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Anyone have any recommendations on a rigorous FNP or ACNP MSN program? I've seen the curriculums for some of the major schools and frankly, they don't impress. It's like 80% nursing philosophy, and 20% hard-core stuff. Please give me some recommendat...

I'm curious about A1scrubs as well. Why does it take so long for them to ship out? Any of you ordered from them recently?

True, the market dictates that new grads get what scraps they can.

I know bad things have been said about the Tenet hospitals near Hermann Park. Anyone hear anything about the others, such as the Northwest Houston Medical Center? Right it it's a really rough patch for new grads. Don't know how long it's going to be ...

Seems like the comments about Tenet are mostly bad. But I also think that almost all hospitals will find somebody complaining about them. There are a lot of new grads out of work. What if Tenet was the only game in town? Would you hold out for someth...

I don't know about them leaving you alone at 30-40. Seems like everyday that someone with just a months' more experience wants to use that to one-up someone else, never mind how that experience was gained or if something was actually learned from it ...

It's just ageism. Those who do all that yapping about high-falutin morals will turn right around and be lazy themselves. Before they turn around they'll stab you in the back first. CYA in nursing, comrade, CYA.

There was a time when I believed that wisdom came with age. Now I know better and believe that wisdom might come with age after CONSTANT and MEANINGFUL reflection. I have seen a pair of 50-year-old nurses on the floor acting spiteful and girley-girle...

I just don't bring my phone in. If there is a true emergency, my family can call the unit secretary and she can take a message. Otherwise, my personal life will wait until I'm done with my shift. Texting? All ages engage in this. I'm just glad I'm s...

I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with nurses under 30. I agree with many hear that entitlement has become a way of life for Americans of ALL generations. I have observed nurses in their 40-50s constantly talking/surfing the internet on their i...

That hospital managers just write off attacks on nurses shows how much they value us. Very little. Contact your local nurse's union and politicians and beef up penalties for assault. One of my nurse friends even once said he wished he could carry a C...

Any recommendations for malpractice insurance in Texas?

I think it is exactly the ultra-padding of fluff that makes nurses the target of ridicule by MDs and PAs. I seriously wouldn't mind putting in some hard-hitting stuff. Seriously. I would rather spend a few hours memorizing muscle insertions and origi...

And by stuff I mean, more pathophysiology, more pharmacology, more clinical applications. Any NP programs have a cadaver lab? (holding my breath) I definitely want less to nil assignments about how to address homelessness through nursing, cultural ex...

May I ask which NP program you are applying to? I just think that if we had some more med-schoolish components such as cadaver lab, that might take some of the edge of the criticism that we constantly hear from PAs and MDs.

Take a look at sample PA and NP curriculums. I do wish that some NP course fluff was taken out in favor of cadaver labs and more hard core science. We got enough of Nightingale and other nurses' theories in our ADN/BSN progs.

Please let us know a good website for NP jobs.

That's even worse if the students involved are not same-sex-oriented. It puzzles me what some students will do for grades sometimes (of course the teacher is at fault as well).

What? So are we talking girl-on-girl action, cuz I just don't see that many male nursing students (even nowadays).

Gross. I assume these were guy profs? Sounds like the old cheerleader-football coach rub.

Once that HSR goes through, salaries may equalize a bit cuz everyone else will have the same idea.

Man that instructor is just plain gross. Doing the nasty with a student in a hospital! Shame!

Pretty soon, the nurses with have their code words for rumpy pumpy when the coast is clear: Nurse A: Yo, you got that 60 French syringe ready for me? Nurse B: Yeah, right after I finish with the 9 French catheter. Nurse A: All right, see you in 5.

Hmm, I had to do some critical thinking about our unit where this would happen. Clean utilities room might be a candidate, but a CNA could walk in on you if a patient has a random bowel movement. If there is a sleeping/unconcious patient in neutropen...

I can see an entire new line of DVDs: Med-Surg Nurses Gone Wild ER Nurses Gone Wild LTAC Party Gone Awry Nurse Grads Bare All etc...