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I found that nursing school was a lot easier to handle if I could distance myself from nursing from time to time. Many of us worked in nursing while in nursing school. That may or may not be a good thing, the pay and experience are usually pretty g...

Lest we forget the Constitution of the United States of America Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Frankly we Americans fough...

Lest we forget the Constitution of the United States of America Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Frankly we Americans fough...

I work for a private agency, we do triage for health systems, insurance and doctors offices. Some accounts pay per call others pay a set monthly rate for the service. some of out doctor offices we provide just triage, others we are also their answe...

You can have my job, I plan to be done with it by then seriously, we don't know what the job market will be like next year or two years down the line. All indications would be that there will still be a shortage, and jobs will be available. Conce...

My husband is a computer programer, and can't find a job in his field. He is currently working as a contractor for a large company in another city. We as nurses may not make the highest salaries, but as my mother used to say "we'll always have a jo...

In my current position I would say yes all are competent. However this has not always been true. There have also been times that I felt my co-workers were competent, but there's was not ( opps, that would have been me.)

An oldie but a goodie, but still one of my favorites is "Sister Kenny" with Rosland Russel I think. It's about Elizabeth Kenny who pioneered a treatment for polio.

From what I have observed, CNA's make about 1/3 what base for RN's is, that is in my area of Neb/Ia. Good luck, I hope you find nursing wonderful. :kiss

I am inspired by people of vision, and I have been privledged to observe and work with 4 nurses with remarkable vision for nursing. Two started a hospice where I worked and the other two started and continue to lead a telehealth organization where I...

The good news is that if you ever go back to the bedside you can re-learn what you may have forgotten. and you will have to learn whatever the technology and research has come forward with. I also left the bedside about 2 years ago (March 13, 2000, ...

Hi, I'm an Iowa RN too. Because I work in telephone triage i am licensed in CA, NM, OH, and IA, I love the interstate compact, it saves a ton of money getting all those extra licenses

Ah, the memories come rolling back. I to (as I am sure is true of many of us) sang "Good-by to Love" solo for a long time. i met my husband at 25, married him at 26 and have been married almost 20 years. During those alone years I learned one real...

I thought NICU nurses believed in the whole family approach to care. The parents have a whole lot more invested in this baby than you do, and flipping off their concerns strikes me as pretty insentive

We can call each other 'girls' you can't.

We night people somehow believe we need less sleep than day people and our friends and family don't seem to understand that interupting our sleep time is NOT OK. Let me just set the record straight. NIGHT PEOPLE NEED TO SLEEP. I find it has be...

This was more than 20 years ago, the research must be almost 30 years old. Sadly I'm not sure that the findings are as out dated as we would hope. I think the public preception of nursing is probably still about the same:

As much as I like getting a shift dif (mine is 2.45, 3.10 on weekends) I really appreciate having fresh food available on shift. Several hospitals I have worked agency for have the grill open until about 2am. Also not being expected to attend meeti...

Only the ones who grew up there

Ashamed of being a nurse ? Definietely not. As I have shared before I would not choose this profession again, and I am not always particularily proud of the job I have done. Shame has never been an emotion I associate with nursing. Why would cari...

As the daughter of an elderly LTC resident (due to a stroke a year ago) I want you all to know how much I appreciate those of you who work LTC with love and patience. It broke my heart when I could not bring mom home to live with my family, but she ...

The current system offers a 3 way entry into nursing (diploma, ADN or BSN,) I see this as an asset rather than a liability. Our profession has career path options that none other has. A 4-5 year BSN program may work well for an 18 year old just lea...

As much as I hate nursing for myself, I would encourage my daughters to become nurses if they showed an interest. The profession does have problems-true, but don't they all. I was told by many people as a child the 'it takes a special person to be ...

Sadly no I would not be a nurse. I don't have the temperment to be a good nurse. It is not a question of intellegence, I am as smart or smarter than most of us, but I am real short on compassion. I went into nursing for the wrong reasons, which i ...

Hi all, Not to contradict Jenny P but Iowa went with the interstate compact in either July of 2000 or January 2001. Which ever it was if you have an Iowa liscense you can practice in a compact state. If you have a compact liscense you can practice ...