DRTCBear

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1. Do hospitals incur a net gain or a net loss from the training of a new graduate RN?

   DRTCBear replied to WDM08002's topic in New Nurse

   Do Good, Essentially correct except that to assess whether a hospital loses you have to know what the break-even point actually is. In all likelihood the break-even point is months, not years. All industries employ people that may not work out, and t...

2. Do hospitals incur a net gain or a net loss from the training of a new graduate RN?

   DRTCBear replied to WDM08002's topic in New Nurse

   simple answer No. If hospitals incurred a net loss on orienting nurses, hospitals would be failing right and left because they were losing money every year. Instead, the costs of training new nurses are one, among hundreds of factors affecting the pr...

3. I shaved off a patient's mustache. Was I wrong?

   DRTCBear replied to NebbyLPN's topic in General Nursing

   I want to take a strong position - but not a harsh position. It was inappropriate to do what you did. The very first step to take is to graciously and sincerely apologize for having done this at all. Second, a review of significant aspects of patient...

4. 12N Sleeping During Break

   DRTCBear replied to MEDRQST's topic in Safety

   I must be confused here. She was 'on break'. She told her staff where she was and what she was doing. There is nothing in your story to suggest that she was there longer than her break. If this was an intern or resident would you be contemplating pun...

5. is there really a place for holistic medicine in the "real"nursing world

   DRTCBear replied to chicagrl72's topic in Holistic

   Hi Krissy, Sorry to hear of your past problems but it is great that you found your way to a way of healing. I am color blind - so there are things I will never appreciate or 'know' that involve colors - e.g. I will never, ever see what non red-green ...

6. is there really a place for holistic medicine in the "real"nursing world

   DRTCBear replied to chicagrl72's topic in Holistic

   Zenman, Yep. But despite all this there are still people out there who feel qualified to do research on TT without ever having conducted a full literature review. They read reviews of reviews of literature, ignore anything that calls into question t...

7. is there really a place for holistic medicine in the "real"nursing world

   DRTCBear replied to chicagrl72's topic in Holistic

   Sorry Charlie, I am not a TT practitioner, I am a nurse-statistician. Invitations to Randi style challenges are responded to appropriately - with gales of laughter... It strikes me as quite odd that a post that derogates TT practitioners and extols t...

8. is there really a place for holistic medicine in the "real"nursing world

   DRTCBear replied to chicagrl72's topic in Holistic

   And another student who proved that Emily Rosa's research on TT was scientific misconduct, a publishing fraud, and that poor little Emily is still clueless - years later, about research, design of experiments, and data analysis. You really ought to d...