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    Fresh Air

    Music in My Heart replied to exit96's topic in Emergency

    I love working in the ED... except those nights where I end up boarding m/s patients... then, I just tolerate it and take comfort in realizing that my name will soon be back at the top of the rotation...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    Music in My Heart replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    My personal experience echos those of your associates. Strict, yes... difficult,
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    Music in My Heart replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I suppose it's a matter of philosophy and what constitutes sufficient foundational education.Much of education in many fields isn't strictly needed in order to practice the vocation. However,...
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    I apologize

    Music in My Heart replied to uRNmyway's topic in Emergency

    Believe me, I agree... but also see the fallacy in the reasoning as I've seen several patients die because they didn't present with the sx of sepsis nearly soon enough.Before I became a nurse, I very...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    Music in My Heart replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    The fact that you have "absolutely no idea what to say" on one of these topics suggests to me that this is a perfect assignment for you.If you could sit down and whip out a quality paper with little...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    Music in My Heart replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I imagine that many a med student and resident could make the same statement. The answer, I suppose, is that those topics are considered foundational to basic practice.Many a mechanical engineering...
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    NURSING...the to die for career...hmm

    Music in My Heart replied to lkulmann's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Talk about being a riot... You make a comment that, "If the CEO of the hospital is making 2 million/yr they could afford to take much better care of the nurses" and then seek to ridicule me when I...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    Music in My Heart replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I have mixed feelings about this topic. My MSN program was laden with papers and I often found it frustrating. I entered nursing expecting to invest the bulk of my time on hard-science topics and was...
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    Gay male nurse concern about male patient care

    Music in My Heart replied to Devon Rex's topic in Male Nursing Students

    That's been my personal experience... it wasn't about orientation, only gender.He didn't even want a male doctor. He was given the choice... me and the male doc now or back to the waiting room to wait...
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    NURSING...the to die for career...hmm

    Music in My Heart replied to lkulmann's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Fallacious reasoning...Say there are 2,000 nurses in the system... Eliminate the CEO and distribute that 2,000,000 per year among the nurses... $1,000 per
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    only arousable to painful stimuli

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

    ABCs - vital signs - blood sugar - quick check of the pupils - call the MD and/or rapid response team as
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    Gay male nurse concern about male patient care

    Music in My Heart replied to Devon Rex's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I really wonder... how does anybody know whether a nurse is straight or gay? Some of my coworkers know I'm straight because I've mentioned my wife in casual conversation but for the most part, unless...
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    Emt or cna..which is better route?

    Music in My Heart replied to emily12345's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I'm an ER nurse at a level 1 trauma center. We have no CNAs; our techs are EMTs or paramedics. I did both EMT and CNA and I can't really recommend the latter. It's a role that's very helpful to the...
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    Side rail stories

    Music in My Heart replied to Bringonthenight's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    While I was in nursing school I read a couple of articles pertaining to side rails and found just what was related to you: That side rails are associated with an increase in injurious falls without a...
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    LOC or ABC first?

    Music in My Heart replied to Caffeinated RN's topic in Emergency

    It's for peds in general, not just infants... check out PALS. The only adults who get compressions are those without a
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    NEW TO THE ER WORLD

    Music in My Heart replied to CaribeRN's topic in Emergency

    I agree with this sentiment - and defer to someone with 10x more time-in-grade than me - but I prefer to spin it as "...fine, but it's your PATIENT." Practice the way that you would want your child's...
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    NEW TO THE ER WORLD

    Music in My Heart replied to CaribeRN's topic in Emergency

    I love working in the ED (most of the time), especially at an academic facility... great relations with the docs and a team environment with the other nurses unlike anything else I've seen. One thing...
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    57 and need to start over YET AGAIN!

    Music in My Heart replied to Bailey246's topic in Nursing Career

    "Like" as in "acknowledge" and "empathize..." besides you investing your time here, there's not much to like-like in your post. I wish I could make things right and just in the world. "I would have...
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    Job market- ADN students being warned?

    Music in My Heart replied to hope3456's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    In this area, there is HUGE competition for new-grad jobs... and a fair amount even for the decent jobs requiring experience. While the ADN students have a chance, the local hospitals are all "BSN...
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    cardiac help!

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

    This may seem goofy but... spend some time playing with a garden hoses... turn the water up high and low... put your finger over the end... get some pvc fittings and neck it down (keeping the faucet...
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    warmed saline

    Music in My Heart replied to wakyone's topic in Operating Room

    To use the warmed saline to in turn warm an implant is probably OK but certainly not best practice and likely to earn a ding if JC or CMS were in the house. The rep didn't even check his equipment...
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    Which states are great for nurses to work in??

    Music in My Heart replied to tua42321's topic in General Nursing

    California is an at-will state (you can be terminated at any time for no reason at all). However, many hospitals are unionized and even many of those that aren't have solid contracts because they're...
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    New grad feeling left out

    Music in My Heart replied to lovelylady3's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OP, I don't know you but I had a coworker who, though having been a nurse a year longer than me, was still asking very basic questions of me when she was at the 18 month mark. By the time I left, she...
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    NURSING...the to die for career...hmm

    Music in My Heart replied to lkulmann's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Elkpark is right on the money, here. What has to give? The reality is that nurses are fairly easy and inexpensive to train (as compared to pilots, for example), the barrier to entry, ADN or BSN, is...
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    "Throwing Out" questions on a test

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

    The easy solution with these goofy multiple choice tests (the very concept of which is lame, IMO) is to always have a none-of-the-above... and then evaluate challenges on a case-by-case