Alnamvet

Alnamvet

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  1. Just a note on the NP vs PA debate...

    Alnamvet replied to TMnurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    A whole lot of recommendations...good information....but the fact remains, when it comes to prescriptive authority, independence of practice, AND independent admitting privileges (such as in Columbia...

  2. Friends and nurses

    Alnamvet replied to nursemichelle's topic in General Nursing

    I have acquaintances in the healthcare field...most of my friends are in Arlington, now; my children, and sometimes my wife, are my true friends, otherwise, I stay away from developing close...

  3. NY State may require nurses to obtain 4-year degrees

    Alnamvet replied to Brian's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I think you are, like many bsn advocates, missing my point; take a bsn and compare it to, say, a BS, or BSW. Now take away the nursing courses in the bsn, and take away the sociology courses in the...

  4. Peircings

    Alnamvet replied to Still Riding's topic in General Nursing

    In case I didn't say it before, real low

  5. Out with the New...In with the Old..

    Alnamvet posted a topic in General Nursing

    With all the talk about nursing diagnosis going out the window, how will it affect nursing in so far as professionalism, autonomy, its classification as a sub specialty of medicine (like RRT, RPT, RD,...

  6. Nurse Hero's

    Alnamvet replied to flowerchild's topic in General Nursing

    All male nurses since the '50's are my heroes...all male nurse practioners who made it through a female dominated program are my heroes...nurse practioners who believe we are practicing medicine, on a...

  7. Out with the New...In with the Old..

    Alnamvet replied to Alnamvet's topic in General Nursing

    Yes....a sub-specialty of medicine as defined by the federal

  8. lpn-rn...same difference

    Alnamvet replied to reyna's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, the concept is not difficult for most of us in nursing, it's the study, that is in question...junk science, at

  9. lpn-rn...same difference

    Alnamvet replied to reyna's topic in General Nursing

    The catfights always start when this stuff comes up. I like that....catfight....and I wonder if catfights are gender specific, and if they are, might it have something to do with the sad state of...

  10. Changes to the NCLEX

    Alnamvet replied to ZinnianWolf's topic in General Nursing

    None of this will affect ADN grads, since they traditionally do well on the nclex...I think the change is to make it easier for the bsn types who traditionally do NOT do well on the nclex, to pass the...

  11. NY State may require nurses to obtain 4-year degrees

    Alnamvet replied to Brian's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Then you have the BA, BS, BSW, BPsy, BBA types who go to a 2 year (or 1 year accelerated ASN) program who spends on average of 40 hours per week in clinicals and 16+ hours per week didactic for 50...

  12. My best friend in nursing school was ordered to terminally sedate a stroke patient.

    Alnamvet replied to Love767's topic in General Nursing

    . Our instructor said that this will kill most patients within a couple of days, and that respirtory depression wasn't "such a bad way to go". She said that this is done in hospitals everywhere only...

  13. NY State may require nurses to obtain 4-year degrees

    Alnamvet replied to Brian's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

  14. NY State may require nurses to obtain 4-year degrees

    Alnamvet replied to Brian's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    The good thing, though, is that any bachelor's will do..for those with bachelors in other fields, no problem. Some may want the opportunity to pursue a bachelors in psych, for example, where this...

  15. looking for different options in nursing

    Alnamvet replied to shawnalj's topic in General Nursing

    Try the military, Army in particular...you will enter as a Sergeant, and will have the opportunity for completing your BSN courtesy of Uncle Sam.

  16. 20/20 Report on VA system

    Alnamvet replied to Peeps Mcarthur's topic in General Nursing

    As a veteran who had the opportunity to vacation in SE Asia, Grenada, Panama, and Desert Storm, I would rather die on the streets like a dog than be a va

  17. we've been having heated - but not yet angry - discussions

    Alnamvet replied to IowaCindy's topic in General Nursing

    Wetbacks??? Where I come from, that is a racial slur...in fact, it is so offensive that I'm amazed that no one has caught it. A shame that you had to come this far, so desperate to win the war of...

  18. we've been having heated - but not yet angry - discussions

    Alnamvet replied to IowaCindy's topic in General Nursing

    . What I THINK in my mind would have nothing to do with the care I provided. No personal attack intended, it's what's in your mind, and in the minds of many others on this post who scare me. If it...

  19. we've been having heated - but not yet angry - discussions

    Alnamvet replied to IowaCindy's topic in General Nursing

    No....you are an RN, and you should support yourself accordingly. You SHOULD be making a decent salary, YOU should be paying taxes, YOU should be able to get a fair percentage of those taxes paid in...

  20. we've been having heated - but not yet angry - discussions

    Alnamvet replied to IowaCindy's topic in General Nursing

    I have a dream too...that all the stinkin' thinkin' that IS nursing, be replaced by nurses who are color blind, culturally adept, viewing people as humans, and not a drain on their so called way of...

  21. we've been having heated - but not yet angry - discussions

    Alnamvet replied to IowaCindy's topic in General Nursing

    I volunteer care at a clinic staffed by volunteers who care for "illegals" who work for low wages, AND, have taxes and other levies taken out of their meager earnings. These workers do not benefit...

  22. Do you think a nursing instructor should have acute care experience?

    Alnamvet replied to gerinurse10's topic in General Nursing

    I have always been of the opinion that most nursing instructors are office weenies with minimal exposure to the real world of nursing; everything, and anything I have learned was from OJT and...

  23. techs in the ED

    Alnamvet replied to RNLex's topic in Emergency

    My ED has ED Techs I, and II...II's are Paramedics, who can start IV's, hang NS infusions, do foleys, EKG's, OCL splints, and pretty much everything else a nurse does, with the exception of giving...

  24. The way nurses treat each other

    Alnamvet replied to Mantibob's topic in General Nursing

    IMHO the problem starts in nursing school, perpetuated by all health care providers, ignored by management...the bottom line it's a control thing; frustrated, culturally and academically inept folks...

  25. RNFA 'S

    Alnamvet replied to CATHY RNFA's topic in Operating Room

    Yes...an OR TECH should not be doing procedures outside their scope of practice...BUT, a CSA is well within his scope of practice regarding the procedures you have mentioned. I think the key word here...