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  1. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    jjjoy replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I just looked up how the words 'diagnose' and 'diagnosis' are defined. Clearly nursing diagnoses don't fit definition 1 below. Definition 2? Nurses must use critical thinking while doing...

  2. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    jjjoy replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    I included the bolded sentence so as not to exclude what nurse practitioners do from the definition of 'professional nursing

  3. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    jjjoy replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. I don't think "D" is a necessary part of the nursing

  4. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    jjjoy replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    I do think the terminology "nursing diagnoses" confuses matters, plus tends to make nurses look, well, kinda dumb. Establishing that a patient has diarrhea, pain, impaired mobility, decreased cardiac...

  5. I hate nursing..

    jjjoy replied to flygirls2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    While there are those students who want quick and easy gratification (good money and flexible hours) and won't listen to any evidence otherwise, some schools of nursing actively recruit and encourage...

  6. Time to call a duck a duck?

    jjjoy replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    In regard to professional self-regulation, here's another way nursing as a profession/trade has limited power- it's up to employers, not nursing boards, to decide the minimum qualifications above and...

  7. Healthcare is a commodity

    jjjoy replied to PetiteOpRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I haven't read all the responses yet. I'd agree that health care isn't a "right" in the same way that freedom of speech is a right. However, I do support some kind of public health care system in...

  8. Distrust of Dr's-Paxil Withdrawl

    jjjoy replied to KimGau's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry for your experience! I do think the 'discontinuation syndrome' experienced by some people who stop taking certain antidepressants is something that needs to be better addressed by the...

  9. Time to call a duck a duck?

    jjjoy replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I think what you're talking about is knowledge of signs and symptoms and pathophys and various known medical conditions... and knowledge of how nurses can address the situation when they make those...

  10. Time to call a duck a duck?

    jjjoy replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I agree. Assess/plan/implement/evaluate is a pretty basic problem-solving approach that tends to get beaten to death by some nursing instructors and taught as if it's something special taught just to...

  11. Question about alternative degrees other than ADN/BSN

    jjjoy replied to Liberal's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I think if you can afford it, might as well finish up the bachelor's degree while knocking off nursing school pre-reqs. It'll probably take you more than a year to finish the pre-reqs and be accepted...

  12. Time to call a duck a duck?

    jjjoy replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I agree. Yes, the nursing process IS important... AND it's a basic problem-solving process that any intelligent person uses. Does that mean that nursing is "just" basic problem solving that doesn't...

  13. Time to call a duck a duck?

    jjjoy replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I don't see that "trades" by definition only require physical labor and not intellectual labor. Or that nursing has to be considered "a profession" in order for it to be acknowledged as more than...

  14. Time to call a duck a duck?

    jjjoy replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    There are definitely valid points to be made in the discussion of "is nursing a profession?" The problem in my school was that it wasn't a discussion, it was doctrinal. It was as if you didn't think...

  15. RN-BSN clinicals in OR

    jjjoy replied to dcox1000's topic in General Students

    Results of a quick and dirty search on-line below... just for discussion purposes, let me say I do think health care providers should protect patient private information but to not allow ANY possible...

  16. Need help! I hate nursing school- what did I do?!

    jjjoy replied to paramed1's topic in General Students

    How long have you been a paramedic? If you are doing well as a paramedic, you could probably find an area of nursing that would suit your preferences, that is fast-paced with fast thinking. I can see...

  17. RN-BSN clinicals in OR

    jjjoy replied to dcox1000's topic in General Students

    HIPAA doesn't require that no one ever possibly overhear anything ever. That would inhibit timely and efficient medical care. If it's reasonable to move or speak more softly, then one should do so....

  18. Please help ...... feeling really stuck!!!

    jjjoy replied to CRNAorBust's topic in Nursing Career

    I couldn't seem to find a good clinical fit myself. I'm sure there's something out there but I haven't lucked into it and I honestly don't want it badly enough to persist as much as I'd have to to...

  19. Experienced nurses: teach us your time management skills

    jjjoy replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in General Nursing

    Great advice here! One of the biggest frustrations is that even as a newbie makes great strides from day to day or week to week or month to month, they are likely to keep hearing that they don't...

  20. What age will you retire?

    jjjoy replied to phlox's topic in General Nursing

    I am very disciplined about living within my means and saving money and contributing to retirement accounts. However, I still don't trust that I'll have enough to retire. Retirement planning advice...

  21. Leave me alone when I'm passing meds!!!!!

    jjjoy replied to debRN0417's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    An LTC med pass could easily take a full 2 hours, is it realistic to NOT interrupt the nurse? Of course, I agree that interruptions should be minimized and others should use good judgement to wait on...

  22. Nursing questions... I'm on my way, but I need some basic answers

    jjjoy replied to stralia13's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Are you asking if you need straight As to get scholarships and into a good school? No, you don't need straight A's. A 4.0 won't hurt, but a less than perfect GPA won't keep you out of school,...

  23. ACC NCDR data collection by lab staff

    jjjoy replied to jjjoy's topic in Cardiac

    Thanks for sharing! You say you created your own template for ACC/NCDR info... does that mean that you don't use the pre-built ACC/NCDR forms in MacLab? I dislike the pre-built forms as they aren't...

  24. ACC NCDR data collection by lab staff

    jjjoy posted a topic in Cardiac

    Do any of you cath lab staff enter extra info about a patient/case for ACC NCDR CathPCI Registry when running a heart cath/PCI case? If so, how do you feel about it? Is it a lot of info or just a few...

  25. Should NPs become COMPLETELY independent?

    jjjoy replied to BS, NP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hmmm... on the one hand, I'm tempted to say "Most NP programs provide/require less depth of knowledge of biochemisty, anatomy and more so why should they have the same level of independence? If you...