be a authorities mandated cosmopolitan insurance 'pay or play' scheme, nor a single-payer system," the column said. The column argued that by enrolling more than eligible patients in Medicaid, reducing ordinances so coverage companies could offer stripped-down plans and helping low-income residents pay for insurance, the state could drastically cut down its uninsured population. The state was disbursement billions covering the infirmary attention of uninsured residents. Romney's proposal suggested that the pool of money could be rededicated to helping the uninsured acquire coverage. It was nearly a twelvemonth and a one-half before the legislative assembly passed the concluding version of the bill, and lawmakers significantly expanded and changed elements of the governor's original proposal. The federal authorities had a role, too. Thanks in portion to the aid of Bay State Sen. Teddy Boy Kennedy, the state was able to procure particular federal support to reform the state's Medicaid system, money that was critical to making the program work. "I would say, as a general rule, we believe that when (Romney's) taking recognition for it, he makes not rate as much recognition as he claims and when he distances himself from it, he was not nearly as distant as he says," said Toilet McDonough, the executive manager director for Health Care for All, an advocacy grouping that worked closely with the governor's business office and legislative assembly on the law. "He was deeply, heavily involved, as were a host of other participants in the policy devising and the wellness system. And the law that passed, which we mention to as chapter 58, is a real, bona fide political amalgam."The law established a new state agency, designed to work with coverage companies to make new, low-cost merchandises and to assist uninsured occupants mark up. It established a sliding scale of measurement for payment so that occupants with incomes up to 300 percentage of the poorness limit, about $62,000 for a household of four, wage an adjusted insurance premium fee. It also changed some state coverage regulations, in ways designed to do individual purchases, which were extremely unpopular in the state, more than attractive. But the law's most outstanding component is the "individual mandate," which necessitates every individual to purchase coverage under the new scheme. Without the mandate, analysts found, only about a 3rd of the state's uninsured occupants would subscribe up for new insurance. They would be the oldest and sickest occupants and would drive up the norm insurance premium cost. Jonathan Gruber, a wellness economic expert at the Bay State Institute of Technology, prepared some estimations for Romney and establish that that 3rd of the population would be the state nearly two-thirds of the cost of insuring everyone. Once they had run the analysis, Gruber said Romney was quickly convinced that the authorization was an of import component of the plan. "You can't acquire cost control until you acquire everyone under the tent," Gruber said. The law also gave the measurement some teeth. Employers who did not supply coverage are required to pay a $295 fee for each uninsured employee. Individuals who don't purchase coverage will also be penalized by losing the personal freedom on their adjacent taxation return, about $219. Romney vetoed the employer punishment fee when he signed the bill, but the legislative assembly overrode his veto. Influence on DemocratsSeveral health-policy experts state the Democratic candidates, as much as they bicker over whose program is most universal, all drew from the Bay State program when they developed their own. Only Buckeye State Rep. Dennis Kucinich have proposed a single-payer system in which the authorities would see all Americans. Instead, Democrats have got embraced a end of cosmopolitan coverage through alterations in the existent private insurance market. Former North Carolina senator Toilet Jonathan Edwards and New House Of York Sen. Edmund Hillary Bill Clinton have got programs that include the individual mandate. Despite these apparent similarities, Romney have taken a critical line on the Democratic plans, often calling them "socialized medicine.""Every Democrat up there's talking about a word form of socialized medicine, authorities takeover, monolithic taxation increase," Romney said in a June 5 CNN debate, in a feature comment. In the debate, he said he was successful in Bay State because the "market works. Personal duty works."Such remarks indeterminate the true human relationship between the Bay State program and the Democratic proposals, analysts say. "It's really difficult to see what he intends when he mentions to it as socialized medicine," said Sara Collins, an helper frailty president at the Commonwealth Fund who have analyzed all the presidential candidates' wellness attention plans, "because they're so similar to the current system and so similar to what they did in Massachusetts."Romney unveiled his presidential wellness attention program in a Sunshine State address this August. It makes not include a vision for cosmopolitan coverage. Instead, Romney states states should be allowed to craft their ain solutions to their peculiar wellness attention problems. Some of those solutions may look like the Bay State plan; others, drawing on different circumstances, will happen different paths. His approach, which also includes taxation credits to let people to purchase their ain coverage and deregulating to do the wellness coverage marketplace less fragmented, are similar to programs promoted by Grand Canyon State Sen. Toilet McCain and former New House Of York city manager Rudy Giuliani. Murphy, the former wellness secretary, said Romney's current positions are consistent with his attack as governor. Murphy, who now works in the wellness coverage industry, said Romney chose the course of study he did in Bay State because of the peculiar statuses there. "You necessitate to appreciate that in different states there are different support mechanisms. There are different employer bases, that there are different ways of receiving wellness care," Potato said. "You necessitate to make the work that Bay State did on, if you will, a state-by-state footing so that the best thoughts will lift to the top."Murphy said the Democratic proposals are significantly different from the Bay State program because they trust on taxation additions and punishments for employers who don't offer insurance. But some spectators see political computation in Romney's stance. McDonough, who worked closely with Romney through the process, said he thought Romney had a presidential tally in head when he was promoting the Bay State plan. "He really believed, I think, that this would be a immense asset for him on the Republican presidential primary trail, and he was taken aback and surprised by the extent to which it was received without enthusiasm or with hostility, so I believe he adjusted based on feedback," McDonough said. A primary drawback? There have already been grounds that the wellness program could be a political liability in the Republican primary. This hebdomad marked the registration deadline for most of the new Bay State plans. "Before I forget, for all you in Bay State who aren't signed up for a wellness insurance, you have got until Thursday before you acquire stuck with a fine," wrote Mare Comella, a spokeswoman for Giuliani, in an e-mail to newsmen this week. An adjutant to former Volunteer State senator Fred Homer Thompson distributed a transcript of a Bay State populace service proclamation about the deadline and then asked for political campaign contributions, according to the Associated Press. The Bay State program could play differently in a general election. Respective people watching the rollout state they've been impressed by how well the program have worked so far. It may necessitate support alterations in the future, but more than than 200,000 uninsured occupants have got already signed up for coverage. Blendon, who said the Bay State program and Democratic proposals are "different, but they're not that different," said polling have shown that the societal conservative wing of the Republican Party, which Romney have been courting, is not particularly interested in wellness attention reform. "They really don't desire a president who's going to be making large alterations in wellness care," he said. "But mugwumps would happen it very attractive."Gruber, who sees himself a Democrat, said he was impressed by the aspiration of Romney's program and have been defeated with his more than recent ideas. "I'd love to acquire him intoxicated and inquire him, 'If you had to make this over again, would you make this?' We'll have got to wait," he said. (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

