PatMac10,RN RN

Nursing Education, CVICU, Float Pool

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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    No, CCL RN. Don't just leave me hanging like that. If you feel there is something I am not understanding, please point it out. I truly don't want a conflict. Honestly I don't see what else you were...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    Lolz!!! Sorry. I just don't want people feeling like we are trying to get into a theocratic conversation, which I am positive you weren't trying to
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    Excuse me ms./ mr. whoever you are. I didn't call you a fool. So you apparently didn't read what I said correctly. It just the same with all professions sug, there are a lot of people who shouldn't be...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    I agree nurses aren't "God". But, we must also remember that your concept of God or belief in the possibility of there being a God is not always the belief of all on this site. Diversity. I am...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    Well, I feel if you have so many gripes with nursing, go to med school. Of course that is a heck of a lot easier said than done, but if you have so many issues with nursing, why bother with the...
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    Johnson & Johnson commercials

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

    It seems like that's all people do now. Even I am guilty of it sometimes. It is very nerve wracking. Especially when there are people that would be happy to be able to find a job as a janitor. Many in...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    Well, that may very well be true where you live, but I honestly have never seen or heard of such a preposterous thing (Now that's something to laugh at) here in NC, not saying it doesn't exist. IF...
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    Johnson & Johnson commercials

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

    I, personally, like them. Then again, that could be because I am not yet a nurse and can't wait until the day that I can take pride in saying that I am. I do understand that those "jingles" can get...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    I understand what you are saying, but various levels of a course and two different sets of courses are totally different things. I've Taken ENG 111 (the first college English you must take in order to...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    YOu were very blount with what you said. Lolz! But, in the end I see your point and I agree with it! Why did you come into a porfession that you underlyingly hated or didn't desire to be in from the...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    I am not understanding what people define "real" Bio and Chemistry as. I have never seen a college that offered a different chemistry or bio for pre-med and pre-nursing students, that would be kind of...
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    When did you know that Nursing was the right path for you?

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

    I was around 8 or 9 when I had the first instance I thought of being a nurse. This was the age that my mother graduated from nursing school and became an RN herself. As the years went on by I flipped...
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    Torn between Nursing and Medicine

    PatMac10,RN replied to Loux's topic in Nursing Career

    So does this mean that those who go to be RN or LPNs don't have "excellent grades" or "intelligence"? I am wondering if you meant what you said the way I am reading it, because of course you have your...
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    RN to BSN big problem or....?

    PatMac10,RN replied to Malika67's topic in Online Distance Learning

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    RN to BSN big problem or....?

    PatMac10,RN replied to Malika67's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I've also heard many good things about this
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    RN to BSN big problem or....?

    PatMac10,RN replied to Malika67's topic in Online Distance Learning

    from what i can see and have heard. slippery rock university has a totally online and fully accredited rn-to-bsn program and they don't require a lot of the sciences and advanced maths that many other...
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    Has anyone ever put down your career choice?

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

    People sometimes give me funny and strange looks when I tell then I don't want to be a doctor, I am going to school to be a Registered Nurse(most of whom are outside of the healthcare the profession)....
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    No raise for us

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

    This is our first raise in 22 months at our hospital and it's a very small one, but I am happy to get one
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    How do the male nurses feel about perineal care?

    PatMac10,RN replied to johnny depp23's topic in General Nursing

    I am a Pre-Nursing Student who works as a CNA at my local hospital and I do it all of the time. I figure the women need perineal care just like the men do, maybe even more so. I try not to get all...
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    ADN right before entering nursing school?

    PatMac10,RN replied to yourdailyesther's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Thanks JunieBug! I know what I want and was raised to shoot for it no matter
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    ADN right before entering nursing school?

    PatMac10,RN replied to yourdailyesther's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    There are a lot of posts on here that discuss pay issues and differences in BSN and ADN nurses. On a personal note, in my area BSN and ADN staff nurses who work the floor make the same thing...
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    What do you get from BSN?

    PatMac10,RN replied to DC Collins's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Sounds like a very well structured
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    Who is working tonight?

    PatMac10,RN replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    I am in the float pool and thought they were going to float me to another unit, but things got ridiculously busy in the ER last night and I guess that's why my supervisor left me in the ER, which I...
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    ADN right before entering nursing school?

    PatMac10,RN replied to yourdailyesther's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    well a lot of hospitals and other facilities offer tuition reimbursement for their nurses that return to school to continue their education with a bsn or msn or ph.d/dnp. my hospital does. also some...
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    Who is working tonight?

    PatMac10,RN replied to Poi Dog's topic in General Nursing

    I just got off. I came in at 0700