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I am speaking primarily from two perspectives here: 1. The degree to which NP's are accepted, recognized, and utilized in that area/state. 2. The degree to which state law recognizes NP's, and grants them autonomy, and privledges such as th...

My wife will be graduating in December and wants to work in critical care/ICU. However, she has a very sensitive "gag" reflex that is activated primarily by smell (meaning looking at gross stuff doesn't really bother her, but combined with or by the...

We went to a job fair at a new North side hospital today only to learn that all positions (including med/surg) required two years experience. I started up a conversation with the manager of the new ICU, and related how important it was for my wife t...

I would vote for the Indianapolis area. I know several RN's who earned over $24.00 per hour right out of school (ADN program). Furthermore, the cost of living in Indiana is very reasonable. You can buy a nice house for about 120K, or rent a decen...

Don't they have the same active ingredients except that Claritin-D 24 Hour adds loratadine to pseudoephedrine. Could it be that the loratadine somehow makes the pseudoephedrine less effective in her case? Also, while we are on the subject why did t...

What would be some of your criticism of the author's methodology? I am doing a review of this article for a statistics class and am looking for some fresh perspectives. Educational Levels of Hospital Nurses and Surgical Patient Mortality Linda H. A...

My wife and I plan move to Oahu, if and when she graduates from CRNA school. The plan is to live on her CRNA salary, and to save my RN salary (I hope to find ICU or home healthcare work). From a practical standpoint we think that Oahu is the only i...

Perhaps the TOUGHEST skill for me during my first semester of nursing clinicals was making the darn bed! I would prefer to have to retake A&P twice, and place a foley in every old lady over eighty in the state of Vermont than have to mitre anoth...

The following email was sent to me by someone that I know asking for input. All of the names, and key identifying details of both the instructors, student, and locations have also been altered to protect the person's privacy. Honestly, I don't know...

was admitted to in patient hospice and died about a week later. At the time of her admission her Dr. (and a second opinion) had given her from two to six months to live (she had non small cell lung cancer that had spread to her liver). We decided t...

threat facing health care workers today. He said that he personally knew two doctors that had been infected through their jobs. Thus, he told me that there was NO WAY that he would subject himself to the risk of Hep. C for nursing pay. Do you know...

have difficulty with "coordination" type skills? I don't have any problem with the "book stuff", but for me to learn a "skill" (to nursing standards for checkoff purposes) is very difficult. Frankly, I am almost "learning disabled" in this area. I...

I know that the governmental publications say that it's "above average", but those are often not all that accurate. I also know that it is no where near as good as it is for nursing (just look at any Sunday newspaper). However, that is my current "...

I know of a local couple who started a home nursing business about 17 years ago. Her only experience was as a Med/Surg RN (2 years), she was so successful that her husband went back to school to become an RN to help run/work the business. Now they ...

It is my understanding that MRSA (and VRE I think) will often not even make a healthy person sick, but Hepatitis C is a serious threat to even a healthy individual with no effective vaccine available (and is easier to transmit than HIV). Yet "the w...

Sorry that should read "Should". The nurse in question (referenced in the now closed post" is sabotaging a student ethical/legal") actually admitted the incident on my wife's weekly evaluation. The manager of the unit said that my wife's preceptor f...

That is a very good queston because they have the so called "eICU". I can only surmise that chest tube vacuum integrity is not a parameter that is closely monitored by the folks "in the sky".

The problem with that is about 50% of the posts that I place have the same sort of "attacks on my personal sincerity or integrity" The net effect of closing all such posts is to place a "de facto" ban on my ability to post. Why cannot those who com...

I had one post where I referenced writing a book about why nurses lose their license. I did that even BEFORE my wife experienced her present situation precisely because I believed then that many, many nurses and nursing students are punished for capr...

The original thread in question is here https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/is-legal-ethical-preceptor-sabotage-student-133692.html . Note this is an issue that we will be following up in one manner or another either in the media, within the corporate l...

The problem with the rad tech sites is that you have maybe a 1,000 members rather than 100,000. With a 100,000 people there's a good chance that there is an expert or two out there in Allnurse land who could tell me the ins an outs of building a ham...

My wife recently posted about the difficulties she has faced in a new ICU job. She is recluctent to leave because it was tough to find the position that she now has. However, just the other day when her preceptor asked her how she thought she was doi...

In reply consider the following: 1. My wife posted her own post on her issues with this ICU and they can be read with a simple search on the name OahuRN (I think she only has a couple of posts so it shouldn't be too hard). 2. I am as certain as I c...

In reply consider the following: 1. My wife posted her own post on her issues with this ICU and they can be read with a simple search on the name OahuRN (I think she only has a couple of posts so it shouldn't be too hard). 2. I am as certain as I c...

Why is "eating their young" used so frequently (espcially around here) to water down the reality with should be stated as acting like an aXX. The reality (IMHO) is that many nurses (it especially seems like the older, more experienced ones especiall...