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i don’t know how much you know about new RN grads but hospitals are literally closed off to new grads unless you have a real “in” (talking about the tri-state area)
nursing homes are absolutely awful places to work
a lot of people are turning to per diem/part time jobs, homecare, or RN paperwork-type jobs where you don’t get much of hands-on experience
why not? plenty of people have red cars. it depends on the type of car too. i wouldn’t say get a red convertible.
mom,
it depends on the doctor if they provide the sunglasses or not. that’s why you should find out before or buy a pair.
We have a lot of patients that do the 2nd eye 2 weeks after the first. That way you get it done with all at once.
I also had a husband and wife have it done on the same day, one right after the other. It was pretty cute.
A piece of advice, your eye will most likely be very sensitive to the sunlight for a few weeks after the procedure, so investing in a pair of sunglasses is a good idea.
always here,
no, it does not need replacement. once it’s in, it’s in for life. (assuming there were no complications from the onset, like i mentioned before, which are pretty uncommon and can usually be corrected).
I work in a cataract surgery center.
Complications are rare, and if there are, can usually be corrected with laser or retina surgery.
Where i work, the pre-op takes about an hour: it mostly involves dilating the pupil of the eye which takes time. various drops are put into the eye, and the area of the eye is numbed.
The actual procedure takes between 10-30 minutes (depending on the surgeon and how dense the cataract is). post-op is about 15minutes, just giving you something to drink & making sure you are stable before you go.
Once you’re home, again, it depends on your surgeon. some cover your eye with a patch, some don’t cover it at all. some have you do nothing until you see the doc the next day, some have you begin putting drops in your eye before you see the doc the next day. either way, you will be putting drops in your eyes for a few weeks post-op (antibiotic drops to prevent infection, & other drops to help with healing).
The most common things people complain about the first few days after the surgery are unclear vision, itchiness in the eye, a feeling of grittiness in the eye (as if there is an eyelash or sand in the eye), discomfort in the general area, and a headache. 99% (not an exact percentage) of ppl have these resolve in a few days. Many people don’t have any of these symptoms at all, and have perfect vision as soon as they leave. Every eye is different, so even if you may have one experience with one eye, you may have a completely different experience with the other.
Most people are nervous when they come in, and when the procedure is over (avg surgeon takes 10-15 min), they are usually sooo surprised at how short it took and how good they are feeling. Many will say something to the effect of, oh i have to tell my friends how easy this whole thing was! I was so nervous for nothing! So, yes, of course you are worried because it is your eye they will be working on, but the relief people feel after having the surgery and being able to see properly again is amazing.
(i don’t know where you live, but the facility i work in is in the tri-state area and has a great reputation. there are about 20-30 surgeons that work out of the facility. if you want more info, pls contact me thru the mods).
Hatzlacha!
always here-
i agree with you. if a guy was rude-to a waiter or anyone else- it would be a huge turn-off for me. if that’s the way he treats a waiter, imagine how he’ll treat you.
Aries
You are 100% right. It is nearly impossible for a new grad to get a job in the tri-state area. The only exception is if she/he has some sort of serious “pull” with the facility. No one wants inexperienced new grads. I graduated in 2009 and I have only been lucky enough to find a per-diem job since then -and that was with pull! (which is not even giving me as much hands on experience as I really need).
Health, yes, a new grad can probably easily get a job in a nursing home, but nursing homes are awful places to work -each nurse often has 25+ patients at a time, thereby making it impossible to give any of them real nursing care.
Yes
Like tbt said, a lot of time pedestrians are the ones at fault, by crossing against a light or by crossing without looking.
I’ve written this before on the CR, but as a teenager i once ran across an avenue, failing to look to my right, and ended up getting hit by a car. Completely my fault. The driver did no wrong.
Recovery took months & P/T took years.
Both driver & pedestrian have to be careful, and make sure in each situation, the blame is placed where it should be, without automatically faulting the other guy.
