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  1. What do you think constitutes insubordination?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

    Much as it pains me to say this, and as a former nursing assistant/home health aide it really does; the "problem" has come about from letting the inmates run the aslyum. Between reading stories posted...

  2. How valuable is speaking Spanish in health care?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to edwindelahiggins's topic in General Nursing

    According to the latest census data the Hispanic population of the United States is not only growing but expanding into most every state/area of the country. In many places the white non-Hispanic...

  3. What do you think constitutes insubordination?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

    My understanding is that refusal to carry out direct orders and or instructions given by a superior is insurbordination. Being aggressively hostile and or belligerent is truculent behaviour. Either...

  4. st. paul's school of Nursing , on staten island, fall 2011

    DoGoodThenGo replied to lisa8585's topic in New York Nursing

    I've told you (or someone else posting the same misinformation), no such law has yet been passed into law within NYS. There is a bill for "BSN in Ten" and that is just what it has remained thus far....

  5. Nurse Called Police/CPS on Parents over Jaundice

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Simply Complicated's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! Of course had one known you all were already going at it hammer and tong over this, would have posted my link here. Here is another:...

  6. Nurse Called Police/CPS on Parents over Jaundice

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Simply Complicated's topic in General Nursing

    Parents who disagreed with keeping their newborn overnight in NICU found their infant taken away and threatened with arrest by law enforcement if they left the hospital after a nurse reported them to...

  7. CUNY Hunter Accelerated Prog. Fall 2011

    DoGoodThenGo replied to cat.'s topic in New York Nursing

    Interviews aren't anything new. Many nursing schools past and present do them and they can be a good thing. For one it gives the applicant a chance to explain any parts of their application that...

  8. Do Nurses Still Make *Real* Beds?

    DoGoodThenGo posted a topic in General Nursing

    Thread on giving baths got me thinking, and was wondering if nurses still make beds with "hospital" corners anymore. Also is learning the three basic types of beds part of formal nursing education...

  9. Why do so many nurses from the Philippines come to Canada/USA?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to lilaclover's topic in Philippines

    It has nothing to do per se with how "beautiful" the country is or any other such things. The matter is simply one of population and employment choices. Mainly a RC country, the Phillippines has a...

  10. Can a hospital legally force you to get your bsn if you are an adn

    DoGoodThenGo replied to lv2brn's topic in General Nursing

    Magnet status refers to a special accreditation awarded by a division of the ANA: http://www.nursecredentialing.org/Magnet.aspx Depending upon which side of the fence one sits, "magnet status" is...

  11. It's official I give up can't find a job anywhere

    DoGoodThenGo replied to mb1949's topic in General Nursing

    NYC is going through some hard times when it comes to nursing. and for that matter the healthcare system in general. The local profession barely began to absorb nurses laid off from the two SVCMC...

  12. Do Nurses Still Make *Real* Beds?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Near as one can figure out from (limited) research on the 'pillow-slip open must face away from the door mandate", is it came to nursing as with many other things from Victorian,military and religous...

  13. Do Nurses Still Make *Real* Beds?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps they are known by other names on your side of the pond: Occupied Unoccupied

  14. Do Nurses Still Make *Real* Beds?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to DoGoodThenGo's topic in General Nursing

    Three to one? Where and when was that the common nurse to pt ratio? Nurses have had a dozen or more pts to care for and bedmaking (along with AM/PM care) got done. If you were lucky there were NAs or...

  15. St Pauls School of Nursing 2010 Acceptance

    DoGoodThenGo replied to AP726's topic in New York Nursing

    This has gone on far too long, so made a telephone call to the NLNAC in Atlanta, and was informed in no uncertain terms Saint Paul's Schools of Nursing (Queens or Richmond (Staten Island) are *NOT*...

  16. Do away with 2-year programs for nursing

    DoGoodThenGo replied to kristin6727's topic in New York Nursing

    There is no such thing going on. What has happened is a law has been proposed in Albany requiring all future ADN (and the lone diploma school left in NYS), grads to obtain their BSN within ten years...

  17. Looking for history behind how RN's and LPNs developed

    DoGoodThenGo replied to LPN-n-2005's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Under the Nightingale system, nursing education and governance was moved into hospitals who over saw not only the training, but much of the regulation as well. Upon graduation a student nurse was...

  18. St Pauls School of Nursing 2010 Acceptance

    DoGoodThenGo replied to AP726's topic in New York Nursing

    Is there a chair here I can speak to?:banghead::banghead: Saint Vincent's nursing programs in both Queens and Richmond (Staten Island) have ceased to exsist, are gone, kaput, finished, pushing up...

  19. Cuny math placement test...Need Help!!!

    DoGoodThenGo replied to Redfalcon518's topic in New York Nursing

    It's been ages since one took the CUNY placement exams. Even then was a senior in high school so the material on both English and Math exams were "fresh". However did need to review algerbra and the...

  20. Can I take the LPN test if I'm 1 year into a 2 year RN program?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to 8PM%W's topic in New York Nursing

    Sorry, but whom ever gave you that information was flat out wrong. Years ago now NYS stopped allowing ADN student nurses to take the LPN boards after one year (or whatever it was), of classes. There...

  21. job and visa for foreign nurse

    DoGoodThenGo replied to gardenia2's topic in International Nursing

    You and about several hundred score (or more) nurses wish to arrive on US shores to practice. For various reasons the nursing "shortage" in most areas of the United States has gone to a surplus. New...

  22. What would you do if you were Nurse Ratched?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to purple_nomad's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, OFOTCN was "fiction", but all good forms of that genre often is based on some truth. It is also very unfair to compare today's nursing practice in any area with standards from over forty years...

  23. What would you do if you were Nurse Ratched?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to purple_nomad's topic in General Nursing

    "Sometimes being a high riding ***** is all a woman has to hold on to" One has to look at nurse Ratched in context of both being a woman and nurse in an era when neither had much if any real power....

  24. Nurses' Caps

    DoGoodThenGo replied to MyraMarie's topic in Retired Nurses

    As one researches about Cornell's program it is really a darn sham it was *allowed* to close. I mean next to John Hopkins, you guys turned out some of the greatest leaders in the profession. Damn...

  25. Can anyone tell me how lenient is Wagner College when it comes to financial aid?

    DoGoodThenGo replied to skyheaven477's topic in New York Nursing

    If you already have a four year degree then generally Pell and state aid will no longer be open to you. Aside from student loans (federal and or priviate), your other options will be to apply for...