sailornurse

sailornurse

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  1. Is the nursing profession causing its own RN shortage?

    sailornurse replied to RNDave's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I remember a couple of hospitals in the 1980s/early 90s , would only pay for salary difference for 5 years only. There was no extra salary for 10-15-20-25 years experience. Twice as a new hire I came...

  2. New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    sailornurse replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    "You May Be Right" but let's just "Leave A Tender Moment Alone"! "I Go To Extremes" to "Get It Right The First Time". Well "Everbody Has A

  3. New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    sailornurse replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OP, lighten up! Those are all titles to Billy Joel

  4. When you get your first met call as a new nurse...

    sailornurse replied to soulshine101's topic in General Nursing

    Oh Yeah, they use this term in Phoenix too. Never knew why it was called that, Thanks for the

  5. New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    sailornurse replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well, "Don't Ask Me Why" but me thinks the OP thinks she is a "Big Shot", going to make "Easy Money", well she is a "Modern Woman", almost "Shameless". No one can "Tell Her About It". "This Is The...

  6. New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    sailornurse replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OH, I "Like you just the way you

  7. Cheating in nursing school

    sailornurse replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

    I had students who cheated in my class, 2 sets of students, turned in identical copies of class project complete with typos & incorrect front page with incorrect APA format, same size/incorrect...

  8. New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    sailornurse replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Oooh, are you an "Uptown

  9. Subjective vs. Objective

    sailornurse replied to msoconnell's topic in General Students

    Agree, the S=story telling part. Many times patients "self diagnose" themselves with for example: migraines or asthma but no health care provider/no doctor ever diagnosed them. (I have also had pts...

  10. In search of simple education printouts in English/Spanish

    sailornurse replied to anon456's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    HI, Try this website. Spanish is my first language and these sound like what you are looking for. Patient Education Materials What population of Hispanics, as there sometimes are differences in Cuban,...

  11. New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    sailornurse replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My daughter and her sorority sister saw him in concert last year. Me, I'm planning on seeing Rod Stewart in Vegas next year. He is 70. I saw him twice in the 1980's. Oops, hi-jacking this

  12. New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    sailornurse replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    This is a very immature reaction. And no, not

  13. New Nurse With Large Disposable Income

    sailornurse replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    The 2b was added by admin after she was reported. She was called out on it by many of us, told Mavrick she would change the name, then never did, just ignored it. Thread: Found Myself in quite a...

  14. LVN interview request

    sailornurse replied to banbhat's topic in Texas Nursing

    Since you have had 85 visitors and no response, this is the reason, and you can do a search on this site under "interview a nurse". If this is a homework assignment, most likely you are to interview...

  15. Help with how to become a nurse

    sailornurse replied to ANChar's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Please explain what you mean: 1. "knowing it wouldn't be a risk"? 2. What is your BA degree in? As former faculty, I had second degree students with Bachelor's in: Neurobiology, Art History,...

  16. Cannot find no ADN programs!

    sailornurse replied to xoxo23's topic in General Students

    Well the OP never came back, she just started another thread (her third) asking the same thing. "What's the best route to this career". Is this a Troll or what? After all the information given to her,...

  17. Encouragement needed - Frustrated and insulted by hourly rates

    sailornurse replied to kemansha1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    So I question why you are saying you want to go on for NP. Are you going to take on more loans? What do you know about nurse practitioners? What specialty interests you? I am concerned that you are...

  18. When you get your first met call as a new nurse...

    sailornurse replied to soulshine101's topic in General Nursing

    Reminds me of the time working agency nurse at a new to me hospital. In report I was told my patient had a "sealed vein". Gee, I don't know what that is, never heard of this before and been an RN for...

  19. I hate my job/career

    sailornurse replied to MJPN2012's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, it may not be you. It may be the way the assignments are made, the type of patients you are getting. I once worked on a telemetry unit that was horribly mismanaged. I had 15 years experience,...

  20. Cannot find no ADN programs!

    sailornurse replied to xoxo23's topic in General Students

    No not for ADN/RN, many people have told you that no, they do not exist but you continue to insist, And no, we do not trust you because you do not know what you are talking about. Geez, you thought...

  21. Prioritizing Nursing Diagnoses

    sailornurse replied to KrCmommy522's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    What were you taught about pain in relation to the

  22. Is it possible to get out of a signed contract if a nurse doesn't like her job.

    sailornurse replied to VKALA's topic in General Nursing

    They can still call your previous employer as you would have to list where you worked before under previous employment on the application. I work at an urgent care clinic, we just had a request to...

  23. DNP--Nurse Educator

    sailornurse replied to beckyRN00's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    The DNP is the degree, it is not an advance practice role such as FNP, ACNP, ACGNP. I have taught med surg lectures and glad I had 20+years of RN experience as a med-surg nurse to draw from. I am not...

  24. Is it possible to get out of a signed contract if a nurse doesn't like her job.

    sailornurse replied to VKALA's topic in General Nursing

    It may depend on the state you live in. Locally non-competes are enforced. There was an ophthalmologist who had to move to another town for 2 years, then returned and opened a competing practice on...

  25. Spice Spice Baby

    sailornurse replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in Emergency

    Yes so much the local newspaper had a big article about 2-3 weeks ago, front page Sunday