Of course, H-shm is the ultimate master of all, and nothing happens without a reason.
both my parents always bentched us on friday night. i’m not sure if they took the minhag from my yeki grandparents (mother’s side). however, my grandparents bentch their children & grandchildren 3 times -on friday night, shabbos day, and on motzei shabbos.
my husbands family kisses their mothers hand on friday nights (chassidish background).
i don’t know where all these minhagim come from, but they are all beautiful!
my fave tape of all time 🙂
“oh yes, i like fish, specially with bread crumbs and lemon juice” LOL!
This may sound like weird advice, but sometimes being really friendly & nice can make someone change their outlook.. if they’re frum, like giving them a nice shalach manos for purim, baking extra cookies for shabbos & giving them some, inviting them for a shabbos meal.. smiling at them and saying good morning every day.. don’t know if you would be able to do things like that, obviously it would be extremely difficult, but you never know what might work.
Yeshiva Shaare Arazim of monsey does something similar to this.. they have learning and also other skill building.. their kids have woodworking, learning how to lein, learning an instrument, etc etc learning different skills. sukkos time all their kids go out and build sukkahs for the elderly/infirm.. they keep their kids busy with things other than learning b/c these are kids that can’t sit and learn all day. its really an awesome yeshiva.
health,
it wasn’t that low that she was going to crash or anything. it’s an acute care surgical center where patients are D/C’d the same day, and we didn’t want to D/C her without raising her BS level, because she was very nauseous and was not going to be eating for hours afterwards
just had a patient the other day who has type I, her sugar dropped pretty low so we gave her an IV drip of D5W (sort of like sugar-water).. a 21 y.o. kid and i was thinking she has to go through this sort of stuff all the time..
yea, yossi, i’m here, but lately just lurking 🙂
reading through this thread gives me new appreciation for what my body takes care of naturally without a second thought, and also a great amount of respect and awe of what you guys go through every day… i know about all about diabetes because of nursing school, but it’s a clinical way of looking at it. here i see the human side to it and what you go through every day. i have to say you guys are amazing and i get a lot of chizuk seeing what you go through and how you all deal with it!
yentingyenta:
I’m doing it through Excelsior. It will only work if you’re the type of person that’s disciplined enough to do all the work on your own and give everything in on time, without going to classes. How long it will take will depend on how many classes you take per semester. Personally, I couldn’t do more than 2 a semester as I am working full time and only have nights to do the work. I’ll tell you straight up that it’s very difficult work; there will be papers to write etc.. but I think in the long run, it’s very worth it. [Anyway, if you get through BI in one piece, you can probably get through anything 🙂 ]
R Zecharya Wallerstein gave an awesome shiur on gambling.. he spoke about how he was a major big time gambler as a young guy.. so much so that casinos would call him to come over and play. He speaks about how he stopped gambling and his struggle with it. Maybe it would be helpful to listen to his shiur about it (for yourself)? Or maybe it would be helpful to call him and speak to him about it and maybe he could speak to your husband.
Not sure how to contact him directly but to listen to his shiurim you can go to torahanytime.org and search by his name.
Good luck and I hope the situation improves.
yetingyenta
I went to BI as well and it is really a great school.
As far as BI vs Bulka, BI cost me about 20k, whereas I believe Bulka costs about 70k last I heard. True that with Bulka you get your BSN, but you can also get your BSN after you graduate from BI (which I’m in the process of doing) and still end up much cheaper than Bulka.
aries2756
Very true. Extremely difficult job market right now (at least in the NY/NJ area). Everyone wants those with experience only, and one can’t get experience if they aren’t given the chance. There are enough experienced nurses flooding the field who are from hospitals that have closed down, or those who might have retired in the past, but decided to continue to work due to financial reasons, that the new grads are having a very very tough time finding jobs.
and btw, though the vast majority of those in my nursing school were female, there were a number of males as well (more than i had expected). a few of those guys were frum ones.
to those who think otherwise,
some of us become nurses because we specifically want to be nurses. not because we couldn’t be doctors and chose it as a 2nd choice.
being a doctor and being a nurse are 2 completely separate professions. it is a world away from each other. sometimes people like to lump them together, but it’s really an inaccurate assessment.
i became a nurse because i wanted to become a nurse. there’s the relationship you have with your patients that i wanted that a doctor won’t usually have. i never wanted to be a doctor and still don’t.
