Rose_Queen BSN, MSN, RN

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  1. As a reminder from the Terms of Service: Please refrain from making things
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    Why Do New Grads Lack Critical Thinking Skills?

    Experienced it many times and been involved in numerous performance remediation plans. I think it’s a combination of poor programs, people that just aren’t a match for healthcare, and previous...
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    New Job, Lost Orientation Packet

    This is one of the things I reinforce multiple times with orientees when I meet with them. Your orientation packet is a record for the facility to record that they have provided you with training to...
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    Why Do New Grads Lack Critical Thinking Skills?

    I’ve been in nursing long enough to remember when the phrase du jour was clinical reasoning or clinical judgment. And it was always impressed upon the new nurses that sound clinical judgment comes...
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    I have a question about COVID Vaccine

    I'm not quite sure whether you're asking if you're contagious from getting the vaccine or whether you're asking if you can still get the virus despite being vaccinated. Your use of contagious isn't...
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    Stony Brook's ABSN Class of 2023

    Welcome to Allnurses, @bquillay! We have moved your post to the Schools/Programs forum for best
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    Stitches on my finger, go in to work?

    Had you gone in, you likely would have been sent to Employee Health for an evaluation of fitness for duty. I know that where I work, sutures on hands basically result in a vacation due to infection...
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    Cgfn requirements

    Hello, @Ramani, and welcome to Allnurses! We have moved your post to the Nurse Registration forum for best
  9. But the families will accept it much easier. There are days I wonder if my mother wouldn’t have spent the last six weeks of her life between hospital and inpatient (futile) rehab back to hospital...
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    FSW FALL 2021 NURSING PROGRAM

    The Terms of Service do not allow for posting names of faculty/staff. The information can be reposted without the names
  11. Numerous posts have been edited or removed. A few reminders from the Terms of Service: Please debate the topic, not other posters. If you are concerned that you will not be able to maintain...
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    University of MN CRNA 2022

    Hello, @Jbert23, we have moved your post to the SRNA forum for best
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    Hospice Nurse Journal Club?

    You can start a club right here on Allnurses! Choose the Breakroom, then the green Start a Breakroom Club
  14. @DK123, since your question is not nursing related, we’ve moved it to the Coffee
  15. A credit score isn’t a score of financial savvy. It’s a score of how good a debt customer you are. Credit score is made up of: Types of debt (revolving vs installment) Debt utilization...
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    sterile technique q for foley insertion

    Technically, skin is never sterilized. The purpose of skin antiseptics such as betadine is to reduce the organisms a set logarithmic amount. (If you want to know how much, the FDA requires certain log...
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    Feel Awful after 1st COVID Vaccination

    I was feeling it after the first shot, and felt like I'd been hit by a truck after the second. But it was less than 48 hours of discomfort, and way better than what I've witnessed at work in patients...
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    COVID-19: Stimulus Checks for Teachers?

    Well, pitting nurses against teachers or anyone else who had to work throughout the pandemic probably isn't the way to go. And also probably unpopular opinion: nurses know going in they are going to...
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    Waiting for my license

    Thread closed for staff
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    I failed the NCLEX

    Welcome to allnurses, @Ash_24. We have moved your thread to the NCLEX forum for best responses. If you read through the posts here, you will see that you are definitely not
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    InEmory Spring 2022

    There are two ways to create a special area for your cohort, that are Terms-of-Service approved. One is to create a facebook page....
  23. Those days are actually coming back in my area. $5,000-$15,000 sign on bonuses are making a reappearance, but tuition assistance up to $5,200 has always been the policy, and annual bonus if we meet...
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    PRN Nursing Benefits Questions

    Welcome to Allnurses, @dlalton! We have separated your post into its own topic. New topics can be created be clicking the green “Add New Topic” button on a forum
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    I really want to be a Scrub nurse

    I’ve looked at that and it isn’t a course- just a foundational certification. It requires a certificate from a perioperative orientation program. Perhaps you’re thinking the reflective learning...