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    Drug seekers

    PMFB-RN replied to inteRN's topic in Emergency

    *** Yes it can be frusterating but you can't let it get to you for your your own mental health. Don 't let anyone walk all over you. Stand up for yourself. If any patient gets out of control I call...
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    Nurses pay compare to Female

    PMFB-RN replied to Chris NS's topic in Men in Nursing

    Generally yes. I read a few years ago in AJn that on average make RNs make 9% more than female RNs. In my hospital most of the highest paid nurses are men. I don't know about everyplace but where I...
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    Accelerated programs...expensive or cheap?

    PMFB-RN replied to johninalameda's topic in Male Nursing Students

    First understand that after you become a nurse nobody will care at all about where you went to nursing school. $62K seems outrageously expensive to me. Here in Wisconsin you can go to one of the...
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    icky question....but

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

    GI Bill. Not only covered every cost associated with nursing school but paid me $600/month on
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    How did you get into the ICU?

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

    *** Because hardly any of the new grad BSN where finishing the two year contract they signed to get into the residency vs 100% of the ADNs finishing their contract. My class had 9 nurses in it. 7 BSNs...
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    My CRNA (hopeful) Checklisit. Anything Missing?

    PMFB-RN replied to jwconn1104's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    *** I very much like your idea of a CRNA being a good ICU nurse first. I see plenty of not very good ICU nurses from my SICU go off to CRNA school. One year of ICU then CRNA school is exactly...
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    SICU New Grad Preceptor Problems

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

    Ask, even if you all ready know what the answer is. First you preceptor may have unique information she has learned first hand that isn t availabel in a book, second it will make you seem interested,...
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    What is the best nursing advice you ever got from another nurse?

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

    "If there are no male nurses working there it's probaly not a very good place to work" Said to me by an old RN with over 40 years experience when I was in clinicals during nursing
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    How did you get into the ICU?

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

    My first RN job was in a 9 month, paid Critical Care Nurse Residency program for new grads going directly into the SICU. I had to move across the state to get it and I had a big advantage of being an...
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    My CRNA (hopeful) Checklisit. Anything Missing?

    PMFB-RN replied to jwconn1104's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    CCRN will certainy make you stand out. I would aslo start studying for the GRE as soon as you graduate from nursing school. Not all CRNA schools require it but most do. Be willing to apply to schools...
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    Forget 2nd degree BSN, Go Straight to MSN Nursing? Advice needed

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

    *** Some are advanced practice nurses. Nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, CRNAs for example. Unless they completed one of those programs then no they are not advanced by virtue of having...
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    Forget 2nd degree BSN, Go Straight to MSN Nursing? Advice needed

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

    *** I don't know about that. I work with lots of graduates of direct entry masters programs and they are not considered any different than any other staff nurse. As new grads they are just new grads,...
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    Forget 2nd degree BSN, Go Straight to MSN Nursing? Advice needed

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

    *** Not exctly true. Most CRNA schools do not require a BSN. A bachelors degree in a har science or related field will do. It's is mostly the big universities that grant the MSN to their CRNAs (a...
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    Forget 2nd degree BSN, Go Straight to MSN Nursing? Advice needed

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

    I don't know the answer to all your questions but I can respond to a few. For travel nursing it is irrelevant what degree you have. Only license and experience count. When you say "anesthesiology...
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    Do I need a BSN or will a MSN do?

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

    For the first 6 classes (2 per year) both where accepted. Not enough new grad BSNs who completed the residency went on to finish their 2 year contracts vs 100% of ADN prepared RNs finished their...
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    Do I need a BSN or will a MSN do?

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

    *** There are lots of RN to MSN programs with no BSN or other bachelors degree involved. I found them by searching for "RN to MSN' on google. Here are a couple links to programs for nurse...
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    Advice on 12 hour shifts

    PMFB-RN replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    *** Oh, OK. I didn't get that. Everyplace I have ever worked was able to accomadate a nurses request to work the kind of shift that best fit them. I am sure your job will too, after you have proven...
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    Advice on 12 hour shifts

    PMFB-RN replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    Wear good running shoes. What I really don't understand is why don't you just work 8 hour
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    Current Undergraduate Student Wishing to Pursue a BSN but Does Not Have an RN Degree

    PMFB-RN replied to Val A.'s topic in General Nursing

    There is no such thing as an "RN degree". I am not even sure what you are asking about. If you want to be a nurse, you have to go to nursing
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    online college for RN-BSN

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

    *** Can you tell me what the "ROY" model
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    Critical care residency for CRNA school

    PMFB-RN replied to talknw's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    *** I am not in it, I graduated years ago. Of the 9 people in my residency class 7 went to CRNA school. The hospital is St. Joseph's in Marshfield Wisconsin. The competetion for residency spots is...
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    I failed nursing school and need some advice!

    PMFB-RN replied to raang5's topic in General Students

    If what you really want is to be a nurse, and you have family who can take care of your kids then go for it. You will only regret it if you
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    Would YOU accept this position?

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

    *** Not to hijack the discussion but speaking as a nurse who did LPN to RN after years as an LPN your above statement is not the case. There is far more to it than "some managment
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    Jehovah's Witnesses & blood transfusion

    PMFB-RN replied to carebeth's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    *** This is a case of wishful reading. That is reading what you wish was written rather than what was actually written. You have jumped to conclusions not supported by what people have said. You have...
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    do you care about your patients?

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

    Yes I care very much about my patients, while I am at work and they are under my care. After I report off I stop thinking about them and stop caring. I even find it hard to remember my patient names...