PatMac10,RN RN

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    New nurses wanted.

    PatMac10,RN replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    BrandonLPN, Your quote: "I'm not sure I understand. My whole point is that what the "nurses eat their young" crowd define as "mean" and what I define as "mean" are two different things." Is saying...
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    New nurses wanted.

    PatMac10,RN replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    That's right.... and no nurse has no business getting nasty or in w blunder when someone is inexperienced. This is a two way street no matter how you try to contort it. Everything you said is truly...
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    FTCC or RCC (Robeson community college) Need Guidance Please Help!!

    PatMac10,RN replied to Lachell_904's topic in North Carolina Nursing

    What do you want to
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    Online NP Education and Skills retention:

    PatMac10,RN posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I just thought of something. I wanted to ask....... Do any of you Online NP students who are approaching or have completed their clinical practicum plan on doing any thing "extra" to help you...
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    Are there medications that you don't/won't write for?

    PatMac10,RN replied to emtneel's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    This is a very interesting thread. Good info on
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    New nurses wanted.

    PatMac10,RN replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    So what do you presume the abundant amount of accumulated research means if this wasn't a common problem? It actually happens more than people think, which is it is being reported and recorded and...
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    New nurses wanted.

    PatMac10,RN replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

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    What is the average of a nursing student?

    PatMac10,RN replied to mee9mee9's topic in General Students

    As I stated earlier in the thread, I'm the youngest in class, starting nursing school at 18. I will graduate in 2.5 months and will be (currently am) 20. Our oldest classmate, who is 52, has done very...
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    New nurses wanted.

    PatMac10,RN replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

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    New nurses wanted.

    PatMac10,RN replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    While I agree that correction should not always be viewed as a personal attack or act of malice, it would be futile to say that the correction, and the reception of it, can be heavily influenced by...
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    ADN class of 2013

    PatMac10,RN replied to SC APRN's topic in General Students

    2 months 18 days!!!! 2 tests and a final left! Preceptorship
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    New nurses wanted.

    PatMac10,RN replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes I just smh at some of these posts and posters. It's so hard to believe some people on here are functioning adults. However there are some good points that were brought out in the article and...
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    New nurses wanted.

    PatMac10,RN replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

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    Doctor texting order turned into a nightmare

    PatMac10,RN replied to Scotthudson1966's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital had text orders. All hospitalists had a hospital assigned blackberry and each unit had a hospital assigned cellphone (although most nurses used their personal cells to send texts or...
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    Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    PatMac10,RN replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

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    Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    PatMac10,RN replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Beautiful well written and balanced experience and response. I hope I have similar experiences when I become an
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    I'm not going to lie...

    PatMac10,RN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

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    I'm not going to lie...

    PatMac10,RN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

    Very good reasoning. Agree
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    I'm not going to lie...

    PatMac10,RN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

    It is an interesting document. However, if it does not suit your tastes there were plenty other scholarly articles discussing the issue that pulled up on google. Many of the more recent ones required...
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    I'm not going to lie...

    PatMac10,RN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

    I found this article from about 2 years ago. I'm positive there have been changes since then, but the statistics in it were interesting. I think it effectively summarizes that neither is better than...
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    I'm not going to lie...

    PatMac10,RN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

    In my area, Southeast NC, ADN nurses can work in the PHN role. Most health departments do, however, push for the nurse to obtain their BSN. I think that is fair. Same thing with case management and...
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    I'm not going to lie...

    PatMac10,RN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

    Lol. I like
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    Which kind of ICU experience is best and where?

    PatMac10,RN replied to rnrn10's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Yea a guy at the hospital where I work and do clinicals at got rejected from CRNA school last year, he worked in ICU for 3 years, but they told him he needed more experience with certain things so he...
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    I'm not going to lie...

    PatMac10,RN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

    I can't speak for all places. The case in my local area is that some BSN get the same clinical time, but it's not necessarily as hands-on as some if their other clinicals will be. For example, one...
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    I'm not going to lie...

    PatMac10,RN replied to StudentOfHealing's topic in General Students

    Did I ever say that this should be our goals? If I did or implied that I apologize because that is not my belief that those should be our goals. On the contrary. I will graduate when I'm 20 and WILL...