sunflower83b

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1. Anything else I can do besides bedside nursing?

   sunflower83b replied to neuron's topic in Job Hunt

   Try detention centers in your area.

2. Agency per diem

   sunflower83b replied to Jan168301's topic in General Nursing

   I loved working per diem for an agency. It is different from floating because you control when and where you work; generally they call with assignments (time and places) and you accept or decline. If someplace treats you poorly, simply don't return...

3. PALS Certification

   sunflower83b replied to newmedsurgnurse's topic in Med-Surg

   Ok, I am needing to take PALS for my employer for the first time as well. When I first took ACLS, in 2012, I had a paramedic and it was HARD, at least half of us had to remediate and redo the megacode, or practical final. Study ahead of time, big t...

4. Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

   sunflower83b replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   I agree completely about listening and building trust with parents. Disrespect, or indignation about parent's questions and choices will not help to get kids vaccinated, it will put a further divide between the medical community and the parent.

5. Are anti-vaccine people conspiracy theorists generally?

   sunflower83b replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

   There are two sets of conflicting data in regards to the vax-anti vax debate. One is anecdotal, personal accounts of parents who took their 12 month olds in for shots, then began to see the signs of early autism--does this prove causation? NO. Is i...