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    Praying when you don't mean it

    PMFB-RN replied to Clovery's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I am a dyed in the wool atheist. I don't believe in any religions dogma. However it is not uncommon for patients or their family to ask me to pray with them. I am very happy to do this and have taken...
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    worried about dissection

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

    *** Cause cadavers are VERY expensive and there is tremendous regulations involved with keeping them. Far, far out of reach of most nursing
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    worried about dissection

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

    *** For the very simple reason that it is highly effective training tool and it is inexpensive. The choice for most programs is animal disection or nothing, not animal or cadaver. Cadavers are very...
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    Post CV A-Fib Protocol?

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

    "did the protocol specify anything concerning lvef or any type of contractility disorder to take into acount when pushing b-blockers? my last hospitals protocal did not have beta blockers in it's...
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    worried about dissection

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

    When I learned A&P we dissected cadavers, not animals. I don't understand why there would be a moral delima with dissecting an animal but if there is would it include dissecting dead people? You...
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    Why are there no nursing schools with built-in prerequisites?

    PMFB-RN replied to EMT-newbie's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** Lots of schools don't have pre-reqs. For example here in Wisconsin the community college nursing programs do not have any college class pre-reqs. High school chemistry, CNA, background check and...
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    I want to be a CRNA so what!!!

    PMFB-RN replied to NursingN.C's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    *** It goes farther than that. One of the hospitals where I work has a 9 month Critical Care Nurse Residency program for new grads. It is a very effective training program (I may be biased as an...
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    I want to be a CRNA so what!!!

    PMFB-RN replied to NursingN.C's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I have a number of good friends who are CRNAs, or in school now. 6-10 nurses a year go to anesthesia school a year from my unit. They have very high job satisfaction. For me the most attractive thing...
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    ANCC to retire most popular, and eventually all, NP roles.

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

    With confusing and fruesterating things like this, and usless things like the DNP, why would anyone go to NP school? I won't. Forget it, for less time and money and with far fewer regulatory on...
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    Better pay if Bilingual?

    PMFB-RN replied to Little Doe's topic in General Nursing

    I frequently see "bilingual preferred or required" in nurse job postings. I speak fluent Spanish (a result of growing up a few miles from the Mexico border) but I have never received a dime more for...
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    I can't stop thinking about this patient that the doctor failed.

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

    Kudos to you! Sounds like you did a fine job. Many people scoff when I say that an RNs compensation is way out of wack with our level of responsibility but this story illustrates exactly what I am...
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    I want to be a CRNA so what!!!

    PMFB-RN replied to NursingN.C's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    i get so tired of people talking down to others for wanting to be a certified registered nurse anesthetist. *** i never heard of anyone talking down to a want to be crna. seemsevery body and their dog...
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    penis

    PMFB-RN replied to jessica2012's topic in International Nursing

    I think those rumors are just that. In 16 years of nursing the only time I ever hear a discussion about a patient's member is if, for example, we were unable to place a foley cause of some problem, or...
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    I am done with healthcare

    PMFB-RN replied to ksc0723's topic in General Nursing

    *** Well yes thay can be very contrary. However, here is the thing you have to remember. At anytime if a cow gets too contrary you can kill her and eat her! Name me one other profession where when...
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    Why do RN's avoid LTC positions?

    PMFB-RN replied to amyca's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    A lot of patients in the hospital though are older patients *** Ya, as a long term hospital nurse I am very aware of that fact. The difference is that they are not all old. A hospital nurse will have...
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    I am done with healthcare

    PMFB-RN replied to ksc0723's topic in General Nursing

    I used to be a small family dairy farmer. No boss, no employees, no co-workers, no customers. Just me and the cows aginst the equipment, the weather, the markets and those silly vegans. The list of...
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    Why do RN's avoid LTC positions?

    PMFB-RN replied to amyca's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I started right on med/surg/tele after nursing school because that's what everyone in school advised me to do. "Go to med/surg, get good experience, learn all you can there.." Blah blah blah. *** WOW!...
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    Why do RN's avoid LTC positions?

    PMFB-RN replied to amyca's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I can say this. At my hospital LTC experience is considered valid RN experience and an LTC RN with good references is far more likely to get hired than a new grad. Unless of course the new grad has an...
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    Why do RN's avoid LTC positions?

    PMFB-RN replied to amyca's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I hardly know anything about LTC nursing. However I do have regular contact with a large number of nursing students and new grad nurses. It cracks me up when I read articals about how supposedly the...
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    Ben Stiller as Gaylord Fokker

    PMFB-RN replied to mcknis's topic in Men in Nursing

    *** My perception is that he came across as weak and disagree that it was a positive portayal of men in
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    Male Nurse Characteristics

    PMFB-RN replied to MusicEMT's topic in Men in Nursing

    anyways my question: do you think as a male nurse your able to be more assertive and get your point across better? *** yes but certainly not true for all the male nurses I work with. do you tend to...
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    Anyone else feel like a robot reciting customer service scripts all the time?

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

    Why in the world would any RN recite such BS? Those who do (and thus encouraging the practice) should be ashamed of themselves. They tried it at one hospital I worked at but it didn't even get out of...
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    BSN to DNP Online Programs

    PMFB-RN replied to Heatha02's topic in Online Distance Learning

    There must be lots of them out there. We have a bunch of RNs with DNPs working as staff nurses in our hospitals. I know U of P has one as several of their DNP graduates work in our ICUs and med-surg...
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    Anyone else feel like a robot reciting customer service scripts all the time?

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

    I don't play that stupid game. When the tried it at my last hospital I told them I MIGHT condider it when I saw the neuro, ortho & CV surgeons reciting the script. Then I walked out of the meeting...
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    Advice on becoming a CRNA

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

    *** I don't know what age most are when they finish. I have seen nurses leave our ICU for CRNA school as young as 22 and as old as early