selkie

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1. MA working beyond scope of practice

   selkie replied to Catedi's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Hm... in WA state, the Dept of Health has it clearly spelled out in writing what the scope of practice for an MA is. MA's are not even legally allowed to do phone triage in clinics (though it happens...

2. I hate nursing..

   selkie replied to flygirls2's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I think I got the idea of the backbreaking work while I was in clinicals :-). How could one not? I've heard the expression "nurses eat their young" of course but in my own personal experience, the...

3. I hate nursing..

   selkie replied to flygirls2's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I am not happy with nursing but my experience is/ has been/ different than Bree's. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've worked with some really wonderful nurses that I respect a great deal. Actually.....

4. I hate nursing..

   selkie replied to flygirls2's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I'm on the same page with you re school- I loved pathology etc!! I know a doctor who went to nursing school then realized after a couple of years that her body was NOT going to hold up to it (she was...

5. I hate nursing..

   selkie replied to flygirls2's topic in First Year After Licensure

   There is a concept in psychology...lol, cannot remember the term for it, sorry, but- the gist of it is this: if people invest a lot of time and energy in something (like $$, time and energy in...

6. Regret becoming a nurse

   selkie replied to DoubtfulStudentNurse's topic in LPN, LVN Students

   Hi, I'm posting late too. I love photonurse's reply. When I read the original question, bigtime deja vu.. exactly the same as I felt in nursing school. I loved the theoretical, the anatomy/phys, the...