Health,
Then I apologize. It seemed to me that you were getting riled up at those who had anything negative to say about hospitals/doctors (which included those who favored homebirths due to bad experiences with hospitals/doctors).
Health,
Please don’t get so worked up about this. There are definite benefits to delivering in a hospital, as well as definite benefits to homebirths. Neither one is an absolute negative or positive. Everyone should do their own research and do what’s good for them.
Are there more chances of a non-required, physician-preferred c/s in a hospital (leading to other possible complications)? Yes
Are there more chances of cross-infection in a hospital? Yes
Are there more chances of having available emergency care in a hospital if necessary, such as an emergency c/s in an OR, resuscitation equipment, qualified medical personnel? Yes
So please don’t bash either one. People can make their own well thought out, researched decisions.
It’s made for kids who are not the most amazing learners ever but are frum solid guys. It’s not ‘yeshivish’ per say, its a variety of kids from frum homes. My brother went there and it is an amazing amazing yeshiva. They focus on the individual and build you up in other ways (besides learning). I remember he had some typical frum kids in his class, as well as a Lubavitch kid and one from a chassidish home. They are not geared to only one type of background.
I have only praise for that school & how good they were for my brother. The staff is amazing.
Good luck with whatever you choose!
giving ‘that FINGER blood test’ is muuuuuuch more fun than getting it 🙂
LOL apushatayid!!
WIY
I, for one, have enjoyed your intelligence, your humor, and your ability to admit mistakes. If you leave, you will be missed.
blinky:
B’H going very well 🙂
popa:
It also drives me crazy when people drive s-l-o-w-l-y in the left lane. If they drive slowly in the right lane, at least they’re in the right location for doing so.
For those who live in Monsey:
The taxis that will pull out right in front of you so that you are forced to make a short stop, and then proceed to drive 15-20 mph, constantly hitting their brakes looking for possible passengers.
People who will go to Walmart to return a pair of stockings they bought a year ago, telling them that it is defective because it has a hole (yeah, duh, you just wore the thing for the past 365 days…)
People who are downright rude
People who are dishonest
When people treat you as less intelligent than a shnooky 19 year old because that person is married and you’re still single..
People who eat with their fingers
When people write the word ‘alot’ as one word. It’s 2 words: A lot. I don’t know why this drives me crazy, but it does.
Actually, now that I think about it, a lot of common spelling mistakes irk me…
their vs there vs they’re
your vs you’re
etc…
Aries
I personally like your posts very much. Don’t be discouraged because there are others out there that don’t appreciate them or are insensitive to you. Be strong in believing in yourself and don’t let those that disparage you have any effect on your own self worth.
Thank u everyone for your wishes!!
myfriend: do I know you??
To all those older singles out there: I am 27 -just goes to show you to never give up!! When it’s the right time, it will happen!
May we continue to share in many simchos.
Health
I know that technically ‘sterile’ is from the waist up. But on the other hand you can’t walk into an OR with jeans on. So I assumed you would be non-sterile then, but I guess I’m wrong.
I work post-op in an ambulatory care center and we are not allowed to even walk into the post-op area unless we have our scrubs on, our hair covered (with the type used in the food industry), and booties on top of our shoes.
BTW, why would you not be able to scrub out and re-scrub back in?
Health-
That is pretty embarrassing. I’m assuming if your pants had fallen down you wouldn’t be sterile anymore anyway so you would have to re-scrub either way. Might as well pull ’em up then.
