horus2001

i hate to seem cynical but most of psych nursing is pushing pills. Before i get jumped on, i work as a psych nurse at a state mental hospital so i do have some background. modern psych is give them pills, get them stable and get them out. most insu...

the question is MRSA colonization the same as having TB. if it is, then no nurse can be fired: ADA Who's Disabled, 11/92 NRPA Law Review this link explains that, a communicable disease is covered under the ADA and the nurse must be offered an equal ...

i too work on a child/adolescent unit. we had a similar situation where a patient struck a nurse so she could get a shot of vitamin T. i asked the nurse if he wanted to call and report an assault. he said yes, i called the cops and then the docto...

I need to vent but i also want to pose a question. today, i had a six year old psych patient who threw a tantrum on the unit. This kid functions at the level of a 18 month old, so the tantrum i can handle. he then started slamming doors, i interven...

Seriously? You want to teach? I looked at some of your postings and... Let me be honest with you, in graduate school, you write papers. If the quality of your grammar and spelling is the same as you post on this board, you won't make it. I don't ...

best paying jobs are in the medical center area. there are several large players with outlying hospitals in the suburban area. check st. lukes, methodist, md anderson, Texas children, memorial herman. there is st. joes in downtown. every suburban...

They have a ton of nurses there, they just all seem to leave the country at the first chance they get. we have a huge population of nurses from kerala here in houston. whole units at methodist and other hospitals are run by keralian nurses.

i used hurst. i ended up with 75 questions, finished in 45 minutes. passed the nclex no problem, much of the success i owe to hurst. it was simply the best prep program i encountered.

it sounds like they are still W/Ding. i know if our patients meet certain vital sign parameters we can still give them a PRN to help them per the vitals. does your doctor have any PRNs scheduled like that to help? it seems a bit sadistic to make a...

ahh but there is a difference between being religious and spiritual. the difference is that religious people follow a specific dogma and set of beliefs. you can be spiritual and not religious and vice versa. as far as the indian example, it does ...

i did find this: http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Secular-Philosophies/Atheists-In-Foxholes.aspx the thing to consider, as we as a culture have advanced, we have become more and more hostile towards the idea of something greater than ourselves. it has...

the statement those who tend to become religious were already religious does not make sense. people become religious because they have reached a point in their lives when they need something bigger than themselves. people who are religious don't te...

i don't know about that. i encounter a lot of nurses that are very religious. i think it a coping tool for dealing with issues that are beyond our power to resolve. Also just as the saying goes "there are no atheists in foxholes", as people becom...

anything other than a stud ear rings should be forbidden for safety. that nose ring seems pretty cool until it gets ripped out by a patient who is psychotic or caught on something during a code. it all comes down to safety, if not the patient's, yo...

umm, under most normal circumstances, the nose is a lovely holding tank for staph and other bacteria.

well, anyone with capital can open a clinic and hire docs to work for them. i can't see much value in opening a clinic as a non-prescription writing nurse. You can't write orders, can't order tests, can't give meds, what exactly can you do? nursing...

you question does not make any sense. nurses can't practice medicine. doctors practice medicine. Usually, a group of doctors (who often have a very high income) will invest in a practice and hire staff (including nurses and others). it does not w...

my opinion of helicopter parents is not colored by my experience as a nurse. rather, it is born of a distain for those children who can't or won't cut their apron strings. i have two children of my own, i watch the other parents and see how littl...

good lord, are you one of those helicopter parents? why are you doing the research for her? let her do the work. she is not going to make it through school if she does not develop any skills for self-sufficency. i am amazed at the level of interf...

i did my ob clinicals there. i know they get paid a little less than the medical center ob nurses due to the fact that the administration of womens don't consider it to be a "medical center" hospital. mostly because it is outside the core of the TMC...

i did not mean to imply i thought the test was easy. it was hard, but in a weird way. have done really poorly on exams and i knew it walking out afterwards. i have taken exams that i did great on and i knew it after finishing. its just this exam...

i took the nclex last thursday. i was full of angst and concern before the exam. i settle down and start taking the test, click, click and boom, i am done. i left the building feeling empty. the test was not what i expected it to be. the whole ...

i do know that unemployment is only for six months and after that they cut you off. there may be some kind of job training programs but normal unemployment will cut off at 1/2 a year. also, every time you log in to the website to mark you have been...

regardless of what program you want to enter, you had best have all the pre-reqs done or finishing up before the program. most of the schools have no problems booting you out even if it is an oversight on their part. also if you are really jonesin...