WineCountryRN

I just started to teach at a local community college and have the first test scheduled this week. I was taught to offer the students one minute per test question but some are complaining that this isn't long enough (of course I am giving them a 10 mi...

Honestly, I think children (and pets) really pick up on OUR emotions. If we go in uncomfortable with a skill or procedure or are mad at our charge nurse/ spouse, the cold coffee in the cafeteria, and the child (or worse, parent and child) picks up on...

As a Pediatric CNS, I know for a fact that PICU and Pediatric Units (and NICU too) that take CCS $ in California are required to have CNSs on staff. I was told this my the faculty member at UCSF who teaches courses for the APRN programs (this was in ...

Here is what my mentor (professor of nursing at another campus wrote)... The standard is a minute per question but if they are higher level questions or ones that take lots of critical thinking like math or multiple thinking steps. I would have ...

Now this is something I can use! Great ideas! As an educator, I struggle with keeping my 90 minute lecture interesting and engaging. Balancing a lot of content with a lot of students is no easy task. My teaching is like my cooking some of the 'stuff'...

I work at two different hospitals and due to budget constraints, they are both requiring that more and more education via computer based modules be completed while the RN is working providing direct patient care. It is obvious that the RNs just want...

I think it is great that hospitals require clinical instructors to be competent. Should a staff development dept (or the dept. that oversees orientation of staff and volunteers) make that final decision to see who will be leading the students in THEI...

Reading all of these lovely responses to a new nurse is so encouraging! Some say that nurses eat their young...not in this case! Best of luck to our new grad...would love to have you in our ED! Just the fact that you are asking for help and trying to...

As an ED educator, all I can say other than sorry for having to deal with someone mean spirited people and yes they are out there. One of most beneficial presenters that we had in our ED was a former cop/head of our security who teaches on de-escalat...

Did you get the job? Do you what to chat about some ideas to mix it up? I have been doing education for 4 years the last 1.5 being in the ED. The ED is a different breed of nurse...teaching needed to be brief and interactive. I would highly recommend...

OR you could ask the hospital to see who has accessed your chart and when (all this electronic business leaves a different kind of fingerprint). Most hospitals have a security department for this and all concerns could be brought up. I have known nur...

So far great advice from the other posters. Sometimes there are reasons beyond your control that you will not be advanced to the position you want b/c it is about timing and often, not what your know, who you know. Does your employer have affirmative...

OMG~this is so funny because I decided to do another search on this topic and here I end up finding myself again. This is what I ended up doing. In collaboration with OB services including a CNMW and a nursery nurse I had the nurses for 4 hours. One ...

This is for the EDs that are in a hospital that DO NOT have Labor and Delivery Services. While our main hospital is only 1/2 hour away, we have had deliveries in our ED and I would like to formalize the training. I have been asked to do a 1/2 educat...

Just wondering if there are any CNS here in this forum and what kind of 'work' do you in your department. I am a part time ED educator responsible for the unit education of regular staff, new hires, tech, orientation to new equipment and processes. I...

:bowingpurI am thinking about doing a study on burn nurses and what factors influenced them to work in a burn unit. As a nursing instructor, I love teaching about wound care/burn care. I am just wondering, how many of you were in a burn unit as a stu...

could you find a way to make your topic r/t education of students or staff? for example, you love cardiac care so how to you implement a new STEMI program with staff through education? OK for example, my Masters was in Peds but my thesis focus was t...

I really dont think most patients really know the difference, they think a nurse is a nurse or that even a nurses aide is a nurse. The question is why she felt she had to lie. Really makes on think about her intergrity as a person. Does she lie about...

Oh what a pickle! Can you some how get dually certified as a CNS or PNP? It may be cheaper to get both degrees now than finish one and then have to do a post degree later (in case you change your mind). I am dually licenses from a California program ...

Most hospitals require PALS for critical care/ED and the ENPC is often recommended but not required. Gosh, what to do? Will your hospital pay for one or both? Try taking both of them...

May I make a suggestion for the future? Ask your unit educator (or staff development dept )for additional education on acute burn care. Sounds like there was a lot of confusion around the initial approach until to pt was transferred to the burn unit....

Here is the scoop. I crammed and was nervous. I went to school MSN 10 years ago in a dual NP & CNS program and may have forgotten a thing or two. The CNS portion of the my program didn't meet the BRN requirement so I took a special studies class ...

I will let you know tomorrow. I completed my dual NP/CNS program over 10 years ago and just recieved my CNS state licens. Tomorrow I will take my Peds CNS test and I couldn't find a thing to help me study other than the Pediatric CCNS study guide (Mo...

Hello y'all. I have just completed an orientation day for patient care services staff and I had to fill in for a speaker that has flaked the past two times. There are four days of orientation that are spread out throughout the month.FYI- I was able ...

i tell my son to act like a Lion and show me his teeth...then I sing to distract him (he is 4). The 2 year old copies everything his brother does but he is partial the Diego Spin Pro (or something like that) toothbrush. Good luck