I broke my leg and had to be taken to my brother’s bris in a wheelchair (at the time I couldn’t maneuver into a car) which was a few blocks away. My uncle was pushing me down the street when suddenly one of the front wheels fell off. Mind you, this was an old wheelchair we had found in our basement and apparently wasn’t in its bloom of youth. So what was he to do? He lifted the front of wheelchair so that I was being wheeled on the back legs only.. definitely not the most graceful way to enter the shul where my brother’s bris was (and everybody was waiting).
peer pressure peer pressure peer pressure peer pressure
its still considered cool in a lot of boys yeshivos
aries2756
my sentiments exactly
uh…. why in the world NOT?
if you’re old enough (and hopefully mature enough) to be out there in the working world, i’d hope you’d be able to pay for and buy your own clothing..
I love my job 🙂
Though I don’t define myself as a person by it.
I know that with my little brother & sister, my mother sat them down and told them exactly what you have written up there: that no one can look or touch their private areas besides their parent and doctor. She reinforced it with them a few times, and when they went to the doctor for their yearly check up, she had the doctor reinforce it with them as well. This was at age 4, after an almost-scary incident; that is when she started talking to the kids about it and telling them that even if the person who tries to look/touch tells you scary things like ‘if you tell your mother, I’ll burn down your house’ etc, you should ALWAYS ALWAYS tell her anyway and she will not be upset.
I think that’s part of what you have to tell a little kid when you prepare them: that the molester will tell them things like ‘If you tell your parent, I will…’ and you just have to ignore it and tell your parent anyway. A lot of times kids won’t tell because they are afraid of the molester hurting them or someone else they know.
I know some of these were already mentioned, but these are 3 organizations that I have dealt with, so I know they are amazing: Tomche Shabbos {http://tomcheshabbos.org}, Chai Lifeline {http://chailifeline.org/}, and Partners In Torah {https://www.partnersintorah.org/}.
In Tomche, you can volunteer in the warehouse packaging or they also have drivers that do the runs Thurs nite to the homes, or even just collecting for them.. I know that with the economy, they are struggling to continue providing as much as they do.
In Chai Lifeline there is also a variety of things you can do; they have big sibling-little sibling programs; they have respite -where you volunteer in hospitals overnight/during the day/for shabbos- to stay with a child.. there are many different programs.
In Partners in Torah, they pair you up with someone of similar educational background/job type etc.. and you learn with them once a week.
Of course, all this depends what type of thing you are interested in volunteering in.
Aish rabbis are a great resource for those who want proofs/answers etc. And they never make you feel as if you are wrong for asking -to the contrary, they think it’s great that you have questions and want answers.
agree with mod 80
Never take advil, motrin, aspirin, aleve on an empty stomach. All NSAIDS can cause stomach ulcers.
The only one that can be taken on an empty stomach with no adverse effects is tylenol.
Sister Bear,
I agree with what you said 100%. Very well written. And there are many more people out there that feel the same but are afraid to say so for fear of being labeled ‘OTD’ when all they want is direction and answers.
I think it depends how often you go to the host. If like crdle said, you go all the time, I think it’s unnecessary (and a little over the top) to bring something EVERY time you go. If they’re close enough to you to ask you to make food for them, then I think you should be comfortable enough going sans gifts. We have a guest that comes almost every Shabbos, and never brings anything. I think in a way that bringing something would diminish their closeness with our family. That’s not to say that once in a while you can’t bring something, or that you don’t thank them, etc.
Also, to the people who said they like to bake for their hosts.. sometimes we have guests over who’s kashrus we don’t 100% trust, so then it becomes a little uncomfortable if they had baked something for us. We prefer a wine or some sort of food where the hechsher is obvious. That being said, we never expect or need a gift -we invite people because we enjoy having guests, not because we want to receive gifts.
There is a wonderful book called Praying with Fire. It’s divided into days; each day takes about 3 minutes to read. When I took it upon myself to truly daven each day, I started with reading the daily dose of Praying with Fire before I started my davening, and I found that it helped me a lot.
Good luck!
mod 80
looks like you have a lot of time on your hands.. though i must say that the list was pretty amusing.
just for the record, theprof1, i have no idea what BTL means either
HAHA me too!!
I know that Chai Lifeline will be there on Sunday (from 12pm – 6pm). They are not providing food but they did say there will be kosher food sold at the park, and there will be a Sukkah on premises.