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  1. How Will Universal Health Care Change Nursing?

    birdgardner replied to arelle68's topic in General Nursing

    A full 16% of the uninsured, the study found, have incomes above $75,000 a year and could obviously afford insurance if they chose to buy it. Roughly a third of those lacking insurance earn $50,000 a...

  2. can a new grad get hired as tech or unit secretary?

    birdgardner posted a topic in General Nursing

    Seems like the only new grads getting hired here are those who were already working in those positions. At this point I'm willing to do it for a while and have applied but is there any chance a...

  3. Nursing as a Second Career - Advice Please

    birdgardner replied to ysin's topic in General Nursing

    Don't unless you can pull up stakes and move. There is no nursing shortage. New grads are having a very hard time now. If you do, go the cheapest route. Take your time, wait for the economy to...

  4. Name change from DNR to AND

    birdgardner replied to Keepstanding's topic in General Nursing

    One problem is that other than homicide and accident, death is natural. If the patient is in worsening respiratory distress, the natural progression is death. If the patient has a UTI and goes septic,...

  5. Decided to go back to the corporate world....

    birdgardner replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so glad you have a job to go to, nurse2b. Wish I knew how you keep your license updated and active p/t with no nsg experience. It's a vicious circle. No help here, but good thoughts and good...

  6. ACLS

    birdgardner replied to HURN's topic in General Nursing

    The main thing is to use the CD-ROM in the books and learn the rhythms there. The ones we saw on the practicals and the written test looked just like them. http://www.madsci.com/manu/indexekg.htm...

  7. Nurses who were new grads during the last nursing glut - how did you get thru it?

    birdgardner posted a topic in General Nursing

    Needing a little encouragement here - my only interview has been for a home care internship - in which the interviewer made it sound like I'd be observing and doing vital signs for a year. I'm willing...

  8. Pt.'s partner asked to have intercourse with a stoma !

    birdgardner replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in General Nursing

    There have been other threads here mentioning something of the kind - like "grossest thing you have ever seen" which included a stoma with an STD. And questions about the wililngness of the patient -...

  9. Accelerated Program in New Jersey

    birdgardner replied to merge's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if a C represents your understanding of A&P, or just your grade. You want a really firm foundation in that for Patho, which is a weed-'em-out and thin-the-ranks class. A&P is...

  10. Please pray for a friends granddaughter!

    birdgardner replied to Mommy_of_3_in_AL..RN's topic in General Nursing

    God help the little girl, and her twin especially and all the

  11. Can't get a job :(

    birdgardner replied to cheesecake89's topic in General Nursing

    cornpooh, I'll agree with you about the poster's English. I'll also tell you no employer gives a .... about my passion for nursing or my compassion for patients, or my 3.975 GP, or my volunteer EMT...

  12. Can't get a job :(

    birdgardner replied to cheesecake89's topic in General Nursing

    So how are you supposed to contact the nurse-manager if you don't have contacts at the hospital/aren't networked/don't know the nurse-managers

  13. Keeping up skills during the new grad job hunt... thoughts?

    birdgardner replied to JaxNewGrad's topic in General Nursing

    I do volunteer EMS - keeps up some of the assessment skills - interpretation of home meds - talking to

  14. LTC to Med/Surg

    birdgardner replied to CeceRN's topic in General Nursing

    long term care and medical-surgical which means routine adult care in the hospital,

  15. LTC to Med/Surg

    birdgardner replied to CeceRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's not quite the answer to the OP's question, DNP-student - will working LTC hurt her when she tries to get hired in a hospital. I'm facing the same issue myself with the job market the way it is...

  16. Accelerated Program in New Jersey

    birdgardner replied to merge's topic in General Nursing

    Check out Fairleigh Dickinson in Teaneck and Jersey City University in Wall. Kean might have one, not sure. As a recent grad from an accelerated program finding almost no openings for new grads, I'd...

  17. new grad - worth taking ACLS class before being hired?

    birdgardner posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I'm a new grad, hoping to work in MICU/CCU, although the way hiring and the economy are here, I may have to take anything that will get me into a hospital. Would it help me get an ICU position to...

  18. NCLEX...don't break my heart...again!!!

    birdgardner replied to JCrow's topic in General Nursing

    I took it Thursday, and had to wait until Monday. Good luck to you. I had 75 questions too and felt absolutely drained and pessimistic afterward. (But I passed

  19. Scope of Practice?

    birdgardner replied to flygirls2's topic in Emergency

    In a declared mass emergency where normal avenues of physician evaluation and orders were overwhelmed, I'm assuming there would be protocols established under which nurses and EMTs would do what they...

  20. Gender descriptions in my MSN text

    birdgardner replied to nursesail's topic in General Nursing

    My BSN texts avoided the issue by NEVER using pronouns. "The nurse will"..."the nurse recognizes"..."the nurse acts as..." ..."the patient may"...."the patient performs return demonstration"... I...

  21. The Smell of Death!?

    birdgardner replied to carbaminohemoglobin's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't noticed a smell of death -very little experience so far with the dying and dead - but I have come home with the odor of illness and antibiotic-altered excreta in my excreta without being ill...

  22. can a nurse refuse to give vaginal cream to a patient?

    birdgardner replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    Some women are reluctant to touch themselves there - it's not "nice." If that's the problem, and the patient might not discuss it if it is, offering her gloves just might get her over that hurdle....

  23. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    birdgardner replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Shoulder distortia. From our ob-gyn professor, who never met a Greek or Latin root she didn't

  24. Holiday Staffing Crisis- Hospital Setting

    birdgardner replied to WeekenderSims's topic in General Nursing

    "My Manager is interested in implementing a new team approach to working the holidays that will require weekenders (part-timers) to not only work every weekend of every year (with the exception of 3...

  25. Holiday Staffing Crisis- Hospital Setting

    birdgardner replied to WeekenderSims's topic in General Nursing

    Offer triple