Anorexia Nervosa

I've been browsing and fixing my files on my pc and one of the most scattered files are my student files. Me as a graduate of nursing, you will expect medical notes/files in my pc, these are lectures, homeworks or projects we have here in school. I just thought of sharing my researches in the world rather that just leave my files in my pc and get rotten. This is one of them. Anorexia Nervosa: one of the most common eating disorders, person with this disorder are not aware of their condition. If you know someone that you could relate to this article, maybe you could help them.

The word anorexia means "loss of appetite," Anorectics—95 percent of whom are women—often have a normal appetite but because of an abnormal fear of being fat and a distorted body image, they're convinced that they're obese and refuse to eat. Anorexia is considered a psychological disorder because there is no known physical cause for the extreme weight loss associated with the condition. You may be anorectic if you:

• Lose at least 25 percent of your original weight.
• Have not had a physical or mental illness that could have caused the weight loss.
• Think of yourself as fat even if you're not.
• Fear being overweight and losing control over your eating behavior.
• Refuse to eat enough to maintain or return to a normal weight.
• Fail to menstruate for at least three consecutive months.
• Feel that all of your energy is going into controlling your weight.
• Feel that staying hungry is the only way you can avoid becoming fat.

She was afraid to eat.	She lost 25% of her body weight.
She strove for perfection.	Her sexual desires disappeared.
She had angry outbursts.	She stopped having her periods.
She felt isolated.	She was always cold.
She desired control.	She felt weak.
She denied her hunger.	Fine hairs grew on her entire body.
She was depressed.	She suffered from insomnia.
She had a distorted body image.	Her heartbeat was irregular
She craved attention.	She almost died.

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Last Hospital Duty Day in the Ward

Finally, we're done on our scheduled hospital duties for the semester. We would be in the community duty for the the last three weeks. Last few weeks we had our duties in the ward of different hospitals. I'm happy that this is our last day but i will surely miss those toxicated days of my life. Handling so many patients is disastrous.

Being "toxic" or "toxicated" ??? Hmmm.. how should I describe these words?

• Being assigned to six or more patients,
• taking their vital signs "q1" or every hour, "q2" for every two hours,
  
• mostly bedridden patients,
  
• your clinical instructor told you to change the bed linens of all your patients,
  
• your clinical instructor requires you to bath bedridden patients
• giving them their medicines, not only one but some patients has a dozen different medications to take,
  
• and bad thing is that your clinical instructor would ask you first the indication of that drug, contraindications and all that before giving it to patients.
• charting and writing on Nurses notes
• checking out if doctors made rounds, check their orders and carried them out

And other special procedures... Whew.. really tiring that you just want to cry and go home at that moment.


Anyways, next week is our community duty. We will go to a community, visit families, do health teachings, provide them with leaflets and other stuffs,do surveys, make programs and all that. This is much easier than that of duties in the hospital. But the bad news is that... it's nearly summer!!! it's really hot nowadays especially in the afternoon and we're in the community walking around and visiting different homes... we are scheduled 8am to 3pm, so bringing umbrella is a must.. !!!! So goodluck to our group.. may our community duty be exciting, memorable, not tiring and I'm praying for a good climate... yipee!!!!

Funny Thing

We are having our hospital duty in the ward that day... As students we don't take the full responsibility in the ward so for few moments we had talks if there is nothing to do and was joking around to make time pass through without us noticing.

One time, two of my groupmates Nico and Shappy were chatting, talking about how fat they are, Nico said "Look at my tummy, eventhough it's kinda big, it's firm! (while holding his tummy), look at Ron (knowing that his groupmate was beside him), Ron's tummy is big but soft" (while holding the other persons tummy, and really really touching and rubbing it). At that moment everyone started to laugh out loud because it was not Ron's tummy that he was touching and rubbing but it was the Nurse itself working in the station. HahaHa... He was so ashamed that he don't know what to do... He apologized and good thing this nurse was kind and just laugh... a really funny moment for that day....

Nursing Home Still Goes On

As a nursing student, I am familiar with different health care institutions that are really helpful for patients, we are able to have a duty in a nursing home for elderly and it was a nice experience. We pity these old people but we have realized that for some it is better that they've been admitted there rather than to be with their family that didn't mind them at all nor give them the proper care that they need.

