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  1. What are the BEST and WORST States to practice as an NP?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    We live in Indiana, but are wanting to move to Hawaii, Nevada or possibly Texas. How do those states fit into the

  2. Could an FPNP start an operate a "cash only" walk in...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    MD Term, how did you get the impression that I disagreed "so much" with "Western medicine". I felt that my last post was a polite, measured (and unfortunately probably weak) response to Zenman's...

  3. Could an FPNP start an operate a "cash only" walk in...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I think that many "conventional" practitioners would say that CAM is fine so long as it is subjected to the scientific process. Otherwise, HOW can we be certain that the results that a particular...

  4. Can a short person be a nurse?

    Roland replied to MryRose's topic in General Nursing

    I saw a special on Discovery Health a few years ago about "little people". In any case ONE of the featured individuals was an orthopedic surgeon (maybe four feet tall). I think that he indicated...

  5. Could an FPNP start an operate a "cash only" walk in...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I would argue that the best of Western medicine should be integrated with those aspects of alternative and complementary medicine that are supported by empirical research. This is of course where the...

  6. In my CNA course guys are not allowed to provide care to female residents during...

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    clinicals (for those of you that don't know I took a year off my BSN clinicals due to my mothers illness and she has since passed away). Our CNA instructor advised that at all of the long term care...

  7. In my CNA course guys are not allowed to provide care to female residents during...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    No one wants to be accused of something improper, but are not females equally vulnerable to such charges? Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending upon your perspective) my solution of total...

  8. There have been a number of studies which seem to suggest that PRAYER may improve....

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    healing. Given this reality how many facilities actively make use of these findings? Are there "active" prayer groups for the patients who request this service (and is it actively made available as...

  9. Could an FPNP start an operate a "cash only" walk in...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hopbalt, I would argue that there are many alternative approaches with dozens to hundreds of studies supporting their efficacy. There is of course a continuum between absolute proof and little to no...

  10. In my CNA course guys are not allowed to provide care to female residents during...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    No, I could in no way afford to "fight" this policy right now. In addition, I am just looking to get back into the "swing of things" for BSN nursing clinicals next Fall. I'm sure that I will be able...

  11. In my CNA course guys are not allowed to provide care to female residents during...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Of course I believe that as a matter of principal that any person has the right to refuse care from any other person (given that they are of a legal status to make such decisions "ie not legally...

  12. Do nurses have a role in "educating" physicians in new treatments? Consider the story

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    There is evidence to indicate that many of the complications from long term statin therapy can be ameliorated by the concurrent administration of coenzyme Q-10 (available OTC see references below...

  13. Do nurses have a role in "educating" physicians in new treatments? Consider the story

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Let me be more specific about how such a system might work. Let's say you were a CT/ICU nurse and you noticed that few of your post MI patients were on anything approaching the above drug combination...

  14. In my CNA course guys are not allowed to provide care to female residents during...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Ktwlpn, I guess I don't understand the distinction between females caring for males, and males caring for females. I think that if there is going to be a "same sex only" care policy that it should be...

  15. Does a "B" stand for Blackeye

    Roland replied to BamaDan's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Personally, I think all the nursing diagnosis and other "fuzzy" stuff in nursing school makes it MORE difficult than classes which are more scientifically orientated. Often there doesn't seem to be...

  16. What is the state of "simulator" technology these days...

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I remember seeing a show on Discovery Health last year where they interviewed a CT surgeon who said that computer integrated simulators were getting to the point where his students would put in...

  17. Does a "B" stand for Blackeye

    Roland replied to BamaDan's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Just curious what caused the 3.8 students to fail out? It's not easy to get A's in most nursing school programs (just read my post about my wife having over 2,000 pages assigned on her first cardio...

  18. Do other forums "similar" to allnurses.com exist for other professions? This place..

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    is so incredible and interesting that I would read it from time to time EVEN IF I wasn't in school to be a nurse. When you think about thousands of people coming together to offer their ture insites...

  19. Does size matter?

    Roland replied to ThinkingAboutIt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    In reviewing nearly every thread in the CRNA forum the advice to work at a "teaching hospital" has been almost universal. In addition, I have personally had written contact with eight CRNA...

  20. Do nurses have a role in "educating" physicians in new treatments? Consider the story

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I am not saying that nurses should have the power to alter a patients treatment outside of their scope of practice. However, I AM saying that there should be "formal" channels in which research, and...

  21. Hey, it's another o-chem question...

    Roland replied to dianacs's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Personally, I wonder how useful Organic will REALLY be in the unlikely event that I EVER find myself in CRNA school. I've had THREE organic classes to date (two when I was pre-pharmacy plus one for...

  22. What is the state of "simulator" technology these days...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I think that fear of PETA or Earth Liberation Front harassment or outright terrorism (in the case of ELF) has ended most academic/ teaching uses of animals. Heck, I bet that over seventy percent of...

  23. Does a "B" stand for Blackeye

    Roland replied to BamaDan's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Bama, I'm taking a senior level Physics "seminar" class for fun this semester and several girls were discussing before class their horible weight gain problems. One said that she had climbed all the...

  24. Acceptance of online BSN (from ADN) degree by employers...

    Roland replied to IamRN's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I have found those classes that I've had online to be harder than the inclass room ones! Also, keep in mind that many universities only offer their ASN/ADN to BSN in an online format....

  25. ASN -> CRNA? NP? MD?

    Roland replied to babymeena's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I should have clarified that I didn't mean going to "work" for a CRNA group as an employee. Rather, to reach the higher ranges of income you would probably have to become a group "owner" (not...