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  1. What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    There is nothing wrong with going for your ADN and then doing RN-BSN and so forth. Long as your local area is hiring Associate degree nurses in theory you shouldn't have a problem. OTOH in some areas...

  2. What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Do not think it is terribly inefficient at all. If many persons knew then what they know now they perhaps would have made different career choices including college majors. Persons in their forties...

  3. What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    Displaced Auto Workers Nursing Program (DAWN) Nursing Program Offers Hope for Displaced Auto Workers on ADVANCE for Nurses Ex-auto workers may fill gaps in Detroit nursing schools -

  4. Unit Secretaries

    DoGoodThenGo replied to blondy2061h's topic in General Nursing

    Saw a listing recently for a NYC hospital where the functions of a unit secretary were combined with that of a nursing assistant. As hospitals look to decrease costs in the face of tighter...

  5. What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    "Nursing is a great career because you can put it down and pick it up again as needed", or "nursing is a great career choice because there will always be a need for nurses", And so forth.... Nursing...

  6. Has the job market gotten better for new grads?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to debi49's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In NYC are things *seem* to be picking up, that is you hear more new grads landing spots and or about open houses and so forth. However the market is still really tight in that hospitals are extremely...

  7. What Is The Deal With All The Highly Educated & Professionals Becoming RNs?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to PMFB-RN's topic in General Nursing

    While there are many reasons for second, third, fourth, etc... career persons moving into nursing the two main ones come down to this: true desire to enter the profession out of altruistic reasons, or...

  8. failed my nursing 110

    DoGoodThenGo replied to heri4477's topic in New York Nursing

    First of all am sad for your situation and hope things work out for you. There are several previous posts from students who were "removed" from CUNY programs with suggestions, you can search them...

  9. Help! graduated with honors from BSN program!

    DoGoodThenGo replied to RN2b599's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Meriwhen gave excellent advice. Aside from providing moral support there is little we can do here in the group. Your first instinct is correct, engage an competent attorney with experience in these...

  10. Calculator at work?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to 1Luv_xo's topic in General Nursing

    Atta

  11. Has anyone made a medication error and *not* get fired for it?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to pinkiepieRN's topic in Patient Medications

    Not to beat this dead horse more but just to put things in perspective: Should nurses be fired for fatal medication

  12. Pay Off My Student Loans In Full or Make Monthly Payments?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to whitecat5000's topic in General Nursing

    FWIW student loan debt is often referred to as "good debt" in that the interest rates are often low (when compared to credit cards for instance), and the record of on time payments builds an excellent...

  13. Calculator at work?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to 1Luv_xo's topic in General Nursing

    Think what throws many is hearing the words "nursing math", when in actuality it really is just math. Yes, there are drug names given and one often needs to know that bit, but the rest is simple...

  14. Calculator at work?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to 1Luv_xo's topic in General Nursing

    Try doing these examples both ways, that is with pen and paper and with calculator. If you get the correct answers either way .... The nurse's quick guide to I.V. drug calculations : Nursing made...

  15. Where do you find your employment history

    DoGoodThenGo replied to kabu's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    Mind reels at why, but there are several sources that pop to mind. Aside from whatever you list on your employment application credit reports are the first place that springs to mind. Next any public...

  16. Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    One thing that always bothered me was that bit about not always rushing to pick up baby when he or she is crying. Worse if it was at night to let them cry themselves to sleep or some such. The idea...

  17. Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    Oh the joys of schedule feeding! *LOL* Thought Dr. Spock put an end to all

  18. Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse, nursemaid and so forth are titles long given to ranks of servants that cared for infants and or young children. The use predates "trained" nurses and certainly the modern one in connection with...

  19. Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry, had no idea. I mean it has been all over the media and done with by

  20. Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    Well at least one consumer gets it: Blog- But wait, there's more:...

  21. Math Test for every class?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to kellyk21's topic in General Students

    Excuse me? Was not "judging" anyone, merely pointing out the differences so if you are finished with that cross we need the wood. Will say there is a considerable opinion that math education in this...

  22. Rehab needs to get a clue

    DoGoodThenGo replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    It is happening all over the country and (surprise) the main reason being money from another census source. With more and more seniors choosing to age in place LTC/nursing homes are scrounging...

  23. Baby nurses?!?!?!?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LandD_RN_chica's topic in General Nursing

    To keep things current the last season of "Downton Abbey" saw a wet nurse engaged for Lady Sybil's infant after she died (from eclampsia) shortly after delivery. In that instance a young mother from...

  24. When did nursing caps go extinct in the wild?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to RNperdiem's topic in General Nursing

    Though tradition frowns upon wearing a cap from a school that is not one attended there are plenty of generic caps. The only query to sort out is if one is entitled to wear stripe or stripes, other...

  25. Transferring to Lehman College for BSN... any "hidden" math classes?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to snrnurse84's topic in New York Nursing

    Just glanced through Lehman's NP website and the only "hidden" (if you could call it that) part of the program is the requirement that one have passed the math placement exams in order to take general...