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    Should Respiratory Care get its own mid-level provider credential?

    PMFB-RN replied to incrediblehulk2016's topic in General Nursing

    *** Requiring a higher degree / more investment for the same job is NOT "advancement" If it is your opion that there will be advancements in nursing and RTs please elobrate on what the advancement...
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    Should Respiratory Care get its own mid-level provider credential?

    PMFB-RN replied to incrediblehulk2016's topic in General Nursing

    *** Maybe you are right. However as PA starts to rival MD school in lenghth, expence and sacrafice required but WITHOUT the financial and social standing rewards afforded MDs at the end fewer people...
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    Should Respiratory Care get its own mid-level provider credential?

    PMFB-RN replied to incrediblehulk2016's topic in General Nursing

    *** Only partly true. No state requires CRNAs to be supervised by an anesthesiologist. Since the suregon in the room literaly has absolutly no idea what the anesthesia provider is doing up at the head...
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    Should Respiratory Care get its own mid-level provider credential?

    PMFB-RN replied to incrediblehulk2016's topic in General Nursing

    *** Lots of hospitals prefer or require BSNs. That however has absolutly nothing to do with state boards of nursing requiring a BSN for a
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    LPN to RN vs LPN to BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to keykey0890's topic in LPN to RN

    FYI Once you take and pass the NCLEX-RN you never have to retake them again reguardless of what further education you earn. An RN is an RN reguarless if they have no degree or a
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    LPN to RN vs LPN to BSN

    PMFB-RN replied to keykey0890's topic in LPN to RN

    Do whatever gets you your license fastest. I did LPN to RN in 9 months, then RN to BSN in a year (was a few years in between spent working as an
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    The College Network Scam

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

    It is shocking to me that so many otherwise smart people are taken in by TCN. I mean TCN isn't scamming trusting little old ladies here but people bright enough ot finish LPN or praramedic school....
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    Should Respiratory Care get its own mid-level provider credential?

    PMFB-RN replied to incrediblehulk2016's topic in General Nursing

    *** Wow, you just keep saying one highly controversial thing after another, some of them false. I started off thinking you were a troll just seeking to start fights. Of course you are entitled to your...
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    i HATE my job. Does anyone else feel the same?

    PMFB-RN replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    *** In my hospital that lady would have found herself in 4 point restrains so fast her head would spin. It is our policy that any A&O patient that hits, kicks, bites, or in any other way harms, or...
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    Things You Didn't Learn in Nursing School

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

    *** That's BS. We all need to resist this way of thinking. As far as I am concerned the pain-in-the-butt patients are welcome to go to a different hospital. I am a nurse caring for hospital patients,...
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    Things You Didn't Learn in Nursing School

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

    *** When I was in nursing school we HAD to place IVs and draw blood. I remeber we had to place 2 sucessful IVs on real breathing patients in order to pass. No IVs = failure and repeat the clinical or...
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    Things You Didn't Learn in Nursing School

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

    *** Nursing students are not demanding enough of the nursing school they are paying for their education. It's absurd that nursing schools are no longer teaching basic nursing skills and instead...
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    i HATE my job. Does anyone else feel the same?

    PMFB-RN replied to Jenni811's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I very much enjoy my job. However if I had YOUR job I would hate it too. Sounds like you put up with too much BS. I couldn't do it. Lucky for me I work in a non Magnet hospital that still realizes we...
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    ICU nurses, Is 3:1 patient to nurse ratio a common occurence or am I just tripping?

    PMFB-RN replied to Scrubs911's topic in MICU, SICU

    *** CRRT I get. Balloon pump I don't. Do you run your own IABPs's or do you have a prefusionist who comes and manages them? *** Probably cause in California it is illegal to staff 1:3 in
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    8 months in ER; go back for BSN or MSN?

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

    o*** I am happy it worked out that way for you and wish I could say the same. I think I got dumber in my BSN program. The level of discourse was pathetic. I would learned more skipping the BSN and...
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    I BLEW MY CHANCE !!

    PMFB-RN replied to Bigmaine33's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    *** I would suggest a more qualified answer. Something like: "Maybe not initialy, but with a good orientation and time to learn the faciliety and residents I am very confident I would be able to...
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    Difficulty with coworkers

    PMFB-RN replied to MiriamRn's topic in Emergency

    *** I want to work where you work. Even when i worked in the ER of a large level I trauma hospital in a huge city it was mostly boring, while at the same time being busy and hard work. COPD and CHF...
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    Things You Didn't Learn in Nursing School

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

    1. How to be a nurse. 2. Not only can physicians be wrong, they frequiently
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    Working Weekends & Sundays

    PMFB-RN replied to Yep, Me's topic in Nursing Career

    If the manager values this new LPN and wished to keep her employed, and feels the benfits of keeping her outweight the resentment and lower moral of other employes, then yes she should accomadate her....
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    8 months in ER; go back for BSN or MSN?

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

    Why no go for a general MSN? You could do it in two years or less, not much longer than doing BSN and then later if you want to go APN route you can do the much shorter post MSN versions. Sounds like...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

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

    *** Well good luck. For the life of me I never understand why veterans come to Minnesota to go to college when other states are so much more vet friendly. *** Well we will have to agree to disagree....
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

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

    I know you are doing an assingment and that's fine. However I feel it's hopeless. I am an army medic who challenged the LVN board in California and currently work as an RN in Minnesota. MN is a very...
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    Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

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

    *** None of those classes are (or should be) prerequisite for LPN in my state (Wisconsin). Only A&P & micro are even required. Chem and organic chem arn't even required for the RN
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    Scrub pants with the most pockets

    PMFB-RN replied to cdgpatterson's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    *** I was issued 3 pair of Aviator scrubs in 2006. I still wear them for work daily. I bought 2 more pair in 2007. All are in good shape. Only thing I have done is take them to a taylor to get the...
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    ICU nurses, Is 3:1 patient to nurse ratio a common occurence or am I just tripping?

    PMFB-RN replied to Scrubs911's topic in MICU, SICU

    *** I agree with you and consider it a waste of money. I didn't say it was my idea. I consider it like Magnet or scripting. A money waster that the hospital engages in to be part of the cool crowd....