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    Is your Hospital requiring a copy of your diploma or transcripts?

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

    What is
  2. PMFB-RN

    Is your Hospital requiring a copy of your diploma or transcripts?

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

    *** I got an LVN license wihout ever having gone to nursing
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    2015 DNP Requirement for APNs

    PMFB-RN replied to IcanHealYou's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    MY hospital has NP students from two different programs doing clinicals. One if a direct entry masters program where the students have not RN experience. the other is a DNP NP program that requires 2...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    ER physicians and hospitalists are the same. They don't take calls when they are off duty. The come to work, work their shift then go home. They don't get called by nurses or patients at
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    Job market- ADN students being warned?

    PMFB-RN replied to hope3456's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    *** YOu say that as if Magnet hospitals can't or don't hire ADN grads. They can and do. It may be true that the hospitals in you area that are Magnet certified choose not to hire ADN grads but there...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** I see these bright kids come to the hospital all the time. Very smart, ambitious and mostly from a similar background and life experience. Obviously with some exceptions. Yes mostly with limited...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** Of course, it only makes sence. If you can invest $5K and 2-3 years local to your home to become qualifed for a job that pays (let's say) $25 an hour, why would you invest 4-5 years and $50-$80K...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** I believe cutting the ADN programs would be a disaster for us. Here's why. The bright high school grad who leaves home to pursue her BSN at State University and graduates in her early 20's and...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    PMFB-RN replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I would submit that the BSN is quite possibly obsolete. We know that it is not required for good, safe, and competent bedside nursing practice. With the advent of direct RN to MSN programs that can be...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    PMFB-RN replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    *** Wow! Hit the nail on the
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    PMFB-RN replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    *** Interesting that in my area Magnet hospitals both hire ADNs and pay the least. One hospital where I work part time will only consider ADN grads for their critical care nurse residency program for...
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    IV Magnesium Sulfate in office???

    PMFB-RN replied to Anagray's topic in Patient Medications

    *** They certainly are. However when the OP is asking about is very, very low risk. Appropiate for an office staffed with an RN to administer the mag
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    IV Magnesium Sulfate in office???

    PMFB-RN replied to Anagray's topic in Patient Medications

    What are you worried is going to happen? That is a small dose and given very slowly. I would give mag sulfate IV in an office enviroment without a second thought. There is a reason we have RNs to...
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    Stop complaining about your job - It could be worse.

    PMFB-RN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    *** Yes there very likely is. That siuation is ruining the very reason all those people want to be nurses. The glut of nurses means by the time all those students are ready, the jobs they find, if...
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    Stop complaining about your job - It could be worse.

    PMFB-RN replied to Brian's topic in Nurses Rock

    It breaks my heart to see how the poor economy is used as an excuse by managment to treat nurses poorly and reduce our wages and/or benifits. I don't buy into the whole "you are lucky to have a job...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** Oh graduate education makes great sence for advanced practice nurses and seems to be a good investment. But advanced practice nurses don't usually work in the same conditions as staff RNs. They...
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    PMFB-RN replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    *** The BSN IS easy but not worth having. At least not worth the amount of time I wasted on
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    Any ADN-BSN programs without ridiculous papers?

    PMFB-RN replied to adnrnstudent's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Ya I feel you. I got dumber doing my BSN program at a local state U. The papers were stupid, the level of discourse was pathetic, the learning non-exsistant. You will get many apologists here for the...
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    Gay male nurse concern about male patient care

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

    *** "most" people assume we are gay? My experience during two decades in nursing in no way supports that. It's happend a very few times that a person assumed I was gay since I was a nurse bt those...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** Yes I understand that. However a few health systems use a universal nurse residency program for all new nurses wether the grad working in the big flagship hospital or one of the smaller feeder...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    *** Maybe if nurses were not graduating so well educated, but useless at the bedside, there would be more interest in hiring new
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    Could someone of average IQ become an ADN nurse?

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

    Plenty of physicians getting through med school and residency with only average intelligence. I suppose if a person of average IQ can be a physician then they could certainy be a
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    First Day Being a Nurse: Feeling Overwhelmed

    PMFB-RN replied to Joe V's topic in Nurses Rock

    *** Oh I have been in those little hospitals where the physician is the cash cow and the nurse better tow the line and just take whatever the almighty doctor dishes out. That is EXACTLY why I...
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    Residencies: doctors have it figured out

    PMFB-RN replied to Amistad's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    You didn't complete a nurse residency? I did. Nurse residency in Critical Care. Nurse residencies already exsist. Obviously not wide spread and what some organizations call "residency" can be...