Jeffthenurse

I've been teaching PN students for the past three years and I'm very proud of the graduates and what they've been able to accomplish after just a year in school. We have an 87% pass rate on the boards and most of the graduates have jobs in nursing....

In my experience as a nursing instructor I've found that the flunk-out rate among students who worked full time was very high. Every semester we warned students not to try to work full-time and go to school full-time and still they tried and most fa...

Shodobe, I'm neither a used car salesman nor a sales rep, I'm a Master's prepared RN with many years of staff, management, education, and home care experience who happens to have a radio show on a major Philadelphia, PA station. Actually, radio is ...

No, I'm not trolling for anything. I've had this feeling about OR nurses for a long time and this site and Beth's article gave me an opportunity to voice my opinion. I'd rather see an educated, experienced nurse working in an area where she or he c...

I have been practicing nursing for over 33 years as a staff nurse, nursing supervisor, nurse manager, educator, preceptor for new nurses and/or students, clinical instructor, and health care sales rep, and all of these jobs entailed more than holding...

Thank you for a well written, informative, thorough article. I still feel however, that OR nurses are overqualified for the position. Any nurse would be overqualified. The patients are only in the OR for a short time, informed consent, NPO status, t...

You're talking about the CRNA Boards? Couldn't you take another course in another school and then retake the boards? Are your courses applicable to a Nurse Practitioner program? Do you have trouble taking tests? Won't your professors mentor you by...

I worked for ATC several years ago and I thought they were a good company. They sent me to clinics, doctors' offices, insurance companies, and other alternative (non-hospital) settings because that's what I wanted. They also have hospitals and nurs...

Take care of yourself first! How could you work a 12 hour shift if you were in pain? Make it up to your manager by working an extra weekend or by working the next two holidays. You're a team-player, you should get some sympathy from your co-worker...

Happy Chanukah and a Happy and Healthy New Year, too!

I've been hurt on the job before and reported any injury that caused continuous pain. If I was able to take two advils or tylenols in order to continue my shift and the pain went away, then I wouldn't report it but if the pain continued, I did. I wa...

I flunked Fundamentals of Nursing, took a semester off and worked as a nurses' aide, then returned to school and earned my BSN. Later I earned an MN (Master of Nursing). Take a few deep breaths, then go talk to your instructors and the Dean and see ...

I think the reason that it can be difficult to work with some women these days is because of all the sexual abuse they had to put up with for so long. I'm careful now about the jokes I tell but I haven't lost my sense of humor and I can usually find...

I had two friends who worked there several years ago, one male and one female. There's no freedom of religion; if you're Jewish, they won't let you in the country. A female nurse won't have the same privileges as a man----can't rent a car, can't go o...

I've worked at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ as a temp RN and as a nursing instructor. They are understaffed in some areas, just like most hospitals. I didn't like med-surg but liked critical-care there. When Governor Corzine of NJ was in...

I could go on and on with this topic....I've been a nurse for over 30 years and worked with some really terrific female nurses and made many friends because I showed them respect. When I was a student I was also interested in dating several of my cl...

Doctors are independent contractors, nurses are hospital employees. The doctors bring in the money and the nurses are easier and less expensive to replace. If all nurses worked for an agency or registry and became independent contractors, we could av...

I read some of the articles you referred to and I still don't agree with your statements about foreign nurses ruining it for all of us. Those articles didn't prove your point. I think it's great that well-trained nurses from all over the world can co...

I worked as a temp a few years ago at two Kindred hospitals in Philadelphia, PA, and I worked with several very good foreign-trained nurses and respiratory therapists. I also felt that the patients at Kindred Healthcare overall received good care and...

In my experience as an instructor I've found that salaries for instructors are often LESS than for a staff nurse and nursing schools are unwilling to have their students do clinical on the 3P-11P or 11P-7A shifts. I taught Psychiatric Nursing in a bi...

What you're describing is a variation of "The Examination Dream," a dream that has been studied in people with college degrees and those without. Some dream that they're in their underwear(or less) in public, sometimes it comes to me as I'm working t...

I've taught in nursing schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. NJ is not backwards in making that law about the 10:1 radio of students to professors. Think about having each student pass meds to their 2 patients--very time consuming, long periods on ...

Why didn't the OP just call security? I've done it before and it helped resolve the situation. You have to stand up for yourself.

Why should nurses be held to a different standard? Because nurses are always thought of as guilty before having to prove our innocence which is the opposite of how our judicial system works! I don't know of any nurse who is perfect and I'm really di...