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  1. advanced nursing career

    Such great advice! If only more people out there would SAY it! I know that young people get inundated with advice to get that schooling done, to have a plan and stick with it, and that further...
  2. That's a reasonable opinion based on what sounds like a good deal of research into the field before starting nurse training. My personal experience as a pre-nursing student, a nursing student, a...
  3. frustrated school RN being called an assistant

    It does sound like your union isn't serving you well. It's there for the unlicensed staff - the teaching aides and secretaries and you guys just ended up lumped in there. That other staff doesn't face...
  4. Such programs help students witha bachelor's leapfrog over the BSN requirement for a MSN. That's a different issue. The kind of stepped approach you outlined (graduate, sit for training license,...
  5. Is there a reason why that couldn't work without requiring a BSN? Couldn't one could be qualified to take the nurse-in-training exam at the completion of any approved nursing program, whether that...
  6. tferdaise - the engineering model you describe where you have to not only graduate but also work a year and then get certified to a particular area of engineering before being a "professional...
  7. Help Preparing for Clinical Day!

    I'd say that this is information schools should provide their students with and that the reason so many students are not clear on what information they need and where to get it is because the...
  8. But you do realize that nursing schools are recruiting students to direct-entry MSN/NP programs? And what about all those people who claim how nursing ISN'T about bedmaking or bedside care... that...
  9. frustrated school RN being called an assistant

    Does your job/role require an RN license? I am aware of school health aide positions that do NOT require licensure of any kind. If that is the role you are filling, then that is likely the going pay...
  10. Just curious OP... Why get a degree in nursing at all if administration is your thing? Did you have a plan coming into this? My opinion... Many administrators manage departments and specialists of...
  11. Preceptor Training

    Maybe some people need a black and white, a-b-c approach, but I, too, see the world in shades of gray. To be told THIS IS THE WAY and then see that that's not what everyone is actually doing is...
  12. Learning IVs

    How frustrating! It may not be satisfying to a patient to be a guinea pig to someone learning, but it's a small price to pay for that person to become proficient and later be able to quickly start an...
  13. First Clinicial Experience

    How would it be benefitial for a student to NOT be concerned when they witness what they've been taught is improper practice? Part of clinical experience is to LEARN from those with experience. But if...
  14. First Clinicial Experience

    It's sad that that IS the state of affairs. It is ALSO sad that schools/nursing education doesn't acknowledge the reality as part of instruction. They seem to set students up to be shocked and...
  15. help! i think i hate nursing!

    It's okay to hate nursing - or to decide that it's not for you - even if it means a pay cut or fewer job options. Because having lots of job options and good pay doesn't mean much if you seriously...
  16. I don't suppose you have the names and contact info of any of last year's graduates? Maybe it could be a little project that could help other graduates too... a little "hand me down" program from...
  17. Clinical Intructor

    Dumbfounded? Will you also be dumbfounded to hear that while our CI's who weren't faculty had to have current experience, many of the full-time faculty who also worked as CI's had not worked...
  18. In another thread, a nursing school instructor commented that they were restricted by school guidelines in writing tests to just 8 questions from 3.5 hr of lecture content. Is this true in many...
  19. No more internet access

    The few would be managers who deny everyone access for a few people's abuses instead of dealing with the few people
  20. New ED nurses who "know it all"

    I also wonder if in the case of not starting an IV if your facility DOES have an explicit policy that the nurse SHOULD start an IV in case of XYZ. Just telling a newbie "you need to do that" isn't...
  21. 3.5hr lecture = 8 test ques?

    I have no problem with this as that type of exam IS comprehensive. I can see WHY schools have encouraged this type of testing but I'm not convinced it's useful to apply NCLEX style testing across...
  22. Medical assistants and LPNs

    What I understand from the above posting is that NURSES aren't allowed to delegate such activities to CMAs or to supervise them in such activities... but it sounds like some of those activities CAN be...
  23. Don't know if I'm going to make it as an OB nurse

    You probably won't be able to judge that until after you have more experience. Then you can look back and re-evaluate if their expectations were reasonable or not. Still, in cases like this, where...
  24. why are nurses stations so chaotic?

    You are not the only who cherishes quiet and calm... but as you know, many of environments where nurses work are NOT quiet and calm. And I think for many people in nursing, that's not a drawback. I...
  25. Warning - off topic - please feel free to continue on the discussion answering the original questions: what overwhelms you most? What did NS NOT prepare you for? Nurse educate (or anyone else...