Peeps Mcarthur

By Hobbes Good point. There's nothing wrong with buying more texbooks, CD-Roms, or registering for classes that are not required like genetics and patho for premeds. The same enthusiasm can be applied to learning psychosocial variance as a medi...

By Pennylane edited to reflect the original poster.........which is right above this............sorry Pennylane. It's only been a week off of ephedra. Good for you Mel. My experience was a mirror image of yours. Science was skimmed and psychosoc...

Actualy it's not off subject because it gives an opportunity to compare and contrast the different feelings that the phrase "touchy-feely" brings to mind. To me it's a way of expressing the way nursing theory seems to base itself in communicating, so...

No, I'm not selling anything. :) The only reason I post this once in awhile is to give advice to students that are going through what I was. Totally alone in my perceptions thinking there was something wrong with me. The use of the term "touchy-fee...

No, not at all. The reason it's kind of vague is that I have alot of respect for the excellent BB that has be developed here. There is nothing like it on the net. I want to be very careful not to make people that love nursing school feel like they ...

By Sussanna I never worked as a nurse. I got through a semester of nursing classes and decided that the idea of blending medical and nursing theory was not what I thought it would be. I am very satisfied with my decision although 7 credits of no...

By Stopnik I was an RT over 12 years ago. Some of the drudgery of running aerosol txs in succession every 4 hours with the same patients may be done away with by now. There would be nights when I would have 40 pts of varying frequency on differ...

How interesting, Why the gap in education? AAs are basicly premeds........8 cred Genchem,8 cred Organic 8 cred Physics, 8 cred calculus, 8 cred English........a BS in premed is certainly more difficult than a BSN. Still, this doesn't change much yet...

Petrosian, Former RT here. I think the most useful thing about nusing school is what they call psychomotor skills. It's sort of like being able to change vent tubes or pig-rigging a simple mask with a taped t-tube and 6 inches of corrugated tubing. ...

By Rhee Excellent Rhee! Don't forget this. It will slip in when your guard is down. Be focused on YOUR goals and only sensitive to your attitude. It's the only one that counts.

By Sussana They are worlds apart. Like you, I had the same expectations. I left nursing school last year to pursue a degree in medicine as a physician assistant. I discovered that the nursing profession was too far away from medicine for my tast...

By SCRN1 Then how do they apply to everyday nursing? I believe that's the thing.

As others have said, Try to avoid grumbling with the others. It's hard not to fall into it now but it will be impossible later in the core classes when there will be ALOT of irrelevent psychosocial theory. You might as well embrace that now rather ...

I subscribed to this thread just to find out myself. The only reference I have on the matter is Taber's Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary which has a phonetic reference beside each term.

I'm in the central time zone and saw a 20/20 report on VA hospitals last night. I never heard anything good about them but I never heard anything this bad before. It was a hidden camera report and it showed behavior by nurses that was not just unpro...

Made the same decision some months ago. My ghost still lurks around once in a while. I mainly come back for reinforcement of direction from time to time. It always helps just to view one of those "hot button" topics for a few minuets to let the no...

I appreciate the temperance in your post Rnpatl, however, it's just not possible. I also see something that you might think about working on. You've telegraphed a punch with the comment about wanting to keep nursing from evolving. It's a very goo...

All of you that took the time to respond and made an effort to keep bitterness and resentment out of your posts.............thank you. Ya know, I actualy started to change my mindset about this but everything I write is treated as poison with no rede...

By Alnamvet How do they tax them without an SSN?? The 15% social security must be matched by the employer if it's taken out also. They are taking "illegals" to a whole new level and commiting a federal offense. Of course, if they would become cit...

Clearly, nurses think patient care and the ability to perform it makes them experts. That makes everyone that passes the licensing an expert in patient care that supercedes a doctor's patient care. Some are better experts than others of course, but...

That seems reasonable. Testifying as to whether the labs were checked rather than the biochemistry behind the values. I think such semantics are important to discuss and I don't see how it's off track to do so. A reasonable thoughtful post almost a...

PA's and doctors should get a "whiff" of what nurses do for a living. Not a nice sterile shadowing of an RN with an aid doing the dirty work but rather the whole experience. Anyone that's going to be writing orders should know how the order gets car...

I did the same thing as a respiratory therapist and as a student nurse.

Great thread, I admit that I haven't read all 11 pages but I will. This thread has alot of thoughtful ideas. This point may have been made. My point is that why can't we have a program to qualify these illegals as citizens?? Why give them amnesty ...

I think it's quite a stretch to say that I'm putting nurses down in some way. I don't feel that i'm being contemptable towards nursing. That would certainly be silly since I'm posting on a nursing board now wouldn't it? Now, what I DID intend was t...