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    Night shift and daylight savings....

    Music in My Heart replied to mappers's topic in General Nursing

    Easy, we follow labor law: Double time after 12 consecutive
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    Noc Nurse perspective...

    Music in My Heart replied to exit96's topic in General Nursing

    I also grew weary of being expected to do all the QC checks and restocking, even if they hadn't been busy at all during the day while I was hopping all
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    Noc Nurse perspective...

    Music in My Heart replied to exit96's topic in General Nursing

    There were several times we came into the breakroom to find the pick-over carcasses of trays of treats and food as well as a terrible mess... and then be scolded for not cleaning up after ourselves...
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    What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

    Music in My Heart replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    From what I see and hear in all kinds of places, including restrooms, I think cell phones are horrid fomites. Would love to see the surveillance folks swab a few of them and see what grows
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    Is math in nursing hard? Maybe I should reconsider nursing?

    Music in My Heart replied to brenay's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    To everybody: Please stop the disempowering statements about yourselves. Unless you have a math learning disability, you CAN learn what you need in order to due dosage calculations. Even with a...
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    Nurses, how are you going to vote? 2012 US Presidential Election

    Music in My Heart replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

    Due to concern about potential appointment(s) to SCOTUS, against Romney and
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    Having a celebrity as a patient

    Music in My Heart replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    That would be me... I am totally out of touch with pop culture, particularly TV. I wouldn't know even the "household names.""Do you know who I am?" "Um...
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    A Preemie Teaches Me...

    Music in My Heart replied to EarlyAdditionRN's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Seeing the baby, not the environment... (she was actually vented, etc.) Preemie
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    What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

    Music in My Heart replied to fakebee's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I'm often tapping on my phone but it's usually accessing one of the many useful apps or entering notes and reminders. I was once scolded in an inservice... I was simply taking notes... and mostly the...
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    Question: Soon to be New Nurse and A Job

    Music in My Heart replied to Soliloquy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'd say stick it out for awhile. As a new nurse, having supportive coworkers and a supportive manager is huge... and perhaps you will be (as a less expensive nurse) part of helping to solve the...
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    Jon Stewart Puzzled Why Combat Medics Can't Apply for Nursing Jobs

    Music in My Heart replied to kabfighter's topic in Government, Military

    I was speaking to a friend regarding her boyfriend who wanted to challenge the RN licensing procedure because he had been a medic. "He even knows how to suture," she said. "Well that's great," I said,...
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    Is math in nursing hard? Maybe I should reconsider nursing?

    Music in My Heart replied to brenay's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The level of math required is 7th-grade pre-algebra. If you can manage a B+ in college algebra then you have the skill and the smarts to succeed in the rudimentary math of nursing school. Not all...
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    Does this job offer sound good?

    Music in My Heart replied to ThinkAgain's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    My experience has been that there's no 'normal' insofar as offers goes. I've had it across the spectrum, including no formal letter at all. I wouldn't get worked up about
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    Does this job offer sound good?

    Music in My Heart replied to ThinkAgain's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Whether or not it's a good offer depends on a variety of factors, many of which are mentioned in the preceding posts. It also depends on your present employment status. If you don't presently have a...
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    DSD certification?

    Music in My Heart replied to buzzalong's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I think 'certification' is pointless; in the two California SNFs that I've been around, the 'DSD' is a title conferred by the institution, not a 'certification.' Unless it was germane to the...
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    The Disrespect Of Nurses

    Music in My Heart replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    First off, it is the district attorney who decides whether to press charges - it has nothing to do with the employer, nor necessarily even with the victim. That is, if the victim wants to press...
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    Interesting Physician Perspective On NPs

    Music in My Heart replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Sure... not to mention scarcity. Pretty much top of the scale through all categories,
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    Interesting Physician Perspective On NPs

    Music in My Heart replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Regardless, I think that the top of the nursing world is the CRNA... Evidence? Look at the
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    The Disrespect Of Nurses

    Music in My Heart replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I worked at a place that was sometimes more tolerant than it should've been. I helped a couple of colleagues write a letter to the CEO, HR director, risk manger, and medical chief-of-staff a few key...
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    My appearance being an issue

    Music in My Heart replied to CNAEB's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Besides, you could have perfectly unremarkable eyes and still have an issue made of them. I was told that I had "Devil Eyes" just before a patient tried to gouge them out of my head. So far as I'm...
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    Nursing Interview Questions (Part 2)

    Music in My Heart replied to TheCommuter's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I'm kind of weird because an answer like that would make you a real person to me... and separate you from all the folks with the canned answers. I'd follow up with questions about how you cope with...
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    Med Math Examples

    Music in My Heart replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Yes.. the "sniff test!!" In engineering analysis classes we were always instructed to check for the "reasonableness" of the answer. I think a lot of people would do well to spend time with a...
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    Med Math Examples

    Music in My Heart replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Agreed... some people have difficulty, however, with the idea that numbers and units are algebraically equivalent, hence the decision not to skip any steps at all. My personal approach is to do a...
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    Do I REALLY need a BSN?

    Music in My Heart replied to myschuler's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    And if you can't engage in civil dialogue without the need for petty put-downs then perhaps...oh well, I'll refrain from the
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    Drug Card Template for Nursing Students

    Music in My Heart replied to stanjones1962's topic in General Students

    Here is a thread with the ones that I