anon456 BSN, RN

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    Your very first or worst interview experience

    anon456 replied to _kelly_rn's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    My first interview was a new grad fresh out of school. I entered a room to find myself sitting at the end of a very long table with about 8 nurses and an HR person sitting around it. They started...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    anon456 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I heard someone say "Levophed or leave them dead" so I say it in the way that it rhymes. I have no idea if this is correct but it's how everyone else says it
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    anon456 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I really really wish I worked in an area to be able to say um-bi-LIE-cul cord, just to see the looks on people's faces during shift report!! Actually come to think of it, I do have patients with...
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    do you have a previous degree?

    anon456 replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    Why do you think this is? This would make a good thread. Whiles some of my teachers were hard on us because there were future lives at stake, others seemed to get real pleasure out of causing...
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    do you have a previous degree?

    anon456 replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    Liberal Arts degree-- and I have never regretted it. It taught me to think and analyze and be creative in ways that my foreign-educated and engineering-trained husband is not capable of. We don’t...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    anon456 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    I've always said it um-BIL-i-cus but a professor used to say um-bil-LI-cus and it irritated me. Maybe her way was the right way to say it, but I have never heard anyone else say it that way. Maybe...
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    Mispronunciations That Drive You Nuts

    anon456 replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    Say the T in Often but not the T in
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    Why are magnet hospitals bad?

    anon456 replied to golson's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I admit I never did the research to verify the 80% BSN thing vs Magnet status. I wonder why these two things are being linked together? What would be the motivation for the 80%
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    Why are magnet hospitals bad?

    anon456 replied to golson's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    When our new hires three years ago were told they must have a BSN by the end of 2015, I was told it was because we were trying to get magnet status and the goal was 80% BSN nurses. Nurses even have a...
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    What did you give up to be in nursing school?

    anon456 replied to negatron's topic in General Students

    I missed my youngest child's Kindergarten graduation because it fell on the same day as clinicals. That was pretty much symbolic of a lot of missed time away from my kids/family because of nursing...
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    Why are magnet hospitals bad?

    anon456 replied to golson's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I am a bit resentful that because we are working towards magnet status I am now needing to go back and get my BSN in order to have a chance at career advancement or even transferring within the...
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    Ask a question till reporting nurse can't answer one

    anon456 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I start saying "I don't know" a lot when I get that. I don't mind answering good questions about the patient, but when it gets to them trying to one-up me or challenge me I start saying I don't know,...
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    Should nurses be able to pull chest tubes?

    anon456 replied to Ninjateagan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Nurses do not ever pull chest tubes where I work
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    Black and Job Hunting

    anon456 replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    I hate to bring this up, but I speak from personal experience. Do you have an "ethnic" sounding name or one that may be difficult to pronounce from the spelling? I had a hard time finding a job as a...
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    Huge over supply of nurses

    anon456 replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    What I got out of this study is how important it is to stay competitive, keep up the competencies and certifications, get that BSN if you need to, because there will be 1000 other nurses who want the...
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    Huge over supply of nurses

    anon456 replied to CrunchRN's topic in General Nursing

    That is astounding that the graduate rate went from 68,000 to 155,000 in just 12
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    How many of you actually enjoy your job?!

    anon456 replied to kwerno00's topic in General Nursing

    Most of the time I love it. I loved it more before certain changes were made to the unit by higher-up's and we lost some good people over that change. I still love the nature of the work, even if I...
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    What's your dress code at work?

    anon456 replied to Nola009's topic in General Nursing

    I work peds and we are allowed to wear whatever we want, as long as it's tasteful and kid-appropriate. For some reason about 2 years ago we did away with the badges that clearly say RN on them. Either...
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    Help me figure out how to be happy!

    anon456 replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    What about a volunteer nurse job? Maybe once you finish your masters you can find a volunteer nurse travel job for a charity, or find one closer to
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    Vibrating vest and other tx for COPD?

    anon456 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a peds nurse and my specialty is pulmonology (I also do PICU/Stepdown, med/surg). I was wondering if I can ask some nurses who have COPD patients if they are ever prescribed airway clearance...
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    Vibrating vest and other tx for COPD?

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    This is great info! I wonder why the acapella is not used more widely in my unit with the kids who are able to use it? It sounds like it works great for many different mucous situations. I could see...
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    Vibrating vest and other tx for COPD?

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    For asthma not so much, but for the bronchitis part of it when I get sick and develop the secondary yuck infection that takes forever to clear out. For anyone who has mucous, pretty much, I can see...
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    Vibrating vest and other tx for COPD?

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    If you search youtube you can see videos of them. I'm actually thinking about one of those flutter valve things the next time I get asthmatic bronchitis from an illness! They seem like a great idea....
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    Thinking about quitting

    anon456 replied to snider1970's topic in First Year After Licensure

    If you enroll in a BSN program and you put "currently enrolled in RN to BSN program at XYZ university" on your resume, you have a very high chance of getting an
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    Vibrating vest and other tx for COPD?

    anon456 replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks! I learn something new every day! :-) Good to know those flutter valves are used by more than just