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  1. LPN vs RN - serious question about differences

    jjjoy posted a topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I know this is a touchy subject and I don't want it to become a flame war. As someone with RN training and no LPN experience, I'm still honestly confused by these two different nurse licenses.... so...

  2. Someone, throw me out a life jacket!!! What am I doing wrong?

    jjjoy replied to nique281's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You do have one advantage now. You've already taken at least a couple of tests already, and have probably learned a bit about the... unique... style of some nursing test questions. I had to totally...

  3. Instructors make up your mind! (or please at least know the answers to your own exam)

    jjjoy replied to lelafin's topic in General Students

    My experience was similar lelafin. I can only commiserate.

  4. RN in the OR?

    jjjoy replied to 2bDocOc's topic in Operating Room

    I don't think you're saying that health care techs function at the level of a trained monkey, are you? If techs are lacking in any needed skills/competencies, then can't they be taught? Can only...

  5. RN in the OR?

    jjjoy replied to 2bDocOc's topic in Operating Room

    Wow, what a great detailed description of all that OR nurses do! I certainly get that they do a lot! My question is which of those activities are *nursing* activities (regardless of whether or not a...

  6. RN in the OR?

    jjjoy replied to 2bDocOc's topic in Operating Room

    To me, this comes back to a key issue.... what *is* nursing? Nurses can *do* many things... from emptying trash cans, to intubating in an emergency. From giving injections, to taking a health history,...

  7. Who has more stess RT or RN?

    jjjoy replied to samirish's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Different stresses... personally, I do better knowing a few things really well than a little about a lot, so between the two in an acute care setting on the general floors, I'd think RT would suit me...

  8. RN in the OR?

    jjjoy replied to 2bDocOc's topic in Operating Room

    Thanks for your response. I think you make some good points! Still, isn't the above issue more of a legal technicality than an issue of qualification and competency? Advance practice nurses have...

  9. Is it illegal to initial when.....

    jjjoy replied to onthemark's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I do have to wonder how many of the repondents here actually work in LTC. And the ones who do, I have to ask how realistic it is for a newbie to actually check on each and every treatment, as the...

  10. RN in the OR?

    jjjoy replied to 2bDocOc's topic in Operating Room

    I don't think it's overkill to say it's important to have an experienced acute care nurse in the OR. Just having an RN license in no way reflects a person's ability to respond to such "hairy"...

  11. How do I know what BID, Daily Meds to hold before OR?

    jjjoy replied to mandaaRN's topic in General Nursing

    "Look up the hospital policy" "Clarify the orders with the physician" "Know every med you give, what it's for, appropriate dosage, etc - if you don't, look it up!" ... absolutely! Except that when...

  12. Should I ask Questions? Need Advice Fast!

    jjjoy replied to FutureRN_NP's topic in General Nursing

    My experience with a nursing home was that there wasn't really a "HR" department at the facility such as that found in a large hospital. There was some central office somewhere else that dealt with...

  13. Time Management

    jjjoy replied to ABM1227's topic in General Students

    Ugh, exercises like this bug the heck out of me! Without real world experience as a nurse on the floor, how in the heck are students supposed to have anything to contribute a presentation about...

  14. Air in IV flush syringe??

    jjjoy replied to samiam4's topic in General Nursing

    Sure would be nice if more instructors could/would explain things so thoroughly... we had "critical thinking" pushed down our throats. Then they'd give a never-break rule of nursing such as "NO AIR IN...

  15. Career shift: I have a BS in Biochem and I am med school drop out advice please

    jjjoy replied to iamomeed's topic in Nursing Career

    I'd say to not ask "can I get into and through nursing school"? You probably can. The question is "do I want to be a nurse"? Not always an easy question to answer since nurses function in many...

  16. New Grad in ICU feeling terrible...,

    jjjoy replied to janelicurn's topic in MICU, SICU

    To go on a tangent... why in the heck isn't it standard to teach such standard notation in nursing school? I'm sure some do, though even then, I imagine those students who were explicitly instructed...

  17. All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    jjjoy replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    That seems to be a catch in nursing? Since nursing is slim on the residency/internship thing, how does one gain skills? Get a job doing the very thing you want to become competent in! If you and your...

  18. Care Plans - What's their purpose? - What do you think of them?

    jjjoy posted a topic in General Students

    I saw a nursing student and her instructor reviewing a care plan today and she was reviewing something about wording of the care plan and it reminded how frustrating nursing education can be and how...

  19. Halamka's HIT predictions too optimistic?

    jjjoy replied to rninformatics's topic in Nursing Informatics

    Seems a rather optimistic view to me. There are still so many hurdles to systems talking to each other much less getting accurate data into the system to begin with... then there's the problem of so...

  20. Night shift -- can you just take it easy, please?

    jjjoy replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    The day/night thing seems like a distractor from the root of the problem - poor support/low resources. The eye-rolling attitude described is not uncommon in nursing, unfortunately. And it *really*...

  21. should MD and Nurse phone orders and phone reports be voice recorded?

    jjjoy replied to dutchgirl123's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, physician order entry hasn't gone over really well where I'm at either. The physicians get to experience the tedium of sorting through whatever med info system is in place. If the system were...

  22. New Nurse NO Experience NEED HELP!!!

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

    That's a great idea and worth pursuing. I can imagine, though, it could be difficult to land such a job if one has already finished nursing school. Employers may not trust that the applicant would be...

  23. what's the purpose of those archaic care plans?

    jjjoy replied to micajoieLAc's topic in General Students

    Have you searched previous threads on this? I started a similar topic years ago that has gone on and on and

  24. Double major? Or not....

    jjjoy replied to amjam's topic in General Students

    Also, the lecture and lab schedules for the bio classes may not fit together with the nursing school schedule of lectures/labs/clinicals. Nursing school courses/clinicals often fill much of the day...

  25. What's REALLY with the hospitals using Magnet as a cover for wanting BSN only nurses?

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

    Your explanations make a lot sense. Thanks! :