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    Lost PALS Certification card!

    hiddencatRN replied to sweetnlow4's topic in General Nursing

    They don't have record of you taking the class? I'd call again and try to talk to someone else. I lost my BLS card and the place I got it through was easily able to reprint it for me for a $10 fee- I...
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    Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    hiddencatRN replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    And who performs the appendectomy? The emergency room physician who first suspected that the patient has appendicitis? Nope. They call in surgeons to do that one. You keep coming back to surgery as...
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    Your one stop for all the most popular pressing questions on allnurses!

    hiddencatRN replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    ER. Definitely. You have new residents rotting through every few weeks and you work closely with them, just like Carla and JD on SCRUBS. Plus you can prepare for it by watching ER
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    Associates RN vs BSN

    hiddencatRN replied to derekfitness's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I haven't really seen a salary differential, but in some areas there is a strong preference for BSN grads now and with a surplus of new grads, it makes things very difficult for ADN nurses. I did an...
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    Not the new grad problem I expected..

    hiddencatRN replied to MInurse.st's topic in First Year After Licensure

    How badly do you want to work in the ER? I would have picked a community hospital ER over a major hospital on another unit, but I really, really wanted to work in the
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    Social Network and Hiring...Employers use your posts

    hiddencatRN replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    Only if you use your main email address to join social networking sites. It's easy to get a free email address to use for Facebook and only Facebook- that's what both DH and I have
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    Pros and Cons of an emergency room nurse

    hiddencatRN replied to stujen's topic in Emergency

    People arriving by EMS for an earache. "He felt hot so I brought him in" (nevermind checking for a temperature
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    Needlestick Injuries Scaring Me Away From Nursing, HELP! :(

    hiddencatRN replied to xoshelbugxo's topic in Nursing Career

    Yeah, this strikes me as a bit melodramatic. If it feels like a daily death sentence....why not find another area of nursing that doesn't deal exclusively with blood and needles? To the OP, I haven't...
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    I was the first responder to a car accident today

    hiddencatRN replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    What about an unsafe scene or not having training to know what to do? It's not uncommon for well-meaning Good Samaritans to get injured themselves when trying to respond to something they don't have...
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    How many of you have a BSN

    hiddencatRN replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    I do. I completed an ABSN last fall. I went this route because my area as a STRONG preference for BSN-prepared new grads, and it was a year shorter than the ADN program. I am happy with my choice...
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    "I bet your other co-workers friends didn't have to..."

    hiddencatRN replied to NENE RN's topic in General Nursing

    It can be frustrating. Before I started nursing school, none of my friends or family really believed that the nursing job market was bad- every time I expressed concern about getting a job after...
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    Help! Pre-employment nicotine test!

    hiddencatRN replied to noviceRN22's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, but I don't think a week is long enough to test negative on a nicotine test. One of the hospitals I was looking at also doesn't hire smokers and I think you needed a month smoke-free to...
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    Diversity.. at what price?

    hiddencatRN replied to Been there,done that's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm a newbie at an urban hospital in a predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhood within a large city that has a large population of immigrants in varying stages of English acquisition. We don't all...
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    Disillusioned and Bullied

    hiddencatRN replied to Traum-a-Rama's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree with getting a lawyer especially now that you've been fired. Keep the job on your resume and use coworkers and your preceptor as
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    Textbook nursing vs. real world nursing.

    hiddencatRN replied to dudette10's topic in General Nursing

    This is how I've interpreted it too. The "correct" way versus how it actually gets
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    Your one stop for all the most popular pressing questions on allnurses!

    hiddencatRN replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    I know this one has been mentioned in the thread before but: "I just took the NCLEX and did the PVT and got the good popup, but how accurate is this? I don't trust it even though THOUSANDS of people...
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    ER stories

    hiddencatRN replied to Art_Vandelay's topic in Emergency

    I just started reading Trauma Junkie. Love
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    New Grad moving to Philadelphia

    hiddencatRN replied to cindyy's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Do you have your BSN or your ADN? In Philadelphia there is a strong preference for BSN new grads- some places won't even consider new nurses who don't have the BSN. As far as who is hiring....pretty...
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    Better chance at a job as Paramedic in PA?

    hiddencatRN replied to IndecisiveInMiami's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    It's tough for paramedics too. DH was an EMT before he was a paramedic so was able to continue at the same place he worked as an EMT as a paramedic. He was able to get medical command there, which...
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    What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

    hiddencatRN replied to foreverLaur's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It's not about lack of appreciation for EMTs, or over-high esteem for alphabets behind our names, but as you point out, they are underpaid and overworked. THAT is the context that EMTs and surg techs...
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    Really, really surprised...........

    hiddencatRN replied to roser13's topic in General Nursing

    No, but sometimes you've gotten the best out of your current situation and it's time to move on to another place where you can learn new
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    What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

    hiddencatRN replied to foreverLaur's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    It's not about weeding, it's about screening. Screening is a quick way to shift through mountains of applicants. Why bother delving into all that detail until you've cut down your list applicants by...
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    What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

    hiddencatRN replied to foreverLaur's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    That's cool. At my BSN program, 77 was passing, and at the ADN program I was considering, a 70 was passing (plus I had a peds and maternity clinical placement which the ADN program did not offer its...
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    Physical restraint on uncooperative children

    hiddencatRN replied to Aleccandra's topic in General Nursing

    It's all good- I am usually terrible about catching old dates. I think it's OK to refresh this thread tho- I've enjoyed the discussion
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    Your one stop for all the most popular pressing questions on allnurses!

    hiddencatRN replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    Omg yes! I hate those threads. I took that test and found the results interesting but in the end we still make choices about what we WANT to do. My coworkers all have a variety of personality traits...