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The term nurse manager is usually a misnomer. The fact is that most nurse managers do not have any management training. This is why a good many nursing units run inefficiently and have high turn over. A BSN does not a manager make. If I had a hospital I would tend to be looking for RN MBA's to run things eh? Or at lease a BS in MANAGEMENT? Duh?

Nope, Many lawyers have told me that as long as a nurse practices within policy this is not needed. Having said policy will make a lawyer more likely to come after you....why not tap that piggy bank?

If I pick up shifts at my primary job, the 1.5 pay rate is much more than any per diem job that I have ever found will pay. Plus, it is hard to serve two masters.......

I would say.....don't marry her, she will ruin your life utterly and completely.

I just yeah yeah yeah and nod my head to these fools. Then I go back to doing things my way, which is very very successful. I have told many a boss that when they get tired of the way I do things......they can fire me. I have not been fired yet because my survey scores are through the roof.........I sure have quit a lot of jobs though.....I refuse to work for kool aid drinking fools.

not all jobs have such heavy loads, rehab jobs and ltach jobs for CNAs are hard. Grt a job at a hospital on a med surge floor, you will get total care patients but you will also get walkie talkies to balance it all out........you just have the wrong job........

p.s. you learned all the patho you need in your ADN......the BSN is merely a review....

All the BSN programs I have seen have little to do with science. They focus, on legal, public health, cultural aspects, research, etc.......much more important than being proficient in chemistry is being proficient in APA and creative writing

BS = Bull Sh...... MS = More Sh.... Phd = Piled higher and deeper These BSN programs are full of useless classes that have no bearing whatsoever on a nurses practice. They are laden with busy work and are generally designed to separate a nurse from their hard earned money. Where I work you get a 50 cents an hour raise for a BSN.....pfffffffffft

In my 2.5 years in the acute hospital setting the NPs think like doctors. The NP schools are teaching the medical model. NPs do not care one lick about the "art of nursing"....they care about making sure the right tests are ordered and that the right MEDICAL diagnosis is made and treated.. Maybe not always true, but, certainly my experience. I would guess that an NP practicing as a primary care provider may have a different outlook....

Every last on I spoke with had at least a DNP and at least 25 years experience combined as a practicing RN and mid-level provider. disagree with the sentiment that is your choice, however in the academic world this is the thinking. Columbia is considered by many to be a very prestigious school and I cannot imagine them taking this position and subsequently offering this program if they thought Columbia NPs would be out there tarnishing the schools reputation.....

Lets just say I pass out a lot of AMA forms

It is technically against DEA regulations to carry narcs in our pockets per our director.......

OK so I will chime in here as I have before on this topic. As many of you know I was attending the direct entry MSN program at Columbia University before being hit with cancer....anyway while at Columbia I had many a conversation with all of the top brass and the consensus was that being an RN had absolutely nothing to do with being an NP. As an NP one is working with and talking with doctors ie thinking in the medical mindset. Many of the nations top school allow people to bypass RN altogether. Columbia, Vanderbilt, NYU, just to name a few. So, cry, rant, disagree, whatever, but this is the way of things. That said. once my battle with cancer was resolved I personally went and got my ADN and have been working as an RN for 2.5 years. I briefly just last year dipped my toe back into NP school but quickly withdrew as the program was laden with so many time wasting silly classes....I want to listen to lungs and hand out zpack which has zilch to do with studying the theorists who debated the pros and cons of treating impaired religiosity... Furthermore, my experience says that an RN willing to work extra shifts can out earn an NP any day of the week......

Why does this population always seem to be the most needy, the most demanding, the most unappreciative and the most noncompliant......frustrating as we are the only hospital in town who takes these lovely folks.... On a different note, my boss gave me a script to study but my dog AIDET.