holiday2525

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1. Why am I doing this, anyway?

   holiday2525 replied to PedsDrNurseTheo's topic in General Nursing

   That kid was lucky to have a nurse like you. I hope I remember to also be as compassionate and as caring. You are a blessing to your

2. pt. load for case managers

   holiday2525 posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Case managers - tell me, how many patients are you managing on any given week? How many visits do you do in an average week? Does your hospice have a separate admissions nurse?

3. Hospice Salary Requirement?

   holiday2525 replied to EmilyLucille523's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I am located in a midsized town in the southwest. I don't even know what a mcmillan nurse is. How long have you been doing palliative care. I've got to do something as these hours are just too

4. Hospice Salary Requirement?

   holiday2525 replied to EmilyLucille523's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I am a case manager RN with less than 1 year experience. My hospice is also affiliated with a hospital. I moved from med-surg to hospice for family reasons. I love hospice, but either my world is...

5. Different roles for CNS's??? Come on guys share what you do!

   holiday2525 replied to traumaRUs's topic in Clinical Nurse Specialists, CNS

   I really appricruate tgis topic. I am graduating with my BSn in Dec. and was thinking about my MSN with either an APN or CSN. Now I understand things better. I am really interesting in an APN in...

6. Nurses salary vrs teacher's salary

   holiday2525 replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

   I am afraid you are misinformed that teachers get the whole summer off or that we don't do weekends. Sorry, but as I teacher I went back to school 2 weeks earlier than my students and I spent a great...

7. Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

   holiday2525 replied to VickyRN's topic in Holistic

   We don't really understand how accupuncture works. Yet in works. many studies support its use. It works on animals - who don't tend to have a placebo effect. By the way, there is a youtube video...

8. Got slapped by pt. Staff splitting. Need feedback.

   holiday2525 replied to wonderbee's topic in Psychiatric

   guess what, sometimes even med/surg pts don't get to choice who there nurse is!! But psych pt. who are known to be manipulitive and and boundaries have other issues. And it was not about taking her...

9. Got slapped by pt. Staff splitting. Need feedback.

   holiday2525 replied to wonderbee's topic in Psychiatric

   Iwould like to know how much expereince you have? When you say exam questions, I think you are a student. So am I. The problem is that what is the correct answer is not the one that is useful in real...

10. Nurses salary vrs teacher's salary

    holiday2525 replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I can't beleive about teahers making that much. Actually I can, they have strong unions inthat state. In texas, in Austin after 4 years of teaching - with 2 masters degree I was making 39,000. My...

11. Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

    holiday2525 replied to VickyRN's topic in Holistic

    I've included it in one of my assignments. I put it in because the pt. was that type pf pt, i.e. hippi-ish, friut and granola, all natural cosmic balance type person. While I don't think it belong in...

12. Dialysis Staffing

    holiday2525 replied to CocoaGirl's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I can hardly beleive that a company will allow you to work off the clock the fines can be large.What BS. Taco bell treid that and paid big! If the little guys could prevail over a huge fast food...

13. what do you love or hate about being a school nurse

    holiday2525 posted a topic in School

    I'm a former teacher now getting my BSN. Thinking about school nursing. Can foks in this field give me some insight to REALLY what the job is about. I only know it from the teacher side, sending kids...

14. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    holiday2525 replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Excuse me. But coming from an education background, and ABD myself, there is nothing easy about dissertations or doctorial stuff. As a matter of fact, you wouldn't be where you are today if folks...

15. Doctoral degree to become an NP???

    holiday2525 replied to VickyRN's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I am a BSN student ( with two masters under my belt in other fields) and am looking at my options. The DNP, a four year degreem doesn't sound bad, but some of the posts here sound like that is 4 yours...