HouTx BSN, MSN, EdD

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    Ive just about had it. Rant, and I never rant.

    HouTx replied to Sirapples's topic in General Nursing

    You are all SO RIGHT! The current EHR systems are a huge obstacle for nurses... none of them actually reflect the way that care is delivered. "Meaningful Use" is adding even more work... making sure...
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    Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation Curve

    HouTx replied to KnightRN's topic in General Students

    AH - one of my favorite areas of diagnostic trivia.... It's very important factor in diagnosing complex, multi-systemic pathology, but you may not see it referenced in progress notes because they...
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    Could I be the only reformed misfit in nursing school?

    HouTx replied to KatePasa's topic in General Students

    Kudos to the OP for taking such a positive turn in life. However, I would advise a careful analysis of any potential impact if any of those "youthful indescretions" resulted in legal charges... many...
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    low gpa - bsn or asn?

    HouTx replied to gogodice's topic in General Students

    Since you already know that you are interested in working in a surgical environment, have you considered surgical technology instead of nursing? Of course everything is driven by the supply/demand in...
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    Nurse educator residencies?

    HouTx replied to JenMSN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    My MSN included practicum requirements for nursing education - academic and workplace settings. IMO, This should be incorporated into programs that prepare educators. Unfortunately, I think that...
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    What advice to give?

    HouTx replied to DNS on the go's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Very interesting thread. The OP's observations & assessment are accurate - validated by hiring managers in my organization. Their bad experiences with ABSN new grads have resulted in outright...
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    Absolutely incompetent...not so sure "it gets better".

    HouTx replied to opossum's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I feel the need to debunk. srsly . . "prettier than they are"... "you rebuke their advances" .. LOL - the Y chromo strikes again. As for the hiring new grads at lower salary - not in this HCAPS...
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    Turnover rate in Houston Metro Hospitals

    HouTx replied to JuLeSx7d7's topic in Texas Nursing

    You may need to narrow this down. Are you referring to facilities in The Medical Center, or other hopspitals within Houston city limits? Suburbs? What level of ED? Otherwise, it might be...
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    Things that make you go hmmm...

    HouTx replied to Art_Vandelay's topic in General Nursing

    This is exactly the reason that hiring managers are usually forbidden to make the actual job offer or discuss a specific salary. Because when they make that verbal offer, it basically establishes a...
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    Nursing education

    HouTx replied to MyGranniePanties's topic in General Nursing

    Even intensive "tutoring" won't help if the problem is of a more fundamental nature, having to do with innate ability. Nothing short of recombinant DNA or transmogriphication would fix that...
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    How to get 1 year of hospital experience before finishing nursing school?

    HouTx replied to ThinkingAboutBSN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Sorry - the "experience" that they are looking for means working as a licensed nurse. So, there's just no way to get it until you have a license. Some facilities will give partial credit for LP/VN...
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    hELP! is this a good research topic?

    HouTx replied to eiluj's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sounds like a great topic. But if you are going to test the efficacy of an intervention, you'll have to come up with a design that includes pre- and post-intervention measures and a control group....
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    (Imagine this is a cardboard sign) Will work for free!

    HouTx replied to yikib38's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I would suggest that you check with the Memorial Hermann system in Houston, TX. They have developed a couple of very innovative approaches to helping new grads get experience. I believe one of them...
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    how do YOU define NURSING?

    HouTx replied to nebulizer34's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    ANA definition of nursing from ANA's Social Policy, Statement "Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of...
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    Skill level not high enough for acute care

    HouTx replied to hope3456's topic in General Nursing

    Just have to jump in on this one.... There appears to be some misconception about "LPN vs RN". LPNs are not a replacement for RNs, these are 2 separate roles / scopes of practice. LPNs are focused...
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    Deciding to be an LVN or PCT?

    HouTx replied to cna2b's topic in Nursing Career

    Wow - just wow. There are many less expensive options for LVN education in community college settings. Those costs are obviously driven by commercial schools who are pushing the envelope to maximize...
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    how to be invisible in nursing

    HouTx replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It appears to me that the OP's primary issue is one of dealing with conflict. Becoming invisible (if possible) would certainly be one way to avoid any sort of conflict - but that just isn't possible....
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    East Asian Languages and Culture Major ---> Transition to Nursing?

    HouTx replied to Lowbrid's topic in General Students

    Just have to wade in here - hope I'm not butting in. The OP's background education will certainly not reflect negatively by nursing admissions folks. Nursing is the liberal arts of health care. Our...
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    Supplies your school requests?

    HouTx replied to mommywithplenty's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    LOL - white underwear . . . I can only imagine why they put this on the list. I have a visual of someone showing up with happy face underoos showing through their clothes. Srsly - "flesh colored"...
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    best rural hospitals for RN to land first job

    HouTx replied to Dino's topic in Texas Nursing

    LOL - I admire your enthusiasm and openness to change. Although 'any area' of the state may be great in the abstract, the reality is likely to turn out to be very different - especially in the...
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    Stressed =(

    HouTx replied to brandnewbie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    (full disclosure -- I'm as old as dirt, so my frame of reference is probably not that of younger nurses) It is a mistake to go nursing expecting "gratitude" or to be "appreciated" by your patients....
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    Opinions on Hospitals

    HouTx replied to lv203198's topic in Texas Nursing

    CHRISTUS Santa Rosa is part of CHRISTUS Health. A very large Catholic system with hospitals is Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas & Monterrey, Mexico (srsly - first JCAH accredited hospital in Mexico)....
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    best rural hospitals for RN to land first job

    HouTx replied to Dino's topic in Texas Nursing

    You really need to narrow it down a bit. It's a really big place. It won't do you any good to move to a place that you simply cannot stand. So.... What kind of geography are you looking for? Can...
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    Thoughts on improving caring

    HouTx replied to mstev001's topic in General Nursing

    My sincere sympathy for the OP who has embarked on this task. It is fraught with 'gotchas'. One of the problems with Nursing is that we do not incorporate research from other fields - so we are...
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    The Nurse Practice Acts and Direct Entry Programs

    HouTx replied to AnaLong's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If I understand your question correctly, you are referring to problems that may be encountered when one attempts to get reciprocity in another state, right? There have been some threads about this on...