PMFB-RN RN

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    Associates degree

    I work in the SICU of a large academic teaching facility with Magnet certification (whoop-ti-do). We have a 7 month nurse residency program for new grads who want to go into the SICU. It is very...
  2. Usually docs never yell at me and I do not tolerate it for a second. Not do I tolerate them yelling at any of the other non physician staff I work with. On the very few occasions when a physician did...
  3. Are any of you, or do any of you know NPs in Montana or other states that have hospital admitting privileges? I mean privileges as an independent
  4. *** Well everyone won't move here for nurseing school but maybe some can. I did. I did LPN to RN in 9 months for a cost of around $2800. I did lots of research and Wisconsin had the best
  5. No 4.0 needed here in Wisconsin for community college. All you need is CNA, high school chem (or community college chem), high school grad or GED, CPR and pass background check and you get in. There...
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    NPs With Admit Privileges?

    Thanks for the
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    ASN or BSN

    *** Well not always. I know of at least two ICUs who no longer will hire new grad BSNs. ADN
  8. *** My advice is to get into ICU or ER, especially ICU. Those are fields where nurses have considerably more autonomy over their practice. You will find a lot of other nurses in those fields who just...
  9. I am a male ICU nurse and there are several other male nurses in the ICU where I work. It is not uncommon for the female family members of my patients to hit on me and the other men I work with. As...
  10. PMFB-RN

    UPS Drivers make HOW much????

    *** Isn't that $40-45 an hour in union
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    UPS Drivers make HOW much????

    This should be no surprise. In non union areas nurses usually make about the same as factory workers and other time clock punchers. In my area of Wisconsin hospitals start nurses out about the same...
  12. PMFB-RN

    magnet hospitals

    *** I can't discern any benefits to nurses at all that come from working at a Magnet hospital. The only way I would even know I work in one is all the coaching management does to tell us what to say...
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    magnet hospitals

    *** More correctly those are the CLAIMED
  14. PMFB-RN

    3 year NP programs, accelerated?

    My suggestion would be that if you don't want to be an RN that you look into PA programs. NP and PA have similar jobs and pay but you don't need to be an RN to go to PA school. There are PA school...
  15. PMFB-RN

    Why am I not happy with military nursing?

    *** Sounds like your typical large hospital med-surg floor to me. Exactly why I chose to not work med-surg, army or
  16. PMFB-RN

    LVN-RN 30 unit-option california

    I am currently an LVN, and has also been trying to look into this, and a lot of the schools, and advisors I have talked to greatly discourages it. It seems to be a "quick fix," kind of like those "get...
  17. PMFB-RN

    how to look for a job

    I suggest going to this website:http://theagapecenter.com/Hospitals/Minnesota.htm Click on the links to hospital websites where you are interested in working. On each website there will be a link that...
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    nursing shortage is over?

    *** While I don't agree with the unofficial policy it certainly seems no more backwards to me than the "BSN only" hospital policies. They stopped hiring new grad BSNs into the nurse residency...
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    nursing shortage is over?

    *** At the large trauma center where i work they have a Critical Care Nurse Residency program for new grads who want to work in specialty units. For almost two years they have not been hiring new...
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    nursing shortage is over?

    There was never a shortage of nurses. Just a shortage of people willing to work for the current pay and working conditions. Now other fields are not looking so good and that makes more people willing...
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    68Wm6

    If you do go to the army's LPN school you can then become an RN in 9 months in one of Wisconsin's technical colleges. Their LPN to RN is only 9 months. They give army LPNs credit for A&P. Just...
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    Sketchy propofol dosing

    I would never allow a physician, or anyone else to inject drugs into MY patients. That's not his job, his job is to do the procedure. Sounds to me like what was needed was a more effective patient...
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    Getting into nursing with biology background

    Your previous education will not result in any higher pay as an RN. Have you thought about PA school? Same length of school, a little more pay and much better working hours and
  24. *** I believe you but am left to wonder how so much of the information you posted here was wrong. It's not very helpful to those who come here seeking information to tell them things that are either...
  25. It appears that it has either become easier to get into anesthesia school or the requirements are less stringent up north. Maybe because of the demand, they lessened the requirements to get more...