the 100% directionless thread

So, I'm not sure if anyone here will know, but no one I need to talk to is answering their phones to answer me...
I found out today I got a full ride scholarship for 2 years at any community college. The thing is that I want to do nursing; which has a 2-3 year wait list.
Will I be able to use that scholarship when I get into the nursing program?
Like I said, I don't know if anyone knows, but I've tried calling the church that the scholarship came through like 5 times today and no one has answered.
 
:angry::angry::angry:

I just had my first encounter with EMTs as a RN...

Patient is a transfer from outside hospital for inpatient hospice. EMTs transfer patient to our hospital bed then go up to my preceptor and say "hey, we transferred her to the bed. She was breathing pretty shallow on the way over and wasn't responsive, can we have a signature?" We walk in the room and this lady is dead as a rock, rigor and all. So, how long has she been dead? "Uhh she must have just passed on the way up because she was alive when we got off the truck" Ya bull:censored::censored::censored::censored:. Now I have to get the PA to come down and declare this lady dead so we can do postmortem care and wheel her down to the morgue. Thanks for nothing you jackass

I could not make this crap up, seriously.
 
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Did you miss the thread on declaring people dead in the ambulance?
 
Aidey said:
Did you miss the thread on declaring people dead in the ambulance?
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One would think that rigor would be pretty obvious when they moved the patient to the stretcher from the SNF to begin with...
 
Aidey said:
Did you miss the thread on declaring people dead in the ambulance?
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I understand that but don't dump the patient on the floor then try to sneak out and act like you had no idea. Now one of our few Isolation floor beds is tied up with this mess.

If they would have came up and said "Hey, this lady just went pulseless on the elevator" then it would have been totally different. But once they transferred the patient to our bed it totally changed the situation.
 
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Chase said:
I understand that but don't dump the patient on the floor then try to sneak out and act like you had no idea. Now one of our few Isolation floor beds is tied up with this mess.

If they would have came up and said "Hey, this lady just went pulseless on the elevator" then it would have been totally different. But once they transferred the patient to our bed it totally changed the situation.
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If they were in a don't declare in the bus situation what were they supposed to do? Give you a wink and a nudge?
 
Wouldn't the bed be tied up if the patient had died 20min after arrival?
 
Use an STI as an ambulance, they said.
It will look good, they said.

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blittle said:
So, I'm not sure if anyone here will know, but no one I need to talk to is answering their phones to answer me...
I found out today I got a full ride scholarship for 2 years at any community college. The thing is that I want to do nursing; which has a 2-3 year wait list.
Will I be able to use that scholarship when I get into the nursing program?
Like I said, I don't know if anyone knows, but I've tried calling the church that the scholarship came through like 5 times today and no one has answered.
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Well lets break this down.
Do you have Verizon, AT&T, vonage, or sprint. Then do you have an iphone or some other device, BB, galaxy, etc.
Honestly I don't know, ask your parents. :)
 
adamjh3 said:
Use an STI as an ambulance, they said.
It will look good, they said.
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Gotta love Forza designers... Do things that no one would waste the money on in real life. hahaha.
Achilles: Lots of help there :p haha. I'm honestly at a loss and so are they. Haven't found anything similar online either.
I'm just going to wait till Sunday and attend that church's seminar and talk to the pastor that was in charge of the interview process.
 
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Chase said:
I understand that but don't dump the patient on the floor then try to sneak out and act like you had no idea. Now one of our few Isolation floor beds is tied up with this mess.

If they would have came up and said "Hey, this lady just went pulseless on the elevator" then it would have been totally different. But once they transferred the patient to our bed it totally changed the situation.
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The fact that she was rigored is pretty bad...

They :censored::censored::censored::censored:ed that up real good. Yea people don't die in the box but at least say something...can't really say she just arrested though with rigor and all.

We're not all like that I promise Chase! Don't lose faith. :lol:
 
How long was this transfer? Because it seems HIGHLY unlikely that the sending hospital failed to notice she was dead for the few hours it takes for rigor to set in. Longer if we are talking about rigor noticeable in the large muscles.
 
blittle said:
So, I'm not sure if anyone here will know, but no one I need to talk to is answering their phones to answer me...
I found out today I got a full ride scholarship for 2 years at any community college. The thing is that I want to do nursing; which has a 2-3 year wait list.
Will I be able to use that scholarship when I get into the nursing program?
Like I said, I don't know if anyone knows, but I've tried calling the church that the scholarship came through like 5 times today and no one has answered.
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Depends on the scholarship. Even if you can't delay acceptance of the scholarship just use it to get a 2 year degree in a complimentary field. Take lots of anatomy, bio, pharm classes and you'll be that much ahead when you do nursing school. Depending on the nursing program there will be prerequisite classes you need anyway.
 
bigbaldguy said:
Depends on the scholarship. Even if you can't delay acceptance of the scholarship just use it to get a 2 year degree in a complimentary field. Take lots of anatomy, bio, pharm classes and you'll be that much ahead when you do nursing school. Depending on the nursing program there will be prerequisite classes you need anyway.
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Agreed. Find out what 1st and 2nd year courses the nursing program requires that are also open to non nursing students. Enroll as open studies and focus on those courses. I can guarantee that intro bio, chem, math, and breadth courses in the social sciences will be available to all students.

That way when you do get in, you're that much further ahead.
 
I'm at Disney land!

For work
 
Aidey said:
How long was this transfer? Because it seems HIGHLY unlikely that the sending hospital failed to notice she was dead for the few hours it takes for rigor to set in. Longer if we are talking about rigor noticeable in the large muscles.
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Transfer was around 3 hours. Full blown rigor may have been an exaggeration but it was obvious she was dead for a while.
 
Chase said:
Transfer was around 3 hours. Full blown rigor may have been an exaggeration but it was obvious she was dead for a while.
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Somebody is going to get their keester in the ringer over this one...three hour transport would mean several sets of vitals that were most likely faked if they didn't notice she was deceased.
 
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