Selke

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  1. Do additional college degrees help when looking for a nursing job?

    Selke replied to krazykev's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience, NO. I'm better educated than nearly every RN and manager I've known and my degrees (including a master's from U of Chicago) have gotten me nothing but grief in nursing. A liberal...

  2. Online FNP programs???

    Selke replied to sandys's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing offers a distance FNP, as well as its more well known CNM. You go to Hyden KY a couple of times for a week, and do coursework online whereever you feel...

  3. Preceptors

    Selke replied to LaborNurse1's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Your school should be helping you with this. Don't they have someone whose job it is to help students with clinical placement? They have to certify and approve clinical sites, after all. Talk with...

  4. Anyone know about California?

    Selke replied to nsFAMU's topic in Travel

    You don't want to drive to California? You wimp :) I drove here from Wisconsin because I need my car and a rental wasn't possible from the agency I'm using here (Bestaff). I'm working L&D at a...

  5. Finding a Job as a CNM

    Selke replied to Curls105's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Here's my two cents: Once you start your CNM program, your school and faculty will probably hear of jobs and pass this information onto the students. Sometimes students are hired by the practices at...

  6. background checks

    Selke replied to sandals's topic in Travel

    The travel agencies I've signed with all had me sign a waiver for a background check, maybe credit check, things like that. However, I was told once by an agency that they don't always do these...

  7. Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    Selke replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    What was I thinking, going to graduate school? I've been an RN since 1989. You have enlightened me. I am too old, have been a dumb ol' nurse waaaay too long, have no critical thinking skills, and...

  8. Intimidation and Threats in Nursing School

    Selke replied to Pianoforte's topic in General Nursing

    You've gotten good advice here. Get a restraining order, get the courts or police involved with this. This guy is dangerous and unbalanced and needs to be kicked out of nursing school. Have you...

  9. Looking down on those who take lunch breaks???

    Selke replied to mismissy69's topic in General Nursing

    Do those in other professions, particularly male-dominated ones, and those with more prestige than nursing, "look down on those who take lunch breaks?" Do you hear electricians, plumbers, physicians,...

  10. Nurses are Pathetic!!

    Selke replied to lorster's topic in General Nursing

    :yeahthat: There are exceptions, of course, but ... maybe instead of "pathetic," try "dysfunctional" or

  11. Lift Team

    Selke replied to Ophelia78's topic in General Nursing

    The worst is when dinosaur management spouts their blaming-the-nurse mantra of "if you hurt yourself it's your fault because you are using improper technique." And they wonder why they can't recruit...

  12. Lift Team

    Selke replied to Ophelia78's topic in General Nursing

    Lift teams should be mandatory by law in every health care facility in the country. You work for a very good place. I bet they take care of their nurses in other ways,

  13. Vanderbilt or Columbia Midwifery program?

    Selke replied to starryeyed's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Just bear in mind that the Ivy League isn't what it's cracked up to be ... Ivy League nursing schools aren't bad, they are average programs with that "Ivy League" name which makes one assume they're...

  14. Anyone ever travel to an Indian reservation?

    Selke replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Travel

    I suspect the issues surrounding staffing and other issues are common to any hospital in remote or rural areas, and also from just being a governmental facility. Each one is different, however. Good...

  15. Anyone ever travel to an Indian reservation?

    Selke replied to webbiedebbie's topic in Travel

    If you are travelling with an ill older person to the reservation, you need to check out the health care facilities in the area. You all will not be elgible for care at an IHS or tribal hospital...

  16. Baby Steps to a goal of becoming a Nurse Midwife?

    Selke replied to DesertRain's topic in Nursing Career

    obrnheather, Thanks for the information on Holy Family. I already know about them but it never hurts to repeat for those who may not have heard of them. One of my plans was sort of hoping to work...

  17. So....when would you just say enough is enough and leave?????

    Selke replied to mom2michael's topic in General Nursing

    That place is killing you, and the manager is spiteful and vindictive. I'd just quit. Give HR and the manager written notice, then don't return. Start the other job. Don't put this current toxic...

  18. would you be a RN for $11.00/hr?

    Selke replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hell no. I have a BSN, am licensed by the state, am a professional. I deserve to be compensated for my educational level, professional licensure, years of experience, and professional knowledge and...

  19. Can I do this???

    Selke replied to *Bethany*'s topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    Dear Bethany, Are you aware a bill has been introduced into the Illinois State Senate to legalize birth centers? I've copied information below, plus contact information. They need volunteers to...

  20. how to manage multiple patients on L & D

    Selke replied to SpudID's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree -- sounds like you have too many patients, and this is UNSAFE. I think AWHONN has standards published, and California mandates no more than 2 L&D patients, and it becomes 1:1 when second...

  21. Re: all the Toxic Coworker/Boss threads: Jerk-proof the workplace

    Selke posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just saw this on today's online San Francisco Chronicle: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/24/MNGMPOAK5A1.DTL About Robert Sutton's book, "The No -- hole Rule: Building a...

  22. Re: all the Toxic Coworker/Boss threads: Jerk-proof the workplace

    Selke replied to Selke's topic in General Nursing

    I posted this in the wrong forum ... I meant to post it to the General Forum, and it looks like it is in the General Nursing Student

  23. My job has no meaning

    Selke replied to PHLEBOTOMIST_TO_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I want to say that I have a huge amount of respect for phlebotomists, lab technicians, and anybody else who works in patient care (RTs, PTs, pharmacists, xray techs, &c &c). Thank you for...

  24. RN seeking FNP, have BA in SLP and drive a BMW. HA!

    Selke replied to jaltman's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Your best bet to get your question answered is to start calling graduate nursing programs and speaking to someone there about

  25. Frustrated and Sad

    Selke replied to MagicalThinking's topic in General Nursing

    Why not apply to a directy-entry MSN program? You're already taking the GRE, and these programs don't have the waiting lists undergraduate nursing programs