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http://tinyurl.com/25vnygu the minnesota nurse's association dropped their demand for mandatory staffing ratios, but both sides agreed to address the staffing concerns through existing committees. the hospitals dropped their cuts to pensions, health...

brrrrrringggg.... "Sacred Smattering of Hope Psychiatric Facility, this is Nurse Ratched, how may I help you?" "My husband, Mr. Wonderful, is a nurse there and we have a family emergency, could you please get a hold of him?" "Absolutely, Mrs. Wonderf...

No one is cut off from all communication from family. Your friend can give his famliy the facility's phone number and they can call in an emergency.

I certainly had no intention of discouraging her, and you clearly have no idea what my intentions are. In reality (in person, not online) I have tutored and advised more nursing, pre-nursing, and other students in many areas - including math, chemist...

Since everyone and their sister has a camera phone, many that can, in fact, record videos, please take some pics and videos of the death angel and get an interview with him or her if you can. That would be so great. My favorite ghost story was told ...

I would respectfully ask that you re-write your post and remove all the text-speak and inventive punctuation. It would make it much easier to address your perfectly valid concerns and questions. Smiley faces are ok. ;-P

Keep thoughts like above in the forefront and do your best to avoid dwelling on negativity. It will help.

Refresher BLS courses often last around 2 hours.

Sounds like heaven. You can decide for your own damn self if nursing is for you or not. Get started already!

I thought the exact same thing as a new CNA. Turns out I was one of the few aides making sure people were shaved, had their teeth brushed, were wearing their glasses hearing aids, had (their own) clean clothes on, was using proper transfer procedures...

Some instructors get more nervous and high strung than students at clinical. Sometimes it is their superiors filling their heads with thoughts of "If one of your students screws up, YOU will lose your license, your job and we will lose a valuable cli...

I'm not aware of any nurses who went 12-4 last year (while throwing 33 TDs and 7 picks) and went to the NFC Championship.

Even sadder for you apparently. I've never used "girls" demeaning term. "Guys" and "boys" is also used, even though we are adults and no one seems to get their undies in a bunch over it. The males in my nursing school class are not only called "men...

You did what you could and doing those things will help keep your patients safe and make you a better nurse. A lot of fearful hand-wringing and endless obsessing over it will not help keep your patients safe or make you a better nurse. You choose.

I dunno, sounds like he got a little good out of it pretty early on.

I chose to go into nursing because of the infinite number of jobs, the fantastic pay, the glamor of the profession, and the great liklihood of having sex in the supply room with a cute coworker.

The study guide for my Fundamentals book (Perry and Potter) is useless. The study guide for my Med Surg book (Lewis) is worth its weight in gold.

I've never had a chaperone as a CNA, Home Health Aide, or Student Nurse at clinical, nor have I ever seen a male nurse who had a chaperone. Now, patients and families are free to choose to have female or male only caregivers, but that is different.

Young man, the best advice anyone could give to you would be to, um, keep quiet. If you put your foot in your mouth early in nursing school, you will have a very long and difficult time ahead of you. As you take your prereqs, you will find a lot of o...

This sounds a lot more like one single ignorant person than "ppl."

" No matter the career, good solid experience in fieldwork is a requirement for success whether you plan to get advanced degrees or not. Those who disdain the very work they need to advance are setting themselves up for misery. They won't enjoy the ...

If you have a 4.0 GPA what the heck are you caterwauling about? Who do you think fails and passes exit exams anyway? (Hint: The 4.0 students do just fine.) As I said, nursing school is a whole series of exit exams - and yes, if you fail one or two ...

I'm aware of that; I was pointing out that the stress starts *long* before that - in sort of a funny kind of... Nevermind.

The formula method works fine for very simple and straightforward problems. However, once you get into flow rates, surface area/body weight, stuff like that, there will not be an easy to use formula handy. Learn dimensional analysis and it will be y...

I understand you are venting, but try to take a deep breath and think about what you are posting. You sound hysterical.