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    RNs running ECMO on adult patients

    PMFB-RN replied to pbear's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I'm curious how much education about ECMO your received in your BSN
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    Um, I think you replied to the wrong post. In no way did my message imply that my fellow ADN and diploma RNs were slackers. If anything my message Indicated they have advanced critical thinking...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    Its not lost on me that a company who has something to sell, has discovered that their product is the best, saves lives, and everybody should buy one. This thread was started by Rassmussen
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    I have seen the resentment of ADN RN's by BSN and direct entry MSN nurses. This is the story that really gets to them Amy works hard in high school, misses out on lots of fun things in order to get...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    I understand what you have said. But I would point you to the ANA's official position on this. How are state boards of nursing going to go against what the ANA advocates? As you said there are other...
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    Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    Heck, that is the AMERICAN way. That is exactly how every other health profession did with when they got degree inflation-itis. PT didn't make its therapists with masters degrees go back and get...
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    Nursing abroad

    PMFB-RN replied to awellman33's topic in Travel

    I worked in a rural hospital emergency department in a little town called Westport on the west coast of the south island. My wife's home town. I worked there for a little over a year. I didn't have to...
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    Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    PMFB-RN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    Yes, they had a strike in 2010 and it was overwhelming successful. The support for nurses by the community was overwhelming and management folded. Patient census does not dip in winter, it peaks....
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    Nursing abroad

    PMFB-RN replied to awellman33's topic in Travel

    I have a nurse acquaintance who has been working in hospitals around the world for years. She works in American hospitals and clinics owned by the US government, usually military hospitals. No need to...
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    Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    PMFB-RN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    This is something I spent years looking into. I worked as a staff nurses in four states, two countries, and as a traveler in 4 other states. The highest pay is obviously to be found in California from...
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    Clarification on the DNP requirement of 2015

    PMFB-RN replied to umbdude's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    In my opinion one of the best things about nursing, the thing that sets us apart from physical therapy, physicians, pharmacy, and the other health care fields is our diversity. I think that having...
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    Whats the Catch: RN to MSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sandiegotrish's topic in General Nursing

    I agree than management their nurses malleable and ignorant. The direct entry MSN grads were also very unpopular with the senior staff who serve as
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    Whats the Catch: RN to MSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sandiegotrish's topic in General Nursing

    Why wouldn't it fly is you wanted to work ICU or cath lab? What's wrong with going strait for MSN if you want to be clinical? There are already so many nurses with graduate degrees working at the...
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    Whats the Catch: RN to MSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sandiegotrish's topic in General Nursing

    I respectfully disagree. Considering that an RN with an ADN can earn a MSN in clinical systems leadership, management or education with about the same times investment as a BSN. I think many would be...
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    Whats the Catch: RN to MSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sandiegotrish's topic in General Nursing

    That makes total sense. My ICU/ER/ Transport RN friends and I consider Magnet hospitals to be employers of last resort. I do wonder, How many people are going to be willing to make the investment...
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    Whats the Catch: RN to MSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sandiegotrish's topic in General Nursing

    There was a lot of excitement about them when they were new programs and a bunch of them were hired. Low successes rates in the nurse residency program is the reason given. What goes unsaid is that...
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    NP or PA

    PMFB-RN replied to Bteti20's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Just like an RN! No reason at all an RN can't work LTC one day, ICU the next, and L&D the day after. I'm sure someone has done it. That does seem to be a pretty big plus on the PA side. In the...
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    Whats the Catch: RN to MSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sandiegotrish's topic in General Nursing

    This is such good advice. Not every place will hire direct entry MSN grads. My hospital doesn't hire them as new grads, but will with a couples years experience. Check
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    Whats the Catch: RN to MSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sandiegotrish's topic in General Nursing

    Both the University of Minnesota and Wisconsin accept applicants to their DNP APN programs with an MSN and no bachelors degree. I checked. That is only a suggestion for advanced practice nursing. We...
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    Another reason unions suck!

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It depends on if they were caught, and what they were doing when caught or if they turned themselves in. I am aware of one RN who appeared drunk in report and the supervisor was called. As the RN...
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    Whats the Catch: RN to MSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to sandiegotrish's topic in General Nursing

    Not exactly what the OP was asking about, but.... Today there are a number of RN to MSN programs that do not include getting a BSN, or any other bachelors degree along the way. They have become...
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    Another reason unions suck!

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    I would also point out that in our hospital there are certain offences that will get you instantly fired and the union won't touch you or help you once it's been determined that the offence actually...
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    Another reason unions suck!

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    It's nothing like that at all in our union hospital. Our union doesn't support dirt bags who don't do their job. New people are supported and encouraged, we are not hard on them. It's certainly...
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    Another reason unions suck!

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    Quite obviously plentiful jobs tells you absolutely nothing about the number of nurses available. There have periods in our recent past where hospitals were desperate to fill positions and had a...
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    Another reason unions suck!

    PMFB-RN replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    For me the last straw on working in a non union hospital was being ordered to lie to Magnet surveyors on threat of termination. I decided that I simply wasn't going to do it, even if it cost me my...