Today

Reading 2 chapters from Pharmacotherapeutic.
Foundation of nursing chapter.

I will be just happy to finished those two.

My 3rd patient

Somehow, I get assigned for all the non-believer patients. That's just weird but very interesting :-)

House Season 7

So, so far House season 7 is sweet. I love the fact that House is finally going out with Cuddy and so far it's working out greatly :-)

Cuddy: I sit around on my bureaucratic ass?!
House: I said well-formed. I said well-formed!

Season 7 episode 2 was just great that it made me cry. I never cried before throughout entire 6 seasons in the past but season 7's second episode was just really that great and emotive. I shed tears. I wonder if they have new writers.


PS: Oh, I am definitely catching up with all the vocabs now. It's getting better and better.

(They had to put her in Trendelenburg to promotes perfusion in her vital organs.)

Caffeine

I can feel caffeine kicking in right now. Because I don't drink coffee a lot, if I drink coffee I get tachycardia all the time. I become nervous a little bit... but it clears my mentality so I can stay up later.
Alright. Let's study.

NP or NA?

I think I want to be a nurse practitioner. I know nurse anesthesis gets more money than nurse practitioner but... still... I want to be the one who can benefit people directly.

Still working on vocabs?

Professor: When you work in the ICU, you will see a lot of patients with....blah blah blah
Me: What does she mean by I see you?
AJ: LOL

Professor: Constipation leads to lack of stool....blah blah blah
AJ: What is stool?
Me: Yeah, about that... they use the word "stool" instead of poo, so whenever I see stool in the textbook I just think as poo. See, in this page it says, "put some stools under the immobilized patient..." wait a minute!

Post war trauma and one's psychosocial stage.

My second patient has a mild post war trauma which wasn't recorded in patient information chart. According to the Murphy's law, obviously he participated Korean Civil war in 1950's and I happened to be a Korean. He lost his faith in God during the war. And then he became a pacifist who supports Democratic with passion. Well, I gave him Ego integrity for his psychosocial phase though. He enjoys his life, wishes to live a long and healthy life. He has a positive sense of well-being. He loves watching TV especially about politics, has a great interest in politics (consider that it is hard to find an old person with a hobby with passion). He has good family members who support him well, and he loves them also. He lost his wife a few years ago but still remembers and treasures all the memories of her (also still wears his wedding right everyday). One's lack of religiousness doesn't necessarily related to healthy mentality. At least that's what I think.