The new guy post

[kimeno]

So yeah about me


well i started playing EQ when i was 12 years old on the luclin sever

Got a warrior to 60 ...quit the game and left for WoW in 2005

Now im back on Ab just dinged 46

So glad to be in such a great guild

i will never leave this guild i think

its awsome !

anyhow

im 18 yrs old im studying to be a nurse and people tell me im emo. like all the time

i love myspace annnnd i want u all to add meeee

www.myspace.com/reikazen

love kimeno ! ;D
xox

[Dollfinn]

Hey Kimeno,

You are right, this guild is awesome! Welcome back to EQ! Might sound daft but what is emo.? (does that show my age that i have no idea what that stands for lol).

Where are you studying nursing? What year are you? What sort of nurse will you be when you finish studying - registered, enrolled etc.

I am studying to be a nurse also. I will be a Registered Nurse when I finish my degree.

Not sure on the system in other countries, but we have c1 and c2 (carestaff in nursing homes), AIN 1 and AIN 2 (Assistant in Nursing, can be found in nursing homes or hospitals), Enrolled Nurses (higher study and responsibilities than C1, C2, AIN1 and AIN2 and enrolled nurses have medication training included, so can dispense meds) Enrolled nurses can be found in some nursing homes (although not a lot as nursing homes dont pay as well as hospitals) but mainly in hospitals and they can do most of a registered nurses role but must have an RN supervising them.

Then the RN. All hospital RN's are a university degree (the other levels can be studied at tafe (tech college) or in the workplace, some hospitals run Enrolled Nurse training courses).

RN's can then specialise as they accrue working years, they can do post grad degrees, masters degrees, doctorates, they can become clinical specialists, clinical educators and the newest thing (which takes at least ten years working in the field as well as a post grad and masters degree adn currently there is only 12 of them in all of australia) is the Nurse Practitioner, who can prescribe a certain number of meds without a doctor needed and can perform a number of procedures without needing a doctor present as well as normal nursing. This is a great thing in our country where there are many many small hospitals in remote areas who share travelling doctors and surgeons, so patients have to wait for days or be flown out by helicopter to the nearest bigger hospital that has a registrar all of their own.

I aim to eventually be a Nurse Practitioner and I want to work in one of those tiny outback hospitals where the nurses run the place (have you ever seen an old aussie series called "A Country Practice"? I think it has been aired in the uk like Neighbours is).

I am listening to a lecture on gastro - system pathophysiology (previously called BioMedicine 2, which is an advanced Anatomy & Physiology crossed with pharmacology) as I type this. I have mid semester exams this tuesday and thursday (systems patho and also Medical Surgical Nursing II) and a pharmacology assignment due next monday, 2500 words on the pathophysiology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, treatment and reasoning for my choices of treatment on a case of malathion exposure (lovely lecturer gave me a weeks extension, so thankfully it isnt due the day before exams start).

I am considered second year at the moment but it is actually my third year, as i did one year, had two years break (young kids), re-enrolled 2006 into "new" course as things changed so much, that i went back in as a first year again but with advanced standing in some subjects, some i had to do all over again (clinical 1 and 2) as they had changed oh so much in that time.

Anyway, after this year i will still have two more years to go, but the "fourth year" i will only have one unit per semester (clinical 5 and 6) and that is because i am currently doing 3 units per semester rather than 4 (i have two kids and one is homeschooled autistic spectrum/aspergers kid, so 3 units is well and truly enough per semester).

It is only a 3 year (fulltime 4 units each semester) uni degree that includes 20 weeks practicuum, then we have one year postgrad where we are employed under an experienced RN who babysits us for that whole year.

Anyway, majorly hard work some days but I am loving it. Right well novel finished, and gastro lecture almost finished, off to work on my lab manual (also for systems) on haematology, cases on dvt and pulmonary embolus which we have been told will definitely feature in our exam.

How is yours going?

Hugs,

Merre (female, just turned 30 - old now lol - northern nsw australia)