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    What specialty of nursing is best for someone with a Paramedic background?

    PMFB-RN replied to mwall84's topic in Nursing Career

    I suggest a good SICU in a larger trauma center. Get some experience doing that, combined with your prehospital experience and you can go into transport, helocopter, fixed wing and ground mobile...
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    straight from the horse's mouth... adn vs bsn

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

    *** As an ADN. Worse if an ADN does RN to BSN immediatly after nursing school, those programs require an RN lisense. So when the RN finishes after one or two years they have a BSN but are no longer...
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    Does this make me an "RN snob"?

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

    I imagine those dentist's insurance agent would have a stroke if he knew. Talk about a malpractice lawers dream come
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    Does this make me an "RN snob"?

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

    she's employed by an oral surgery group. they have no rn's on staff---a few lpn's and the rest are assistants, i do not know the level of education or training that any of them have, there is no...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    PMFB-RN replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    *** Ya that _OR_ the ability to appear so during the journey to Magnet. I have worked at two hospital during their journey to Magnet. I remember institutions such as the nurse practice council being...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    PMFB-RN replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    i'm sure if you actually cared you could find out, *** i could if i knew what city you are talking about but i don't. but you're just making an argument in the form of a question. *** one of the...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    PMFB-RN replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    *** So how much have nurses wages gone up in those BSN only hospitals as compaired to the systems that continue to hire
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    PMFB-RN replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    *** What does Magnet have to do with those hospitals only wanting to hire
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    PMFB-RN replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    *** my observation is that those hospital that are nice places to work continue to be so after magnet. those that are not continue to be after magnet as well. i think some hospitals try to use magnet...
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    Any hospitals out there doing 8 hr shifts?

    PMFB-RN replied to kacm74's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in 4 states as an RN, WI, MN, OR, & CA. Every hospital I ever worked in had both 8 & 12 hour shifts available for those that wanted/needed
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    straight from the horse's mouth... adn vs bsn

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

    *** Magnet has never required a hospital hire only BSNs. They may choose to only hire BSNs and they may be working to, or are Magnet but the two are not related, except that both indicate a certain...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    PMFB-RN replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    *** Eventually this ridiculous and VERY expensive Magnet fad will fade. The public knows nothing about it and nursing are learning that Magnet hospitals are less desirable places to
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    PMFB-RN replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    *** Wow nurse manager with real experience and training in management and administration! What a great idea. I have continued to be shocked at the lack of professionalism and management skill among...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

    PMFB-RN replied to mirc88sl's topic in General Nursing

    this is patently false. if the adn program crammed the exact same curriculum into two years, it would be a fast track bsn program, not an adn program. *** in most states (not mine) an adn takes about...
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    Using PTO to make a full pay ck

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

    Most hospital I have worked in would do this to you. The second they thought they MIGHT be able to get by without you they lay you off for 4-12 hours and if you can't that pay cut you must use PTO to...
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    Is there a nursing shortage?

    PMFB-RN replied to JosefVernon Hodgkins's topic in Men in Nursing

    I will do
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    Anti-CRNA website= such B.S.!!!!

    PMFB-RN replied to ICU, RN, BSN, B.S.'s topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    *** That's true. There is a CRNA I work with who's bachelors degree is in forestry. A friend who is in CRNA school right now has a degree in Dairy
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    when an ADN gets their BSN do they need to retake boards as well?

    PMFB-RN replied to brandy1017's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    *** Not sure if this is a real question or not. I will asume it is. From a practice standpoint an RN is an RN. When it comes scope of practice it doesn't make the slightest difference if an RN has an...
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    Is there a nursing shortage?

    PMFB-RN replied to JosefVernon Hodgkins's topic in Men in Nursing

    *** Not in my experience. I have been a nurse a long time with a very good critical care / emergency resume. Yes I could find another job and I see and hear about opening in my field for experienced...
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    Is there a nursing shortage?

    PMFB-RN replied to JosefVernon Hodgkins's topic in Men in Nursing

    *** I am very happy for you that you did find a hospital job. The false propaganda that there is a nursing shortage is cynical and self serving. It is really disgusting that people who you should be...
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    Strange Story

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    so i do not work in nursing homes. i have always been a, icu / er nurse. however i have a good friend who is the don of a small, private nursing home. very occasionally, like once a year i have filled...
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    Horrific Write Ups? Has it ever happened to you?

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

    *** WOW, just WOW! I would, as I am sure most of us would, tell him to kiss my ###. Sure am glad those days are over. I would have been fired even more times than I have been. Probaly be a truck...
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    Strange Story

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

    *** Oh I never thought of
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    Strange Story

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

    *** When I tell this story in person it always gets
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    Horrific Write Ups? Has it ever happened to you?

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

    *** Was there a written competency to go a long with the toast training? Pre and post tests? After the training did you get to add "TT" for Toast Trained to your name