gauge14iv

gauge14iv MSN, APRN, NP

ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP

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  1. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Granny nurse - that post was not directed at you - nor was it personal. He was responding to Tulip :) It is *MY* and a number of others experience that anytime you mention the ANA on this board it...

  2. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I just want to make the distinction between "theory" and "basis for nursing practice" I think a lot of the debate centers on whether or not theory should form the BASIS for practice, not whether or...

  3. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    If theory isnt working as a basis, than why not EBP? Why not anything else? Why not something people agree upon. I am not sure you are really understanding what I was trying to say about EBP. EBP...

  4. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    But you said you don't believe in

  5. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    One poster (or more) has suggested that EBP be the basis for defining nursing rather than theory - that was how we ended up with that factoring in to the

  6. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    As for placing theory in a research article - we were told we HAD to if we wanted to get published...and if we wanted to meet the requirements for the assignment... SO we found one that fit and stuck...

  7. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    So I could order physical therapy for gastritis and the insurance company would pay for that? I could order Amoxil as a treatment for an acute MI and I wouldnt be sued? Why not? Because the evidence...

  8. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Payors are increasingly basing reimbursement on outcome data as well as benchmarking - that is evidence based practice. They make decisions about what procedures and practices to reimburse based on...

  9. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Kelly - what you stated is exactly the way I feel. Theory has it's place to make it the be all / end all is not right. I have a saying hanging over my desk that says "The space and time for what you...

  10. Do you like nursing in Texas?

    gauge14iv replied to mrnurse2's topic in Texas Nursing

    In contrast do a search on salary.com in the Dallas area. Everyone I have worked with up here was making well over 60k a year, and many were making more than that when you factor in diffs and OT....

  11. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Tulip - very eloquently stated! Im not advocating that we throw out nursing thery altogether, but I think we have to be careful that we don't turn it into a blind expectation that all nurses are...

  12. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    If I hadn't been so dumbfounded by the verbage at times, theory class would have been a lot more fun if I'd been argumentative about

  13. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Humor me and ponder this for a few minutes - Lets say (just for the sake of this) you were raised in a catholic home, in a catholic community and schooled in a catholic church, in addition you...

  14. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    :yelclap: I agree Tulip!!! Do we pour vast amounts of money and researchers time and patients lives into therapeutics that don't show evidence over time? No, we abandon them for something else, we...

  15. Dnp

    gauge14iv replied to kookinitreal's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I agree that we NEED it - I just don't see how they are going to get that many DNP programs up and running in 10 years time and where they are going to get the faculty to staff them. Now 20 years from...

  16. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    I think you actaully have to seperate the need for higher education standards and the need for theory at this point in time. As it is now - higher educational standards simply mean more theory, not...

  17. "What's the Difference Between............"

    gauge14iv replied to StudNurse's topic in Texas Nursing

    Right - the college credit issue. I know the BNE recognizes the graduates of the program as eligible to sit for the exam and apply for licensure. What is a shame about some of these unaccredited...

  18. Dnp

    gauge14iv replied to kookinitreal's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    That's what they are pushing for, I don't see it happening, For one thing - it is doubtful that enough DNP programs can be put in place by then - where will all these DNP qualified faculty come from?...

  19. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    sorry - pc crashed.... In addition - none of these medical theories purports itself to be the underlying basis upon which all medicine is practiced. These theories are divisions (division being a...

  20. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    And just how respected are most of these in scientific

  21. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    "I think their theory is a mile wide and an inch deep. So superficial as to be all surface. Totally inadequate to enable the nurse to see meaning in the gritty reality of disease and suffering....

  22. "What's the Difference Between............"

    gauge14iv replied to StudNurse's topic in Texas Nursing

    You will likely have a hard time getting any of your coursework recognized for transfer out of Concorde. It isn't an accredited

  23. Bizarre!!

    gauge14iv replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    We had a confused patient who decided to pull out her foley - still inflated and suck on the

  24. Retaliation for voicing concern over unsafe pratices

    gauge14iv replied to Keysnurse2008's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Make sure you have copies of that tape in several formats and stored in several

  25. I *do* recognize the need for nursing theory

    gauge14iv replied to carachel2's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Oh and...when are we all getting together to get that "Disturbed Energy Field" removed from the list of NANDA approved Diagnosis? Name the time and place, I'll be there with bells on!...