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  1. Certification exams AANP vs. ANCC

    Repat replied to JACKMAC's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Thank you! A tremendous help - I am in an on line program with students in every state and a few different countries (including Egypt), so their advising about requirements is not too helpful. Yours...

  2. Certification exams AANP vs. ANCC

    Repat replied to JACKMAC's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    So, what is the difference between the two certification

  3. Nasty situation - need advice

    Repat replied to Repat's topic in Nursing Career

    OK, everyone, worked my first shift with her. Did my work, helped when asked, kept my nose out of everything else. It was very difficult, but I have decided that I am now in the perfect mind set to...

  4. Nasty situation - need advice

    Repat posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Well, I haven't been visiting here in a long while, but I sure could use some advice right about now. For the last year or so I have been acting as charge nurse on the unit where I work. Last month...

  5. Nasty situation - need advice

    Repat replied to Repat's topic in Nursing Career

    You are right, she did not make the decision to hire her - that is why I am leaving the department! Because I can no longer work for that manager. However, this person made the decision to apply for...

  6. Help!help!help!!!

    Repat posted a topic in General Nursing

    My original licensure is DC. I have a current RN license there. Yet, throughout my career (since 1985) I have had nothing but trouble trying to contact the Board of Nursing. When I lived overseas,...

  7. How many weekends are you required to work?

    Repat replied to Roni725's topic in General Nursing

    A little thanks for us WOWs?! No "regulars" work weekends where I am, because we WOWs work them. Now, though, people don't complain about having to work weekends, they complain about the WOWs...

  8. Any facilities that stop accepting pts if there is insufficient staff?

    Repat replied to Nurse Ratched's topic in General Nursing

    I have been told the same thing - we do not close while there are open beds. And, with a new manager, we now are not allowed to divert - all ER visits must be allowed, regardless of staffing. And, I...

  9. Help with Digital Camera

    Repat replied to beckymcrn's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, everyone!! I want to know, too, because this is what I have decided to buy for myself for

  10. Help!help!help!!!

    Repat replied to Repat's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, Hillary! Although my post was a month ago, it still isn't sorted out. Every other state has gotten their act together except DC. I finally called the commissioner's office and spoke to a...

  11. Nurses leaving in droves...

    Repat replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    You lucky devils - you have

  12. Chronic Sinusitis - Suffering!!

    Repat replied to Phenomenon's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely get to the ENT!!! I have suffered almost all my life - couldn't fly if there was even a hint of an infection, couldn't hear or speak on the telephone, etc., etc. Finally went to an ENT,...

  13. Vote here! allnurses presidential race poll

    Repat replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

    Got to say it - go

  14. Nurses leaving in droves...

    Repat replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    The new sign in our break room: "There is no such thing as a difficult patient, only a patient with difficulties." Just about says it all, I

  15. Nurses leaving in droves...

    Repat replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Been an RN for 20 years, and I am back in school to get OUT of the hospital. Corporate mind set does not belong in health care. We have a new "customer service recovery initiative" that involves...

  16. Minimal Lift

    Repat replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    I am impressed with your facility! We have had some very heavy patient loads lately (no pun intended!) - completely dependent people weighing over 300 pounds Anyway, after three or four call ins...

  17. Interview

    Repat posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Hello, all my favorite experts!! I have been a nurse for a very long time (longer than I care to admit). I have always worked in hospitals. I have an interview at a local LTC this week. What kinds...

  18. Interview

    Repat replied to Repat's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Thank you! I don't even know where to begin, and your ideas are great. I will do some

  19. Having to work Holidays:(

    Repat replied to altomga's topic in General Nursing

    I have to work Halloween, Christmas, and New Year. Now, I work the weekend program, and I knew this year was coming up (and next year will be worse), and I prepared my family for it - you know "It's...

  20. T-Shirt Slogans

    Repat replied to nursebedlam's topic in Nursing Humor

    My friend has one I love: "Who are these kids, and why are they calling me

  21. cardizem drip nurse/patient ratio

    Repat replied to lihuejan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The med/surg tele unit where I used to work had symptomatic pts w/cardizem, and a 6:1 ratio:(!! We also took heparin and insulin

  22. 25 Nurses fired for not working Frances

    Repat replied to Rudegal2020's topic in Florida Nursing

    The same thing happened to me when I worked in Denver many years ago. We had a blizzard - I couldn't see the roof of my car. Work called and said that a policeman in a 4-wheel drive would come to...

  23. "A monkey can be trained to do what you nurses do"

    Repat replied to angel337's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, a very mean thing to say. Don't you just wish you could think of come backs right there and then? Like "good thing we have a j***a** at the helm!". Might even take the pt's. mind off their...

  24. Early Morning Clinicals

    Repat replied to abundantjoy07's topic in General Students

    Well, I am the instructor, too! And, I have to be there the day before to make out the assignments, get there early to make sure all is ready, stay until the last student leaves, then mark care plans...

  25. searching for best online program

    Repat replied to jRN4now's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I am in the Saint Louis University Adult NP program, and I love it. We have lectures and videos on line, seminars where we discuss the week's content, and various written assignments. We also take...