jtfreel

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1. Medication Nurse Assistants

   jtfreel replied to K205's topic in General Nursing

   I personally find this topic disturbing and wonder where the state Boards of Nursing are or what they are thinking. In Virginia, an acute care medical center was allowed by the Board to use medication...

2. How will Military Nurses Vote in the Presidential Election?

   jtfreel replied to fry.girl's topic in Government, Military

   I am retired military and will vote for Pres.

3. Survey: Should nurses from other countries be recruited to aid in the nursing shortag

   jtfreel replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   The nursing shortage is a global issue. If countries recruit from abroad, does that help with the global shortage? Does this practice address the factors fueling this issue? Does it make nursing...

4. Female nurses earn less than male nurses

   jtfreel replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   First, let me put on my flak jacket. Having been in nursing management and administration for longer than most of you have been born (yup, I earned these gray hairs!), let me share some objective...

5. Survival Tips for First Year Nurses

   jtfreel replied to rosemadder's topic in General Nursing

   Remember that the work place is not a social club. It is okay to make friends at work, but the primary purpose for being at work is to provide patient care. Always look and act professional. If you...

6. opinion--no carb diet

   jtfreel replied to CPB's topic in General Nursing

   My husband and myself are on the low carb diet under a physician's supervision. Results: bad cholesterol down, good CHOL up, better management for hypothyroid, blood pressure down, overall...

7. Nursing issues that need change

   jtfreel replied to efy2178's topic in General Nursing

   I would like to address not what 'they are doing to us' but what 'we' are doing to ourselves. 1. As a profession, have we elevated complaining to an art form? 2. A sense of 'victimization' appears to...

8. help me please i'm in deep water

   jtfreel replied to saeed's topic in MICU, SICU

   For fast references go to Google.com and type in a search phrase "endotracheal suctioning" and just choose... Good

9. BSN minimum requirement

   jtfreel replied to Lburns's topic in General Nursing

   Nursing will never be accepted as a "true profession" (in my opinion) as long as the health care system needs a practice group to do the dirty work-regardless of the education level of the members of...

10. BSN minimum requirement

    jtfreel replied to Lburns's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing will never be accepted as a "true profession" (in my opinion) as long as the health care system needs a practice group to do the dirty work-regardless of the education level of the members of...

11. Leaving Management

    jtfreel replied to Daisy's topic in General Nursing

    You asked a very good and hard to answer question. For me, it was the realization that nursing has been caught up in the "business" of health care and is still, predominately, controlled by elements...

12. Leaving Management

    jtfreel replied to Daisy's topic in General Nursing

    I know where you are coming from. I not only stepped down, but left nursing management entirely when I could no longer support policies and agendas that continuously and adversely (in my opinion)...