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Has anyone here used their BSN to get a non-nursing specific masters degree, like an MBA, etc? I'm looking into getting a masters, but NP or CRNA aren't for me. I don't want to do education or hospital administration either. Masters of interest are I...

See if you have an Area Health Education Center (AHEC) regional office somewhere around you. I called a minimum of one provider/office every day for four months, and finally when I just happened to call an AHEC office (because I was calling anybody a...

I've seen this happen, where the lab did not call a positive troponin, but yet called a "panic chlamydia" result. I've also seen our lab delay results, even if you and the physician call asking for them, and then call a critical at say, 1600, then ba...

One of my friends recently graduated NP school and took a dermatology job. She said that her pay exceeds six figures, that her paychecks "doubled" from when she was a BSN RN (which is very recent) and also stated that "you can definitely get that" in...

If you still have time left to do it, go to HR and change your tax witholdings to claim 99 for your last check so that it doesn't get taxed. Where I live, you can actually do this about 5-6 times per year without having to owe, check with your CPA, b...

But I bet that Arctic Sun company made a lot of cash while the gettin' was good!

Agreed. Hopefully they go after him (legally speaking) regardless of his "retirement" status.

In my experience, the personalities and characteristics that tend to go with successful, seasoned ER nurses and doctors aren't generally very different in various regions. Regardless of area, there are still situations and personalities that occur in...

You can't hold them, and without a blood test there is no proof of intoxication vs. somebody on the street bumped into them and spilled their Miller onto the patient. Besides, the contradiction that I've always wondered about this line of thinking is...

Yeah, who cares if it fits your lifestyle and you like it? I'd go for it and not worry about it.

TNCC will help a lot, also if you could sit in on an Advanced Trauma Life Support Class (ATLS), that will be helpful. Ask if you can keep your TNCC book and then self study it even after you've passed the course. It'll take time, you can't come in ne...

Part of the problem too is that people aren't happy being BSN nurses, so they're going the NP route in hopes that it will be better and that they can salvage their career. Some people legit want to be NP's, and that's fine, but many are simply unhapp...

At least a year, and then some. I don't mean that in a negative way.

Some of the funnier ones are "pain 10/10, eating chips" etc. Not triage related, but one time a patient had left without telling anyone and the nurse wrote "patient not in room, porno magazine on bed," as that was apparently what the patient left beh...

I'd take IR over just about anything that you can do in a hospital. I've worked IR and it's one of the best gigs I ever had, only left it due to relocation. The only thing that can suck is call, but that all depends on how your IR team does it, and h...

My facility is really bad for this. It's not uncommon to have literally every single room filled with inpatient boarding, and be intubating people in the hallway, moving inpatients into the hallway for traumas, etc. It's unsafe, and is resulting in e...

Go do what you want. If you really want it, you'll learn it and do fine if you're willing to deal with the ups and downs of learning something that might be more complicated. The advice to "go do medsurg" first is crap if you won't be happy there. I ...