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I have not. Did you look it up on the internet? Here is the url. http://www.visn1.med.va.gov/boston/ Generally, any of the VA websites gives you a general idea of the services they offer to vets and the make up of the staff.

VA Nurse, I agree with you 100% about trying to get any advancement in the VA. They apply the Nurse Qual standards too strictly and are biased against anyone they have had past dealings with. Anyone who has become a thorn in managements side will not...

ADNs and BSNs do the same. Responsibility is the same. Same license. Like all have said before. you may have more options for specific positions from your employer. I have known ADNs who were the only ones to apply for Nurse Manager positions and got...

To Browsing, I commend you that you are going to try. Yes, I do think an ADN is higher learning (post high school). Anyway, I'm not annoyed. I hope you were not offended by my remarks. I just wanted to caution you about what to expect both in school...

Browsing, Unfortunately you are not going to get out of doing papers, giving presentations, and doing projects in any higher learning institute. You would be doing even more if you were enrolled in an online course. The University of Phoenix online i...

I never worked as a GNT. However, several times I have worked with them at my VA. Those that I've worked with stayed at the VA and are still there many, many years later (15 years or more). I've been in the VA since June 1977.

Have you thought of an Online course through the UOP (University of Phoenix)? I'm on my 4th class. It is intense but flexible with my life style. You have to have a computer and a contingency plan if something goes haywire. There are no excuses for n...

Yes, you are eligible I believe after working at least one year at the VA. The MSN may or may not be funded depending on who else may want to sign up from your facility. They (the VA) have a priority to give the funding to those seeking BSN degrees f...

Generally, You do get that information. It isn't spelled out that succtinctly in your courses but it is there. I remember certain signs and symptoms that we were cautioned to notify the doctor about. The implication is there that if you don't then yo...

I have now taken 3 courses towards my master's degree in nursing through the University of Phoenix Online. The VA is paying for it through the NNEI program. The main glitches to the funding is a problem at the beginning of each fiscal year (Oct. 1st)...

I like being a VA nurse. I've been in the VA almost 27 years. I don't know anything about the student nurse technician program. I think we briefly had that program in the mid 1980s but it was abandoned when there wasn't a nursing shortage anymore. Se...

I hope you are doing something about your situation rather than just putting up with it. Don't you have a union? Have you written up the nursing assistants? Did you fill out an unsafe staffing level with your union (if you have one)? Have you notifie...

:wink2: Welcome aboard the VA system. I've been with the VA for almost 27 years. It has good and bad parts not unlike any other facility. I hope you are enjoying your new job. If there is any questions you have, I'll try to answer them. Del

If you work for the VA, you'd be under the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) now. It use to be called the CSRS (Civil Service Retirement System). You could at one time work for either the military as a civilian or work in a military hospital...

I'm still trying to get the okay to start my Master's program from UOP with the VA helping to pay for it. They (VA) put it all on hold this past May until they get the funds okayed by Congress. The employee education dept. is suppose to submit our ap...

Good luck. It's looking very promising for LPNs in the VA. I was recently in on a conference call regarding the grading for LPNs. They recently added a step to grade 6 and added a new grade 7. But to get to those will mean doing more on your own and ...

You sure that it wasn't a civilian nurse working in a military hospital. That happens often near military bases/hospitals. They don't have enough qualified military nurses and, so, hire civilian nurses to fill the needed positions.

The first time I took the ACLS it was at a Navy Hospital with Navy nurses and docs teaching. It was hard but I did well. As the others have said -- know the material. Don't try to over think what is being asked. We had several docs in class that were...

You should read -jt's comments about anti-union states on another thread.

The Florida thingy is weird. Why would a foreign educated doc be expected to know nursing? Wouldn't they first have to take all the required test that a foreing educated nurse would have to take? They'd have to then take the state boards. I still th...

You guys should be talking to your Bar Code committee and tell them you're not getting support to use the system correctly. I know it is difficulty but you must be persistent and not let them brush you off. I know I am not really a pushy person, but ...

I wonder what kind of trouble he'd be in for raising the dead. The young girl and Lazarus, for instance. He'd probably cause a lot of alarm and concern about his actions.

The ANA also has it's union arm, the UAN. I have always been a member of the ANA, and thereby a member of the state constituiency. I think all nurses should support the ANA and be a member. When nurses' view points about a nursing matter in this nati...

Night Owl, wasn't there another ward you could have had the armband printed to? At our facility there is no excuse for the nurses not to use the system as intended. :nono:Our facility has gone straight to disciplinary action if a med error happens be...

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/combinedregtext.pdf I hope this helps some regarding patient privacy issues. It is the US Dept. of Health and Human Services site regarding the latest about HIPPA that is suppose to take effect next April.