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  1. Nursing management necessary?

    mindlor replied to Sarah2018's topic in General Nursing

    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...

  2. Poll: do you have professional liability insurance?

    mindlor replied to SDANG's topic in General Nursing

    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

  3. Anyone familiar with Kindred (LTAC)

    mindlor posted a topic in Long Term Acute Care

    So, I am a new grad. NCLEX pending. I have interviewed with these folks and thus far I really like what I hear and see. Patients are complex, most everyone has a PEG, VENT, CVAD. Most have glasgow...

  4. Should I quit my 2nd job? How many work 2 jobs here?

    mindlor replied to CampNurse10's topic in School

    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

  5. What advice would you give your 19 year old self?

    mindlor replied to depalma.amada's topic in General Nursing

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

  6. Hourly Rounding--pushing back

    mindlor replied to CharmantUn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    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...

  7. I hate being a CNA

    mindlor replied to *K($$'s topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    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...

  8. Can you succeed in BSN programs without Chemisty?

    mindlor replied to meganthe's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

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

  9. Can you succeed in BSN programs without Chemisty?

    mindlor replied to meganthe's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    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...

  10. Is the BSN worth it?

    mindlor replied to NurseCalamity's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    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...

  11. New Grad Job Market PMHNP

    mindlor replied to middleagegal's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    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...

  12. New Grad Job Market PMHNP

    mindlor replied to middleagegal's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    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...

  13. How do you deal with demanding/unreasonable patients?

    mindlor replied to empatheticRN's topic in General Nursing

    Lets just say I pass out a lot of AMA

  14. Medication safety what if...

    mindlor replied to SBGangelJC's topic in Patient Safety Issues

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

  15. New Grad Job Market PMHNP

    mindlor replied to middleagegal's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    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...

  16. Homeless or otherwise Indigent Patients

    mindlor posted a topic in General Nursing

    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...

  17. New Job

    mindlor posted a topic in General Nursing

    So, a competing health system had a job fair. I have not been happy at my skilled nursing job as it is just a horrid place. So......on a lark I headed over to the fair. This same system had...

  18. New Job

    mindlor replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    Had really just begun the NP program. With work and with my life, the NP program was not going to work out any way. And yes, it was a direct entry program. I was still early in my first class when I...

  19. Imagine my Dismay.....

    mindlor posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I get to work yesterday... I work on a skilled nursing unit...however we have sick peeps. We hang blood, IV meds etc etc..many times it seems like a med surg unit rather than a SNU.... So any way...

  20. Imagine my Dismay.....

    mindlor replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    I think somewhere along the line there has been misunderstanding...listen...it is they, the 3-5 pt nurses that bash and disrespect us. They look down their noses at us and treat us like we are...

  21. Imagine my Dismay.....

    mindlor replied to mindlor's topic in General Nursing

    Well all I am saying is when our med surge nurses float to my unit, they are completely overwhelmed, in tears and nervous wrecks......perhaps you would be able to handle it...I dunno...I only speak...

  22. It is time for a change folks....

    mindlor posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So I have been at this for two years now..... And still..... For the most part the nurse managers seem to adhere to the nurse ratchet mindset. In addition, they seem to favor staff who are also...

  23. It is time for a change folks....

    mindlor replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Furthermore, all a bed alarm really tells you is: Yo, you have a pt on the

  24. Should I resign, or be suspended?

    mindlor replied to mahroya's topic in Nursing Career

    Let me share a personal experience. I worked for a horrid place and left and went to a different system. The director at the new place promised me that staffing would be great, the coworkers were...

  25. It is time for a change folks....

    mindlor replied to mindlor's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Customer service does not equate to brown-nosing. I provide great customer service even while pushing my patients. I am on a rehab unit and at first my patients tend to hate me a good bit. By the...