RealAmericanNurse

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1. 100k in loans worth it?

   RealAmericanNurse replied to ravindram's topic in General Nursing

   Like the others say, $100,000 in loans is way too much. Find an ADN school you would like and determine what prerequisites are needed before the nursing portion, take those prerequisites while you are still employed, maybe online. Then when you are...

2. Is the Baby Boomer Generation not going to get good care?

   RealAmericanNurse replied to Cola89's topic in Relations

   "The baby boomers will have plenty of caretakers. Healthcare has a reputation of being a place where the jobs are." Unfortunately, the new nurses really don't want to do "real nursing".... they think nursing is documenting and passing pills, no joke,...

3. Suspended for a Medication Error

   RealAmericanNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   My daughter is in nursing school and must write a paper on Medication Errors. She asked me, a 40+ year RN, for suggestions but balked when I gave her some, saying "I don't see how there can be medication errors" in this day and age with computers, ...

4. so... i assisted in a code today... BUT

   RealAmericanNurse replied to sickonXmas's topic in Relations

   I have never seen so many nasty responses to someone who is "one of us". You all just prove the point of Nurses Eat their Young ....