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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** Don't get me wrong, a DNP as a terminal degree seems like a great idea. I am opposed to the DNP as entry to advanced
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** The DNP CRNA program at my hospital did not add a single hour of clinical or anestesia related class whent they changed to DNP. Students first do a year of DNP classes and projects then enter the...
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    Planned Parenthood, Women's Health Issues, Nurses could rule the US

    PMFB-RN replied to Karen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    FWIW I have on a number of occasions refused to code a patient. I have done it as an ICU nurses in several other hospitals and in my current job as rapid response nurse (and code administrator. I just...
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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    PMFB-RN replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** Honestly don't really know what you are talking about. You simply seem to invent the views of others without supporting evidence in their posts. I think you don't have the slightest idea what my...
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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    PMFB-RN replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    healthcare is no more a right than cable tv *** once again i have to wonder who you are arguing with? i think you may have confused some other person's comments with those of msn10 since she very...
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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    PMFB-RN replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    providing for the national defense is specifically mentioned as one of the responsibilities of government in the american constitution while no mention is made of healthcare anywhere. *** no need to...
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** If that were REALLY the motivation behind the push for DNP and entry to advanced practice then why don't we simply award the DNP to those completeing the over long current programs? If the issue...
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    talking with our dean (of a very large nursing school w/ 6 dnp programs), and she said that the dnp idea rose out of a retroactive need to give credit where credit was due. mainly, np programs were...
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** Magnet & DNP as entry to advanced practice as two
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    IO and US guided IV insertion at a Level One Academic Teaching facility.

    PMFB-RN replied to awong's topic in Emergency

    In our hospital ICU & ER nurses have been placing IOs regularly since around 2003-2004. If you need access now and can't get the IV in a stick or two we go to IO, unless it is totaly not critical...
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    Planned Parenthood, Women's Health Issues, Nurses could rule the US

    PMFB-RN replied to Karen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Back when I was a new grad just off orientation for the SICU & burn ICU I was floated to the MICU. The MICU nurse who was detailed to orient me said when I met him "welcome to the MICU, this is...
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** I very much agree with you about nursing sticking together. That is why I am dismayed and the attempts by the AACN, the ANA and the other nurse haters out there to drive
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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    PMFB-RN replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** When I say I am happy to help pay for your care I mean I don't mind being forced, and I am. No more than I mind helping pay for national defence. I recognize that my family and I benifit. And...
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** I disagree. In my opinion the whole DNP as entry to advanced practice makes us (nursing) look like a bunch of wannabe's with low self esteem. The whole push to DNP makes us subject of derision and...
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** We have two DNPs who are not advanced practice nurses. One works in the employee education department and another is an ICU nurse. They both got their DNP through U of P and nobody calls them...
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    NPs practicing as DRs

    PMFB-RN replied to SkiBumNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** i wonder if any of these doctor / nurses will call themselves "doctor" at work? m.d.-to-rn program offers second chance at caring -
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    Recently interviewed: I said: "No, no, no, no...."

    PMFB-RN replied to diligent-trooper's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** what!!! _that_ is what you have been trying to get across!!!? ou have got to be kidding me. if you are being honest then it has to be one of the poorest attempts to get one's point across i have...
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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    PMFB-RN replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    you seem to be advocating a system that you acknowledge probably won't work here due to the entitlement mentality of the american people. *** wow, how you could come to that totaly inaccurate...
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    Recently interviewed: I said: "No, no, no, no...."

    PMFB-RN replied to diligent-trooper's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** First of all people code on tele floors period. They can code even with the very best nursing care. There are many reason for this. Those of us who have been at this for many years have seen them....
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    Recently interviewed: I said: "No, no, no, no...."

    PMFB-RN replied to diligent-trooper's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    also, if a new nurse, or any nurse for that matter, is to be working on a tele floor, then they better know how to read strips. *** of course. who are you arguing with on this? they better understand...
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    Is it possible to be a travel RN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sakiohma's topic in General Students

    *** I know of american nurses who work in american hospitals overseas. Since the hospitals are all federal, usually military hospitals, they can work under any license. Search at
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    Recently interviewed: I said: "No, no, no, no...."

    PMFB-RN replied to diligent-trooper's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** Sounds to me like you passed up a pretty good job. Only 4-5 patients on a busy tele floor? Wow those nurses are lucky. A strait shooter NM who tells you like it is? A rare find in my experince....
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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    PMFB-RN replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    perhaps their systems of taxation, healthcare delivery and payment should be studied and trialed here. *** i doubt it would work here since it depends on a very high level of personal responsibiliety...
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    Planned Parenthood, Women's Health Issues, Nurses could rule the US

    PMFB-RN replied to Karen's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    *** great, next we will learn that health plans offered by jehovah witness owners will not have to cover blood
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    Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    PMFB-RN replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    For the same reason I am happy to assist in paying for your health care needs. And also for the exact same reason I help pay for our defence, cause we all