Loan officers - having faith in the mortgage business is not a jedi mind trick

Nursing Student Hell — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

With the mortgage industry in a state of daze or terror (I'm not certain which) we have got Mortgage Brokers and Loan Officers dropping out like crazy. Almost every twenty-four hours I hear of a Agent or an LO saying he's sticking to this business, he have "faith" this concern will pick up and it will acquire better. Then, almost every twenty-four hours I hear some of these same Broker's or LO's left the concern or closed their doors. I think the "faith" they had didn't last long.People presume manner too much in this business. There is manner too much Jedi Mind Control Stuff. Just because you believe something is changing and privation something to change, doesn't intend it's happening. Obi-won may have got got been able to command others by using "The Force", but opportunities are most of us haven't been taught by Maestro Yoda yet, right?What am I getting at here? Faith, that's what. Religion is a good thing to have. If you have got religion in your success, conjecture what? You're on your way. If you have got religion this concern will turn around soon, maintain up the thoughts. But, there is a spot more to it than just having faith.My wise man recently said this and I thought it was brilliant, he said "Faith can travel mountains, but you gotta convey a shovel." No wonderment he's a mentor, the dude's got it together.I'm not saying you should have got religion because you should. You should ALWAYS have got religion in yourself, no substance what concern you're in. But delight maintain in mind, you'll necessitate to endorse up your religion with action. People will always dwell in houses and people will always necessitate mortgages. Your occupation is to acquire the people to acquire the mortgage from YOU. The manner this starts is to have got religion in yourself. (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

Change of shift

Days of My Life — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Another change of shift is up at Emergiblog. Read it here :-) (Source: Days of My Life)

Kids say the darndest things... aka "if only..."

