Bag-In-Box

If You Give a Girl a Waffle: An Autobiographical Essay Waffles are simple. My life at this time was anything but simple. My mom went to the store that day and brought home a box of Hungry Jack pancake mix. She knows that I like the Hungry Jack brand the best even if we already had a nearly full box of Bisquick hiding in the lazy susan. I like perfection and I don’t handle change well so I got out the measuring cups and portioned all the ingredients out and let my boyfriend Tristin added the…

Kelley informed the group of professionals about what she was doing as far as medication therapy management. After a patient is diagnosed, she reviews their chart to decide whether that patient should be administered a ComfortPak. A ComfortPak is a box of commonly used medications to manage urgent symptoms and it should be taken as prescribed. In my Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience class, we discussed how optimizing therapeutic outcomes through improved medication use is a part of…

Importance of Sharps Safety in the Healthcare Setting Introduction Nurses, surgeons, and staff are exposed to one of the deadliest hazards every day: the exposure to blood borne pathogens. There is an estimated “600,000 to 1 million accidental needle sticks and sharps injuries that occur annually in health care settings (Potter, Perry, 2013).” A consequence that can result from being a worker in the healthcare field is exposure to blood borne pathogens with parenteral exposures to healthcare…

purchase economical and high quality all-natural and/or organic products on a regular basis. Big Lots is where I first discovered Berkshire Bake House Snack Toast, and the 4.2 oz box was only $1. What initially caught my eye was the rather large “only 40 calories per slice” portion of the front of the box. I also thought that the box itself…

The relentless beeping of the monitor attached by a web of cords to her fragile little body is a constant reminder of my daughter’s congenital heart disease. Her grandpa, seated beside me on the hard plastic hospital chair, moves restless hands between his pocket and hanky, his eyes fixed on every rise and fall of her chest, longing to hold and comfort his first grandchild. My daughter’s birth wasn’t like the beautiful stories I’d heard or movies I’d seen. It was silent - her scrawny, little,…

Shark Teeth “Liv, stop following me!” Pat shouts. “ I can go wherever I want to!” I clamor back. Grains of sand cave in and as I run to catch up with my older brother. Squinting my eyes at him while sneering, soon I was skipping forward. Letting out a sigh behind me, Pat decides to follow me on my tour down the beach. After a few minutes, I hear, “Liv! Get over here.” Rushing over to him, in no time at all, I’m looking over his shoulder. A small, black shark tooth is being turned in…

In over 40 years of dedicated service, Southwest Airlines which is a Dallas, Texas based company sustain its image as the best of the rest with ideal customer service by an abundance of workers to over millions of customers on a yearly basis. Southwest Airlines has around 4,000 flights taking off on a daily basis amongst a system of almost 100 locations within the United States and numerous locations throughout the world. Importantly, Southwest Airlines established a connection to Long Beach,…

past three months I’ve been taking boxing lessons. It’s very challenging and I frequently cannot even make it through the ninety minute session. As a lifelong boxing fan, I really didn’t comprehend the skill level and training and timing needed to box. It’s mentally exhausting— but I’m no longer bored. You know what you want to do when you practice something intensely? You want to try it out. As it turns out, there is this thing called Corporate Fight Night where people who are not paid…

“Hey, Mike, sorry I'm late,” Jim Stanfield said as he placed his brown-bag lunch along with his book of crossword puzzles down onto his desk located directly across from Mike's. “No biggie,” shrugged Mike Kaputtie barely glancing up from the small television set he’d been glued to—an old black-and-white episode of the Andy Griffith Show was playing on its tiny screen. The graveyard shift so far that night at Airingdale Cryogenics, like all shifts at A.C. was slow, but midnights were by…

going straight to my room after I was home. Long days were especially caustic, as I was worn and tired from focusing all day. I would just drop into the chair in the living room, not having the energy or patients to take it downstairs, and my book bag was sitting in front of me, making it easy to stay in the chair and do work. Because I was tired, I was very easily agitated, and my mom and dad always want to chat, whereas I can go a whole day without talking and have done so many times when pet…