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Hi all - I've been talking to some people and have this idea in my head that I would love to get some feedback on. I'd like to offer a wellness center (starting off with space in an existing business) geared towards overweight and obese folks. Mostly...

Trinda - I don't have any actual experience with this. Honestly, I worry about any nurse who starts off with an online program only because clinicals are crucial, in my opinion. But I know lots of people who already work in a hospital setting who g...

There is an interesting point that was raised... is it harder for those of us who have been successful in other fields to take the imbalance of power than it is for nurses who have only or mostly worked in this field? Are we more sensitive to it? I ...

Reviving thread to tie together religion, dialect, medicine and region. My favorite regional slang diagnosis here in the South (which usually preceeds someone falling out after having fits then needing to be carried to the ED...) the tachylawdies. (s...

http://www.discovernursing.com is a great resource. Good luck! Work on math and science... you use both constantly in nursing.

:) I love situational ethics. Here's my thought... LPNs and RNs both go to school and hopefully learn nursing judgement. I hope that they utilize it. In nursing - some situations are black and white. But many aren't. I've had patients take pills t...

I'll bite as an ANA member!! And I actually think in general everything posted above. But for me - I'm in a non-union state (and I mean REALLY non-union) and my reasoning is that it is better to change from within that complain from outside. I also s...

Wow - I'm so sorry that happened. What a total bummer. And after the squirm, want to reiterate what I know you already know... this is a reflection of his health status and has nothing to do with you. I know if I were in your shoes, that fact is w...

My take? That's not customer service - that's medically irresponsible. No sub-q fat - no ability to regulate temp - no healthy baby. And if wrapping a baby is a "nurse job" - I actually would talk to the attending. Immediately. Maybe I'm just lu...

Babs - yes! I just ditto you. Nurses can mold their children into mad scientists before the age of 5! But not always in a good way, I guess. Hubby is a medic who is now in the cath lab... he brought my 9 year old daughter to see me on Christmas E...

Hey Tammi - No real advice, but I'm really glad you're still around, given how severe your wreck. Good luck with your decision. I hope that you continue to heal and find comfort... Kristen

I work with several people who have varying degrees of mental health challenges... a couple have ADHD that honestly seems to serve them WELL in nursing (well, one's an RT.) I certainly can't see either of them in the board room at IBM. But my frien...

Thank you, Jules!! I had some assistance in clarifying my original post from TraumaRUs - a far superior (and succinct) writer! I really, really appreciate your support! Hope you are well, Kristen

Hi all! I'm hoping to get a bit of support from some of you that maybe have been through similar...like applying for FMLA and/or disability. Here's my story. A year ago, I was the most energetic mom and nurse around... and suddenly my knees start...

Phew - thank you so much for replying!! I know this probably sounds odd, but I honestly just don't know anyone else in my local life who has any idea what it might be like! Right now, I'm feeling okay with double steroids... but I'm a total planner....

This thread is giving me a brain attack. I honestly think most of these are more humorous than truly annoying (or is it humerus?) What bugs me is the deliberate ones - aks, for example. I have a friend who refuses to say "ask." To her, it'...

Ours was very similar to the OP... at first I balked (hey, I may be white picket on the outside, but I'm totally counter-culture in my heart!) But within 2 years of graduating, I made peace with it. In school, you recite your stupid three checks so m...

Maybe I work with too many people that age, but my first guess is that he gets back up at midnight and texts his girlfriend until 0400. And he doesn't want to admit it and get in trouble. How much does he exercise? You can sometimes hear a flow murm...

Nothing is as gross as... the term "just a nurse."

Wow. As one RN who is to move fulltime to the unit from the floor - I'm speechless. And I hope that someday, I can live up to what you typed. You are amazing - and God forbid my kids ever needed to be there, but I'd pray for a nurse like you. Than...

Administration. Definitely.

Hey - I felt the same way as the first few posters... until I talked with a bunch of the women I work with who all pay their nannies less during "sleep hours." It's an industry standard for nannies and au paires. (I am not well off enough to even t...

Hmmm. About entry points. I acually see the merit in a BSN minimum entry - and I'm an ADN RN!! ONLY because I think that it reflects our level of education and professionalism more accurately. If we collectively did move to that, it would have to ...

Personally, I'd vote for anyone who has a basic understanding of applied logic... and can see where your argument is completely devoid of it. Grades+career path does not equal IQ. Don't you think that's a transparently immature and simplistic belief...

I think it is an excellent point made that other professions would have not been in the same situation. For example, while working at large corporations, I guarantee that had I stopped everything that I was doing to tear someone a new one (not what h...