Days of My Life — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

I read something online last night that made me a little sad and nostalgic. Thinking back to some of the many lapses in judgment I made over the years, I caught myself doing the “if only…” Had I made different choices at certain crossroads in my life, my life would be totally different right now… I happened to have Kid Nation on a few minutes later, and one of the kids summed it up nicely. (I’m (Source: Days of My Life)

Hasty health care deal not ready for prime time

Nursing Student Hell — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

sfgate_get_fprefs();Rewarding coverage companies is not wellness attention reformWhile those who welcome a Golden State wellness attention trade at any cost will hearten the approaching general agreement between Democratic leadership and Gov. Matthew Arnold Schwarzenegger, there is ground to be wary of a hastily drawn program that could worsen the wellness insecurity for many Californians. No substance how you acquire dressed it up, the bundle still amounts to a immense gift for the coverage industry, with billions of new clients who may get small in return. Insurers will still make up one's mind who acquires care, bounds insurance but complaint what they want. Combining the up-to-the-minute version of statute law from Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez and the most recent proposal by Gov. Matthew Arnold Schwarzenegger, the concluding understanding will likely include a authorization on most uninsured Californians to purchase insurance, a demand that employers supply wellness benefits or pay a penalty, and a funding program headed to adjacent November's ballot. It's equally apparent what the trade won't include: -- Limits - other than a indeterminate trust on the marketplace which created the messiness - on skyrocketing coverage premiums, deductibles, co-pays, infirmary charges, doctor's measures and other fees that are rising at double, ternary or more than the charge per unit of rising prices and additions in worker's wages. -- Choice of doctor, infirmary or other provider. Unlike Medicare, insurance companies or employers will go on to be able to curtail patients to their medical plan's web or necessitate dearly-won further payments to see other providers. -- An end to coverage industry control over basic determinations about your health. Insurers will still be able to barricade referrals to specialists, deny needed medical diagnostic tests or entree to the newest prescription drugs, and can still decline to pay for attention deemed "experimental" or "not medically necessary," even when it is recommended by your doctor. The end of expansive reform is laudable. However, the mulct black and white shows this pending program is full of holes. All Californians not covered at work or eligible for public subsidies will be forced to purchase coverage - or, Speaker Núñez said in a fourth estate conference last week, have got the insurance premiums deducted from your wages. Punishing the uninsured by seizing their wage to pad of paper coverage company net income is not wellness attention reform. The cost protections are a mirage. Many middle-income families will measure up for state taxation credits to assist wage for the coverage they are required to buy. But a taxation recognition hardly do up for dearly-won monthly insurance premium payments and other fees. Further, the projected yearly out-of-pocket bounds of 6.5 percentage in costs uses only to the barebones compulsory policy. Anyone seeking insurance that includes such as necessities as dental, vision, mental health, long-term care, and other needful attention will have got to pay much more. The likely consequence will be more than consumer debt for medical bills; a great blessing for the Banks and credit-card companies but increased fiscal hazard for Californians and an encouragement to self-ration needful attention owed to the prohibitory cost. Another important job is the taxation on employers who must supply insurance or pay a punishment of up to 6.5 percentage of their payroll. According to a June study by the Golden State Healthcare Foundation, non-union California employers pass on norm 10.4 percentage of their paysheet on wellness benefits. Unionized employers pay 14.5 percentage of their paysheet or $5,000 more than per employee than they would pay under the Núñez version of reform. The Schwarzenegger proposal sets this cost at even less. Especially with no controls on rising premiums, the concluding via media program will show an obvious inducement for concerns to gnaw existent insurance by switching to high deductible programs that displacement more of the cost to employees. Or they may just drop insurance entirely, escalating labour struggles in Golden State as more than workings people battle to keep nice wellness insurance for their families. Finally, the support is highly uncertain. It trusts on federal money that have been vetoed twice by President Bush. The Núñez measure also numbers on increasing baccy taxes, an thought rejected by Golden State electors just last year. The support program also travels money away from our already endangered public safety network hospitals. A decennary ago, there was also a general agreement for energy deregulation. The consequence was blackouts, higher costs for consumers, a fiscal catastrophe for the state, and unfastened larceny by Enron and other energy corporations. We should larn from that experience. Rather than haste through an ill-conceived plan that primarily honors the same insurance giants, let's follow a more than commonsense step, spread out children's wellness coverage with federal finances now and acquire real, guaranteed wellness attention reform done next year. Zenei Cortes is a registered nurse and a member of the Golden State Nurses Association's Council of Presidents. (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

