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Hi Mary, generally to teach in an ADN program you would need an MSN or higher. For many four year BSN programs, they will want you to be in the process of attaining your doctoral degree (at least here in NY). Requirements for that depends on the school. For example, you might get your PhD in Nursing, an EdD (doctor of education), or a DNP. Some schools are not as picky as others. Good luck!

We go over it in my ADN program, but do not teach for proficiency. I also teach as an adjunct in a BSN program. Same deal. I tell the students it is good to understand the concept. I have never seen it used on any nursing units I have worked on. My doctor will percuss, but he is an older doc (I told him NEVER retire!).

Great! Thank you both for your recommendations, I will check them out!

Hello Everyone, I need the community's help. I am a Registered Nurse and Educator working on my doctor of education degree. I am taking a course on using commercially available games to teach concepts of nursing. Is there anyone out there that have used or seen video games that help with teaching a topic in nursing? Looking for authentic "gaming" games - not educational games such as Jeopardy or Family Feud. The example my instructor gave is using the game "Civilization" to teach a module in a history class. Are there any gaming games out there that help with presenting your topics? Thanks for any suggestions! Dave

Hello Everyone, I need the community's help. I am a Registered Nurse and Educator working on my doctor of education degree. I am taking a course on using commercially available games to teach concepts of nursing. Is there anyone out there that have used or seen video games that help with teaching a topic in nursing. Looking for authentic "gaming" games - not educational games such as Jeopardy or Family Feud. Is there any gaming games out there that help with your studies? Thanks for any suggestions! Dave

My name is Dave Stanghellini and I am an RN who works in home care and education. I am the dad to three daughters my wife and I adopted from China. Because we have been so blessed, I felt called to work in orphan care and I have been fortunate to travel to China on Mission in 2014 and 2015. I am also leading a trip this year from October 13-23, 2016. The trip is coordinated by America World Adoption, a Christian adoption agency who has a Mission branch called Storyteller Mission. During these missions we go to care and show love to the children of the orphanage, assist the nannies, and help to assess the children. While some people might think of a mission as a trip to go to convert others, this is not its purpose. We do not go to proselytize but to share Christian fellowship as a team and bear witness of our faith through our actions. We need nurses and other medical professionals. Because children files sometimes contain incomplete or incorrect information, assessments help to expand the information available to prospective adoptive parents. In addition, the children we meet are helped by us returning to the States and telling their story (thus the name "Storyteller Mission"). Directly through these missions over 80 children have been adopted in the last two years. Many other adoptions have been facilitated by the information we have gathered. For additional information about Storyteller Missions, please see it on the America World Adoption site: Storyteller Missions Trips : China (Gansu) October 2016 - Gosnell-Stanghellini Thank you for your interest! Please consider joining and brining a friend! I am happy to provide any information. Peace, Dave [email protected]

My name is Dave Stanghellini and I am an RN who works in home care and education. I am the dad to three daughters my wife and I adopted from China. Because we have been so blessed, I felt called to work in orphan care and I have been fortunate to travel to China on Mission in 2014 and 2015. I am also leading a trip this year from October 13-23, 2016. The trip is coordinated by America World Adoption, a Christian adoption agency who has a Mission branch called Storyteller Mission. During these missions we go to care and show love to the children of the orphanage, assist the nannies, and help to assess the children. While some people might think of a mission as a trip to go to convert others, this is not its purpose. We do not go to proselytize but to share Christian fellowship as a team and bear witness of our faith through our actions. We need nurses and other medical professionals. Because children files sometimes contain incomplete or incorrect information, assessments help to expand the information available to prospective adoptive parents. In addition, the children we meet are helped by us returning to the States and telling their story (thus the name "Storyteller Mission"). Directly through these missions over 80 children have been adopted in the last two years. Many other adoptions have ben facilitated by the information we have gathered. For additional information about Storyteller Missions, please see it on the America World Adoption site: Storyteller Missions Trips : China (Gansu) October 2016 - Gosnell-Stanghellini Thank you for your interest! Please consider joining and brining a friend! If you have any questions, please contact me Peace, Dave

First of all, for full disclosure, I am a Catholic Christian. I think it is horrible how some of your co-workers treated you. Beliefs or not, you are a human being and people have no right to belittle you for your beliefs. If anything, it is completely un-Christian. That being said, I respect that you feel strongly that you do not wish to mislead anyone by pretending to hold beliefs you do not have and asking someone who is of similar faith to pray with your patient. I think that is ideal and is respectful to both your patient and yourself. If there are not people with that you could ask (without a snarky answer), taking the time to be present to your patient in a moment of silence seems like the best solution. Like others who posted, I would not recommend leading a prayer for something you don't believe in. You must be true to yourself.

Hello, I work in HH as a staff educator for a mid sized agency. I work mainly with nurses new to home care. I have worked full time as a field nurse for about 3 years. I love HH because it gives you an opportunity to have a very significant impact on people's lives once they are out of the hospital. The good...flexible hours, ability to spend more or less time with patients as needed, autonomy, satisfaction of working with patients and family to make life better for them, ability to teach. The bad...paperwork, paperwork, paperwork. Medicare requires a lot of paperwork. Many agencies are on electronic record so it is easier. If your agency is on electronic documents and you are not computer literate, will be very difficult. The ugly...driving in all sort of weather, people who don't put away dogs or cats, people sometimes are not interested in helping themselves and can make the environment of care frustrating at times... I have worked in both the hospital and the field and, hands down, believe HH is a very good field to be in. If you have different obligations, I would recommend that you try it as a Fee-for-service nurse. There is even more flexibility there and, most likely, you will not have to Case Manage. Case Management carries some additional requirements with paperwork. If you wanted to test the waters, working fee for service is probably your best bet. Good luck! Dave

Very good article. I work in staff education and see some horrible resumes from time to time. They really leave a bad impression and leave me to think that if they are this bad in expressing themselves, how well will they be caring for our patients and how well will they be documenting their interventions. I teach part time at a local school and will share this advice with my students. Thanks!

Hello All, I was looking for references regarding the use and storage of normal saline once opened in the home care setting. I know that ns was only "good" for 24hrs in the hospital setting. However, I have gotten conflicting information regarding its use in home care. Some resources I have seen say that ns is usable for 7days after opening while others state that a bottle of ns can be used for 30 days. Can anyone shed some light? Thanks for your help.

Med terminology was my first class for my nursing school pre-requisites. I found it extremely useful. I use the terminology everyday. I'm very surprised when I run into people who never had the class for nursing school.

Great points. How I wish some of the seasoned nurses I worked with could understand. Why drive people away? These folks will be our coworkers and maybe one day our own nurse. The golden rule still applies...

I am in NY, but I have heard much of what you are hearing in CA. Our hospital is interested in BSN prepared nurses. I work in home care and my agency only accepts RN, BSN nurses as well. I had gotten my RN (after having a BA much earlier) and decided to stay in school to finish the BSN out took a lot of work, but I appreciated the wider appreciation of different aspects of nursing. I have gotten into staff education after being a field nurse and I thought the wider focus definitely helped me. If you have a chance to go for the BSN, I would encourage you to do it (especially if you are just starting out...I did my BSN when it was just my wife and myself before my girls came along). Good luck to you!

Sounds like a good deal to me. Sometimes bedside or hospital nursing is not for everyone. Thats the beauty of the profession, theres so many ways you can go. Good luck!