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    If you had to do it over again would you?

    PMFB-RN replied to Tally4970's topic in General Nursing

    *** LOL! Becareful some of those new tot he field might think you are being
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    If you had to do it over again would you?

    PMFB-RN replied to Tally4970's topic in General Nursing

    *** Law enforcement is one of the fields I wish I had got into rather than nursing. Had I done so I would be retiring next year. Maybe not with enought money to do nothing, but with a pension that...
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    ACLS requires a doctor's order?

    PMFB-RN replied to BUNightingale's topic in Critical Care

    *** At my hospital we have residents who always show up at the codes. Usually too many of them and they are a real nuisance. However they are there to learn, not run the code. We usually allow them to...
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    Male nurses i have a question?

    PMFB-RN replied to futurenurse1248's topic in Male Nursing Students

    Officially? No. Unofficially? Yes. I was the only man in my nursing school (yes the whole school all classes). It seems to me that they bent over back wards to help me get in and while I don't think...
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    BSN vs AAS Nursing

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

    *** Yes either degree will make you elligable to sit the RN NCLEX and earn an RN license and work as a RN. There is no difference between them in the license. They have exactly the same scope of...
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    Nursing Pay

    PMFB-RN replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    *** In my opinion looking at one's degree to decide compensation is useless. For more important is level of responsibility. In my job as a rapid reasons nurse, and previously as a critical care...
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    Nursing Pay

    PMFB-RN replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    To the OP. The only place I have ever heard of a nurse with a BSN being paid more than a nurse with similar experience but an ADN is here on allnurses. None of the hospitals I have worked in in any of...
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    Nursing Pay

    PMFB-RN replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    *** Absolutely false. The OP loses none of her credibility as a result of a typo or two. Her post is well though out and makes a good
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    Nursing Pay

    PMFB-RN replied to KalipsoRed21's topic in General Nursing

    while this is comparing apples to oranges, let me share the perspective of a canadian nurse, just so you have an idea. canadian nurses are required to obtain the bsn as minimum entry to practice....
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    If you had to do it over again would you?

    PMFB-RN replied to Tally4970's topic in General Nursing

    *** I have been thinking about this discussion. While nursing has been a wonderful career for me for all the reason I list above, when I consider the current reality I think maybe I would not choose...
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    If you had to do it over again would you?

    PMFB-RN replied to Tally4970's topic in General Nursing

    I am very surprised that so many people list severe anxiety about making a mistake and hurting a patient. I have never worried about doing that and had no idea so many other nurses did. I always did...
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    If you had to do it over again would you?

    PMFB-RN replied to Tally4970's topic in General Nursing

    I would for sure. Nursing has been very good to me. I went to college for two semesters, 9 months, to obtain my associates degree and RN license (after challengig the LPN NCLEX based on army medic...
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    CRNA vs. ACNP/RNFA

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

    First I don't think it's very hard to get into CRNA school if you have good gades and high qualiety ICU experience. Each year 8-12 nurses from our SICU get accepted and I have never even heard of...
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    Baylor Plan

    PMFB-RN replied to fmugurl19's topic in General Nursing

    Here in the upper midwest weekend programs are pretty common. We do not ever call them Baylor programs. Several hospitals in my area offer them. I was on the weekend program at my last job. You could...
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    Not ACLS certified pulled to Tele floor...

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

    *** In our hospital's Critical Care Nurse Residency program the (nurse) residents are put through ACLS during the first month of class room instruction. After that each one takes turns carrying the...
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    Need advice about VA ICU new grad

    PMFB-RN replied to KYSRNA2014's topic in Government, Military

    It will vary depending on the VA. I have worked at one of the largest VA hospitals and they did hire new grads into the SICU, then got a new manager and she chooses not to hire new grads. I don't know...
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    Not ACLS certified pulled to Tele floor...

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

    ACLS does teach some recognition of ST elevation. ACLS is not, however, a comprehensive course in reading all of the subtleties of the EKG. *** I am an ACLS instructor and we do not teach people to...
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    ACLS requires a doctor's order?

    PMFB-RN replied to BUNightingale's topic in Critical Care

    Well your hospital is either lying to you or was very selective about the "large hospitals" they contacted. I have worked in several large hospitals in four states and every one had a policy and/or...
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    RN vs. BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to mmarqua4's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    i don't know of any programs in massachusetts that cost less than $10k to complete. *** maybe there are no programs in that state but what state a program is located in is irrelevent. google tells me...
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    Not ACLS certified pulled to Tele floor...

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

    *** Uh, what does having ACLS have to do with compentcy to wach monitors? Neither I nor my hospital considers a ACLS trained nurse to be qualified to monitor tele patients if they have not also passed...
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    How is my plan?

    PMFB-RN replied to ll124's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    *** When you work in an ICU you will get to know several CRNAs. It should be easy to ask one to allow a shadow experience in your own
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    worried about dissection

    PMFB-RN replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** Speaking as a former full time organic farmer and current part time farmer I disagree that vegans have a moral leg to stand on. Their lifestyle choice results is the deaths many, many animals as...
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    RN vs. BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to mmarqua4's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    *** $5K/year is way more than enough to do RN to BSN. That's $10K over two years. I can thing of several RN to BSN programs that cost less than that. U of Wyoming, WGU, Ft.Hays State and
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    Post CV A-Fib Protocol?

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    So every hospital with a heart program I have ever worked in has an a-fib protocol for post CV surgery patients. However where I currently work we do not. As the rapid response nurse I am frequently...
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    Demeaned by a Doctor

    PMFB-RN replied to chall2011's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I have two ways of dealing with doctors. For those that are professional & civil I am professional & civil in return. For those that are just bullies in white coats I let them know (without...