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I'll leave the discussions about whether the BSN improves one's abilities as a nurse for others. Let me just talk about the job market. There is currently a push to go to all-BSN by (I believe) 2015 in several states. In the northeast, I know that Ne...

Maybe when you said "for years" she thought you said "four years" and now she's mad because you hid two years experience from her. :) Either that, or she just needs to get the stick out of her butt and get over herself.

And when the pool dries up, because nobody wants to put up with being treated that way, the "oi, thingy" nurses will be the ones whining loudest about not having enough staff.

Sometimes, those questions aren't to bust your buns. Sometimes the ICU nurse is trying to see if there's a reason that something wasn't done, e.g. "he needs a CTA but he's allergic to IV dye, so he's going to need to be prepped first." Sometimes it i...

Please tell me you work on a pediatric unit :)

This has been such a great thread - you hardly notice the poor grammar at all! :) To the poster whose review included the comment "doesn't polish her shoe laces" that seems to me more like the sort of insult that's really a compliment. ("He sings too...

Take her list, blow your nose in it, smile sweetly and say "thank you."

Although tasering sounds barbaric, is it actually worse then the alternatives? If a patient is out of control, the most likely alternative to tasering is a big hairy furball of a scrum - five staff members or so trying to get restraints on an out of ...

My sister got a traditional ASN. Two years, two semesters per year, 14 weeks per semester, 16 hours clinical per week. I got an accelerated BSN. One year, four quarters, 12 weeks per quarter, 24 hours clinical per week. I actually had more clinical h...

One possible reason for not using the word no would only apply to written charting, and that is the fact that "no" is such a small word. When you have people whose handwriting looks like they use their elbows to write, "absence of" gives you more of ...

Cargo pants are good - they're basically khakis that have pockets mid-thigh in addition to the standard two front, two back. Some places would consider them too casual, though.

The way the NCLEX works, 265 questions is no more likely to pass or fail than any other number of questions. If the test stops after 85 questions, it means that the test only needed that many questions to determine if you passed or failed. Basically,...

I work in a neuro ICU - when people ask me health questions, I just tell them "let me drill a hole in your skull and stick a tube in your brain - then I'll be able to tell you exactly what's wrong." Oddly enough, I haven't had any takers yet.

The Lehigh Valley Health System has job postings for GNs. That's in Allentown, about an hour north of the city. Also, think about government jobs - not just the military. The VA always seems to be hiring. The process takes a while, but it's an option...

You really really don't want to be caught lying about this. Such minor drug use is not going to be an issue, but if during some security clearance investigation they find out you lied about it, you will be bounced out of the service in a heartbeat. I...

I'm going to have to ask one of the moderators to close this thread and remove it from the web site. It is completely unacceptable that the original poster would bring up this subject. Have you no compassion whatsoever for us male nurses? If too many...

One other thing to consider is that time just flies in a code (sometimes.) You look down, and although it seems like you haven't done anything but two rounds of compressions, when you look up an hour has gone by. An hour-long code can seem like the b...

It's a pointless thing to try to attempt. The term nurse has female connotations because well over 90% of nurses ARE women. ANY term you use for a job that is 90% female is going to end up with those connotations. I don't care if you change the name ...

I've done post-mortem care on others, but for some reason I've never been able to do it to myself.

With regards to the administration's proposal to make military members pay for service-related care with their private insurance, here's a link. (From that well-known rabid right-wing new source CNN) http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/veterans.he...

I had a patient on the ventilator, who was on continuous tube feeds. She hadn't had a bowel movement in three or four days. So a couple of hours into my shift, she has a small bm. I turn her on her side, and she starts coughing, bucking the vent. Of ...

You WERE being difficult. You failed a driver who deserved to fail, and now the owner has to find another driver - that's difficult. You failed a driver that now needs to find another job, and THAT'S difficult. But do you want to know what would be R...

I work for a university health system that offers free tuition to dependents. The thing is, the IRS considers that free tuition to be income, so you have to pay income tax on it. So, depending on the cost of the school, that free tuition can be prett...

the physiology of blood pressure consists of two main components: cardiac output heart rate - beats per minute stroke volume - amount of blood pumped per beat [*]peripheral resistance - resistance of the arteries against the flow of blood through t...

Low blood pressure does not automatically imply decreased cardiac output. It could also be caused by decreased systemic vascular resistance (SVR), without a decrease in cardiac output. And even if the low BP does lead to decreased CO, it doesn't nece...