Not_A_Hat_Person

Not_A_Hat_Person RN

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  1. Lpn & asn are are being phased out.

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to shermainenevels's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I live in New England, where the vast majority of hospitals are BSN only. ADNs and LPNs are found in corrections, clinics, LTC, and home

  2. Nurse's Week Gifts from Employers

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to twss2323's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I got a

  3. bridge the gap: Article Hospitals must educate nurses about health care costs

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Natasha A.'s topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why is cost containment nursing's

  4. Pitiful statistic

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to JustBeachyNurse's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Without knowing the reasons for the C-Sections, its hard to say if a 42% rate is excessive or not. Low-risk pregnancy does not mean low-risk delivery, and most "unnecessary" C-sections are only found...

  5. Would you ever consider being a correctional nurse/np?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to floatingribs's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in corrections for a few months. I enjoyed it. If I'd been able to get more than per diem hours, I would have stayed. The population was very interesting, and I was allowed to say no to the...

  6. Educating patients on ER use

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to anh06005's topic in Patient Education

    Not all places have urgent care centers, never mind 24-hour urgent care. My area has 1 hospital and 3 urgent care centers, which are open 7 am to 7 pm. The hospital-affiliated urgent care clinic is...

  7. Nurses who can't find jobs- vent..

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to GRN005's topic in General Nursing

    I went to nursing school in Boston. I finally found a job after a 10-month job search and a 250-mile

  8. Heroin pandemic

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Thunderwolf's topic in Addictions

    A reporter for the New York Times noticed

  9. Reasons to lose nursing license?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    The clients were babies in foster care. The nurse called the foster parents at home, and left a message asking them to reschedule the visit, and not to tell the office that she hadn't been there. The...

  10. Pediatric patients...parents are KILLING me!

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to lovelane78's topic in Private Duty

    I made $18/hour when I did PEDs (as an RN). The going rate in my area for babysitters is $12-15 per

  11. Reasons to lose nursing license?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with a nurse who faked a home visit, complete with fake assessments and forged signatures. She lost her license because she failed to show up for her

  12. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated from nursing school in 2008. I don't remember re-orienting patients with dementia coming up in any of my classes. It may have been covered in the nursing home clinical rotation, but my...

  13. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

    In my Peds rotation we had to do process recordings with nonverbal patients. They didn't have to be 10 minutes long, and it was an interesting

  14. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing diagnosis, especially "energy

  15. Do Antidepressants Work? Maybe Not.

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Zyprexa_Ho's topic in Psychiatric

    The studies I've seen concluded that talk therapy plus antidepressants worked better than either one by itself. Score 1 for the psych med

  16. LTC's are a joke

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to baygrl11's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Two years ago, New Mexico's Attorney General sued a nursing home chain for Medicare fraud, based solely on staffing and the company's calculations of how long it took to complete certain

  17. The worst job you had before becoming a Nurse?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Want2BeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    It was summer 1997. I think I made $6/hour, but no one tipped the

  18. The worst job you had before becoming a Nurse?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Want2BeeRN's topic in General Nursing

    My worst pre-nursing job was a summer job as a maid at a highly overrated "nice" hotel in the Berkshires. My coworkers mostly hadn't finished high school, but they were nice enough. The customers were...

  19. The film: Vaxxed.

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    I used to work in a school district with a significant immigrant population. Many of the immigrants were from developing countries where diseases like measles kill children every year. Immigrant...

  20. The film: Vaxxed.

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    The "CDC Whistleblower" paper was

  21. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    The associated hospitals can use it as one more reason to refuse to hire nurses without a

  22. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    My state nursing association is embracing "80 by 20", where 80% of RNs will have a BSN by 2020. Forget the aging workforce, the shrinking population, and the hospital that laid off RNs last month.Did...

  23. We were all wrong about nursing home nurses

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Ruger8mm's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I worked 1 shift (and only 1 shift) with 60 residents and 1 LNA. That was my last shift in

  24. Do Bachelor's Degrees Save Lives? - The Facts about Earning a BSN

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to Rasmussen University's topic in General Nursing

    Where I live, hospitals only hire BSNs, and have for a

  25. Do you have visible tattoos or know anyone who has visible tattoos?

    Not_A_Hat_Person replied to xmilkncookiesx's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked in assisted living, the residents loved the heavily-tattooed male nurse on my