SpaceshuttleRN

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1. A Different Approach to the ADN vs. BSN Debate

   SpaceshuttleRN replied to Sheri257's topic in ADN/BSN

   First of all when it comes to the idea of patients not having as much respect for or confidence in ADN RNs as they have for BSN RNs, let me ask you this," Do you walk around with your degree listed on your name tag? " You get the respect and confiden...

2. A Different Approach to the ADN vs. BSN Debate

   SpaceshuttleRN replied to Sheri257's topic in ADN/BSN

   I am a ADN RN. I started my nursing career as an LPN. I sat for the same exam as the BSN nurses. I hold an administrative position and am asked frequently to speak at different seminars all over the country. Most assume I have a Masters degree, I do ...

3. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

   SpaceshuttleRN replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

   $11.00 per hour is an insult in any state even for a new grad. Factory workers in the automotive industry are making double that. Toll takers on our local turnpike are making more than that. Nurses make life and death decisions every day. Patients re...

4. What age were you when you went to nursing school?

   SpaceshuttleRN replied to Imissthefall's topic in General Nursing

   graduated from LPN school at 35 Became RN at 48

5. Good Bye to Nursing for me...

   SpaceshuttleRN replied to healer27's topic in General Nursing

   Congratulations on the pregnancy. I agree you should hang on to the license. You may find that after you have your child/children in school full time, that you may want to give it another shot. Please don't take this next comment the wrong way, but s...

6. Is there power in the color white?

   SpaceshuttleRN replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

   I have to say that I feel we have done it to ourselves. I liked getting out of white uniforms also, but as an experiment went back to a white uniform and yes a cap also. I have to agree that it commands respect. I also had the experience of being tho...

7. I wanted to explain what happened to me...

   SpaceshuttleRN replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

   Lori, So sorry for your circumstances. Thank you for putting the rest of us on alert who suffer from chronic back pain. We suffer because it is usually job related and because we are dedicated, we continue to work rather than collect disability. Yet,...