Selke

Selke

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  1. NP w/no desire for RN?

    Selke replied to Pinoy2.0's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    :yeahthat: And if you don't get sufficient financial aid to pay your living expenses (not to mention tuition, &c), or if you don't have a spouse/partner/parent/trust fund paying your way through...

  2. Basal Body Temp and Working Nights

    Selke replied to NurseyBaby'05's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have a dumb question, unrelated to your post. What does "bump" mean? I've seen this in other places and can't figure it out.

  3. Are NP's also RN's?

    Selke replied to Flange10's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I learned that CNMs in CT don't have to have actual RN licensure. There may be other states like this, I don't know. They have to be "eligible" for RN licensure, that is, pass NCLEX. So much for the...

  4. Frustrated with the image of nursing

    Selke replied to Missa's topic in General Nursing

    Sandy Summers has a great website in which she critiques media images of nursing: http://nursingadvocacy.org/news/news.html She also critiques that sickening Johnson & Johnson nursing campaign...

  5. Frustrated with the image of nursing

    Selke replied to Missa's topic in General Nursing

    Not to derail the thread or get flamed, but I just want to interject a comment that I think this point you just made is the exact reason why many of the direct entry students (with non nursing...

  6. Lost Job because of background!!

    Selke replied to SeanyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I urge you to get an FBI fingerprinted background check on yourself, and also get a background check through the state police of the state in which the offense occurred, to see what is on them. Don't...

  7. Experience with Celexa....

    Selke replied to luvmy2angels's topic in General Nursing

    Your depression IS NOT THE BUSINESS OF ANY SCHOOL. Would you make a point of telling them in your application that you're a diabetic or hypertensive, for example? Would you tell a potential employer...

  8. Special-Needs for Returning SN Dropout?

    Selke replied to Nutmeg Kit's topic in General Nursing

    Have you considered other health professions, such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, recreational therapy? Or radiation or ultrasound technology? There are other venues in which you can be...

  9. How much did you start as a nurse and when.

    Selke replied to ZASHAGALKA's topic in General Nursing

    As a new BSN grad in Chicago in 1989, $12.56/hr day

  10. does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    Selke replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Would you mind giving examples of this? One example of how modern medicine is 100 years behind the current sciences? Which sciences? Which diagnostic machines work on principles that modern...

  11. Examples of Horizontal Violence

    Selke replied to UnderpaidNurse's topic in General Nursing

    search the forums for nurse bullying, horizontal violence, nurses eating their young, &c. there are several out there. there are also websites like http://www.bullyonline.org/ which deal with...

  12. National criminal background check for school

    Selke replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    Ask the school what they want and where to get it, but I bet they want an FBI background check. You can google this to find out how to do it. Some states, like California, require the applicant get...

  13. does therapeutic touch belong in grad programs?

    Selke replied to traumahawk99's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Well, hate to shock you further, but "that ivy" has a workshop or course on reiki, which is the updated version of TT. Lots of students there, esp in my program, are uncritically into alternative...

  14. I didn't get all this education to wipe behinds!

    Selke replied to SeekingNur's topic in General Nursing

    Some families help out because I think they're just inclined to help care for their own, and they see how the nurses are overworked and running around all shift trying to keep up with the workload and...

  15. Excellent Patient & Nursing Teaching Site

    Selke replied to athomemom56's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you so much for sharing that! It's wonderful! I'm someone who tunes out any discussion of cardiac function and can never remember exactly how it works, so this is really

  16. Big bad nurse bully

    Selke replied to Canadian Princess's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes! Yes! Yes! You've nailed it! Amen to this. And if you're not a bully you will not be promoted, will not be seen as "leadership material", will not become the manager's "pet" (because under this...

  17. Shoulder dystocia drills

    Selke replied to janetrnc's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Do you know about the perinatal RN listserv? You would get an answer from managers, CNS, CNMs, others who run OB units and could answer your specific question: Perinatal List:...

  18. Shoulder dystocia drills

    Selke replied to janetrnc's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Have you heard of ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics)? http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/cme/aafpcourses/clinicalcourses/also.html Shoulder dystocia drills are included in this program. I'm...

  19. Volunteer work reqd for UCSF- MEPN admission

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

    Here's a few thoughts. You are asking a great question. How you figure out an answer to this can help guide you in your future career. So you should be enthusiastic about doing volunteer work, not...

  20. My love for financial aid offices...

    Selke replied to birthmamaew's topic in Post Graduate Students

    i think we go to the same school! my motto is: those people in that office should be fired! i warn everyone coming to my school that fa ppl should be fired. i told the new class to get independent...

  21. Cool ER Nurse Recruitment Video

    Selke posted a topic in General Nursing

    Take a look at this great nursing recruitment rap video made by a few ER nurses: http://nursingadvocacy.org/media/recruitment/barton_rap.html Click on the link in the article. It's great! I'm writing...

  22. Cesarean Art exhibition

    Selke posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Check this out.

  23. A little humor. You might be from Illinois if...

    Selke replied to Pixiesmom's topic in Illinois Nursing

    I wish someone would bring me a stuffed spinach pizza! Everyplace I moved after leaving Chicago I automatically call the paper "the Trib" before correcting myself ... that was when I realized it...

  24. to study in canada or USA? that is the question

    Selke replied to nursetobe4texas's topic in General Nursing

    I have been hearing lately that graduates of Canadian schools are better prepared clinically than graduates of American nursing schools -- they have many more clinical hours (not sure of specifics)....

  25. Cesarean Art exhibition

    Selke replied to Selke's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Someone posted it to an oby-gyne listserv. I think it's approprate to share with others who care for childbearing women. Think of the escalating c-section rate and the long term impact that's going...