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  1. Skirts in the hospital...

    DoGoodThenGo replied to sarah.2012's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Have always wondered why American nurses went for white stockings whilst UK go for black. The latter seems so much more practical. Back in the "old days" (1980's or so) when one was a NA in hospital...

  2. Skirts in the hospital...

    DoGoodThenGo replied to sarah.2012's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Tought the AORN put the kabosh on scrub dresses a long time

  3. Skirts in the hospital...

    DoGoodThenGo replied to sarah.2012's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Don't think there is a RN nursing program left around here (NYC) that still *requires* students to wear uniforms that are either dresses or skirts. By the 1980's many had switched to allowing dresses...

  4. Skirts in the hospital...

    DoGoodThenGo replied to sarah.2012's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Here in NYC whilst many females do wear skrits/dresses a majority do not wear hose. This is even more apparent as flip flops seem to have become the footwear of choice, well at least to and from work,...

  5. LAZY CNA's!!

    DoGoodThenGo replied to RNBeauty23's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    As one has often stated, the main problem with attracting and retaining quality assistant personnel are directly related to the low wages. There are enough studies out there to back this and the...

  6. Guess It's Official -Long Island College Hospital School of Nursing Is Closed

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in New York Nursing

    Oh well, at any rate it is still rather sad. For a great school with so much history to go out like that. At least places such as Saint Vincent's allowed those whom had been accepted to enter and...

  7. Healthcare's Crushing Costs

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Well Obamacare is supposed to crack down on those and other practices, it remains to be seen however how "best practices" will work out in situations such as the OP. Insurance companies and the...

  8. Healthcare's Crushing Costs

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Doesn't have to be that way. By all accounts France has one of the best healthcare/payment systems in the Western world. It isn't perfect but has outcomes on par and in some areas better than the...

  9. Guess It's Official -Long Island College Hospital School of Nursing Is Closed

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in New York Nursing

    Beg your pardon but one *did* see LICH's website and it says the same thing it continues to say: "Welcome to the LICHSON website We are working hard on migrating to our new website, which will be up...

  10. Healthcare's Crushing Costs

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    iirc in some eu countries such as germany one healthcare worker (usually a physican) is top dog on the team and runs a patient's care. he or she makes major choices and decisions regarding care but...

  11. Budget cuts..... State nurses earn minimum wage?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to gcupid's topic in General Nursing

    According to the news piece one saw last night the mayor/town of Scranton was ordered by the courts several weeks ago to restore city worker's previous level of wages. The unions/those representing...

  12. Budget cuts..... State nurses earn minimum wage?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to gcupid's topic in General Nursing

    Evening national news had a piece on this and the reporter stated the town was possibly "looking" for ways to get non-profits who currently pay no taxes to start

  13. Budget cuts..... State nurses earn minimum wage?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to gcupid's topic in General Nursing

    In general states do *not* like for cities/local governments within their borders to file for bankruptcy. Being as that may it does happen. Stockon, CA became the largest city in the USA to date to...

  14. Why is it called "RN to BSN" - not "ADN to BSN"?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to mclennan's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Should have been more clear. It will of course vary by state but there is a difference in between an Associate Degree, Associate in Applied Science, and Associate in Arts (AA) with a major in whatever...

  15. Why is it called "RN to BSN" - not "ADN to BSN"?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to mclennan's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    To be truly accurate along the lines of what you are proposing programs would have to be "ADN/AAS/diploma and the several other flavours of two and three year degrees" to BSN. None of it matters...

  16. Why is it called "RN to BSN" - not "ADN to BSN"?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to mclennan's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    We've been down this path before. Yes, there is a difference between an "Associate Degree in Nursing" (ADN) and an "Associate in Applied Science) degree in nursing (AAS). Two year programs award one...

  17. Med Dose Calc - Is It Possible Some Just Don't Get "It"?

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in Patient Medications

    Ran into an aquaintance hadn't seen in awhile and we began to shoot the breeze. Last time we spoke she had finally got into a nursing program here in the City but was struggling with Med Dose Calc....

  18. Is magnet status hospitals shutting out all LVNs

    DoGoodThenGo replied to ladymaam's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Interesting tidbit from a government report one is reading (see my post "Nursing & Nursing Education elsewhere). In 1980 there were nearly 300,000 LPNs employed by hospitals where they performed...

  19. I passed my NCLEX-RN, can you find out actual score/percent?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Hannahnewgrad's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    There wasn't a "NCLEX" fifty years ago. Your grandmother like every other graduate nurse until about 1994 took her board exam administered by the state. Back then it was paper and pencils for an exam...

  20. Report On Nursing & Nursing Education - circa 1980

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Must be the heat. That was totally the wrong link in my OP. Nursing and nursing education: public policies and private actions - Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Division of Health Care Services - Google...

  21. Report On Nursing & Nursing Education - circa 1980

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in General Nursing

    Found this interesting old report commissioned by the federal government back in the 1980's regarding the nursing profession, in particular what they saw as the future of the profession and the...

  22. Is magnet status hospitals shutting out all LVNs

    DoGoodThenGo replied to ladymaam's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Cannot speak to your particular area of the country but here in NYC hosptials began getting shot of LPNs long before the magnet program was dreamed up. Even going back to the 1980's or 1990's IIRC a...

  23. Obama health care law upheld.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Received word yesterday that a member of another Internet site one belongs to recently passed away of colon cancer. Thoughthe man has worked all his life, and darn hard from what one understands he...

  24. Is It Just Me?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Mijourney's topic in General Nursing

    This could be one reason why many MD's view younger/newest crop of NPs with suspicion not often disdain. I mean if the concept behind NPs was to move well seasoned nurses who by virtue of vast...

  25. Obama health care law upheld.

    DoGoodThenGo replied to strawberryfields's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    my point about "free care" is that although the patient and family may not pay and therefore the care is considered "free", it is in fact not "free" to the system. there is cost incurred each time a...