netglow ASN, RN

Totally support you OP!! ...and what the heck is up with all the silly people denying reality? GHETTO ('Tis. what. it. is.) ...underserved population, OMG. To those silly posters, yeah you go. You've received your calling Ha, ha, ha.

The further I move away from all of this ...I understand that many nurses faced with what the profession has become, reach some kind of crossroad where they must decide to either work on getting out of nursing, or disassociate themselves mentally fro...

Somehow ...this post sounds a bit like "someone" wants to have someone else lose their job, and is coming here to ask if they have the paper-trail in order to get that accomplished and still smell like a rose. Maybe, a friend is waiting for a positio...

Actually, those constant cranks will wear your battery quickly. You must be driving @10 mins non-stop - keep those wheels turning - before any recharge can occur. So stop going out just to crank it and idle it. Bottom line, if your battery is over 4...

Illinois has many, many nursing colleges just pumping out nurses, IL alone could fill any, and all new nurse positions across the country (if there even were that many opportunities for new nurses). http://nursing.illinois.gov/PDF/IlApNursingEdProgPa...

OOOOOH What's terribly enlightening about that article is the fact that there are more than a few MDs who have their heads up that same unicorn's rainbow... ugh. #failuresinprivatepractice H.E.L.L.O!!

That is just awful...

:)! But so true, so true.

"Also, I would eventually like to get into plastic surgery and/or medical aesthetics and I feel the circulator position falls more in line with my passion and is a better fit for me." Being a circulator will do nothing for the future you are interest...

OK everybody. The OP is just following her established thread pattern. If you look at her history over the years (yes years) she pops up with this same "Gee, golly, why?" thread, over and over. Usually I and casts of thousands prove her back into hid...

PMFB-RN, Geeeez! Your new manager can be labeled A FOOL, as she has demonstrated a complete lack of comprehension - even at the most basic level, of what that job requires of her - that she would dare to apply for the position. This all makes me sic...

Some insight I've had about some labs. Cath lab "monitor techs" are often the entitled relatives of MDs - radiologists, cardiologists etc. Used to be, there was no real education involved in that, also, no certification either - just on the job train...

or, 250 x 10 (over) 4 x 60 which becomes: 2500 (over) 240 which equals: 10.416....

Of course. Anybody with very basic RN/MD education should be able to pass the NCLEX, if they have reviewed a NCLEX test taking strategy book. The NCLEX test has nothing to do with finding out if a person has knowlege of anything really - other than h...

Truths: You have just begun to realize the gravity of your situation. You will need to wallow in it first. You will need to meet with your school nursing admin and totally honestly "own" your situation. You will be remembered at this particular clini...

No RN with a license intact, shares your brand of "common sense".

OP, you should be able to arrive at clinical, be assigned your patient(s), take report, and then get to your orders. Just a glance should tell you if you are familiar with a med or not. If not, you have many resources eg your drug app, your hospitals...

This is a totally awesome thread!!

Makes me miss some of the great, award-winning, threads of sarcasm we used to love... *sigh* as well as the posters who used to frequent them. #goodtimes Hey I got an idea: Throwback Thursday threads!!!!!!

Very much how I see it.

I know a plastic surgeon who uses Aquaphor for all lots of issues.

But you all forget, the reason for the move to MAs is just that. They don't want thinkers. They just want "staff" to complete the list of tasks given. I see movement to off floor management centers full of telemetry and live feed images from each pa...

Yup the business she works for makes it's money on these infusions among other things. If she educates the guy, or all the others that they don't need this stuff IV really, and it's best to OTC buy supplementation PO, she's out of a job. It's like sa...

"anticoag is no big deal, it really doesn't matter, nothing can really happen, we don't need protocol, I don't have any real way of figuring it to put in writing" - Cardiac EP specialist (so funny that at the time, I forgot to laugh - I ...you know w...

Look out. Ask what she means EXACTLY by "hand holding". Often it means.... 1. MD that yells and shouts, at you, at everybody 2. MD that refuses to chart until a week later, if he does at all, and then wants you to try to OR schedule with crap for pat...