SummitRN BSN, RN

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    Required to stay at hospital with no pay

    SummitRN replied to Brdnfrd's topic in General Nursing

    What you must do in order to get into work isn't compensatable. Just like your commute during a blizzard is not hours worked. Requiring an employee to stay on-site with the expectation that they could...
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    Required to stay at hospital with no pay

    SummitRN replied to Brdnfrd's topic in General Nursing

    This is simple as 1-2-3: 1. If you are not being paid, you can do what you want and go where you want. 2. If you don't show up for your shift, then you can be fired. 3. If they want you to stay at the...
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    School Rankings for Informatics

    SummitRN replied to JustinAllen's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Nobody cares where you get your Informatics degree as long as it is not a disreputable school. Your (pre-degree) Informatics experience and skillset are worth 10x the name of your
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    Do you need IT background to be a nurse informaticist?

    SummitRN replied to divernurse's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Depends what kind of Informatics you do. IT background will ALWAYS HELP. If you are functioning as a simple project manager or an EHR super-duper user, you probably don't need a deep IT background....
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    Gun Owning Nurses

    SummitRN replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

    :) I read that and thought, "most happen with guns? And the rest with... crossbows?" A sardonic reference to the perception of various semi-auto rifles like the AR-15 that are commonly made of black...
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    Inane scripting

    SummitRN replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I'd answer the MICU phone with "M I, Summit" There was one doc who loved to ask. "I don't know, are
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    Inane scripting

    SummitRN replied to Jedrnurse's topic in General Nursing

    "Welcome to Smash Burger. What can we SMASH for you
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    Why isn't CPR included in basic educational classes?

    SummitRN replied to Dianna11's topic in General Nursing

    I think 6th or 7th grade is just perfect. CPR is required to graduate high school in 35 of the 50 states It is a new drive and the legisation only started kicking in 2015 or may not start until...
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    Tired of the Stereotypes of Medics and EMTs

    SummitRN replied to KeekesRenea's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow OP. Chill out. Nobody has ever discussed this before. Ever. There certainly aren't any other EMTs and Paramedics here who became RNs. Some of us still practice. EMS is not "just ambulance...
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    Why Can Pre-Med Students Know Their Choice But Nursing Students "Can't"?

    SummitRN replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely. I couldn't have moved due to a spouse, so I had to be willing to commute and work weird shifts to get the type of job I wanted as a new grad. The point of many is the OP can't expect to...
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    Why Can Pre-Med Students Know Their Choice But Nursing Students "Can't"?

    SummitRN replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    Hmmm... funny I hear plenty of adult care RNs and nursing students make absolute statements about never wanting to go anywhere near a NICU or peds or OB unit in their employment. Nobody wants to...
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    Why Can Pre-Med Students Know Their Choice But Nursing Students "Can't"?

    SummitRN replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    More distasteful than implying doctors who had an attraction to a specialty early on wash out to become incompetent psychiatrists who send people for unnecessary surgeries? That is about the only part...
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    Why Can Pre-Med Students Know Their Choice But Nursing Students "Can't"?

    SummitRN replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    I feel passion behind your rant... to bad it is
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    I think I don't want to be a Nurse anymore.

    SummitRN replied to guest723's topic in General Nursing

    Strong work! Oh that is a load of scare-mongering crap. Nursing school is not a cakewalk, but it is very different from your prereqs. NS is not nearly as conceptually hard as your science prereqs....
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    Why Can Pre-Med Students Know Their Choice But Nursing Students "Can't"?

    SummitRN replied to Shookclays's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing schools (and some on this forum) are full of the following silly attitude: you couldn't possibly know what you want until after you are experienced, and you can't be experienced without a year...
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    Do most nurses not like writing papers?

    SummitRN replied to purplegal's topic in General Nursing

    While I prefer tests and symbolic/numeric problems (physics/math) instead of papers, I'm not opposed to papers. The problem was some of the papers I wrote in nursing school were little more than...
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    Thoughts of an ER Tech

    SummitRN replied to vregino36's topic in Emergency

    SUMMARY SO FAR: OP writes long post that can be summarized in a sentence: "Don't be a jerk, ya jerks!" Random strangers who don't like being called jerks, call out the bad attitude. OP uses...
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    High BP but Low HR... Which med will you give/hold?

    SummitRN replied to gelman's topic in Patient Medications

    I'd like to know why this patient has a HR in the 50s and SBP 170 before I can try to reason pharmacological interventions. I don't know their history or treatment goals. How can I possibly answer...
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    911 Debrief

    SummitRN replied to DEgalRN's topic in School

    The reason they "took her to the ambulance for evaluation" is because they are professionals and if you call EMS they owe the patient a prudent and thorough examination. And because the vast majority...
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    911 Debrief

    SummitRN replied to DEgalRN's topic in School

    Well I'll play the contrarian then. This presentation sounds like a panic attack in the setting of mild asthma. Breathing that fast I bet she felt light headed and dizzy! That is a classic symptom of...
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    Medical Quackery: Let's talk.

    SummitRN replied to Spidey's mom's topic in Nursing News

    For many believers of quackery there is a fervency on par with fundamentalist religion... and many love to evangelize their belief in woo as a form of
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    The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    SummitRN replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Is it too much to ask for a quick spell check after you finish your ridiculous patronizing diatribes? This is, in theory, a professional
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    The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    SummitRN replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Most FP residencies are 3 years. Most med schools have MS3 spending about half their time in clerkships (what they call clinicals) and most of the MS4 time is in clinicals. PGY1 or internship...
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    The Decline of Physicians: Do we really need them anymore in Primary Care?

    SummitRN replied to AAC.271's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Equal pay for equal work should it be independent of qualifications? If you hire a master carpenter, you might pay more than an apprentice carpenter. BSNs want extra pay for their degree. People want...
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    Types of School Accreditation - The Guide!

    SummitRN posted a topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    There are national and regional accreditation for both an academic institution as a whole and specifically for an institution's nursing program. There are so many labels and types that this topics...