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I live in a small 1 bedroom apartment with 2 other guys (bunk beds and floor matress rotation) Were all pretty mental, so there are conflicts from time to time. All of us are unemployed and unemployable, so were stuck together in this apartment all day every day.
41 year old Roommate a is an all day alcoholic and has severe anxiety and bipolar disorder. He has several seizures a day, which can get annoying if youre trying to watch tv or something. He performs his own blood tests or something, he will fill a vial with his own blood, tie string to the vial, then spin it around in the air, then he examines it under a microscope. He does this every day, I really have no idea what hes looking for or even if he really has any idea what hes doing. Im not even sure its safe to take blood as often ad he does, although he takes small amounts. He has all sorts of other medical equipment, blood pressure monitor, oxygen monitor, 3 stethoscopes, glucose monitor, even his own holter monitor, which he wears all day, covered in electrodes. other than the seizures, hes totally healthy too, watching his body work is just like a hobby to him. Hes divorced and horribly insecure and needy. He gets verbally abusive when hes drunk.
20 year old roommate b, he is a space cadet. He makes tons of mess which he refuses to clean and showers once a week. He can be rude and selfish, and will basically ignore you all day. He has a 3 year old daughter that stays here on weekends who he pays no attention to. Hes really aloof and kind of a loser to be honest. He reminds me a bit of dylan, brians son in that episode of family guy. He has occasional anger outbursts but just keeps to himself most of the day refusing to talk to anyone. He also grows weed in the bathroom, which both me and the other roommate are okay with, but it might be a legal issue if he gets busted.
T be honest i have some significant mental health issues and drug habits that probably dont make me any easier to live with than these guys. Im also a bit of a hoarder, so our small space is pretty cluttered. We live together because no one else will tolerate us and we cant afford to live alone. All of us are unemployed and unemployable, so were stuck together in a small apartment 24/7, and we all really resent each other, there is alot of drama and conflict between all of us. B's daughter is a little neglected when she comes over because everyone is either high or going mental, but we all pick up slack to make sure shes fed and stuff. Also, the apartment has virtually no furniture other than the bunk beds in the bedroom, so everything is kind of on the floor.
So uum, rant over i guess. Do you have any advice?
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You should get help for yourself through Social Services who can provide mental health care, physical health care and get you on the road to some kind of government assistance and housing. You really should do something about your roommate's daughter who is in danger when she comes to your apartment. Please let the Department of Children and Families know about her father and that he has her on weekends so that she can be protected. Please look into these government agencies so that you and the child can be better cared for. Good luck.
You should get help for yourself through Social Services who can provide mental health care, physical health care and get you on the road to some kind of government assistance and housing. You really should do something about your roommate's daughter who is in danger when she comes to your apartment. Please let the Department of Children and Families know about her father and that he has her on weekends so that she can be protected. Please look into these government agencies so that you and the child can be better cared for. Good luck.
What is your opinion as a nurse on your profession?
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I'm a high school senior and I'm trying to decide what I'd like to do. I'm really between early childhood education and nursing at the moment. If I were to pursue nursing, I'd more than likely specialize in labor and delivery.
I'm a very social person. I love people and I love kids. I also love the medical field and pregnancy/delivery. I would love to work as a nurse, but have heard both good things and bad things about being one. I'd love to hear from those of you who ARE nurses what it's like. (Hours you work, schedule flexibility, etc).
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Someone else asked this today and I'm sorry but I am just going to cut and paste my previous answer because it generally fits what you're asking. . .
There are a lot of students who have dreams of going into OB, and depending on where you live/work and who you know, it might take a long time before you get in because those jobs typically are so in demand.
