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In my pursuit to become a MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING, I must first finish my thesis. I have made my proposal already and I want to share the statement of the problem. If you find this relevant or should you have any suggestions that could make this study even better, just buzz a comment…

Title: Problems and Coping of Families of Adults with Serious Mental Illness

Statement of the Problem

The study aims to determine how the extent of problems affect the type of coping strategy utilized by families with psychiatric patients in Baguio City. More specifically, it aims to answer the following questions:

1. What is the extent of problems encountered by families with psychiatric patients in terms of:

a. emotional

b. socioeconomic

2. Is there a significant difference in the extent of problems encountered by families with Psychiatric Patients in Baguio City when analyzed according to culture?

3. Is there a significant difference in the coping strategies utilized by families with Psychiatric Patients in Baguio City when analized according to culture?

4. Is there a significant relationship between the extent of problems encountered and the coping strategies utilized by families in Baguio City?

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We have experienced changing our answer on a question we think is really hard. “I answered [A] but I am sure it is [C]”… After wasting minutes of thinking you finally decide to erase “A” and shade “C”. After checking the paper, you find out that the correct answer is unfortunately [A]. “Damn!”

According to Freud, the mind is divided into 3 structures. The Conscious, Preconscious/Subconscious, and unconscious. What you think and are being aware of NOW is the Conscious. If you read and discuss a topic it is conscious. After eating snacks your memory of what you just studied fades. It goes to the Subconscious. You can recall it but you need to think… a lot. After sometime, that information stored in the subconscious will be later absorbed by the unconscious and it will no longer be recoverable unless you re-read the book you got eh information from.

You become really good with MedSurg during the lecture but after the LMR lecture has clouded your mind, you tend to forget most of the MedSurg concepts… Correct? Haha! I’m sure this is true to almost everyone. Don’t worry guys, what you have learned is not lost. It’s just there. It’s just stored in the UNCONSCIOUS. If you study Medsurg again, it will be easier to memorize stuffs because your brain will tell you that you already have this information… you are just attempting to recover it.

Now, nursing is a very BROAD concept and you cannot bring it to the CONSCIOUS all at once when you face the board examination. So what now? Let your UNCONSCIOUS answer the paper. No, I am not telling you to effin sleep!! Die bitch! WHen you read the question, the first answer that you feel is correct i most likely the correct answer even if it is irrational. Why? it is because your unconscious is telling you the correct answer. You cannot rationalize it because it is absent in the conscious nor the subconscious yet you have read something about the question before and the information has been stored in the unconscious.

That’s it… I call this phenomenon the “UNCONSCIOUS ANSWERING”. Don’t change your first answers. It is most likely the correct answer and don’t mess up your answer sheet. Erasures during the board exam might be the reason why you fail so why take the risk?

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As I promised, here are the most awaited Test-Taking Techniques. I would like to thank my friends who helped me formulate these techniques. I would also like to thank Sir Mark[my boss] of SLRC and those students who share the same love to nursing. Keep Reviewing guys… I know you’ll make it!

FIrst, I would like to repeat what I have said that knowledge is more important than the strategies but having both knowledge and strategy will give you an edge to pass, or even top (I don’t see why not?), the effin Nursing Licensure Examination.

1. Almost all of the questions of the board examination are new so don’t expect that you will be bumping into one like in your mock/sample examinations. That’s bullshit thinking. But take note that the question still revolves in the same concept - NURSING and NURSING only! THe members of the BON are very creative in the making of the questions so you should also have to know how to think like them in order to get a good score but I am guessing that it is going to be hard to do that. (I wonder why.. Buhahaha)

2. Too much anxiety will destroy you but mild anxiety will help. Just enjoy the examination. Why not think that amongst the thousands who took, you are the only one who actually enjoyed, instead of feared, the exam?

3. Use the technique of ELIMINATION. Identify distractors… It takes practicing tes-questions in order to master this skill.

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Yep, here they are. the awaited Crazy strategies. Haha! Yep they sound crazy but are most likely effective and will lead you to the correct answer. Caution: use these crazy techniques if you do not have any string of idea of what the question is all about. Here they are.. enjoy!

1. “always”, “never” or “all” are generalizations… so options with these words are automatically wrong because Nursing is a dynamic concept and it has a lot of EPIKIA (exemptions to the rules) so definite statements are wrong.

2. The longest answer is the correct answer. Well, you can testify to this strategy’s effectiveness. Haha!

3. If it involves values/numbers/rates/amount/weight/etc, just eliminate the highest and the lowest options then choose from the two that is left. Now you have 50% chance of getting to the right answer.

4. All of the above is correct. I don’t have to explain this.

5. Weird options that you’ve never heard are usually the correct answers.

6. The option with that speaks or represents the rest of the options is the correct answer. This is the umbrella phenomenon.

8. 2 similar options are wrong and must be eliminated.

9. Options that has the same word used in the question or has the same idea/phrase i likely the correct answer.

10. If you experience shutdown… choose letter “C”. Amongst the 4 options, it is the only option with the most correct answers as tallied from the previous board examinations. Thus, choosing this option gives you a higher probability of having chosen the right answer.

Risky? Yes… so open a book and study now!

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I’m so happy to be closer to earning the units for graduate studies at Saint Louis University, Baguio City - College of nursing. I am currently taking Master of Science in Nursing and it is no easy path I tell you. I just got my grade of 96 from Advance statistics applied to nursing which made me smile. Of course, i got the highest grade. My examinations for Psychiatric Nursing 1 are all done and I just need to finish my project which involves diagrams on how somebody’s personality can be explained using the different theories of personality and behavior. Quite a pain in the neck but I am cool because I know that I am on the right track. W00t! I just have to get my neurons going.. And oh, I’m done with my part of doing a research term paper for statistics… Thank God!

