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    Do I have to have a BSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to mom23boyz's topic in Nursing Career

    *** I agree there is a shortage of nurses at the bedside doing patient care. In many cases because the hospitals refuse to hire more nurses. I also think there may be a shortage of RNs willing to work...
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    Do I have to have a BSN?

    PMFB-RN replied to mom23boyz's topic in Nursing Career

    *** There is no nursing shortage. That there is a shortage is propaganda from those who have a vested interest in a nurse over supply
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    Do Adn/Rn's ever get to be a charge nurse?

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

    *** A Charge nurse, as opposed to a unit manager, needs to know the ins and outs of the unit and the hospital. They must know the personalities of the people in their unit and other people in the...
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    Do Adn/Rn's ever get to be a charge nurse?

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

    *** Just curious as to what leads you to believe we are headed to a large nursing
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    Do Adn/Rn's ever get to be a charge nurse?

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

    *** It wouldn't ever be an issue but if it was it would be easy to explain. BSN and MSN prepared RN don't learn any more about NURSING than ADN prepared nurses and are no more qualified to serve as...
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    Do Adn/Rn's ever get to be a charge nurse?

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

    *** Yes that certainly is the direction things are headed. I do wonder, with Magnet hospital's fast growing reputation as not being good places to work, if Magnet will continue to be as sought after...
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    Do Adn/Rn's ever get to be a charge nurse?

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

    *** That is not the case at all. You will find many ADN nurses working as unit managers in Magnet hospitals. I can think of 4 or 5 right off the top of my head. The SICU where I worked hired a new NM...
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    Does it matter what school you get your degree from?

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

    Nope, makes no difference at all. Assuming the school is NLN or CCNE
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    can ICU nurse handle 2 pts on the levophed same time

    PMFB-RN replied to Snoopy54321's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Ridiculous. Nurses in my ICU have two patients with multiply gtt nearly every shift. Levophed is among the easiest of the gtts to
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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

    *** oh ya? do you have 6-7 months of brutally cold winters with chest deep snow for months on end? do you get to forget about lawn mowing from first of october until well into may? do you get to do...
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    Trauma roon in your ED... who gets it?

    PMFB-RN replied to A&OxNone's topic in Emergency

    *** We specialize in the uncontrolled traumatic conditions :) It's similar to the situation with the physicians. The ER physician has no roll on the trauma team. The trauma team physicians are trauma...
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    BSN completion or drop and go onto MSN?

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

    *** Congratulations!!! However in regard to what you were told about the ADN nurse by your instructors, my grandmother was told the exact same thing when she graduated from nursing school in 1975. I...
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    Why doesn't the military accept online BSNs?

    PMFB-RN replied to RN122's topic in Government, Military

    *** The AF, Army & Navy recognize degrees from schools with CCNE OR NLN, not NLN only. A great many state universities, like the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota are not NLN accredited but...
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    Becoming a flight nurse?

    PMFB-RN replied to blackscrubs's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    *** It is not uncommon for us to transport a patient with a swan. Usually a cadiogenic shock patient we are taking from an outside hospital's MICU to our hospital SICU for heart surgery. Speaking...
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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

    *** At my hospital in Minneapolis staff RNs with 5+ years experience make $90-120K not counting over time, depending on what shift they
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    Becoming a flight nurse?

    PMFB-RN replied to blackscrubs's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    *** Actually all of the flight nurses have been hired out of one hospital's SICU. The windows of the SICU look out over the heli pad. Driect ICU admits only have about 50 yards to go from helocopter...
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    Conscience Schmoncience! Who cares what you believe?

    PMFB-RN replied to jmqphd's topic in Activism, Healthcare

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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

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

    *** If your goal is CRNA school my advice is that you never tell that to enyone who might hire you, or anyone who might talk to someone who might hire you. FYI you do not need a BSN to go 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

    i understand hospitals are now preferring more bsns then adn but how is it related to magnet status. *** it's not related in any way. i thought magnet status was the meant to use more evidenced based...
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    Magnet status? Hospitals choosing BSN new grads. Important!!!! over ADN??

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

    Couple things here. First of all there is absolutly NO nursing shortage. The nursing "shortage" is only propaganda put out by those with a vested interest (means they stand to gain financialy) in a...
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    NP but decided not to practice

    PMFB-RN replied to celle507's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** That is fantastic. I believe that if an NP could start at $120K here there would be very few working as bedise ICU nurses. I am very encouraged that you an an NP make that kind of money. I would...
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    NP but decided not to practice

    PMFB-RN replied to celle507's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** If you are a good and skilled ICU nurse come on over. 5 openings in SICU right now. PM me if you want more info. PS I am just a staff nurse and not in managment or
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    NP but decided not to practice

    PMFB-RN replied to celle507's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    *** NPs in this area only start at around $80K working for the medical center. CRNAs start at pretty close to the the number you stated above with call pay adding another $20-30K for CRNA. Most all...
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    Trauma roon in your ED... who gets it?

    PMFB-RN replied to A&OxNone's topic in Emergency

    At my hospital if there is a a level I or II trauma activation one of the SICU nurses comes down and is the trauma nurse. The ER doesn't staff enough nurses to staff the trauma bays. Large hospital,...
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    NP but decided not to practice

    PMFB-RN replied to celle507's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    We have a bunch of NPs (like 6 or 7) who work as staff RNs in our SICU. The reason given is that they couldn't take the drop in pay were they to take an NP job. One who works night shift with me...