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The public face of wal-mart's health care program

Nursing Student Hell — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Linda M. Dillman, who supervises the employee wellness attention programme at , did not inquire for the job. Indeed, when the head executive director of the company, the world's biggest retailer, told her of the appointment, she wondered, "Did I do person mad? Are they trying to state me something?" For much of the last decade, labour groupings and state authorities pilloried the wellness attention Wal-Mart offered its 1.4 million workers and the executive directors who oversaw it. But Ms. Dillman, who took over the company's wellness attention programme in April 2006, have managed to win over some of Wal-Mart's traditional critics by aggressively reaching out to wellness attention experts (at , , , and S.C. Johnson, to call a few) and expanding the insurance Wal-Mart supplies to workers. A former information engineering director at and then at Wal-Mart, Ms. Dillman, 51, have go the public human face of Wal-Mart's wellness attention changes. "There is hardly a large wellness attention conference where you make not see Linda Dillman on the speakers' list," said Mark D. Smith, the head executive director of the Golden State Healthcare Foundation. "That surprised people." What follows are little extracts from a drawn-out interview with Ms. Dillman, conducted inch her business office near Wal-Mart's central office in Bentonville, Ark., in October. Questions have got been edited for clarity. Q. Can you sum up the new attack to wellness attention at Wal-Mart?A. The treatment we're having internally is how you see benefits as an investment. And that's saying if you look at an associate [Wal-Mart's term for its employees], a sum associate, and you say, if they are healthy they'll make a better occupation at work, they'll be more than productive, they'll be happier, nicer to our customers, we will have got less absenteeism, our turnover rate will be better. All of those things have got a benefit, a tax return to the company. So we're really saying, instead of just trying to pull off a benefit cost, we're looking really at tax returns and saying we believe we can impact all these other things. Q. Before making alterations this year, you surveyed workers extensively about what they desire in a wellness attention plan. What did they say?A. They said, we desire to be able to choose what's compensate for us. We don't desire you to because where we were headed in the past was really to simplify, thinking it was too complicated. And what they said was, no, I don't desire you to decide; I desire to have got the pick and you give me, you know, aid me understand what they intend so I can choose. And I desire to do certain that I have got that exigency mundane wellness attention covered.Q. What is your end with the new plans?A. My end is to not travel everybody to Wal-Mart's wellness attention plan. It's to do certain everybody have wellness attention that demands it. And to do certain if somebody's choosing not to, that there's we can seek to get rid of the grounds for them not to come up onto our plan. Q. Would you like the figure of uninsured workers at Wal-Mart to hit zero? Would you like to see it 5 percent? What is a sensible goal?A. Obviously I'd wish to see it zero. Bash Iodine believe we'll acquire there? No. There's calm a grouping of people who don't believe they necessitate coverage. And even at $5 a month, they aren't going to pay for it.Q. The norm Wal-Mart worker gains less than $20,000 a year, making the company's wellness coverage hard to afford. What make employees state about that?A. That was portion of the unfastened registration inquiry if you're eligible and you didn't take Wal-Mart coverage, why? Are it because you have got another beginning of wellness attention or is it because I can't afford it? Or I believe I can't afford it. And that 10 percentage [who are uninsured] were just about evenly divide between, I believe I can't afford it, and I believe I don't necessitate it.Q. Sol affordability is not the major large issue that come ups up in company surveys?A. No.Q. When you believe about solving the American wellness attention crisis what are the functions of an employer like Wal-Mart, the authorities and the individual worker?A. Clearly, we necessitate to make something differently. And I don't believe it's going to stop up being voluntary and actually work.In an ideal world, that would happen, but I don't cognize that we can acquire there. We believe there is always a function for the employer, as well as the individual and the government. So it's shared responsibility.The inquiry is and that's wherefore I state I believe everything have to be examined is when you look at employer-based wellness care, I don't cognize if it's the right reply or not, but I believe we necessitate to look at it just because it happened by accident. 1 (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

