tnbutterfly - Mary BSN

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    2017 Nursing Salaries by State, Degree, and License - Highest & Lowest

    Only full time employees were asked for their annual pay as reported to the IRS. The figures shown above combine full time hourly and salary employees. Data from all hourly employees including part...
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    2017 Nursing Salaries by State, Degree, and License - Highest & Lowest

    You are correct. The full results will have interactive charts where you can compare experience, age, specialty,
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    2017 Nursing Salaries by State, Degree, and License - Highest & Lowest

    These figures are based on the data provided by the survey participants. However, there were only 7 ADN nurses who responded compared to 17 BSN nurses. With those low numbers, one high or one low...
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    Age of Nurse = Level of Experience? Or Not?? The survey says...

    This article is meant to present the facts. The demographics of nursing have changed. No one said this is for better or worse. It's a fact. I am a baby boomer myself and proud of it. However when I...
  5. Last year at the AACN National Teaching Institute and Critical Care Exposition (NTI), I had the opportunity to interview Mary Fran Tracy, Editor of the AACN Advanced Critical Care Journal and a...
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    So You Want to Be Published: Just Do It!

    We hope to get more healthcare writers actively posting in this forum..... Nurse Entrepreneurs / Innovators
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    THE HEALER

    Thank you for sharing what must've been an unbearably painful experience. Many will be touched by the raw emotions as well as inspired by your
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    IVEA - The Innovative Replacement for the IV Pole - NTI

    No, it is not. Members of the allnurses staff attended NTI where we saw this product and decided to report on it. Sponsored topics on allnurses are clearly
  9. We all know that nursing is a stressful profession. We don't own the market on stressful jobs. But the source of our job stresses come from a different source that may elevate us higher up the ladder....
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    Tools for the Freelance Writer

    The National Nurses in Business Association (NNBA) conference provides lots of informative sessions for those new to freelancing as well as seasoned freelancers. There are an abundance of networking...
  11. Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child, a precious baby boy named William John Kimmel, on Friday, April 21, 2017 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. He appeared to be a normal healthy baby, until...
  12. Nurses week......what does that bring to mind for you? Are you one of the lucky nurses that has an employer/non-nurse co-workers who express their appreciation to you and other nurses you work with by...
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    Jimmy Kimmel Thanks Nurses Who Saved His Infant Son's Life

    It's good to know that we are more than nameless faces to some. Thanks Jimmy for recognizing the skillful nurses who made a difference in Billy's
  14. The International Parish Nurse Resource Center (IPNRC) moved from the Deaconess Foundation in St. Louis to the Church Health Center (CHC) in Memphis on Oct. 1. Since 1986, the IPNRC has been a leading...
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    Gender Pay Gap in Nursing: 2017 Salary Survey vs. 2015?

    The graphs are interactive. You can select various filters including location, years of experience, gender, specialty,degree, etc. We have separate graphs for hourly pay and salary pay. You will be...
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    Injection Gone Wrong: Part 2

    This author is an allnurses.com writer and this post was approved by allnurses.com As stated before, she has no motives other than to share this story. She has not even suggested she is against...
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    Injection Gone Wrong: Part 2

    Remember....the author of this article is just retelling a series of events as they were told to her by the person who has suffered immensely due to an incorrect procedure for administering an...
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    Gender Pay Gap in Nursing: 2017 Salary Survey vs. 2015?

    The allnurses survey is using data collected from more than 18,000 respondents. The data will be presented in interactive charts in which you can change various filters such as age, gender, years of...
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    Allnurses needs nurses

    I can't LIKE this one enough. Thanks for your comments. This exemplifies the mission that has been in place since the creation of
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    ADN or BSN: What's the Big Deal?

    The title is not "ADN versus BSN", but instead "ADN or BSN: What's the Big Deal?" It is not the intention of this article to pit one nurse against the other but rather to look at the data provided by...
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    Medical Tourism

    There is even a Medical Tourism
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    Liquor Licenses for Nursing Homes?

    A newly signed legislation is allowing "homes for the aged" to get liquor licenses. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said in a press release Will there be a mass move of "the aged" to Michigan? New...
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    Allnurses needs nurses

    Just want to give you an update. Because of your comments re. too many errant student threads in the General Nursing forum and our own observations, we have been investigating and discovered a...
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    Allnurses needs nurses

    Just want you to know that although no staff has posted in this thread, we are reading your comments and value your input. I certainly agree with the title - "Allnurses needs nurses." We always...
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    Aspen University RN to BSN

    Moved to School / College Programs forum. You might some find some helpful information by browsing through threads in this