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Hey y'all, this looks like a completely new community I stumbled upon! I am excited yet nervous to go to Burning Man as I will be going with my boyfriend who is an expert burner. Thanks for letting me join!
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[24 Jan 2005|12:00am] |
I think this is my second post, possibly even my first, but I had a question for any ER nurses: what certifications do you recommend? I just graduated/completed my boards and am beginning a residency in two weeks. We will get ACLS, ENPC, and TNCC but are there any others I should look at getting? I am in a trauma level 4, but as soon as I get enough experience and am competent, I would like to move up in the ER world. Thanks for the help!
- N.
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| Damn those horoscopes! |
[27 Oct 2004|12:00pm] |
Too bad I didnt read it before the day started. Last night I worked until midnight and then turned around and attended a RT session supposed to be lasting all day. Well, I was driving down a hill alongside of TG minding my own business going through MY green light, some pack of teenagers decide that today is opposite day and completely and entirely run the red light. Thankfully I had slowed a tad due to moron randomly running across the street. Thank you Jesus for that moron! He saved me from being completely T-Boned. Instead I was merely hit on the front drivers side, sending me into a spin (I think... its all a daze I just know that I was moving quite a bit and my car didnt end up the way it was facing). Sucking Fhithead! I seriously had just finished telling my friend how I planned on keeping my car until it fell apart. Well, there it went! Airbags and all. Thankfully there was a witness sitting across from the F.S. at the light, stopped, waiting her turn. Proof: my light was green! As I was being jerked around during the actual accident all I could think of was "Was my light not green? Am I seeing things? I ONLY HAVE LIABILITY INSURANCE and I cant afford a new car right now!" It was playing over and over like a broken record. Amazing how suddenly you cant really recall what went on and all you do is rehash and rehash. Now I have to wait and see what happens with my car tomorrow. And see how truly injured I am when I wake up. Apparently, according to experienced car-crashers, I will be "so sore" in the morning.
CAR CRASHES SUCK!!
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[01 Oct 2004|11:35pm] |
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How could anyone with an intact cerebrum watch the Presidential Debate and still vote for Bush? I cannot even comprehend.
If he wins, I think I will make my dreams come true and become an Australian. Or perhaps a British. Why not a Canadian? Maybe a Jamaican. Anything is better than being associated with the dunce-cap-of-a-president Bush.
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[21 Aug 2004|09:32pm] |
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Yesterday was the best day ever! It started with parting ways with butt munching trip ruining pathologically lying self absorbing J.C.
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Then my sisters (jess, log, linz) and Aimee had a get-together for me at Red Robin. It was so awesome and nice of them :) They made me this gorgeous handcrafted box with 22 things in it and bought my dinner. I wish I won the jackpot in vegas so I could have bought them all new cars or something cool. You guys are so awesome and thanks for turning one hell of a week into one swell day :) Thanks Lindsay and Zayna for coming! You guys rock!!!!!!
The "BOYS ARE PIGS" collection kicks ass :)
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[06 Jul 2004|12:27am] |
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I am going to Dave Matthews - the first of his three concerts @ the gorge!! Wooh wooh!
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[24 May 2004|10:22pm] |
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I got a job! Thank heavens, I dont have to stress anymore - its only for part of the summer, but thats cool. Its nursing experience, plus college credit, plus its paid :) I am so excited that I just cant hide it.
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[16 May 2004|12:21am] |
Life has been a bit crazy lately, with school and all. I finished up my mental health rotation and am now completing my second and last (thank heavens) rotation at the nursing home. I could not stand to work in LTC.
The other night I recorded a HBO special called "Flesh and Blood" for my neighbor. I had no intention of watching it, thinking that it was some kind of criminal/murder mystery. Turns out, it was about a lady who adopted 11 kids, all with some sort of physical disability. There was a child with CF, one with EB, one girl who was burned considerably before her first birthday and it still attempting to go through reconstructive surgery, two girls with no legs (not even stumps) and I think that is all I can remember. I cried the whole way through the program! All I could think was that those little stupid details I get hung up on are really worthless. I am so incredibly grateful for my life.
In other news, graduation is fastly approaching, as is the cruise, and my weight loss goals have yet to be successful. I need to get my arse in gear!! 1.5# per week would give me 25# before school starts again in September. That would suffice - I just hope I can do it!