Gonna be a bear

Days of My Life — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

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Public-service fields offer loan incentives

Nursing Student Hell — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Only pupils who borrow from the federal authorities measure up for this deal. Students who borrow from Banks and other loaners can go eligible by consolidating their loans through the federal loan program. According to Department of Education, eligible occupations include "full-time job in exigency management, government, military service, public safety, law enforcement, public health, public education, societal work, public-interest law services, kid care, and public library sciences." *The federal statute law also supplies a flicker for pupils who daydream of teaching. Students in instruction and teacher-preparation programs who perpetrate to instruction for at least four old age after graduation can use for yearly grants of $4,000 to defray college costs. According to the regulations, grant money generally must be used for tuition and fees and may not transcend $16,000 for undergrads or $8,000 for graduates. The followers Fields are eligible for the grants: math, science, foreign language, bilingual education, particular instruction and reading specialists. The Education Department said other "high-need" positions may later be covered. There's one catch: If a pupil ultimately make up one's minds not to teach, the grants must be repaid. The Education Department is still working to clear up certain inside information of these new provisions, which took consequence Oct. 1. For more than information, bank check the Web land site of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, nasfaa.org. Steve Rosen is a newsman at The Sunflower State City Star. E-mail him at srosen@kcstar.com. (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

Career test - using assessments for changing career

Nursing Student Hell — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Career diagnostic test is a great tool to define your calling choice. If you are not satisfied with your occupation this tool can help. Since occupation satisfaction is the manner to a extremum public presentation it is critical that you take a calling that offerings yourself every chance to excel. And calling appraisals are the reply when it come ups to selecting the perfect career. Appraisal diagnostic tests utilize a series of inquiries about your interests, about your style of working, and how you interact with other people. Questionnaires are an of import portion of calling appraisal tools. These questionnaires and their scoring system were rigorously designed to supply the most accurate results.Testing methodological analyses change but in general, calling diagnostic tests inquire a battery of inquiries that effort to separate many things. They clear up your involvements as well as lucifer your accomplishments and competences to specific fields. They seek to place your strong points and individual work style to find whether you like certain occupations and if you will be successful in that position. One popular type of diagnostic diagnostic tests is calling aptitude tests. These diagnostic diagnostic tests measurement your accomplishments you have got learned so far in life and your countries of potential.A personality diagnostic test is another type of calling appraisal tests. They assist detect what your work personality is and happen a calling for you by performing a research on 100s of careers. If you pass some clip taking a calling personality diagnostic test or two, you'll acquire respective calling options to help you see how they may suit with your personality.Career testing programmes can assist immature professionals, mid-career professionals, seasoned people and high school & college pupils to happen the right calling for each individual. When you take a calling quiz you may be surprised at what your diagnostic test reveals, especially if you have got been in your current calling for many years. Quizzes cannot supply charming replies but they assist you to have got a better apprehension of your vocational personal identity and thus to seek and bring forth further calling options. They assist you scan a wider scope of possibilities than you might be able to conceive of on your own.If you desire to alteration career, taking some calling change appraisals can assist you take your ultimate calling choice. Using many calling options that you acquire from assorted calling diagnostic tests you then hunt your psyche and inquire yourself some tough inquiries to find which calling is right for you. (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

Missy has a job!!!