I just want to give you a realistic view of what it's like working in OB, because you don't really get to choose to work with ONLY newborn babies. When you work in OB as an RN, you have about 2 choices: working labor & delivery, or working in postpartum (aka 'maternal newborn'). In L&D you don't do much with the babies because they have not arrived yet. Your focus is getting the mom through labor, and monitoring the fetal heart tracing and contractions on the monitor to make sure baby is not going into distress. Once baby arrives, you do the initial cares like stabilize the baby (make sure it's breathing without difficulty), take measurements, give Vitamin K shot, eye ointment to prevent infection, and then you hand baby back to mom and help her breastfeed. Then they move out to postpartum. On the postpartum unit, 'rooming in' is encouraged so that the parents aren't dumping their babies in the nursery. There is rarely a designated 'nursery nurse' anymore under this model of care, but if there is, it's one of the postpartum nurses who is assigned to work the nursery for that one shift, it's not their permanent job (at most facilities, this might not always be true). On the postpartum unit, you are doing a lot of parent education. You help with breastfeeding problems. You take a lot of vital signs and give mothers pain meds. You aren't doing much with the babies at all. You don't get to hold, cuddle, and play with the newborns. There is no time for that, and you want to encourage parents to care for their own babies.
It's a lot of work. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, and even in 'normal, low risk' pregnancies things turn for the worse and babies can be damaged or die. Mothers can have complex health conditions which are life-threatening during pregnancy and labor. It's frustrating sending babies home with mothers who have severe mental illness or drug addictions or are living in abusive relationships or homeless and living in a shelter. As a nurse in general (not unique to OB), you feel like you're always busy and don't have enough time to spend with your patients to give them the support they need as new parents.
I do still love my job, but it is not without it's frustrations. I think that personally I have grown in the spiritual sense, and that even with those really bad situations I can find things that make me proud of the work I have done. There is something really powerful about helping a family through labor when they know they will deliver a stillborn baby, or a baby that is known to have major issues which will certainly result in death shortly after birth. The support we give as nurses is what often holds these families together during this horribly stressful time that was supposed to be full of jo
Someone else asked this today and I'm sorry but I am just going to cut and paste my previous answer because it generally fits what you're asking. . .
There are a lot of students who have dreams of going into OB, and depending on where you live/work and who you know, it might take a long time before you get in because those jobs typically are so in demand.
I just want to give you a realistic view of what it's like working in OB, because you don't really get to choose to work with ONLY newborn babies. When you work in OB as an RN, you have about 2 choices: working labor & delivery, or working in postpartum (aka 'maternal newborn'). In L&D you don't do much with the babies because they have not arrived yet. Your focus is getting the mom through labor, and monitoring the fetal heart tracing and contractions on the monitor to make sure baby is not going into distress. Once baby arrives, you do the initial cares like stabilize the baby (make sure it's breathing without difficulty), take measurements, give Vitamin K shot, eye ointment to prevent infection, and then you hand baby back to mom and help her breastfeed. Then they move out to postpartum. On the postpartum unit, 'rooming in' is encouraged so that the parents aren't dumping their babies in the nursery. There is rarely a designated 'nursery nurse' anymore under this model of care, but if there is, it's one of the postpartum nurses who is assigned to work the nursery for that one shift, it's not their permanent job (at most facilities, this might not always be true). On the postpartum unit, you are doing a lot of parent education. You help with breastfeeding problems. You take a lot of vital signs and give mothers pain meds. You aren't doing much with the babies at all. You don't get to hold, cuddle, and play with the newborns. There is no time for that, and you want to encourage parents to care for their own babies.
It's a lot of work. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, and even in 'normal, low risk' pregnancies things turn for the worse and babies can be damaged or die. Mothers can have complex health conditions which are life-threatening during pregnancy and labor. It's frustrating sending babies home with mothers who have severe mental illness or drug addictions or are living in abusive relationships or homeless and living in a shelter. As a nurse in general (not unique to OB), you feel like you're always busy and don't have enough time to spend with your patients to give them the support they need as new parents.
I do still love my job, but it is not without it's frustrations. I think that personally I have grown in the spiritual sense, and that even with those really bad situations I can find things that make me proud of the work I have done. There is something really powerful about helping a family through labor when they know they will deliver a stillborn baby, or a baby that is known to have major issues which will certainly result in death shortly after birth. The support we give as nurses is what often holds these families together during this horribly stressful time that was supposed to be full of jo
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