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    Average hourly pay for per diem agency RN?

    PMFB-RN replied to CowsRGreat's topic in Agency Nurses

    *** No it is not. Few agencies will hire new grads without experience. Though I have heard of agencies hiring new grads for things like flu shot clinics or blood donor sites. Agency nurses are...
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    Nurses Pushing Propofol for Conscious Sedation -Your Thoughts?

    PMFB-RN replied to *traumaRN*'s topic in Gastroenterology

    it does work well for pt's who do a lot of drinking or high tolerance for pain pills, *not processed via liver. *** is cleared by the liver. outpt setting dental office bagged a pt for over an hour...
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    Nurses Pushing Propofol for Conscious Sedation -Your Thoughts?

    PMFB-RN replied to *traumaRN*'s topic in Gastroenterology

    Nurses Pushing Propofol for Conscious Sedation -Your Thoughts? *** My thoughts = A normal, standard, safe practice. One that has been in use for a number of years (since 2006) in both the hospitals...
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    Accelerated BSN/MSN Grads - Jobs?

    PMFB-RN replied to 10yearreunion's topic in Nursing Career

    I applaud your willingness to work in any area of nursing where you can get a job, the idea that you need certain experiences to work in specialty areas is a myth. It may well be the case that...
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    How do I become a critical care nurse?

    PMFB-RN replied to mark1973's topic in Critical Care

    *** There are some hospitals where ADN - BSN is irrelevant. And even a few hospitals like mine that do not hire new grad BSNs into the Critical Care Nurse Residency, ADNs only. However I believe in...
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    Do FNP's really make 80k to 90k a year?

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

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    Accelerated BSN/MSN Grads - Jobs?

    PMFB-RN replied to 10yearreunion's topic in Nursing Career

    *** I don't know anything about your area. In this area (the upper mid west) you, as a traditional BSN, are at a significant advantage when it comes to getting that first job. Some of the direct entry...
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    2015 DNP

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

    *** Since you chose not to identify anyone I suspect you mean every other person engaged in this discusion when you say
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    Nursing Shortage?

    PMFB-RN replied to mboulis's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Remember there is a whole group of people who stand to make lots of money by telling the nursing shortage
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    Does anyone know where a new grad can find work ?

    PMFB-RN replied to ewrn's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Here is a list of all the hospital websites in N Dakota. If you scroll to the bottom you can find all hospital web sites by state.
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    2015 DNP

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

    *** Yep, the "ARNP" part went right over my head. I withdraw my point. Thanks for setting me strait. I see your point
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    Can't believe they do CRRT this way...

    PMFB-RN replied to jbp0529's topic in MICU, SICU

    Sounds terrible to me. You are doing the right thing by calling attention to those problems. Let me guess, this is a Magnet
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    Nurse Residency Programs

    PMFB-RN replied to Jump_Nurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My hospital has a 7 month nurse residency for new grads going into speciality units. GNs are hired into specific units by the nurse manager of that unit and then attend the residency program. Except...
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    2015 DNP

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

    *** Except they don't. At least not all of them. The CRNA program based here at my hospital and where my best friend in a student went from MSN to DNP without adding a single clinical hour or...
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    2015 DNP

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

    *** Nothing in what you quoted would lead any reasonable person to the above
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    Questions from a recent grad

    PMFB-RN replied to JaimeAnne,RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    *** It is STRONGLY recommended that hospital nurses do not purchase malpractice insurance. Doing so just puts a huge "PLEASE SUE ME" signs on your
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    2015 DNP

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

    *** Unlikely in transport. At my hospital you will see them in the ICUs and ER. Well that's not really true as my hospital has stopped hiring direct entry master grads into speciality areas and the...
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    Questions from a recent grad

    PMFB-RN replied to JaimeAnne,RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    *** For Hospital nursing you should NOT buy malpractice insurance. It just makes you are target. I have been involved as a witness in a couple malpractice suits. Forgetting what you learned in...
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    2015 DNP

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

    *** The idea that the degree a nurse holds is an indicator of the nurses expertise is absurd. I am the Rapid Response Nurse for my hospital. I have years of high acuity critical care, level I trauma,...
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    Question about getting BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to sessa34607's topic in General Students

    You need to go to a program accredited by either the NLN or CCNE. Under grad credits don't apply to graduate school. Grad schools with care about your GPA and that you attended an accredited
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    Associates or Bachelors?

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

    The community college where I did my associates degree is a two year program from start to finish. There are no college class pre-reqs. Some people strech it out longer for personal reasons but many...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

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

    *** There is no Magnet status problem, well except that Magnet hospitals are fast gaining a reputation as not being good places to work. Hospitals may have decided to have a preference for BSN...
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    Is it looked down on if you go for BSN full time after graduation instead of working?

    PMFB-RN replied to WDM08002's topic in General Nursing

    just go for it. it wouldn't be any different if you would have gone into a bsn program to begin with. you are still in student mode and that's important. *** actually it will be very different than is...
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    ACLS....is the exam hard?

    PMFB-RN replied to neil890123's topic in General Students

    *** Don't worry, it only SOUNDS serious. A group of you will gather around a dummy and will take turns being the code team leader during simulated codes. Just relax, the expecations are pretty low....
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    ACLS....is the exam hard?

    PMFB-RN replied to neil890123's topic in General Students

    *** Back in the day the mega code was really something. I remember people crying and panicking. However the last 3 or 4 times I have done it (in three states) consisted more of the istructor just...