Dimple's Discoveries

Today's post is a long time coming, I've been up to a lot lately, namely campaigning for Mitt Romney and starting a new class, along with a few hard core anatomy exams. Today's post is also going to be very different from what I usually post about. Today's post is going to be about my class I started this week. In order to get into the nursing program I need to have a lot of service on my resume. Ironically, for a year now I have been trying to get into a volunteer position at the community crisis center as a victim advocate. This is wonderful because I can serve doing something I have been wanting to do for ages, and use it as a step into something else I love as well. Last night I attended and am enrolled through Dec. 11th. I will be working as a sort of counselor for domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault victims, working with local law enforcement as I arrive on scene to talk to and try to guide these victims and help them. I will even be meeting up with some...

Not everyone gets along with everyone else: That is life. However, in the medical field, it can cause more problems than it normally would. You get any bad combination, be it nurse-aide, aide-aide, nurse-nurse, aide-patient, patient's family-administration, (dizzy yet?) and it can cause a lot of headaches on an 8 hr shift. We see it a lot-you get a patient who doesn't like an aide, and suddenly they are rude, demanding, nagging, and in return the aide will be slow to answer the light, put their calls and questions last on priority list, and give minimum effort for that person's comfort, and the vicious cycle continues. It's so hard to break that vicious cycle, and makes it hard for staff as they have to switch patients, etc. in order to adjust to the circumstance. In order to illustrate, I will tell you about a patient we have had for long time at one of my facilities. She came as a hip patient, and we quickly learned she would be a needy patient, not out of necessity...