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  1. Abusive and Cruel Clinical Instructors: Why??

    BTW, instructors from hell exist in all sorts of programs, even at the graduate level. I am sorry about the horrible experiences many of the posters on this thread have had but it does help me to...
  2. Appearently no Hospital is Hiring (plz dont ignore)

    No one in my area hires LPN for hospital work. All the LPNs in my area work nursing home. But where I went to school they tell you up front that if you stop at LPN then you will not likely get hired...
  3. New to teaching pharmacology

    I have an extensive background in pharmacokinetics and am now a nurse. Here is my take. Nurses learn rote memorization. Very few understand basic pharmacology and I have not met any personally that...
  4. Insecure Unorganized Nursing Instructor

    It is an my bottom got in line and marched in to complain about this. Another bottom will be marching in tommorrow. I decided last night I would just drop withdrawl from the uni as it is too late to...
  5. Insecure Unorganized Nursing Instructor

    Yes this instructors asks for input on how to make things better then shots you down an treats you like an idiot if you say anything. Like perhaps we should have some idea where our grade comes from?...
  6. Pre employment drug screen positive for pcp!!!!

    I used to work in a research lab where we did receptor binding studies and used PCP in a lot of our studies. The stuff attaches to EVERYTHING. Its really nonspecific and has "receptors" everywhere....
  7. New name for the Nursing profession?

    You know after reaing your response I started thinking about that. People could have all the resistance they wanted but in the end if a hospital decided they wanted to call you a carefellow or health...
  8. New name for the Nursing profession?

    I am all for a name change. I think it would also help get more men in the profession which would be beneficial to all. How about Care Monitor or Care Manager? RN's are do more managing then just...
  9. Changing careers to Nursing?

    By the way, I have all the teaching stuff except two classes and I can tell you that going back to nursing school will be much differnt than teaching. When you are in nursing school you will be...
  10. Changing careers to Nursing?

    You want to leave a job you LOVE in this economy to go KILL yourself going through nursing school, for what? I had all but a couple of my classes for a teaching degree and I could kick myself for not...
  11. As a former government employee i say get your foot in the door whereever it will fit! Once your inside the door then move around. I left my government job for personal reason but still have...
  12. Fortunate to have a job?

    Setting up and ebay account is a good idea no matter waht else you do. You may not MAKE money but you will certainly save a lot selling things you don't use and buying what you need. Once you start...
  13. I am also a new grad and have some health issues. Go with what you like. I was in another field before this and everyone said you MUST do this and you MUST do that in order to get to THIS PLACE....
  14. FNP: Daily grind and glory

    Reglet i am really curious as to why you would switch careers. i would love to be a technical writer your job sounded
  15. Abusive and Cruel Clinical Instructors: Why??

    I understand where you are coming from and in the past have said the same thing about a mean instructor I had. In fact, lots of people have said the same thing about a few of the mean instructors....
  16. New grad RN pursuing masters AND a job!

    I have heard of some NP's that never worked as RN, went straight through and graduated with NP, then worked as Rn a few years. Then had trouble getting an NP job because they were too far out of an...
  17. where to get PMHNP

    I am going to be starting an FNP program in the fall that is local but I am actually more interested in pscyh. I should be done with the FNP by 2011 and was thinking I could do a post cert in psych....
  18. I am planning on starting an NP program in the fall. I will have my ADN in a few weeks but none of the hospitals around here are hiring. I do not like the nursing home at all and although I feel I...
  19. What do you think is the real job market outlook?

    I don't know how to quote your byline but that squirrels comment is one of the funniest things I have seen in a
  20. Nursing Shortage

    What I met was I used to believe that too, but not anymore. And as much as I have always wanted to help people and looked forward to it, I am not looking forward to running myself into the ground so...
  21. Nursing Shortage

    I will tell you. I am almost done nursing school and the problem is not that there are not enough people to do the job. Many hospitals, nursing homes etc just don't hire enough people to do the...
  22. My L&D misadventure

    In my area it is known that they won't hire a male on mother baby as they are afraid of legal problems or excess cost. That is the explanation touted anyway. That is in this area, they feel that a...
  23. Any Deaf, Hard of hearing Nurses?

    Hi i am single sided deafness due to sudden sensorineural hearing loss. After ten years of this I was able to get approved for a BAHA. If your hearing is low on one side but good on the other I...
  24. Why would anyone kept doing this?

    I am almost done with school and having to force myself to finish. Its not the patients. Its not even the administration from what I can see. It is the other nurses. Tonight I had a clinical from...