schmrock

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1. What is your title and what state/province are you in?

   schmrock replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

   I'm an RN in Upstate New York.

2. 2 year or 4 year nursing school

   schmrock replied to daisy16's topic in General Nursing

   I am an ADN who has gone back to school to earn my BSN. If you have the opportunity to go to a 4 year school, I would do that. You are young and the world is at your feet. Grab ahold and take off. I think when you look back, you will be glad you ...

3. why can't we all get along??

   schmrock replied to micro's topic in General Nursing

   I don't know why we all can't get along. Nursing is famous for "eating their young", stabbing each other in the back, and never banded together. You see firefighters and police officers working together and supporting each other. If a firefighter ...

4. Future of Nursing

   schmrock replied to schmrock's topic in General Nursing

   I understand the nursing shortage all too well. I work short everyday. My original post was related to whether the entry level education for an RN should be a BSN? I believe some have gotten off the track. This isn't about patient care, it isn'...

5. Nursing Superstitions!

   schmrock replied to codebluechic's topic in Humor

   I work in an emergency room that sees approximately 45,000 patients a year. We are VERY superstitious. We NEVER say the Q word, Everything DOES happen in 3's, NEVER mention a frequent flier's name because they WILL show up, if someone isn't doing ...

6. Increasing Work Place Violence

   schmrock replied to debbyed's topic in General Nursing

   I work in an emergency room that sees approximately 45,000 patients a year. We also have a sort of outpatient psych unit attached to the hospital. There have been isolated incidents of violence in the ED. Mostly they are drunk or emotionally distu...

7. the image of nursing

   schmrock replied to nursehathaway's topic in General Nursing

   I believe that the general public is aware of nurses but not what nurses actually do. People know we exist and that we are there to help but they become acutely aware of our knowledge and skills when they or their family member needs us. Many peop...

8. Future of Nursing

   schmrock replied to schmrock's topic in General Nursing

   Yes I honestly believe that by increasing the education requirements respect will follow. Do you think that the general public knows the requiements for other professions such as pharmacists, engineers, architects, and CEO's? The general public ha...

9. Future of Nursing

   schmrock replied to schmrock's topic in General Nursing

   I agree with you Nilepoc I probably have opened a can of worms but I believe it is something we as nurses need to look at. If we want to be recognized as a "profession" and not just a "job", we need to follow the ways of other health care profession...

10. Future of Nursing

    schmrock posted a topic in General Nursing

    I went back to school to earn my BSN. We have recently been talking about the future of nursing and where we are headed as a profession. One of the topics that was discussed was BSN prepared nurses vs. ADN prepared nurses. A question for you is s...