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    Navy Hospital Corpsman to RN ???

    PMFB-RN replied to vrfdd123's topic in Government, Military

    You can go from corpsman to RN in 9 months. I did. In California corpsmen are allowed to challenge the LVN boards. A buddy and I did exactly that. Then I moved to Wisconsin and did one of Wisconsin's...
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    Who else is a 2-year RN new grad at a Magnet Hospital??

    PMFB-RN replied to indreams84's topic in General Nursing

    *** None of the Magnet Hospitals here in Wisconsin have "BSN required" on their job postings. I think only one has "BSN preferred". The Magnet hospital where I work preferred ADNs for the Critical...
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    Who else is a 2-year RN new grad at a Magnet Hospital??

    PMFB-RN replied to indreams84's topic in General Nursing

    *** Yep, good point. Congratulations to the
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    Who else is a 2-year RN new grad at a Magnet Hospital??

    PMFB-RN replied to indreams84's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a Magnet hospital and both of the new grads hired for the Critical Care Nurse residency were ADNs. Both grads of Wisconsin's technical colleges, as am I. That said I am not sure working...
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    I hate what's happening to nursing...

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

    *** The SICU where I work has limited visiting hours. We do not allow non-patients to sleep in the rooms ever. The staff RN is free to (nicely) ask the family to leave at any time for any reason and...
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    New Grads at VA Hospital

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

    *** I would suggest getting some real world experience before working in the VA. I only have experience working in one VA hospital but it is a big one in Minneapolis. The VA allows virtually no nurse...
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    Nurse residency-should this be mandatory?

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

    *** I agree, unreal. In my ADN program those of us who were not already paramedics or LPNs who could start IVs in a our sleep, spent days in out patient surgery starting one IV after another and days...
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    Nurse residency-should this be mandatory?

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

    *** My hospital has a 9 month residency program for new grads going into speciality areas and has for some years. I am one of the instructors and preceptors for the residents. We do not teach very...
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    I hate what's happening to nursing...

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

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    I hate what's happening to nursing...

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

    *** They tried this absurd crap at my hospital. When they handed out the cards in our unit meeting I took mine and asked if the surgeons also had script cards. When the answer was no I told our unit...
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    Regions hospital

    PMFB-RN replied to CheeseLover24's topic in General Nursing

    I have worked in a couple of their ICUs as an agency nurse. The nurses seem to like the hospital as an employer. Staff levels are good, the pay and benefits or OK to a little better than average....
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    Got in medical school???

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

    *** They won't be suprised. A great many physicians don't have what it takes to be a good RN (and the opposit is true as
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    what is the most adrenaline pumping job

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

    *** You need to get your RN and get a job in an ICU. The bigger the better. SICU & CVICU is better than MICU. The path to all the best jobs in nursing leads right through the ICU. Trauma ER is...
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    what is the most adrenaline pumping job

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

    *** Maybe, eventually, occasionally. Keep in mind that the military has this very old fashioned idea that all new RNs should spend several years doing med-surg before going into ER or ICU. Sure...
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    Old, Old Fashioned Nursing Ideas

    PMFB-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    As a new grad I went directly into SICU through a nurse residency program. Nearly all the nurses I worked with the the SICU had come to the ICU as new grads like me. I know several of the larger...
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    Old, Old Fashioned Nursing Ideas

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

    *** Thanks. I have found some too but not specific for ICU nursing. My observation based on precepting in our SICU is that for some nurses med-surg experience can be a hurdle to overcomes in order to...
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    Old, Old Fashioned Nursing Ideas

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

    *** Rate of pay isn't really an issue. A nurse with 1-3 year experience will only make 2-3% more than a new grad at hour
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    Old, Old Fashioned Nursing Ideas

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

    *** I think that is incorrect. My observation is that isn't the case at all. However I have no evidence other than anecdotal and personal experience to back it
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    Old, Old Fashioned Nursing Ideas

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

    *** I am looking for evidence that hiring (and training) new grads for the ICU results on equal or better outcomes and is cheaper than hiring (and training) nurses with a year or two or three of...
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    Old, Old Fashioned Nursing Ideas

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

    *** It depends on the hospital. From what I have seen most want BSNs, some hire both. The hospital where I did my residency only hires ADNs into the residency for the SICU, but it doesn't say that...
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    Union??

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

    You are lucky to be offered a job in a union hospital. I have worked in both and much prefer the union. Non union can be great too, IF there is a big shortage of nurses. However as soon as there were...
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    2015 DNP

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

    *** In every place I have ever worked residents are lisenced physicians. Interns, those in their first post graduation year are not lisenced. I guess it depends on your state but in my state an...
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    2015 DNP

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

    *** Lucky for me the nurse haters at ANA have absolutely NOTHING to say about CRNA practice or
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    Nurses don't save lives....WHAT?

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

    *** Well "God" is just made up. Many times it is obvious a patient will die if a nurse does not intervene right NOW. Bleeding out is a good example. The hypotensive or bradycardia patient is another....
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    Nurses don't save lives....WHAT?

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

    *** And this guy has formed that opinion how? Based on his many years of working as a bedside nurse in a critical care unit? More likely he has wached too much Gray's Anatomy where nurses exsist to...