"I have been an LPN for 20 years and have been licensed in three states. I chose this avenue rather than a BSN program because I was raising two adolescent children at the
time and felt that I had neither the time nor financial resources to embark on a four-year program. As a brand new graduate, I was recruited by a large hospital and started on the same day as a brand new RN graduate from a BSN program. Imagine my surprise when the RN graduate took me aside after the first week and asked how it was that I knew what I was doing and was doing it confidently! She was the first, but not the last, RN to tell me that what she learned in four years of school had not prepared her for the
real world of nursing.
What is Pharmacogenetics?
Why is it that a drug can help one patient and not another? Geneticists have set their sights on answering that question and their discoveries will revolutionize clinical laboratory medicine. Pharmacogenetics is the study of the hereditary basis for differences in populations’ response to a drug. The same dose of a drug will result in elevated plasma concentrations for some patients and low concentrations for others.
I come from a home where illness was really uncommon. My mother and father lived a healthful life and passed this on to us five children. In high school I expected to take college-bound courses rather than courses others chose leading to non-college experiences after high school.
Each of us has an inner voice. Mine spoke up very loudly over three years ago and urged me to listen to my body’s signals that something was awry. Something very awry.
