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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Yes they are, even those with associates
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Absolutly not the case. All of those countries you mentioned have plenty of diploma RNs practising. E ***It's worth remembering that some of those countries have 3 year BSN programs that differ...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Better tell the associates degree PA programs out there. Physician Assistant Program City Colleges of Chicago - Physician Assistant Associate in Applied Science General Information - Primary Care...
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    Do you like your long commute?

    PMFB-RN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    *** Ya you gotta have a manager who will work with you on the schedual. As far as roomates go. The waw our scheduals work I only share the apartment one day per pay period with one roomate who also...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** No need to imply it, we aren't. How many of them punch time clocks like factory workers and nurses do? *** Yes. In my hospital nurses as well as those you mentioned are all union. *** My union...
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    Professionals or "workers"

    PMFB-RN replied to blackribbon's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    *** Except for all the other fields that don't require a bachelors degree like physician assistants, respiratory therapists, paramedics,
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    12 hour shifts...dangerous?

    PMFB-RN replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    From what you have read? Does that mean you don't have personal experience working 12's? I think what you wrote is incorrect and certainly does not match my personal experience. I think maybe if you...
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    Do you like your long commute?

    PMFB-RN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    *** Well let's say it's less than ideal. However I REALLY REALLY love my job and I really love the great little small town where my family lives. We live on 43 acres in the country with a creek,...
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    The Slow Code: Justified?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** Neither have I seen a slow code on a peds patient in 18 years of
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    The Slow Code: Justified?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** There has been a lot of discussion in this topic and I didn't realize you were refering to the OP. Standing by and doing nothing when a person is full code may or may not be disterbing and...
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    Do you like your long commute?

    PMFB-RN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    I drive 3 hours each way to work. I work stretches of 12's and then go home, usually 4 on 6 off, 2 on 2 off and it repeats each two weeks (make the round trip twice each two weeks). I share an...
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    The Slow Code: Justified?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** What behavior do you find disterbing and
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    How Can You Be A Nurse With No Clinical Background?

    PMFB-RN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    *** Ah well don't worry about it. No way more than a tiny few of them can accomplish that. The bottle neck will be getting their ICU experience and ICU nurse managers hate hiring grads who want to...
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    The Slow Code: Justified?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** I agee, if by "we" you mean nurses. Physicians would be only marginaly better than families. Lot's of them do not want to make decisions
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    The Slow Code: Justified?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** Sometimes no need to wonder, it's obvious. I have even heard family emebers say it/ Like the example I gave before abotu an estranged wife changing her husbands code status when he could no longer...
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    How Can You Be A Nurse With No Clinical Background?

    PMFB-RN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    *** Your not behind anything. I urge you to relax a little about this time line. I would hate to see you have a lot of stress about it. I am aquanted with a young nurse (I was her ICU night shift...
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    How Can You Be A Nurse With No Clinical Background?

    PMFB-RN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    There IS a midlevel option for those who do not wish to aquire the critical bedside nursing experience. It's called PA school. There is a reason NP programs have a lot fewer clinical hours than PA...
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    How Can You Be A Nurse With No Clinical Background?

    PMFB-RN replied to All4NursingRN's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    They are not locking themselves out of advanced practice. No experience required for NP or CNS. CRNA and CNMW do require certain clinical experience. There are lots of direct entry NP programs where...
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    have you ever seen a female doctor dating a male nurse?

    PMFB-RN replied to kavi150293's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Yes, lot's of female physicians dating or married to male nurses. My observation is that nearly all the male residents come to the hospital already married and very few of the female residents are...
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    The Slow Code: Justified?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    LOL! Seriously yes that's pretty much how it works. Crazy I know but MN is not exactly on the cutting edge of nursing
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    I hate what's happening to nursing...

    PMFB-RN replied to nyteshade's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    *** The only defence aginst such crazy mandaes from on high is for nurses to simply refuse to do it. It works. When he hospital I worked at (Magnet of course) tried it they were me with mass mutiny...
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    The Slow Code: Justified?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** For me it depends. If I believe we have no business codeing this patient I want the family at the bedside so they can see just how brutal it is and hopefully they will yell "STOP!". If on the...
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    The Slow Code: Justified?

    PMFB-RN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    *** It depends. I have noticed that in Wisconsin where I live DRN means exactly what you say above. However over in MN where I work intubation is treated as a seperate issue. We will intubate a DNR...
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    I hate what's happening to nursing...

    PMFB-RN replied to nyteshade's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    *** JUST NOW! Scripting was a huge fad that quickly went by the way side years ago. Your hospital is both a SLOW adopter and disregards EBP. The worst of both worlds. I have seen it sucsessfully done...
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    BSN as entry into practice; why we decided against it.

    PMFB-RN replied to MunoRN's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    *** All or most of the the dozens of RNs I have known who went to NP school took a pay cut to do it. They went for a better schedual, not more