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How do you expect to properly delegate tasks if you don't know how to perform the tasks yourself? While it is great you have been a CNA for six years many of your classmates have not and so the...

I won't say that you will be discriminated against but I would not announce loudly to potential employers that you wish to go back to school. My boss actually said she was interviewing a new grad...

I had a similar experience at the first NP program I interviewed with. I had adult and PEDs experience, and had many friends in the program with only PEDs experience. I was told my combined...

How is it violating HIPAA? Assuming the meds aren't labeled I don't see how this would violate HIPAA. A med error, though, definitely

Not a book, but have you watched the documentary Business of Being Born? It is available on Netflix. Labor of Love is also a must read.

Yeah, we used to see it occasionally at the one hospital I used to work. Illegal immigrants would come in with stolen social security cards and we would figure out they were stolen when the numbers...

Congrats. I rotated and then worked straight nights for years, and recently started working straight days. While I enjoyed nights, I didn't realize how much it was messing up my life until I...

Many programs require RN experience before you start clinicals. You could be working on non-clinical classes that are needed (ie. Research, patho) while getting your 1 year experience though

I was not "called" to be a nurse, and I personally don't believe it is a calling. I give my job my all, but I do not sacrifice my health and welfare for others.

I have no advice for you but wanted to say I am jealous. I am finishing my FNP next year and my ER refuses to hire PA's or NP's. We only use attending and residents. A shame, cause we have RN's...

This place sounds frightening. There is no way a new grad should be being floated at all, let alone to areas outside their acuity. That is just an accident just waiting to happen. Get out of...

I have never heard of a specific tele certification. Many hospitals have specific classes and competencies to prove that you are competent to do tele. ACLS also helps

Maybe not, but as someone who has worked adults and PEDs you should always know why your pt is on fluids/feeds and if there is a real need for both. Especially post-op or after unit transfers orders...

What you are doing makes me very nervous. I would never pick a rate to start a gtt at. Your docs need to be ordering a titration protocol or at the minimum a starting rate with a max you can...

My school offers a test taking workshop, which while I have not taken it you could see if your school offers one. I also bought a FNP exam study book and would do some review questions on whatever...

How often do you have to assess a woman's private area? Unless I am doing peri care or put in a foley I don't have a need to look down there. If a woman is having bleeding, drainage issues, etc I...

LOL. I hope you told him that household responsibilities are meant to be shared. If I did not have a job and was a stay at home wife I would do everything, but seeing how we both have full-time jobs...

1. A BSN is a 4 year RN program. 2. Depends. If you can afford to go straight for your BSN and that will work for you in your life now I would do that. If you do an ADN then you should look into...

Well your options for types of nursing programs can vary, but seeing how you will need pre reqs for any program I would look into taking them at your community college. Things like nutrition, micro,...

I agree. I have worked with a doctor who is also an RN and he is one of the best dr I ever worked with. If I did not want a family I myself might more seriously consider med school. It does not...

I am an ER nurse and we always run our boluses "wide open" and will often bring pts to the floor with a bolus still infusing. The difference is I would never send a pt to med-surg bed with a...

I am sorry this happened to you, but, honestly, as an experienced nurse, I would have done the exact same thing. I find it disturbing the BP stayed that low for long, but you were being diligent and...

The NP is not moving towards a PhD, but a DNP, which is different (shorter than PhD for one). Furthermore, the DNP is not a requirement for 2015. Also there has been talk for decades of requiring...

I would say that if you ever desire to relocate (as some parts of the country especially urban areas are more BSN only) or a desire for career advancement, you should get it. I graduated with my...

Actually Shadyside allows you to take required sciences and college courses concurrent with nursing classes, and I have heard that St. Margaret's just redid their curriculum to allow the same