The story of the year
January 27th, 2009 von 
Stephan
No further updates from me, I stated the reasons before and as I said the times are not over. School is not as relaxed as it was before. We have the following topics in this “nursing school season”
1.History of Nursing and history of medicine
Pretty interesting, but very demanding because we need to write an 6 page essay about our topic (Nursing in the third reich and euthanasia) + a presentation and one fellow went into sick this week so we have to double the work. The topic itself is very interesting not because of the historic “backround” everybody is supposed to have. The whole topic is based on ONE book and severel eyewitness - reports. Until 1998 most nursing schools just blanked this topic out, many under the shadow of the lack of evidence and sources, but the real reason for this is that particulary ANY hospital took part in , yes the bad things like killing mentally disabled or sick people or just refusing treatment to jewish people which was, is and hopefully will be against any code of nursing ethics that is the backbone of our work.
As I read the eyewitness reports, I just cannot feel the constant change between admiration of nurses who risked their live for saving many people and the disgust I feel for the one who killed innocent children with air injections or in, the best case, benzodiazepine overdoses.
2. ATL Beeing Awake & Sleeping / Functional Neurologic Anatomy
The Nursing side of this (how to evaluate the level of conciousness, how to help patients getting asleep and support them in their individual sleep pattern and so on) is pretty easy but there is a bigger side of the neurologic anatomy especially the nerve cells and functionality and synapses which is pretty much MY TOPIC (one of my anchor points in nursing is psychiatric & neuro) but I have to explain several things to my student colleauges.
3. Assisting in Therapy & Diagnosing
Big issue, this is the topic (around 150 hours of theory) which mostly seperates me from the elderly care nurse which does not have this topic this much intensity than I have. We have to learn everything about diagnostic procedures and how to assist them. At the end of this topic there will be a practical hour about getting I.V. access and how to cannulize a vein. Also we have several hours about therapy. The first topic was post- and peri-operative care which is also a special field of myself (I have many special field but surgical/trauma nursing is my fucking bitch!) and there will be much more about this. Also there will be a oral exam in august about this specific topic.
4. The German Social & Healtcare System & The State of Germany / European Union
Very easy reading and understanding bullshit which I will do on a sunday afternoon partially drunk 
I forgot to write a reflection about my experiences in the nursing home for disabled people
- I don’t like beeing treated like an idiot because I’m doing the right thing for a patient. “Right is not always right” is the ultimate answer or argument for a low-class Registered Nurse with lack of skills, scientific knowledge and as a matter of fact, a backbone for things she does. I’m sick of discussing procedures over and over again of which some nursing assistantants don’t even have a clue about spelling.
- On the other hand, I felt overloaded with things that I only read about in my Intensive Care Nursing books and that I was responsible for because some Registered Nurse wasn’t able to give a patient which was way OVER my skill a sufficient care. With the basics of respiratory therapy I cannot take care of a patient which has something between BIPAP and CPAP respiration. I’m not trained, I’m not (yet) a certified intensive care nurse and I don’t know why I had to take care about this poor patient. This could have gone very wrong allthough the patient wasn’t intubated and had non-invasive-ventilation on demand.
- In 6 weeks I was not able to work like a nurse, nurses do something good and as I said before I’m not able to do anything good for this patients.
- I hate beeing criticized for beeing not able to recieve critique, just because I left some nutrition valve open and had to change the bed which was my fault and my consequence. If some low-skill motherfucking nurse wants to play smartass and tell me that I should not have left the fucking valve open YES SIR I’m far away from professional communication in a short ammount of time you can barely imagine.
- Through my months in outpatient care, I have to admit that I never saw SO MUCH SHIT and SO MUCH MISERY in my whole life. I saw people rotting away during their last days, I saw patients in permanent and persisting pain with no sufficient pain control medicine and ignorant medicine practicioners with no knowledge about certain aspects of their work. I saw houses and apparments in a state, that you only may know from fictional media. I saw desperate relatives and wives, trying to get control over their lifes back and trying to archieve a little dignity for their loving husbands or whatever. I will never forget these months and always remember back when I might feel bad.
Despite all the negative things that happened I have to say, that I’m in a new relationship with a very great and lovely girl. You cannot imagine such a prick like me falling in love? Well you can see the difference
This was it for the rest of the week, goodbye fellas!
Stephan["If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear!"]
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