zenman

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    Totally floored - put on Probation in FNP program? I can't take this anymore!!!!

    zenman replied to lannisz's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    When any organization has "rules," it can work both for and against them. While you may lay as low as possible, you can also "cripple" them by making them follow their own rules to the letter. Know...
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    Who here did LPN to RN?

    zenman replied to Sandi0302's topic in General Nursing

    Well, it helped having experience in the hospital...and it helped being a CNA before that. It's very useful in giving you insight into different
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    Nursing & website is depressing!!!

    zenman replied to SeanyRN's topic in General Nursing

    i'm not depressed but my eyes hurt whenever someone uses bold type and two different font colors,
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    What career would YOU have chosen if you weren't a nurse?

    zenman replied to RN BSN 2009's topic in General Nursing

    At least as a PO you don't have to hide your piece! I'd be a medical anthropologist if I had to do it
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    Adn's Who Don't Care

    zenman replied to nursing4me23's topic in General Nursing

    This was the ARMY's medical corpsman program...not a current civilian program... and included classroom and clinical training on the units and in the field. Special Forces medics have a different...
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    "Men should be EMT's or Doctors!"

    zenman replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think women should be newspaper
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    How do you do it?

    zenman replied to sister--*'s topic in General Nursing

    I have a mesh fly fishing vest that I carry my medical supplies in when trekking through the jungle with students on field trips (I'm a school nurse)that might work for you. It has many different size...
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    Adn's Who Don't Care

    zenman replied to nursing4me23's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with most of your comments but do we know the above is correct? The ADN was created to correct a nursing shortage. Has it succeeded in that aspect? The OP wanted to know if there are any...
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    Adn's Who Don't Care

    zenman replied to nursing4me23's topic in General Nursing

    Our profession is different from others where more education is rewarded by increased earnings as well as other benefits. Perhaps we need to approach this from another angle. Since having more...
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    Adn's Who Don't Care

    zenman replied to nursing4me23's topic in General Nursing

    Check carefully...I've heard many lawyers describe their profession as the tops in
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    How smart are you?

    zenman replied to psycteach's topic in General Nursing

    Well, yes, I'm "super smart" LOL! I took the state boards (now NCLEX) after medic school and passed...so I was an RN before going to nursing
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    ready to drop out of FNP program

    zenman replied to lannisz's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Guess you haven't talked to all the docs who would also love to bail,
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    Is there power in the color white?

    zenman replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sticking with my shorts, shirt and sandals...and they are not
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    Vision & Hearing

    zenman posted a topic in School

    What kind of vision and hearing screens do you do? We were doing all the elementary grades but thinking about doing only the kids that teachers identify as having problems. We have an old Titmus and...
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    Anyone gone union?

    zenman replied to liljsmom02's topic in General Nursing

    Always remember that the patients are inside the hospital. Bringing in a union just means you have failed and now have to resort to a war. I'll get you started: Step # 1. Take the president's wife out...
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    How are male nurses perceived?

    zenman replied to hemlok2's topic in General Nursing

    Many perceive me to be a Sean Connery look-a-like, but he's a few years older than
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    Difference between Adult Acute NP and Adult Primary Care NP

    zenman replied to lrchester's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Why would it be outside your scope of practice? FP docs admit patients all the time and follow them in the hospital...as does my FNP
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    Differences (Educative/Clinical) between NP & PA

    zenman replied to jstuben's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Very good; now why not close this
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    Near MIss! Evil Ex- NM rises from dead

    zenman replied to TennNurse's topic in General Nursing

    I would have stayed until I could give her a report on her dad! Would love the look on her face..."Remember
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    My CRNA friends do illegal drugs

    zenman replied to DrugReptoNurse's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Sorry, I got interrupted! I'm not a CRNA but agree with Laughing
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    How far do you commute to work?

    zenman replied to flowerchick's topic in General Nursing

    I walk 2 blocks...or wade during
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    Wilcox Hospital strike still on...

    zenman replied to prmenrs's topic in General Nursing

    Because you provided them with the opportunity to do so! Personally, I was already coming to Oahu to join my wife who arrived several months earlier. The opportunity for me to work was again presented...
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    Wilcox Hospital strike still on...

    zenman replied to prmenrs's topic in General Nursing

    I consider my standards to be far above yours. If your mother or child came into the hospital in critical condition I would not be the one to walk out the next day. Not one nurse EVER has adressed...
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    Wilcox Hospital strike still on...

    zenman replied to prmenrs's topic in General Nursing

    You are saying then that you do not consider it unethical to harm patients? Be sure and remind them of that fact before you take care of them. Now, all this means is that we have a difference in...
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    Wilcox Hospital strike still on...

    zenman replied to prmenrs's topic in General Nursing

    CardiacRN...ignorance may be bliss for you. However, I have also been a manager...reporting directly to hospital CEO ...and therefore it is probably safe to say, have more experience not only in that...