Nurse Beth MSN

Tele, ICU, Staff Development

Hi! Nice to meet you! I especially love helping new nurses. I am currently a nurse writer with a background in Staff Development, Telemetry and ICU.

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    Myth or Truth: The Story Behind the Nursing Shortage

    Nurse Beth replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    Love this article, it addresses all the nuances so
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    Preceptor position for CNA. Need advice for possible candidate.

    Nurse Beth replied to Unicornnursing21's topic in Nursing Career

    I agree with not.done.yet. I get the sense that you are going to succeed in accomplishing your goals and are already seen as a leader. You may someday regret choosing to work hours that are carved out...
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    Am I Still a Nurse if I Take a Non-nursing Job?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I have been a nurse for 5 years and work in a large teaching hospital ( my experience is cardiac ICU and post procedure recovery for Cath/EP/IR labs). I am considering transferring...
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    CNA Can't Land Job

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, Am I wasting my time and money? Few details. I am a recently graduated CNA (I passed the boards have my number). I am having trouble finding work in my area. I do not want to break...
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    Is Acute Psych Career Suicide?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I'm a new grad and was offered two different positions One on an acute psych floor. This job has better pay, better benefits, weekends off and they aren't requesting that I sign a...
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    Does the Doctor-Nurse Game Still Exist?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in General Nursing

    The Doctor-Nurse Game Those of us nurses who have been around for a time remember some truly archaic nurse-doctor dynamics. The expectations seem laughable in today’s world. Some nurses remember...
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    Student Not Eligible for NCLEX

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, My daughter graduated with a BSN. Transcript shows degree awarded. However, she didn’t make the school's required minimum on the HESI. Now the school has decided to administer...
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    Is 58 Too Old to Land a Job?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I graduated 2016 from ADN program and passed boards Feb 2017. I continued to work for same hospital where I was a patient care tech. This was a second degree for me and a...
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    Can I be a nurse with Chiari Malformation?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I am an LVN that just applied for my associate nursing degree. I was just diagnosed with Chiari Malformation type 1. The tonsils of my brain are 6.5 mm below the foramen magnum. If it...
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    Wants to Get RN to Administer Injectables

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I have a bachelors in biology and a minor in chemistry. I currently have a facial specialist license in Florida and am interested in a nursing degree so I can pursue injectables....
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    LPN, RN Bridge, BSN? Confused

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I graduated from Syracuse University with a B.A. in Political Science in 1992. I’m interested in going into Nursing as a second career after being a full-time Mom. I want to take...
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    LPN, RN Bridge, BSN? Confused

    Nurse Beth replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Thank you for your kind words! There are so many forums here, and the collective experience and wisdom is vast. We're all here to help you.
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    Why the Animosity in Nursing?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    With multiple degrees,...accounting, psychology, sociology,...and, of course, nursing,...why is so very difficult, to manage a career in nursing!?! I was a good student,...I did ok, in nursing...
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    Is this interview process unprofessional?

    Nurse Beth replied to raindrop's topic in Nursing Career

    Rose Queen gave you excellent advice. It's a hard lesson to experience the realities of the hiring world, but try to allow lessons learned to help you in the
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    Wants to Earn Nurse Educator Certification

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I am interested in the nurse educators certificate but, I am a pre licensed RN, still doing my boards. Please, what's the way to go? Dear Doing Boards, There's Nurse Educator...
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    When Your Nursing School is Shut Down

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, My friend is going to school, for a nursing degree, at Antigua College International. That is the school that is in the process of being closed, by CIE. My question is, shouldn't the...
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    Can my Employer Ask Why I Take a Certain Medication?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I quit the nursing field a couple years ago, and I am very happy about it and have never looked back. One of the MANY reasons I quit is that over the years, employers have been given...
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    Scared and Nervous to Be a Nurse

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I am a pre-nursing student and have been accepted into my school's nursing program beginning next spring. I don't have any experience with patient care yet and am really wanting to...
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    LPN or RN?

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I am writing to you to see if this makes sense to do. I am a 34 y/o Mom and Wife with a 2y/o daughter and pregnant with my son due in July. I already have a Bachelor's and a Masters...
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    Bullied and Struggling in ICU

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I'm 9 months into my career as a new grad RN in a level 1 trauma ICU. I feel that I am exactly where I should be in terms of skills and knowledge for having less than 1 year...
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    SNF DON with MSN Can't Land Hospital Position

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, I am having trouble getting interviews for jobs as a nurse with 5 years experience. I have applied to about 20 or so hospital nursing positions ranging from Med/Surg staff RN to...
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    School Nurse Can't Get Bandaids

    Nurse Beth posted a topic in Career Advice Column

    Dear Nurse Beth, Work prn this summer for summer school for special education children. Teacher supervisor has me stationed in center community area surrounded by 8 classrooms. Unfortunately this is...
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    Birth Control and 12 Hour Shifts

    Nurse Beth replied to sillymu's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse to patient after vasectomy "You can apply a bag of frozen peas to the area when you get home." Patient "But I don't like
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    Colleague asked me for a Tylenol from my med cart. What to do?

    Nurse Beth replied to FromMNtoCA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This.
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    Using medical terminology as a nurse

    Nurse Beth replied to RCHCLVN's topic in General Nursing

    Hopefully while working under your DON none of your patients ever scrapes their skin or has a cut with dripping red fluid. We'll have to start a new