Hoosier Student Nurse — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

I haven't blogged or talked to anyone about it because I didn't want to jinx it, but I was offered my 1st choice position today!!! It's funny that when I started this whole nursing thing, I thought I'll go in the ER and live on the adrenalin. As my nursing education has progressed, I have become more attracted to the patient and less to the "fly by the seat of my pants" need for thrills. I love the patients and their families. I love taking care of the same patients for several days and seeing their faces when I show up in the morning because they know I remember what they like and don't like. When their husbands, wives, children welcome me or are so stressed out and just need a little hand holding or someone to listen to them. That being said, I'd already decided that a medical floor would be for me. When applying at the hospital I want to work in, the HR person was going through openings. Surgery? No, the patients are asleep all of the time. ER? No, they're in and out. ICU? That is a real possibility and I would not be upset about that. Oncology? My eyes lit up and I beamed. I said, "Oh...I would LOVE that!" It has everything I wanted in my nursing career. They never have any openings because the manager is so great and no one ever leaves. They hadn't even posted it yet, but I knew a student in my class who has been an LPN on the oncology floor of another hospital for several years had already applied for a job and had an interview set up for next week, so I wasn't counting on it, but still wanted it. I interviewed this morning, and I just got a call that the manager loved me and was offering me the job! I'm so excited!! I'll have my last final on the 12th and start the next week. I know I'll be sad a lot of times, but I'll be able to comfort those most affected. I'll also be thrilled when things are working out, and be able to celebrate with the patient and those they love. Best of all, I'll know I had a hand in it. I know that some day I'll be strolling through Kroger, and I'll see someone healthy and vital and know that I was part of that. I'll also see a family member and know that I had a part in ensuring their loved one died on their terms and with dignity. This day is the best! (Source: Hoosier Student Nurse)

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Anti-aging skin care for avoiding wrinkles

Nursing Student Hell — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

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Harvard university screens gripping new documentary exposing american education

Nursing Student Hell — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard Law School screened a unsmooth cut of the discovery docudrama movie Two Million Minutes on Friday, November 2 for a room full of Harvard University University alumnus pupils from the Law School, the Jack Kennedy School of Government and the . The movie analyzes instruction in the United States as it compares to planetary standards. Regardless of nationality, once children issue the 8th class – the clock starts ticking. They have got roughly Two Million Minutes to construct their intellectual foundation and set up for college and career. Those in attending at the showing stayed for over two hours to discourse and argument the deductions of the detonation of educated endowment emanating from Republic Of India and People'S Republic Of China – for the United States and for United States education. Executive manufacturer British Shilling Arthur Compton – a venture capitalist, enterpriser and Harvard University Master in Business – teamed up with two former-teachers-turned-filmmakers to bring forth the documentary. Impressed with the high-caliber pupils he met at schools in India, Arthur Compton was inspired to leap into filmmaking and state a narrative on planetary instruction and competition. Chad Heeter and Adam Raney – both alumni of UC Berkeley’s news media school with expertness in foreign coverage – traveled to Shanghai, Bangalore and across the U.S., taking photographic cameras into schoolrooms to convey Compton’s vision to the screen. The documentary, which chronicles the day-to-day lives of six high school pupils in the U.S., Republic Of India and China, is Compton’s first raid into filmmaking. Journalists Heeter and Raney have got reported for print, radiocommunication and telecasting – filing narratives from Asia, Latin United States and Europe. Twenty calendar months in the making, Two Million Minutes foregrounds the assorted pressure levels and precedences of these pupils and their families, providing penetration into the changing nature of competition in the cognition economy. The film makers have got also tapped a world-class panel of experts who lucubrate on the differences in instruction among the states and discourse deductions for America. Among those interviewed are Henry Martin Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Institute; Vivek Paul, former chief executive officer of WiPro engineerings of India; Tim Draper, Managing Director of Silicon Valley venture house Draper Fisherman Jurvetson; Vivien Stewart, Chinese Education Specialist astatine the Asia Society; Richard Freeman, a Harvard University University University economist; and Vivek Wadhwa, Executive-in-Residence at Duke University and Wertheim Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. The movie is intended to advance duologue on instruction in America. Compton’s core position is that while we make have got a crisis in American education, it is not from the usual suspects. He says, “The existent crisis is that planetary instruction criteria have got risen rapidly, and American pupils - at all degrees - are being passed by.” The Harvard University Alumnus Education School students, in particular, had strong positions on the film. Most argued that the United States instruction system is superior to Republic Of India and People'S Republic Of China because it sets less accent on the pupils and less emphasis on rote acquisition of mathematics and science. A few in the group, however, seemed unfastened to the impression that we might have got something to larn from Republic Of India and China. One idea bandied about was what if we treated instruction with as much intensity, investing and passionateness as we make high school athletics, pupils might profit intellectually. Among those people in instruction World Health Organization desire and demand change, albeit a minority, is Shirley Ann Glenda Jackson – one of the most well-thought-of voices in the movie – who authored the study "The Quiet Crisis" which led to "Before the Gathering Storm." This showing at Harvard University gets a series of private showings at assorted locations across the country. Two showings will take topographic point in November in Indianapolis, and beginning in December showings will take topographic point in Silicon Valley, New House Of York City, and American Capital D.C. For more than information on the film, delight visit . (Source: Nursing Student Hell)