I really need to get a job for the summer. I mean, I already have a job but I need a job in HEALTHCARE!!! That way, if I can manage to move following graduation, I will have something to put on a resume that relates to my future career. As I start to think about working, the more I realize I really, really want to go to medical school. I know it is a huge commitment but I just think I would be happier if I did it.
Okay time for bed, but some homework first. Night.
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[08 May 2004|01:53am] |
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Just watched the movie Thirteen - completely and utterly screwed up. I know I have a teenage brother, not sister, but I still worry for him.
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[06 May 2004|11:31pm] |
I am so fucking tired of school... I cant wait to be done! Only four more weeks of hell! Really? Only four? Yep only four! (answering my auditory hallucinations)
Mental health is done, the fun has ended, and now it is time for LTC. Sucky. Paperwork, paperwork and a little more paperwork.
Had a test today and it went horribly. There is no way I will be able to get an A now, damnit.
Motorcycle class is coming up. Woohoo.
I watched ER today for the first time in years (just because it followed Friends and I had to see why Carter was crying). Two reinforcements from the TV: how much I need to go to medical school and how much I cannot stand L&D! Love babies, love kids, hate L&D/vaginas. :)
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[27 Apr 2004|07:49pm] |
Today ended my first week aka two days of my mental health rotation. It is so sad to see how we as a society treat individuals suffering from mental illness. It is not like a person requests to mentally ill nor do they seek to experience psychotic episodes. Those mentally ill are the same as you and I. It is surprising to see how many are highly educated and had great lives before things like schizoprenia and bipolar took over them.
Its really sad to see the depiction of people on the news. They have these stories about crazy people running down the street with a knife waving it around or jumping out in traffic, etc. We have all seen a story like it. Yet the reporters never mention that those individuals suffer from mental illness and the public has a very limited knowledge. Even basic psych classes do not prepare you. I dont know, its just terribly, horribly sad.
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[11 Apr 2004|11:39pm] |
I dont know why but sometimes I just become so depressed. I have a great life - nothing to be depressed over. I guess the more I learn about death and dying and realize how fast I am aging, the more I am afraid of losing the people in my life I love the most. I want to be the first to die and not the last.
I got to stop this before I think too hard and start crying. Okay, time to study more mental health. You know, all those people my age - we arent in the clear from schizoprenia yet. Just thought you would all like to know that :)
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[10 Apr 2004|10:36am] |
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I rode the motorcycle yesterday... go me. Frank taught me and got me going and then I putted around the neighborhood. NOW I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE CLASS :) I need my license!!!
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[06 Apr 2004|12:47am] |
Okay, got tickets to the TIM MCGRAW concert!! Lindsay, Logan, Jessica, Lindsay and myself are going. It ought to be a kick in the pants.
Thursday is the big interview day at the NW Burn Foundation. I want to be a camp counselor horribly bad. Please send me good vibes.
I emailed two hospitals in Sydney about completing new graduate programs as an overseas nurse and both responded positively. One wants my resume and "referees" emailed but I will wait to do that until I get a summer job working as a nurse. The other sent me all the information on their program. It is a small hospital on the outskirts of Sydney that seems perfect. They offer a 12 month new graduate program rotating nurses through the various units.
I have done NO STUDYING all weekend... instead I just wasted my time. Tomorrow there are no excuses - time to get my ass in gear.
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[04 Apr 2004|09:14pm] |
I am SO THRILLED!!! I just got two emails from two separate hospitals in Australia that BOTH have new graduate programs for those who qualify. Now the big question is if I will qualify since I have an ADN not a BSN.
Who knows if it will all work out but it is so cool that there is a possibility. I would love to work in Brisbane but it sounds like I might be in Sydney instead.
I get to escape the wrath of BUSH!!! :)
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[26 Mar 2004|08:53pm] |
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Its officially over. No more boyfriend.
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[26 Mar 2004|02:11am] |
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I am DRUNK!!!!!! and I gave some guy my number.. dumb, dumb, dumb!!!
