nursesail

nursesail has 11 years experience and specializes in Med-surg, tele, hospice, rehab.

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1. Nursing instructor putting student through embarassment and singles out

   nursesail replied to mjacobs's topic in General Students

   I suggest that the affected student and those of you who have witnessed this behavior document this and take it to the administration. If that does not work, most schools have some kind of student...

2. Whats your clinical instructor/student ratio? Should I change a program..

   nursesail replied to miniangel729's topic in General Students

   Honey, where I am at we have been trying to get the ratios reduced, but the schools fight us. Also, from my experience, the BSN is really not that much more than the ADN. ADN will give you better...

3. Was this ethical?

   nursesail replied to animal1993's topic in General Students

   In the light of what you said, the student behaved

4. Nursing schools

   nursesail posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am concerned because some of the nursing schools are sacrificing good science and math classes for the sake of liberal arts classes. I recently saw where one nursing does not require chemistry but...

5. Wife Just Completed 2nd NCLEX - question

   nursesail replied to amorgan's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   The NCLEX is actually randomized on the number of questions. The first test, the computer gave her the long one. This one selected the 75 minimum. It varies. Also, sometimes the test will run...

6. Yelling Doctors, How do you handle them?????

   nursesail replied to Danielle7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Well, the first thing I did was time and date incident, document in the patient's notes that the MD was called to clarify an order and that the MD did not clarify the order. Then I report the MD to my...

7. Yelling Doctors, How do you handle them?????

   nursesail replied to Danielle7's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   In this day and age with the communists in control I would not be surprised to find a policeman come up and arrest the

8. Good example of interdisciplinary teamwork and respect

   nursesail posted a topic in General Nursing

   I just received my newsletter from IAHPC. I notice every time I get the newsletter how much respect the members of the palliative care teams have for each other despite their discipline. The doctors,...

9. Nurses, physicians weigh in on new doctoral nurse degree

   nursesail replied to Brian's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

   Maybe we need to go to the European system. No physician is ever called "Dr." despite his or her medical degrees unless they go back and get a PhD as well. Physicians and surgeons are called Mr. or...

10. Gender descriptions in my MSN text

    nursesail replied to nursesail's topic in General Nursing

    I think it is. I found it distracting and prejudicial. It was comments like "the farmer can't help her family", followed by "the carpenter doesn't know what she will do." Very strange. I would have...

11. Is it best to get BSN as opposed to ADN for second degree?

    nursesail replied to Becca2theresq's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I had a BA in something else when I went to nursing school. I went ADN. I am glad I did because I feel I got more clinical experience than I would have for BSN. I am now working on my MSN. I took an...

12. Judge: Audubon managers broke labor law on nurses union vote

    nursesail replied to herring_RN's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

    What Audobon did was in violation of some older laws that go back to the late 19th century and the term of Teddy Roosevelt. These laws were designed to protect laborers from discrimination. Audobon...

13. Nursing in Texas- Full Name legality on badge

    nursesail replied to rkitty198's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Is this required by law in Texas? We generally here in Florida may either leave off the last name or we have the first name large and the last in tiny print. If there is a legal problem, the client...

14. Gender descriptions in my MSN text

    nursesail posted a topic in General Nursing

    I noticed that one of the texts I am reading tends to discriminate in gender. I was reading an article and everyone in there was a "she". In the past, most articles I have read trade off with a "he"...

15. Nurses and the 2008 election

    nursesail replied to Brian's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    CityKat, I got mine from Foxnews and CNN. I taught geography for 7 years. I read maps very well thank