ericthered

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1. Considering leaving new job after just a few months

   ericthered posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello, So I recently began working night shifts on a behavioral health floor after about 2 years working in an urgent care. Around the same time I got this job I absentmindedly put my info into the Bureau of Indian Affairs registry for nursing jobs a...

2. Should I hold out for a hospital job?

   ericthered posted a topic in Job Hunt

   I just recently took and passed the NCLEX in December. I've been applying at a few nearby hospitals but was just offered a job at a physicians practice out of the blue. I'm kinda hesitant to take it for 2 reason: 1) lower pay and 2) losing/not develo...

3. Nursing exam questions are terrible (according to science)

   ericthered replied to ericthered's topic in NCLEX

   Dissatisfaction with the status quo is the catalyst for improving the problems with nursing education. "Sucking it up" might get you by but the underlying issues will persist.

4. Nursing exam questions are terrible (according to science)

   ericthered replied to ericthered's topic in NCLEX

   I think ArtClassRN gave an excellent explication of what qualifies as science and why so much of nursing isn't. My biggest gripe then is that nurse educators keep insisting that nursing is scientific. And iluvgusgus, that part you mentioned about the...

5. Nursing exam questions are terrible (according to science)

   ericthered replied to ericthered's topic in NCLEX

   I found Nursing to be drastically harder than any course I've ever had in math or science. Nursing is very difficult but it is difficult for all the wrong reasons.

6. Nursing exam questions are terrible (according to science)

   ericthered replied to ericthered's topic in NCLEX

   I just wish we would stop trying to reinvent the wheel. A shockingly successful paradigm for healthcare already exists and it is the medical model. Why does nursing have such a strong desire to act like it isn't medicine, sure not the level of a MD, ...

7. Nursing exam questions are terrible (according to science)

   ericthered replied to ericthered's topic in NCLEX

   Doing some more thinking about this and I have a few more examples of nursing education shortfalls. This one bugged me all through school, Maslow's. Our instructors kept talking about evidence based practice and then throw this antiquated and unsuppo...

8. Nursing exam questions are terrible (according to science)

   ericthered replied to ericthered's topic in NCLEX

   Hello HouTx. Sorry if my comment offended you. I'm not saying that nursing school doesn't do anything to prepare one to be a nurse an perhaps my original writing was too strongly worded. However, I do still contend that nursing education is deeply fl...

9. Nursing exam questions are terrible (according to science)

   ericthered posted a topic in NCLEX

   Hi all. This is my first post. I recently graduated from an RN program and will be taking the NCLEX soon. I've been doing practice tests a lot and am getting a little frustrated. In short the questions are stupid and I hate them on a personal level w...