Anyway, here’s a little information I got about the course Master of Science in nursing. Enjoy!

From Wikipedia…

A Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) is an advanced-level quaternary education degree for Registered Nurses. It is required to become an advanced practice nurse, such as a Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Anesthetist, Nurse Midwife, or a Clinical nurse leader, and is considered an entry-level degree for nurse educators and managers. It may also be a prerequisite for doctorate-level nursing education.

This graduate-level degree may focus in one or more of many different advanced nursing specialties such as acute care, adult, family, geriatrics, neonatal, palliative care, pediatric, psychiatric, women’s health, etc.

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As a nurse, it is important to pay attention to common diseases that have the ability to kill a person in an instant. Diseases that involves the heart must not be taken for granted. Phenomenons such as anarrhythmia could kill one in a blink of an eye. So if you have a familial line of cardiac patients then you better be cautious for these heart diseases….

Did you know that Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) kills 325,000 people a year - or nearly 900 per day?
Did you know that SCA usually occurs without any warning?
Did you know that, If an individual is not treated within 4 to 6 minutes from the onset of SCA, the results can be fatal?

Inside Cardiac Arrest (www.insidecardiacarrest.com), presented by St. Jude Medical, provides information about the risk factors, warning signs, and treatment of Sudden Cardiac Arrest. The site offers two videos: Sudden Cardiac Arrest (http://www.insidecardiacarrest.com/video_suddencardiacarrest.aspx) and The Human Heart (http://www.insidecardiacarrest.com/video_humanheart.aspx). In the videos, a real doctor explains SCA and heart anatomy in simple, easy to understand language.

Are you at risk for SCA? Find out more at http://www.insidecardiacarrest.com/riskfactors.aspx.

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During my lectures, I always say to my nurses that they have to cling on to these “weapons” in facing the board exam. Think of the Nursing Licensure Examination in the Philippines as a 3-headed or even 10-headed dragon capable of attacking you in different aspects and many are relying on you to kill it being its destined slayer. Are you going to fail these people or are you going to do something to ascertain triumph over this battle? The choice is in your hands…

1. KNOWLEDGE

- Before facing the dragon, you should know its weak points so that you will do a perfect hit in just the right point. Winning this board exam requires the utilization of a collection of knowledge from elementary to formal nursing college. If you face a question that you KNOW, then you are likely to get the correct answer!

2. TEST-TAKING SKILLS

- Nursing is very broad. Studying for the board exam is like attempting to catch every raindrop with just one pail… oh wait make it 5 pails - One for each area (Med-Surgical, LMR, CDN/ CHN, Pedicatric/MCN, Psychiatric Nursing). No matter how big your pail is, it is still impossible to get the millions of stuffs to memorize, familiarize, or understand. This is where the test-taking skill comes in, which is the ability to arrive in the correct answer with a very probability even if you totally do not know anything about the question. I will post another entry about Test-taking skills soon so watch out.

3. PRAYERs

- If one can move mountains with prayers… then I do not see why not to just one crazy exam!?

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I promised my students back in Nueva Vizcaya that I will be giving the answers of the practice exam for communicable nursing to the branch incharge by next week. I also told them to check my website on Sunday because I will be posting the Answer key here. Well, here they are…

1-b, 2-c, 3-a, 4-a, 5-b, 6-a, 7-d, 8-a, 9-c, 10-c, 11-b, 12-b, 13-b, 14-b, 15-c, 16-b, 17-(c/o LMR), 18-d, 19-(c/o LMR), 20-b, 21-a, 22-a, 23-d, 24-bonus, 25-a, 26-a, 27-a, 28-a, 29-a, 30-d, 31-c, 32-a, 33-d, 34-d, 35-b, 36-d, 37-d, 38-a, 39-d, 40-a, 41-b, 42-a, 43-bonus, 44-b, 45-a, 46-d, 47-a, 48-b, 49-b, 50-d, 51-c, 52-d, 53-b, 54-c, 55-a, 56-d, 57-Leprosy, 58-Dengue, 59-Pertussis, 60-PTB, 61-Filariasis, 62-Leprosy, 63-Malaria, 64-Varicella/Herpes, 65-Filariasis, 66-Diphtheria, 67-PTB, 68-Paragonimiasis/Schistosomiasis, 69-SARS, 70-Scarlet Fever.

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I heard the news just yesterday when my friend from Cebu, a nurse, told me about the scandal of a queer Cebu citizen (screen name: Shockira) in his 30’s who experienced double jeopardy when he got victimized in two hilarious (to some) yet seriously sad ordeals. First, his sex partner stuck a body spray canister into his ass. Second, a video was taken during the removal of the canister in the operating room and was posted in youtube (sorry guys, the clip has been removed already).

According to Shockira, his trauma started on December 31 last year when he met a man in the streets who offered to have sex with him for P100.

Shockira, who said he was drunk, brought the man home and had sexual intercourse with him.

But he recalled bruising the man’s ego by criticizing the size of his sex organ.

Apparently challenged, the man told Shockira to have sex with him again, but this time using the canned body spray he found inside Shockira’s room.

“Ingon ko di ko, unya nakabati na lang ko nga sakit (I said no, but later I felt something painful),” he said.

Shockira said he then fell asleep.

The man was gone when he woke up. Shockira said he felt something painful inside his body. It was even more painful when he tried to urinate.

He said he started to get scared when he remembered what the man last told him and when he could no longer find his body spray.

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