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  1. Geriatric Certificate

    There is a site at NYU Hartford Institute for Certification in Geriatrics.
  2. High Fail Rate for new Grads on Boards

    I agree with Charles. We are in a very tough spot as preceptors and or educators. I have been precepting new grads for years. I have noticed a recent trend that is frightening. I don't know if their motivation to become a nurse is different, or i...
  3. Don't want to be part of GNSWC club

    I always tell people that they have to change the tape in their head. If you complain all the time, it's like this tape in your head playing over and over again, and really if you pressed pause you might see that the situation is different, only you...
  4. Charting by exception...

    Where I work, we chart by exception. We have a shift assessment that is entered in the computer, each body system can by wnl, or abnormals checked. If you chart wnl, it shows you what you mean ex. under neuro wnl, a/ox3, perla, etc. I then do a pr...
  5. new nurse with anxiety attack

    Ask, ask, ask. If you have a question, or even if you just need a sounding board ask. Don't worry, many of us still go over things with our co-workers. And definately, never try to bluff. It took me a long time to realize that it is ok to say I d...
  6. CBL

    What is it?
  7. MUST have been a man's idea...

    Even better, where I work the anti-microbial soap, stains our white uniforms. The other day I used the foot pedal to soap my hands and the nozzle was clogged, I squirted the soap all over my front. I took it to the dry cleaner to see if he could ge...
  8. Length of stay in ED before admission

    At the hospital where I work we track the time it takes for patients to be moved from the ed to the floors. I am on a med-surg floor and our time last month was
  9. chest tube basic theory

    Can anyone assist with a very basic explanation of what a chest tube does and how. I remember when I was in nursing school, an amazingly intelligent instructor explained the thoraseal by comparing it to a bucket of water. I have not had to explain...
  10. Tennessee or Florida

    Hey, what about New Jersey? It is a great place to live, I am talking Central/South. We have the shore, We have mountains, We have beautiful change of season, We have Bruce Springsteen!!!! LOL! I would be interested to hear what your search says ...
  11. Looking for a mentor

    Great advice for the clinical part already given. As for A&P and Micro, I took notes and taped the lectures, then before the next class I rewrote my notes while reviewing the taped lecture for that class. It worked really well, I had to be very...
  12. Like I really need feed-back on this. . . .

    I remember when we used to fill out daily acuity sheets on each patient. You know I swear they threw them right in the garbage! They never ever made a difference in staffing back then, then as our hospital started "down sizing" and "displacing" nur...
  13. Owning our profession

    Thank you for the reply. I don't know anything about any of this, just throwing around ideas in my head. Thinking of contacting an attorney for some legal advise about the different options, ie. incorporating or not.
  14. Owning our profession

    I have recently been throwing around the idea of starting my own business. I guess it would be similar to an Agency, but different in that I would want to contract with hospitals to provide nurses but their part of the contract would hold them to a ...
  15. Need your Feedback/Advice

    Med-Surg nurses are beginning to realize their value, so for starters you may want to pay them what they are worth. Of course the chances of that are slim to nil, the only other thing that I would be concerned with that would encourage me to make a m...