Selke

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1. Please Read Before Posting: Tips Regarding Distance Programs

   Selke replied to BBFRN's topic in Online Learning

   What is the difference between an online and distance educational program? I saw both terms used in the first post of this thread and I'm confused - I use them interchangeably. Am I incorrect? Are they different? Thanks.

2. Broken Back

   Selke replied to JTomlinson91's topic in Disabilities

   I'm not quite answering your question, but have you tried therapies other than opioid narcotics, such as physical therapy, acupuncture or acupressure, getting a trainer, swimming, yoga, anything like that? 60 vicodin in a month is quite a bit. Have...

3. career in ethics and theory??

   Selke replied to nurturer's topic in General Nursing

   I suggest you take a few undergraduate philosophy classes and at least one ethics course while you are completing your BSN. If your school has a department of religious studies, I suggest taking an introductory class or two. If your interest is sti...

4. Job outlook for travel nursing in this economy?

   Selke replied to inthesouthrn's topic in Travel

   A recruiter told me this week that there is a drop in posted positions in some places like CA due to the severe budget shortfall ... if the state can't pay medicare/medicaid then the hospitals can't afford to pay RNs. I'm wondering how finances will...

5. Soon to be MPH graduate aiming to become CNM, am I crazy???

   Selke replied to wifee47's topic in CNM

   There are many midwives with MPH and/or DrPh degrees. Many want to get their MPH after finishing their MSN/CNM. It is a popular credential to have, for both those wanting to work in the US and overseas. Nurse midwifery, in part, arose out of mater...

6. Nursing going into Medicine?

   Selke replied to spuropathy's topic in Post Graduate

   Not only will nursing courses NOT count towards medical school, you need to look carefully at the undergraduate science prereqs you are taking for nursing vs. medical school. There are usually different levels of difficulty of basic science courses ...

7. Please dont hate me for saying this...

   Selke replied to RN2BENAUSTIN's topic in General Nursing

   The way the OP phrases things, her speech patterns, strike me as a bit odd. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe English isn't her primary language? I suspect the OP has some codependency issues based on her perception of nursing, or a belief system ...

8. Death work and talking to the dead

   Selke replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

   The Book of the Dead, the Bardo Thodol, the "liberation through hearing in the intermediate state", is a Tibetan Buddhist funerary text from the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma tradition, again bringing up the hearing/voice meme. Here's the wikipedia entry...

9. Death work and talking to the dead

   Selke replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

   Hearing is the last sense to go ... when one leaves the body, one does not immediately "disappear" but lingers some time and observes what's going on. The Tibetan Book of the Dead gives an extraordinary account of the stages of dissolution of the se...

10. Rescheduled Frontier Interview

    Selke replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in CNM

    Sending you lots of luck! You'll do great!

11. Rescheduled Frontier Interview

    Selke replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in CNM

    Don't tell them anything at all about a custody battle or other personal issues. Just say a last minute family obligation came up that could not be rescheduled and leave it at that. Stay very professional and superficial. If the Admin "hears" that...

12. How does everyone wind down after work?

    Selke replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    TV and the internets ....

13. Has the 2010 DNP alledged requirement for NP's already fizzled?

    Selke replied to justme1972's topic in Doctoral

    n_g, I agree with your point. Many nurses have enough trouble funding graduate education and finding time to do it. Lengthening the program and making it more costly will not necessarily benefit them, improve the NP professions, or increase the # o...

14. Full time work, full time school, or both?

    Selke replied to Goozgog's topic in CNM

    Most if not all Frontier students have to work through school from financial necessity so you are not alone. Many do work full time, although it works best to have flexibility with your job so you can cut down to part time or per diem or work fewer ...

15. working on the old-style wards

    Selke replied to RNperdiem's topic in General Nursing

    I was a patient -- rather I was tortured -- as a teenager in 1971 in one of the last Scottish Rite Crippled Children's hospitals, which had those old wards with the old staffing system and horrifically poor pt care. It is a world unto itself, that h...