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  1. Hospitals no longer hiring nurses with their ADN?

    jjjoy replied to Sandrizzle86's topic in Texas Nursing

    If you happen to have an ADN and HR tells you that you don't get an interview because you need a BSN, I think chances are that many BSNs applying at the same facility probably aren't getting...

  2. I want to leave nursing....now what do I do?!

    jjjoy replied to np7797's topic in Nursing Career

    Kudos to you for trying for so long! I can relate to mixed feelings about going in another direction from nursing. I've managed to find peripheral health care related jobs that prefer folks with a...

  3. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    The way I see it is that professional nursing roles encompass a variety of different functions, many functions which aren't unique to nursing. The most widely recognized nursing functions are what...

  4. Inept New Grads?

    jjjoy replied to imanedrn's topic in Emergency

    What a great idea for learning! Different things work for different people; knowing my own learning style, that kind of bulk exposure and repetition would be very effective for

  5. Broke My 6 Week Contract

    jjjoy replied to jlbic's topic in General Nursing

    Wow! I think it's amazing you stuck it out this long! Give yourself credit for that!! You can confidently tell yourself that took on the challenge and gave it your best shot! No shame in deciding that...

  6. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    so

  7. Is nursing really THAT bad?

    jjjoy replied to CuriousCC's topic in General Nursing

    What kind of nursing do your friends do? Can you ask to shadow them at work? If you're mainly interested in nursing that ISN'T in the hospital at the bedside, know that that opportunities are more...

  8. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Diagnosing is determing what the problem is... if you know what the problem is, then you can go straight to addressing the problem. ADPIE works just fine without the D. Assess, plan, intervene,...

  9. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Physicians don't really "diagnose" pain, the patient either exhibits signs of pain (winces, moans, says 'it hurts') or doesn't. Whether or not the cause of the pain is discovered and treated, pain is...

  10. Studying nursing theory, came across Jean Watson

    jjjoy replied to algebra_demystified's topic in General Nursing

    So the nurse/caregiver learns from the medicine man and starts to 'diagnose' conditions and 'prescribe' treatments and doesn't call the medicine man for every illness, is that practicing medicine or...

  11. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I still see no need for nursing "diagnoses" as they are taught in most schools... Hmm.... so the nurse assesses the patients... patient winces and says "that hurts!" It doesn't take any special...

  12. Studying nursing theory, came across Jean Watson

    jjjoy replied to algebra_demystified's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. Unfortunately, many nursing schools provide minimal opportunity to master technical nursing skills and yet try to get students to apply nursing theory to a practice that they haven't had any...

  13. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Is nursing a profession? Depends upon your definition of profession. By some definitions, nursing probably doesn't fill all of the requirements for profession. So what? Nursing tools should be...

  14. would you have continued thru nursing school if you had shadowed first?

    jjjoy replied to thekid's topic in General Nursing

    I'd encourage anyone considering a new field to get as much info as they can about the realities of the field. Shadowing by no means gives you the whole picture, but it's better than nothing! And...

  15. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I can see the value of certain NANDA-type categories for determining what nursing interventions apply to what conditions and symptoms and why (eg differentiating altered tissue perfusion from altered...

  16. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    There are most certainly other ways for students to learn and demonstrate "why" without having to twist their assessments into nursing diagnoses as they are taught in many schools today. Other health...

  17. New RN who may lose her Med Surg job

    jjjoy replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    If one has the combined bad luck of graduating from a program light on clinical and ends up not "getting up to speed" quickly enough for employers, there often is no recourse for the nurse to get the...

  18. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I second that

  19. Career help?? (Nursing vs Education)

    jjjoy replied to LisaMay127's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah

  20. New grad fired 2x- now what?!

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

    Are there any nursing refresher courses with a clinical component in your area? If so, it might be worth the investment to get more clinical exposure and experience before applying for another job, to...

  21. Nursing Diagnoses: Useless Statements secondary to Professional Insecurity

    jjjoy replied to Fribblet's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I hear you, Fribblet. Imagine other professions developing something similar... "Impaired mobilization r/t altered air pressure" = flat

  22. Help, am I doomed to LPN..are there any other choices??

    jjjoy replied to sunbug's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    Are you sure that all the schools in your area only accept overall GPA? Are you looking at LPN-to-RN programs (as opposed to straight ADN/RN programs)? I think some schools only care about GPA in...

  23. Studying nursing theory, came across Jean Watson

    jjjoy replied to algebra_demystified's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe just toss the whole label "nursing theory" and make a clear distinction between nursing models and the various theories in both the hard and soft sciences that nursing practice draws from and...

  24. i miss ltc i think

    jjjoy replied to wishiwereanurse's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That makes a BIG difference and can't be left out of the equation. Some places the nurse practically needs rollerskates to be able to get the bare minimum

  25. Studying nursing theory, came across Jean Watson

    jjjoy replied to algebra_demystified's topic in General Nursing

    Medicine, like nursing, is an interdisciplinary field. Medical practice and medical research involves pharmacology, physiology, etc. I do find the lines between "medicine" and "nursing" to be rather...