Nurse Carol

Nurse Carol has 36 years experience and specializes in Nursing Education.

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1. bring back diploma they can function on graduation

   Nurse Carol replied to Susan Boff's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   I did not mean to insinuate that nurses other than BSN don't have some good preparation. There are great schools, great instructors, great students at many different levels. Only that since I have...

2. New Grad: Dream Job in the ICU and I Hate it....

   Nurse Carol replied to GeninRN's topic in Health, Stress Management

   I felt just like this 30 years ago when I was a new nurse. But I had invested so much time and money into nursing school and was too proud to leave nursing and I am glad I didn't. After the first...

3. bring back diploma they can function on graduation

   Nurse Carol replied to Susan Boff's topic in Nursing Professionalism

   I think we may have to move to a somewhat hybrid model in nursing education. I don't think the BSN new grads are completely prepared but by the same token part of that is due to the lack of clinical...

4. I want to be a nurse with a 9-5 job w/ weekends and holidays off

   Nurse Carol replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

   Actually there are many areas of nursing with 9-5 jobs: School nurses, home health for the most part is 9-5, public health, clinic nurses, nurses that work for the state surveying nursing homes and...

5. Is this weird? New employee occupational health.

   Nurse Carol replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

   Only at the VA have I experienced something like this. Seems a little weird alright. Next thing they will want your