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    Reforming nursing education...

    Music in My Heart replied to SteffersRN87's topic in General Nursing

    Yes it is... it's far more costly than needed to create an excellent bedside nurse. It would endow most of its students with a skillset far beyond what they would use or need.I'd far rather see the...
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    WHERE are the CNL's??????

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

    That's unfortunate because CNL is a certification attained through specific education and examination. It's actually a registered
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    Nurse Anaesthetist Course

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

    Your GPA is calculated by dividing your total number of grade points by the total number of units attempted.Being a foreign graduate, you may need to have your transcripts evaluated and certified by a...
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    Grr! "Customer Service" Nursing Gone Crazy!

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

    You've got quite the business mind there, Moogie. It's kind of like the concept of designed obsolescence wherein products are intentionally built to be just reliable enough to sell but unreliable...
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    Grr! "Customer Service" Nursing Gone Crazy!

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

    "Hey nurse, could you get me a soda?" "Sorry, I'm dreadfully busy at the moment but the machine's right down the hall. Wait a sec, here's 6 bits, grab me one while you're down there. Thanks a...
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    Grr! "Customer Service" Nursing Gone Crazy!

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

    I shudder at the thought. "Would you like some C. diff with your potatoes, Mrs.
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    Grr! "Customer Service" Nursing Gone Crazy!

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

    I believe that it's less about codependency than it is about powerlessness. Individual, at-will-employed nurses are vulnerable. With good management (and thankfully my new hospital has it), it's not a...
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    New national nurses union forms

    Music in My Heart replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Regarding the American auto industry, please note that Ford did not require any public intervention and appears to be on the right path... and they, too, are unionized. To be sure, the UAW has...
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    International editions of textbooks

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

    Almost certainly a violation of their contracts with the
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    PICC Line Threading ANP (would this be valuable?)

    Music in My Heart replied to Born2BWild's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My father used to say, "Never turn down an opportunity to learn something new." That approach served him well and has served me well. I think you'd be wise to do it irrespective of its impact on your...
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    Ideas for a clinical "cheat sheet" ?

    Music in My Heart replied to AOx1's topic in General Students

    No suggestions but serious kudos. You sound like a fabulous
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    International editions of textbooks

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

    International versions of textbooks are analogous to international versions of medications... the same product, just a whole lot more expensive here in the US of A. So kind of us to subsidize the rest...
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    89.90! 1 tenth from an A :(

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

    Not mine. You'd still be 1.1% too low... try 95.5 if you want the
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    Can an LPN get a job as a CNA?

    Music in My Heart replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a newly minted RN and also a CNA. Until I was recently hired I was applying for CNA jobs but couldn't get anywhere. I'm sure they knew that the moment I had a nursing gig that I was gone. You may...
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    New national nurses union forms

    Music in My Heart replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Yes. It's generally less common to find someone who's just barely going through the motions and doing the minimum they can get away with under a contract. As a nurse manager related to me: "I get...
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    Staying late to complete your work

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

    I'm not certain if it's Federal labor law or California law (the former, I think) but as a non-exempt employee you simply cannot stay and work without being paid. By law, the employer must pay you...
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    89.90! 1 tenth from an A :(

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

    Of course you're disappointed. However, wherever the cut-off is, there may always be someone who's just a tenth or two away. The cut-off is what it is and you missed it. Disappointing, of course, but...
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    New passing standard for the NCLEX-RN Examination to Start on APRIL 1, 2010

    Music in My Heart replied to bogchi2000's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    They're probably thinking, "Geez, nearly 90% of first-time takers are passing the test... and we're hearing continuing reports about new licensees being knowledge deficient... perhaps we should make...
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    New grads over 30, are you having trouble getting interviews?

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

    Gross over-generalization. Our program had 20 hours more clinical than one of the local ADN programs and about 30 hours fewer than another.And in anecdotal comparisons of my clinical experiences with...
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    New grads over 30, are you having trouble getting interviews?

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

    I had a similar problem... too many positions in too few years. There were very sound reasons for each change but that's tough to communicate in the 20 seconds that they take to review your papers...
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    NCLEX RN...75 questions only! Good or bad

    Music in My Heart replied to rach78's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Try to chill. You don't help yourself by making yourself crazy over it. You'll know soon enough. For what it's worth, I also got 75 questions and my theory was that I know too much to have failed at...
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    FIRED

    Music in My Heart replied to HollieLPN09's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    My first thought upon reading the story was, "Hmmm, at-will employee, huh?." That kind of stuff is much harder with a well-written employment contract, the kind that's negotiated by a good union under...
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    New national nurses union forms

    Music in My Heart replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I'll admit it -- I look at the value of a nursing union in terms of what it can do for me... At the local union hospitals, their contracts don't allow for call-offs. You work what your full-time...
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    Grr! "Customer Service" Nursing Gone Crazy!

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

    I guess I'd argue that, if you had a patient who really was "circling the drain," then you couldn't comply with their request. No harm, no
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    Grr! "Customer Service" Nursing Gone Crazy!

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

    But only as a group. Individuals will simply be terminated... no shortage of folks looking for work.The resistance by so many nurses to the idea of standardized contracts still just blows me