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To all of you researchers, nursing needs your help. There is a tremendous gap in our nursing research. I make this statement as the average consumer of nursing research who looks for things to help in everyday practice. The gap is that I cannot find,...

It is difficult to find and keep nurses, especially good nurses. All of the administrators want agency usage eliminated. Nurses, as a whole, are usually unhappy with their current working conditions and salary. Usually nursing management is caught in...

Being a RN, hospital administrator, and relatively healthy, it has been quite some time since I experienced being in the hospital as a family member where no one knew me or what I did. What an eye-opener!! I just spent 3 days with my wife while she w...

Whenever I experienced problems in my life, my father used to say, "To solve this problem, start by looking in the mirror." Nursing is a great profession and we should all be very proud of what we do. Nursing is the backbone of healthcare, try runnin...

Nurses and doctors are really hung up about giving pain medication. My wife was recently in the hospital and asked for her pain medication as soon as the time came around, because she was in some serious pain. The nurses acted like she was drug-seeki...

Nursing is a great career. I have never really done anything else other than the jobs I had to do to work my way through nursing school and a couple of tours in the army as a medic. After 24 years and hindsight, I would probably do the same thing aga...

I believe some state boards vary a little concerning how they go about handling these things but I believe there are also many commonalities. Don't know how long you would have to wait before you heard anything, can be a while. Not sure if there is s...

It used to be said, "They'll never replace the horse."

Zantac and Prozac work well.

There are many many male OB doctors. They have never given birth, they examine young, modest women who are delivering their first child. What's the difference in a male doctor and a male nurse in L&D???? OB was my favorite rotation in nursing sch...

Need a little more specific info on the disciplinary action before I can comment, or anyone else for that matter.

It can be done but is very demanding. First, you must learn to function on 4 hours of sleep or less. Use paper plates, plastic ware, paper cups, hire a maid to do the essential cleaning, find ways to shave off a few minutes here and there to decrease...

Customer service is not just another way to tell the staff to shut up and take it. What a narrow-minded statement to make (sorry if anyone is offended but come on!!). Nursing staff that are asked to engage in effective (key word here) customer servic...

For a previous post: administration listens to doctors because they bring in the money, has nothing to do with a union. That is private physicians who admit patients and send patients for outpatient tests/treatment. Physicians that work for hospitals...

In my humble opinion, there is no excuse for abrasiveness or being rude. I have been in healthcare for 24 years and started in the ER as an army medic and then RN. After several years in the ER and critical care areas I considered myself "seasoned" o...

Not much detail in the answers. Typical political rhetoric.

Wow!! Lighten up NurseBychoice!! However, your suggestion to visit ana.org is an excellent idea. 1. At least an associate degree to be a RN. 2. Average salary is around $45,000 per year. Demand is high for RNs. 3. Job description's framework is bas...

Yes, a dress code should be written and enforced. I have seen hospital after hospital that relaxes their dress code and within a year people are wearing all sorts of things. The public, our customers, expect a certain look from people who hold themse...

All of this comes together and affects nurses' working conditions. Nurses do not work in a vacuum, these issues affect everyone. The doctors hit the nail on the head just fine. When are nurses going to do something about complaining about being overw...

Gee guys, no wonder we can't attract and/or keep younger, more inexperienced nurses in the profession. If I had to work with either of you (v-tach or cadeusus) I would need some serious counseling and question why I ever became a nurse. Come on!!

I hated it when people said "so, you're a male nurse huh?" Or "nursing must be a stepping stone for you while you go to medical school." And the greatest cliche-like communication to us "male" nurses are the covert suggestive remarks that we must be ...

Everyone has to start somewhere, why not the ED? All of this "serve your time on med/surg" mentality is ridiculous in my opinion. Things have a way of working themselves out. If a nurse, new grad or not, wants to work in the ED and has the motivation...

I live in southern California and one of our state legislators is introducing a bill that prohibits the sale of violent video games to children. He claims to have some research that shows a link to violent behavior. He also says that some of these ga...

When I worked in psych nursing I had an associate degree and was a RN. The patient care attendents had masters degrees in psychology and essentially were the equivalent of a CNA in the med/surg hospital and they made what a CNA makes. The field is sa...

One of my favorite topics. I spent 7 years in psych nursing. Got into it because when I went back to school the psych hospital was offering great shifts that accommodated my school schedule well. I came from critical care nursing and shared the view ...