Roland

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  1. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    yet this doesn't stop their professional organizations from aggressively seeking to limit supply and access into their fields of practice. Of course I am concerned about patients, and their lives but...

  2. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    "critical thinking". In order to apply concepts in a synergistic, analytic manner you must first have a rather solid FOUNDATION in those concepts. Often the basis for such a foundation is...

  3. Best pay for RN's when cost of living is factored into the equation...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    more in larger cities, relative to smaller ones. Consider, that my brother moved from Indianapolis to Chicago MANY years ago because he had the chance to go from earning around 50K to over 170K as VP...

  4. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    however, she will not wast time debating points that don't really change things (as I often will since I find it to be a worthwhile intellectual exercise and a therapeutic outlet for expressing my...

  5. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    civilized society. I went on to explain that by not allowing an avenue for the voicing of dissent however, that it encouraged those types of situations. Nursing school is a very stressful...

  6. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    that is your right. However, many many of us do care. Having worked as a "corpman" (essentially a glorified nurse) in the Navy, I have experience with having great facilities and supplies, but...

  7. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    of the Duke incident. However, I believe that ALL parties involved bear some responsibility when errors so basic as wrong blood type matching occur. Even if this doesn't apply to this example it is...

  8. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    ALSO read her text book. We buy the text books a semester ahead of time and read them over summer break! In addition, she met with the instructor to ascertain the questions that she missed, and they...

  9. What one book, website, computer program or other rescource

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    would you recommend reading to become a better nurse? Along the same lines, what clinical skills do you see new nursing school graduates most lacking? Do you have any advice for speeding the rate at...

  10. nursing career is looking grim!!!!!!!!!!!

    Roland replied to lildebbie-RN's topic in General Nursing

    you might consider aggressive physcial therapy especially involving resistence exercise. AS for the MRSA, and pseudomonas have you investigated any of the "alternative" approaches to these...

  11. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    do you actually mean that you believe that it IS fair to test over material that has not been ASSIGNED or PRESENTED? I agree, they can be ridiculous with the over 2,000 pages of material that they...

  12. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    over material NOT presented in the TEXT or the NOTES is fair by ANY standard? My wife had 1400 SAT's and was an A+ student prior to nursing school. She is STILL a B+ student despite these obstacles....

  13. How would RN's "make out" if we switched to a Canadian style single payer...

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    system. I am NOT asking if it would improve healthcare delivery, cost control, or effectiveness for citizens. Rather, I am narrowly focusing on the implications for wages, benefits, and working...

  14. It seems that CRNA's are not utilized in Canada, the UK and elsewhere. This perplexes

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    me given the fact that nurses PIONEERED anesthesia. In other words nurses predominated in anesthesia until maybe the 1940's or sometime there abouts. What happened in the US that didn't in the other...

  15. How useful is volunteer fiire dept. for CRNA school resume...

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    My wife and I have spent the last several years in our local volunteer fire dept., undergoing first responders/EMT training. It involves about three days of training per month, and maybe six to ten...

  16. All of you that do epidurals, do women ever have Orgasms?

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I read a story under at Ananova.com (a British news outfit) under the "sex life" section about a doctor (I think an OBGYN) who was going to patent an implantable, electric device to stimulate orgasm...

  17. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    if your're going to be unreasonable the LEAST you can do is to be upfront about the whole thing. I don't like hypocrits, and those who engage in double-speak. I can respect an evil bastard if he or...

  18. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    but my primary concern here is nursing pay and benefits. I believe that good ratio's, adequate supplies, and adequate facilities are important, but they are not my primary responsibility. Indeed, I...

  19. Do nursing schools actually conciously REALIZE they are being ridiculous or is it a..

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    work bedside! My aunt and mother made fine livings as medical record administration nurses. Heck, my aunt Joyce made 80K a year inspecting records at nursing homes into her late 60's even when she...

  20. All of you that do epidurals, do women ever have Orgasms?

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

    "copy and pastes", but it seems to be functioning now. Also, I realize upon re-reading the story that he wasn't doing an epdural, but some sort of electrical stimulation designed to relieve (probably...

  21. How useful is volunteer fiire dept. for CRNA school resume...

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

    CRNA school because of all this volunteer Fire Dept. stuff, it's going to mean she will have to work alot more overtime in order to properly support me and my son. We have expensive tastes and Hawaii...

  22. How would RN's "make out" if we switched to a Canadian style single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    America IS a quasi/Socialist country. Consider that we spend over half of our budget on entitlements such as Medicaid, Medicare (just massively expanded under Bush's prescription drug proposal),...

  23. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    "most professions and trades seek to create barriers to entry in order to limit supply and artificially inflate their compensaton, but nursing in large part does not." Would you agree with that...

  24. How useful is volunteer fiire dept. for CRNA school resume...

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

    to my position I will inform my wife that it is the concensus of the CRNA board that I am correct and that we should cease wasting our time! It's actually more of a burden on her than me since she is...

  25. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    for RN's is being driven down by the over supply created by the current situation (not mandating a BSN for all NEW nurses). This is of course exascerated by practices such as bringing in nurses from...