The long overdue ending

I am a Nursing Student — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

I know I promised to tell you about my NCLEX a couple months ago. I've just been so busy I've hardly had time to write in my regular blog, much less my nursing one! But let us get down to business first. This is what NCLEX was like for me:PreparationsI purchased the Kaplan Online Complete package for far too much money. The online course was soooo boring, but had some nice ideas and flowcharts and such. The online question bank was the best investment in the package, however. Answering several hundred questions really got my brain into NCLEX mode. I highly recommend the Qbank, but can take or leave the rest of the course.My classmates went to the Hurst Review. I flipped through their book and listened to their stories after the course was over. Apparently it was hilarious and awesome and useful because the crazy jokes and anecdotes caused all the review points to stick well in your mind. The book was much simpler and digestible than my own Kaplan book, but it lacked the review questions I found so useful. So I recommend the Hurst Review as well, though only if you're able to attend a live class.On the whole, I recommend you do any review course, period. They help refresh your brain, and statistically those candidates do better. Which kind you pick really depends on your style.The ExamI arrived early to the small testing facility. I opened the door to find a gentlemen seated attentively and upright behind a desk. He stared at me as I entered and sat. After I'd arranged myself in the chair, he asked if he could help me. Yes, I explained, I'm taking NCLEX."Your authorization to test, please. Thank you. Please take this paper and read it. Let me know when you have finished." He was a very formal guy, whose tone was as crisp as his pristinely ironed shirt. I sat and read the paper. When I came back I had to give him my ID, sign my name, let him scan my finger 5 times, get my photo taken, sign my name again, lock up my things, on and on and on. Finally he gathered my papers, scanned my finger one last time, and walked with me two steps into the hallway.There was a woman seated in the monitoring station, watching the test takers. Though calling it a monitoring station is a kind of visual understatement. It might be better described as a space pod, since it's sphere of glass looked down upon so many screens I felt certain that touching one of them would surely cause the entire thing to blast off.She took my ID as well, scanned my fingerprint, activated my test in the computer, and escorted me inside to my terminal. I noted that I was seated at computer #7, and hoped it was a lucky omen.There were a tiny pair of earplugs before the monitor that I didn't use. I started clicking at the tutorial pretest questions and reading yet more rules and warnings. When the test finally began, it looked exactly like the review books describe them. I didn't feel nervous at that time. I felt like I had a really good chance.Every time I answered a question and clicked "Next", I checked the counter at the corner of the screen. I've heard people say that they were never more terrified than when the cutoff screen popped up and ended the test. I was actually the opposite. I was terrified when I hit Next on question 75, because if it didn't cut off then that would mean that I still hadn't passed. At least I'd know it was over if it cut off at 75. If I had to keep answering questions after that, I would have been terrified.Thankfully, it did cut off at 75. They scanned my fingerprint again when I left. As I understand it, they scan your fingerprint if you so much as get up to go pee. I was glad to be out of there.ResultsI didn't check exactly 48 hours later. I spent the day working, then spent the evening at a friend's house soothing his grief over his recent breakup. So when I finally got around to checking the site in the middle of the night, I was somewhat disgruntled when I was greeted with only a few lines of text saying my name, number, and the word PASS.I blinked heavily. Where were the trumpets??? At the very least couldn't they have included an animated gif? Or perhaps the word "Congratulations"? Make no mistake, I was thrilled. But it seemed almost an anticlimax to these years of struggling and studying. I printed out a screenshot to keep with my other school momentos. And then I went to bed, and didn't dream at all.WorkI'm now a full time RN in a Cardiac Care Unit, and almost finished with orientation. And I have to say, I love it. I absolutely love it. While I found my experiences as a nurse tech extremely beneficial while in college, I cannot tell you how physically demanding it could be on me sometimes. This job is so much better, and I don't feel like a zombie all the time from having to balance work and school.CCU is all about bypass patients and other thoracic surgeries, though we get other intensive care patients from time to time. I've been learning so much every day, and feel like I'm almost ready to do the job all by myself. I hope to work back here for a year or more, then perhaps for a while in the ER too before I eventually go back to grad school. What do I want to be? Probably an NP, though I'm not sure yet! I have lots of time to think.Final ThoughtsThis is my last entry, and I will not be posting in this blog anymore. I have to concentrate on my career and starting my new life. I considered writing another blog for a while called "I Am No Longer a Nursing Student"... but realized how silly that statement is. I will always be a student. I feel like I'm growing and learning all the time.Studying nursing has been good for me in so many ways. Certain parts of my personality were already predisposed to this kind of work, but other parts of me were not at all suited to the task. For example, when I began clinicals I was a very shy person. That might not have come out in my posts so much, but I had a hard time talking to new people. As little as 6 months ago I still had a phobia about calling people on the phone. But by working as a tech and working with my classmates, I've grown past those anxieties and gained a measure of self-confidence. The changes were subtle and slow, but when I look back, I'm amazed at how far I've come.I think that finding a path in life that both complements and challenges you is precious. I think that, in this culture full of disillusionment, I was lucky that college "worked" for me. It actually helped me in the classical sense by shaping my identity and strengthening my character. Of course, it was tedious and taxing. And in the years before I transferred and changed majors, it was downright depressing. But here I am now, with a degree on my wall and initials after my name. After all of it... after everything... I made it.You can make it too. Hang in there. (Source: I am a Nursing Student)

