RN34TX

RN34TX

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RN34TX has 17 years experience.


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  1. Not getting charge nurse position

    I get where you might interpret my comment that way, but that's not what I meant. I meant to say choosing someone for a leadership position based on clinical skills and experience alone without considering other factors. I did not mean to say ignore ...
  2. Not getting charge nurse position

    I would find the highly patronizing comments about not getting a charge position because I'm so good as a staff nurse to be extremely offensive and a cop out for not giving me your real reasons for not choosing me. Having said that, I have also seen...
  3. Nurse Manager Opportunity

    MBARNBSN made some very good points about the possibilities of your situation. They could just be blowing smoke dangling a carrot in front of you to see how much you will do with an empty promise of a manager position. With respect to your questions...
  4. Confused: Can EC grad work in colorado or not?

    If your only interest in CO is as a travel nurse, then don't forget that CO is a compact state as is MS. So if you get licensed in MS, you can take travel assignments in CO without having to get a CO license.
  5. Msn or mha

    OK I think I get where we agree and differ. I think we have two separate situations here. Allow me to me clarify. Yes, CEO and COO positions can be held by someone who happens to be a nurse but it's not generally a requirement so often it's business...
  6. I see the nurse educator certificate offered as part of some MSN programs. Are they worth getting? Do they have any value in the academic or staff development world? I have no experience with teaching or formal education roles in hospitals so I was...
  7. Msn or mha

    Although I like and agree with your post, keep in mind that nurses with BSN's are doing the job now with no masters period so to say that an MSN or MBA alone aren't sufficient to perform the job is a bit misleading. They learned on the job with no ac...
  8. Msn or mha

    I will very respectfully disagree. I wanted an MBA and not another nursing degree but that is not where this profession or health organizations are headed. I too see nurse managers with MBA's and MHA's at my facility but this is fading away and my o...
  9. Don't You Just Love It?

    Now that's one of the best rants that I've read in years. I'd like to add when I'm posting about something that happened during a shift and a student or newbie breaks in with "Oh my is this what I have to look forward to as a nurse? Did I make the w...
  10. Is it really easier for male new grad nurses to land a job?

    Those are discriminatory and most likely illegal hiring practices in your state. I'm not saying that those things don't go on in the real world every day, but that DON is an idiot for flat out admitting to engaging in those hiring practices to you as...
  11. Is it really easier for male new grad nurses to land a job?

    There are many layers to what's being discussed here. It's not just one factor or simply comparing full-time females to males. Not always, but men tend to go where the money is. This is evident in the fact that you see very few male nurses working i...
  12. Nursing students sue Excelsior College

    Agreed. I don't pay much attention to those types of remarks either because you can slam the program all you want, but my track record, evaluations, and work history speak for themselves and can't be disputed. Regardless of how I feel about the CPN...
  13. Nursing students sue Excelsior College

    I'm an EC grad of 2003 and have mixed feelings on the matter. I joined AllNurses a few months after graduating and felt like I was the only one who "passed" who didn't sing the praises of EC. It seemed in those days that if you dared to speak out ag...
  14. Studying for CAPA/CPAN

    I'm confused. You are studying for both certification exams? In any case I mostly used the purple Perianesthesia certification review questions book more than anything and passed CPAN the first time around in 2011. I used the green Core Curriculum ...
  15. Not sure about the 70's and 80's, but I started as a CNA in LTC in 1994 and yes the sense of entitlement was prevalent then too. I have some good memories of some very genuine and appreciative families to be fair, but the bad memories are still very...