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    Are Nurses First Responders?

    PMFB-RN replied to ScrubADub12's topic in General Nursing

    So nurses certainly can be first responders. But that would be nurses is specific jobs. For example in my job as rapid response nurse I am a first responder for any injured person in the hospital and...
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    I HATE Nurse Practitioners

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

    My assumtion is that there are other problems. However it is logical to think that the hospitals that do use NPs would have more cash since they can bill for more patients while using loweer cost...
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    Nursing outside of the United States!

    PMFB-RN replied to csistudent37's topic in International Nursing

    Never mind. I just re-read the OP and see that she doesn't want to work for the government. I missed that on the first read through. First why are you waiting soooo long to take NCLEX? What you...
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    I HATE Nurse Practitioners

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

    No it makes sence. The OP already stated that the other facilities are both offering incentives AND they hire NPs. The use lower pain NPs (compaired the the MDs) to do some of the work, thus they are...
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    What is the most complex clinical procedure you had to do in your career?

    PMFB-RN replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    Scrach my previous post Most complicated - careing for and running ECMO; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia What the room / patient looks
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    What is the most complex clinical procedure you had to do in your career?

    PMFB-RN replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    Remember PMFB's first rule of crashing patients and codes; 1) It's not _ME_ so everybody calm down. Good
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    What is the most complex clinical procedure you had to do in your career?

    PMFB-RN replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    Not a terrably unusualy event in an SICU or CV ICU. Usually in cases where a new graft (in CABG patients) breaks loose and the patient is bleeding like crazy. Have also seen it done for tamponade and...
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    What is the most complex clinical procedure you had to do in your career?

    PMFB-RN replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    Probably opening the chest covering and suctioning the blood that was causing a taponade on an open heart patient who was brought to the SICU with his chest still open. The CV surgeon had sat in the...
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    Am I in the Wrong??

    PMFB-RN replied to regerterb's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    They left a new grad in her third week of orientation all alone. Why would you want to work
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    I Have The Time and Other Lies

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

    So a hospital that must be really awful (based on all those nurses fleeing), located in the sate KNOWN to be the worst place to work as a nurse, also among the lowest paying states, can't keep nurses....
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    I Have The Time and Other Lies

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

    Oh that's been true in nursing academia for a decade or more. Like much of what you learned in nursing school it isn't used or applicable in the real world. The use of incorrect "client" rather than...
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    Am I in the Wrong??

    PMFB-RN replied to regerterb's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This: & This: Both of these indicate that you work in an incompetently managed dump. They are making you their scape goat for their own incompetence with two shining examples above of...
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    do you think a degree/ education is ever a waste?

    PMFB-RN replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    At the age of 37 my wife went back to school. She attended the local two year campus of the state university system and earned her bachelors degree through an extension program from a 4 year state...
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    do you think a degree/ education is ever a waste?

    PMFB-RN replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    Depends on what you paid for it. If getting a degree in a field that does not lead to gainful employment costs you years and years of $600/month student loan payments then yes I would say you wasted...
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    Most annoying reason for admission?

    PMFB-RN replied to HakunaMatata<3's topic in General Nursing

    Admitted overnight because they don't have a ride home. Happens sometimes in the rural hospital where I work
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    Dreading bedside report with The Interrogator

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

    I given bedside report for most of my career. I too have faced the interrogator. You are correct that their behavior is motivated by insecurity. I have learned to give report exactly the same way...
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    Get the Bsn or leave nursing?

    PMFB-RN replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I could have done RN to MSN in a total of 44 credits and two years at the University of Arizona online. I know several RNs doing exactly that right now. The cost is much higher but not a factor for me...
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    Would you quit over white uniforms?

    PMFB-RN replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, of course it does. This is exactly why the current glut of nurses was created by nurse employers and educators. The whole false "NURSING SHORTAGE!" propaganda was the tool used to create the...
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    I Have The Time and Other Lies

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

    SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!! No way, no way in heck I would ever work someplace that did that. I simply don't want to be a nurse bad
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    Would you quit over white uniforms?

    PMFB-RN replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    You mean rolling back the progress nurses have made over the last 30
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    Are you encouraging other XYs to pursue nursing?

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

    Ya? Which
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    Sorry, we must start you as a new grad.

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

    We have a nurse residency program for new grads going into critical care units. Unless a nurse had some good ICU experience, and can prove it, they go through the residency. This is true no matter how...
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    Would you quit over white uniforms?

    PMFB-RN replied to TexMex22's topic in General Nursing

    Lets say the job hunt would begin. Not cause of white uniforms specifically, but because what such a decision would tell me about the management of that hospital and their mindset. I would see it as...
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    Get the Bsn or leave nursing?

    PMFB-RN replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I suggest NOT getting a BSN. I regret getting mine. I would skip it altogether and just do MSN. You can get an MSN in the same amount of time and about the same effort as a
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    Get the Bsn or leave nursing?

    PMFB-RN replied to smartnurse1982's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    As far as I am concerned the BLS has lost credibility. If they have ever been right about anything related to nurses I have yet to hear of