Nursing homes is said to be a facility for care for patients that are not really that sick to demand hospital care but for those who are not able to stay at home. Mostly, these nursing homes include elderly patients, those who had ill or had chronic or long term diseases that are sometimes irreversible and those with disabling disorders. At first medical and nursing care were minimal but today nursing home plays an active role in health care. Most nursing homes had very well trained staffs that treats the residents well. They are guiding and helping their patients to be prepared to live at home or with a family member as a much as possible. It is a good alternative for elderly people who had for example a very mild disease which has in need of proper care only than having them on expensive hospitals. But sometimes, we must think first and be considerate on putting elderly people in nursing homes, if we can and if we are still able to, then we must be the one who must give the care that they deserve but of course, if there's nothing that we can do, nursing home could be the best place for them.

IV Removal

I came from duty and was still tired. The very thing that made my day was the praise I got from a patient, this patient whom I thought was allthroughout irritable because she was not visited by her doctor for so long that she still don't know her diagnosis (nurses are not allowed to give the patient his diagnosis if the doctor wasn't able to tell the patient about it first), but after awhile she was able to call her doctor through phone and the good news is that the doctor can visit her at that day.

The doctor made rounds and ordered MGH(may go home) to this patient since she is well already and so, the patient's IV must be removed since she can go home. Since I am a fourth year student nurse, we are allowed to remove IVs already, so i was the one who did the job... I have done this for few times but still you can't remove the fear because this is an IV(intravenous-|connected to a vein|), I'm afraid that i would inflict pain to my patient.


While I was removing first the tape, I really tried to talk to her about things so that I can get her attention, I was able to remove the needle and she was still talking, I don't know if i induce pain after I remove the needle itself so I asked her if there was pain, and she said that she didn't even notice that the needle was already removed, and praised me for having good and light hands. i'm so happy about this, that it made me smile the whole shift...

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Whatta Day For all of us...

I just came from our hospital duty, a bit tired and had a little headache but still... happenings this morning was so *%#*=+#@!!!! i just can't describe the feeling... we are about to go to the hospital for our duty, it was around 5:30 in the morning and it was still dark, 6 of us is in the car including the driver which is also our group mate. We are so late that Ron(the one driving) drove the car so fast cause we still have a long way to travel in order for us to get there.

The car was very fast that we accidentally hit a pushcart/mini rolling store of goto and other stuffs while it was crossing along the street and we never realized that it was there, its too late when we saw it.. like it just appeared in front of the car while we are driving too fast, the pushcart was totally wrecked that everything that was on it really stumbled down the road. Everything ran so fast, good thing we hit the cart itself not the people who are pushing it. The front of the car was a little wrecked, some of us was a bit hurt because of the impact and for pressing the breaks of the car while we are driving so fast, most of us got bruises.. but we are ok... And one thing.. Police headquarters is just a few steps away from the incident and so.. we settled everything there. Ron called his dad to help us fix the problem, Ron's dad said we must still have our duty so we decide to commute to be able to get there.. whatta day.. such a traumatizing experience...

Police Headquarters is just a few steps away from the incident site

Front of the car full of goto.. haha..

*we have a picture of the wrecked cart but my groupmate was not able to send it now.. maybe after sometime...

One Semester to Go...

me on our graduation pic shooting for the yearbook.. :)

SISC BSN batch 2008...

i just want to share this video of our batch, its funny that even our dean and school president and some of our teachers became part of this, wahahaha!!! tnx kim...

"All Aboard!!!"

To Start Of...

Well, before I start on posting different stuffs outhere and there I want you readers to have a little idea on who i am, what I am,my goals and all that. You guys can call me as EMJEI, i'm a nursing student with my last year in school, still a teenager, but will be an adult after a year, sitting here in front of my computer, would like to share my thoughts and whatever things that I would like to give in. Hopefully I could make friends out of here, start out right and be able to be consistent on doing this thing. And lastly, I hope you guys to enjoy and watch out for my upcoming posts. Adios!