scubanurse

You will be missed more than you know. Thank you for all you have done for the community and for me. You have pushed me and challenged me to not only become a better provider but also just a better person. Thank you.

I will be there both days.... I'll try not to Dwayne! Although I'll never turn down an opportunity to educate people about Ehlers-Danlos

So who all is going?? I'm super excited to be able to go this year!

Curriculum Vitae... basically a resume but highlights experience and qualifications not just past employers.

Congrats on your accomplishments towards your career goal! And welcome back!

Agreed....

How long would the contract be for?

I think the patient's coding could have more to do with the hepatic encephalopathy than with the ammonia levels being elevated. Elevated ammonia levels are common in hepatic encephalopathy, but not isolated to just that disease process. This puts the patient at a much higher risk of C/V collapse and I would be curious to see the results from an LFT. What did the ECG show before arrest? Was the breath really musty or sweet? Patient could have arrested also r/t the encephalopathy and increased intracranial pressure. I'm curious to see what the smart people think on this one though Interesting case!

I am so sorry for your loss. It's always amazed me how people will wait until their family have had a chance to say their goodbyes, and then they go in peace. Happened with two of my grandparents...waited until all of us got there to say goodbye and then passed in the night. My thoughts with you guys through this difficult time.

Fingers crossed that I win the scholarship...if I do, I'll see you there! I already have all the winter clothing necessary too!

Coming from a vol. department in Maryland... LOSAP was awesome... It provided us with incentive to run calls and do stand-by times. We also had tuition reimbursement which was a big help when I went through medic school.

Welcome! I have family in Cairns and visited a few years ago... very lovely place

For the most part it's good, but the way they have us organizing pathologies just isn't jiving with my brain. I had a teacher in highschool who let us outline however our brains wanted to. I think rather than a pre-outlined sheet to fill in, telling us to include the pathology, etiology, diagnosis criteria, treatment, nursing intervention, and NANDA's in a way that works for us would be better, but then it would take her more time to go through and grade it. I feel much better now that I've organized my school work more and created a system of tracking assignments and due dates. Part of my problem is I am a completely disorganized type A personality. I like perfection and order but I can't ever seem to get my life in order. Sometimes it is a constant state of chaos.

Thanks guys I know I can do it, it's just sometimes I don't even know how to get going. It'll all work out in the end and I'll be thankful for sticking it out through the hard times. Dwayne... your comment about going and telling my husband that I want to drop out made me cry worse! I can't let all the people in my life down, they would be so disappointed in me. Mike you are so right... all the BS busy work is what's really doing it. We have to write these flow sheets out each week for different disease processes. I know they're trying to help us in memorizing it, but it's not how I learn. Sometimes it's like they're forcing us to all be the same type of learner and it just doesn't work that way. Thanks for letting me vent and giving me some motivation/words of advice, it is really helpful

Legality all depends on if their contracts have a non-compete agreement or clause. I know a lot of companies have those in there and so yes it would be legal...

I know exactly how you are feeling! Hang in there!

So as many of you know, I'm in nursing school. I seem to have lost any and all motivation right now to continue. Some things in my personal life are making it more and more challenging to push through this downward slump I seem to be in. I'm so close to finishing but it seems impossibly far away. I've lost sight of why I wanted to be a nurse in the first place and that really isn't helping anything. Part of it might be that I'm missing Maryland and my family back east, hopefully a week there over Thanksgiving will help. It just seems like it would be so much easier to just give up. I haven't slept more than 5 hours in a night since April and it is really starting to wear me down. I have an amazing husband and wonderful friends, but I can't seem to reach out and tell them I'm struggling. I don't think they would understand. I've always been a really good student and I've always worked so hard to achieve what I want in life. I got a B last term though and I totally dropped the ball. I have no other excuse besides that. I just didn't study for the final and it dropped me to a B. Since learning that back on Monday things have only gotten worse. I know I've been a stranger lately and mostly just lurke unless I have an opinion I care to voice, but some motivation from you guys would be really appreciated. I don't like this feeling of walking through the motions everyday and putting on a fake smile at school. I'm falling apart inside and don't know what to do. I know this may seem like a small issue and most people will just think that I'm complaining and should be lucky to be in school and not on a waiting list like most people are, but I don't know if I'm cut out for this? I know the nursing aspect I can do. I will be a great nurse. It's just getting through the school that is killing me. How do I find that motivation to drive through the next 30 weeks until I'm done?

Maybe...

So the deadline is September 31? That might be part of the problem because originally it says October 31...

http://med.wright.edu/em/CAPLab

I just want to say you rock for ruling out EDS and Marfans :)

Awesome Always willing to donate to another underfunded cause! Hope all is well.. k

When does he need the $$ by? I'll be in a better position to give some money at the end of the month