linearthinker DNP, RN

linearthinker has 25 years experience as a DNP, RN and specializes in FNP.

linearthinker's Latest Activity

1. Can I become a Nurse Practioner?

   linearthinker replied to onprobation:('s topic in Recovery

   I understood what you meant and agree your original comment is being deliberately skewed out of context. People who want to be offended will be. That's on them. Those who want to try to "get it" can grasp it without too much effort and without get...

2. Prison job for female RN

   linearthinker replied to luckystarRN's topic in Correctional

   I have a friend who is a NP in a medium security state prison. She really likes it. She says the corrections officers are, by far, much more difficult and unpleasant to deal with than the inmates.

3. What do you do on the drive to work?

   linearthinker replied to whitecat5000's topic in General Nursing

   I listen to the BBC World News, or NPR Morning Edition.

4. Do you think they/employers are watching what we post?

   linearthinker replied to suanna's topic in General Nursing

   Not I.

5. ugh what to wear

   linearthinker replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

   Oh dear. My fault for assuming too much. I'm an atheist. I thought people wore dress clothes to church. I don't think I really need to be specific about what is implied, do I?

6. ugh what to wear

   linearthinker replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

   OK, anyone posting with me for more than a week knows that I am a hard mule on the issue of interview attire. IMO, there is almost no excuse not to wear a suit to an interview, and no excuse to wear scrubs to an interview, ever. The latter is just ...

7. Politcally incorrect rant aka how my day went

   linearthinker replied to rngreenhorn's topic in General Nursing

   The dumz. I gotz em. 'Cause I still don't get what the nonsensical rant has to do with anything. Whatever, carry on.

8. Do you think nursing is a profession?

   linearthinker replied to Aurora77's topic in Relations

   I think it should be/could be, but is not at present.

9. Politcally incorrect rant aka how my day went

   linearthinker replied to rngreenhorn's topic in General Nursing

   How does any of this relate at all to this: our leaders ---- national and local (left and right) are running through our nation/ healthcare system like a swarm of locus devorhoring (sic) and destroying everything, and leaving a pile of s*** it the...

10. Politcally incorrect rant aka how my day went

    linearthinker replied to rngreenhorn's topic in General Nursing

    How so? And, FTR, there is nothing lacking wth my hearing, or literacy level, lol.

11. Confused about Carpuject???

    linearthinker replied to newexcitednurse's topic in Medications

    I think the point was to go needless....

12. Politcally incorrect rant aka how my day went

    linearthinker replied to rngreenhorn's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't make any sense of anything past "as a result of obamacare..."

13. Mandated Flu vaccine?

    linearthinker replied to mol42's topic in COVID

    I think if you don't want a flu shot you have every to refuse, so long as you take a job that does not put patients at risk.

14. Politcally incorrect rant aka how my day went

    linearthinker replied to rngreenhorn's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I'm too well educated to understand most of that, but I can assure you that today's health care crisis predates the Obama administration.

15. Can an ADN nurse move into supervisory positions with only 4 years experience?

    linearthinker replied to NenaRK's topic in General Nursing

    It depends on a million and one confounding factors. Short answer, yes. I was the manager of 34 ICU beds and 125+ RNs with an ADN 20 years ago, when I had been a nurse for 5 years. I look back now and think holy cow, what was I/were they thinking...