When is it ok to call in sick?

I Wanna Be A Male Nurse — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:00:00 +0100

Last week Tuesday, nearing the end of my orientation at my new PCT (Patient Care Technician—basically the same as a CNA) job on the surgical telemetry unit of a local suburban hospital, I called in sick. I struggled with this decision, weighing my symptoms, their effect on my ability to do the job, the possibility of spreading infection, against the unit's need for my presence in the face of a regular shortage of PCTs.What I want to know from you all is how you make this delicate decision. What symptoms tip the scale for you? Assume that the symptoms listed below represent something out of the ordinary (e.g., "headache" would be more debilitating than a headache you might get on a regular basis). Symptoms marked "once" refer to an incident you could reasonably believe would not recur (although you could not be 100% sure). If you have any additional comments (e.g., if you believe taking a particular medication would take care of a symptom sufficiently to allow you to work, OR if you want to mention a symptom that is not included, OR etc.), please use the Comments at the end of the post. Symptoms are arranged in alphabetical order for no particular reason. You should receive a copy of your responses if you enter your e-mail, and I will try to tabulate the results on a more or less timely basis and present them via updates to this post.All fields are voluntary. You may be anonymous if you wish. Name: e-mail: Website: Cough (dry) Cough (productive) Diaphoresis Diarrhea (once) Diarrhea (repeated) Fatigue High Temp. (over 100 deg. F) High Temp. (over 101 deg. F) High Temp. (over 102 deg. F) Nausea Pain (headache) Pain (intestinal) Pain (limbs) Post-nasal Drip Skin Rash Sneezing Vertigo Vomiting (once) Vomiting (repeated) What were your symptoms last time you called in sick to work? Security Code: Please enter the 5 character code you see in the image to the left. Code: BFN Secure Web Mail System (Source: I Wanna Be A Male Nurse)