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[26 Feb 2004|12:24am] |
Life has been crazy -
- Aimee and I went to Red Robin one day after walking the bradley park track and that night I had the flu. At first I thought it was food poisoning due to the honey mustard dressing I dipped my fries in but then it lasted the entire WEEKEND and my brother got it within the next few days. Course I cant get the flu during the week when I can miss some school...
- I went to pick up a prescription renewal from the pharmacy. Like a complete idiot, I was sure my doctor had given me a year. So Stephanie so kindly pulled the hard copy to show me that the bitch in fact wrote only three months worth!!! What a lousy doc, I go to her over and over to find the right pill and she doesnt even give me a full year!! Then to make matters worse, I was planning to call the office but never got around to it. Then I get a call from Albertsons and they called for me. I feel like such a slacker.
- Worked in the ED, attempted an IV start and missed - she did have pediatric size veins but still, that bites. Then I went to the PACU - had fun but not as much fun as I did in the ED. This week I was on cardiac stepdown until change of shift at which point my patients' nurse did not want a student. So, I got to go to the ED for one hour!! And boy did I pick the best hour - a young woman comes in with an OD - I learned pretty quick. She ODed on phenergan, zoloft and oxicodone! Bad news, that is bad news. During an attempt to get a NG tube down and some charcoal in her stomach, she proceded to fight everyone there and we all ended up COMPLETELY BATHED IN CHARCOAL - holy heavens does that ever itch!
NEWSFLASH: for you locals, did you see the karate studio man who was charged with three counts of voyeurism for putting a video camera in the changing room? he was my neighbor's, ie sister, ex boyfriend!! and not too long ago ex-boyfriend!! She called him when the story first broke because she didnt quite believe it (the source the news listed was a woman who created problems at the studio from day one). He called her back this morning and said that he was married now and he would appreciate it if she would respect his privacy and not call. THE NERVE : he has NO RIGHT to talk about respecting privacy!!! Too bad he just talked to her three weeks ago. Either he was planning on cheating on his wife or he just got married to someone he couldn't have known more than 5 mos max. Amazing, ehhh?? Not only did Lindsay date him but my sister, my other neighbor, my childhood friend and a girl in school with me all went to his karate school at some point!!Crazyness...
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[22 Jan 2004|02:20am] |
Just got back from seeing a neighbor friend for the first & last time during his two week stint home from Iraq. He looks good! But I am pretty sure he is not - he had a picture among others in his digital camera of the head/helmet of another American soldier that was blown up. It was his area to patrol so his mess to pick up I guess. And then someone was saying the nightmares he was having during these past two weeks. Its so sad that people dont realize that this still is war and the soldiers overseas are being severely traumatized. People think it isnt bloody combat so they must be fine. Not.
I FUCKIN HATE BUSH. FUCKIN HATE HIM!
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[10 Jan 2004|04:06pm] |
Went to the doctor, got a chest xray, had a CBC and sputum sample for tb.
the new physician is quite nice. he must be from india or sri lanka and he has only been with the clinic for one week, but still he is really nice. i think i might have to request him from now on.
madigan was a disaster yesterday. they lost our paperwork and it took us an hour and twenty minutes before they would let us on base. then we missed our computer class which we now have to make up at 6 in the morning next wednesday.
(so my wednesday schedule now looks like this: be at the gate by 545a, computer class until 8a, pick a patient, run home and research said patient, come back and be on the floor by 230p and get off and home by 1130p possibly midnight. that makes for 18 hr day - it will be like a 12 hour shift with overtime.)
i should be single while working at madigan. jk. but seriously, there are some of the most gorgeous medical students/interns/residents wandering the halls of MAMC without wedding bands! 250 student doctors. ahhhhh. the food there is good and so cheap. i might start coming early and eating lunch and dinner at MAMC.
last night i went out with aimee, jamie, stephanie and their friends. that was fun. too bad i couldnt have been feeling better or have been in the mood with enough moolah to get smashed. maybe on jamies birthday.
joe stopped by my house yesterday. its like around 6-7pm once every four-six months, without notice, i get a knock at the door and its him. last time he came over he brought some friends and for some reason really annoyed me but this time he was fun. we rode around in his new mitsubishi eclipse. its pretty nice, especially for his age.
time to get back to the homework... i wasted most of the day sleeping because i feel like shit laying on the bottom of the ocean.
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