SusanRN82

Information about filing a complaint can be found on every board of nursing website. If you are not sure if the behavior should be reported to the board of nursing, NCSBN has information about Filing a Complaint that may help.

Amen, sister!

NCSBN Learning Extension offers lots of free resources. It posts a question (from the review course) every week on its website. Every other week there's a podcast for the question of the week, explaining why the correct response is the best response....

You can't be a speech pathologist without a Master's degree (soon to be PhD) and entry to practice for physical therapy is a PhD... the list goes on. At the very least, entry to practice for RNs should be a BSN (I actually think it should be a MSN - ...

BSN in 10 legislation was re-introduced this year in New York (A03013/S00628). New Jersey is also working on legislation.

You might want to review the information available online for the California Board of Registered Nursing - Enforcement Program and then contact the BRN about your particular situation. The BRN has a lot of jurisdictional power (and the ability to ove...

Probably everyone will agree that anxiety is one of the crazy things that can mess with you physically and emotionally. So many students tell me that they are often paralyzed by test-taking anxiety, which is really bad when they are preparing to take...

Back in the day, I worked pm shift on a surgical unit. It was all primary care - all RNs. When patients were discharged, we cleaned the metal bedpans before returning to central processing. At the end of the shift, we had to make sure all the ashtray...

Are you sure you can refuse to administer blood? I would recommend reading your nurse practice act. (The state nurse practice act supercedes any facility policy).

I'm a little biased (I taught nurse aide training for many years), but I think becoming a CNA would be best. As a CNA, you will learn how to perform basic nursing tasks and, hopefully, get over that fear that many people have about touching and cari...

I was a nurse educator in a community college setting. We were inundated with people who were out of work and must have just woken up one morning and thought "I want to be a nurse" without even having an idea of what this really meant. I'm not talkin...

There's an interesting look at the flip side of social media in a blog on learningext.com The blog entry asks if it's okay for patients to take pictures or videotape nurses on the job and post these images on the Web. It also asks if it's fair that ...

I would recommend reviewing the antiplatelet drugs.

I agree that an online review course would be really helpful. Also, keep in mind that NCLEX tests for entry-level knowledge. When answering NCLEX-style questions, you can't think like an experienced nurse. I teach in an online NCLEX review and NCLEX...

Have you read the information that other students have posted on the Learning Extension website? And you can also ask the instructor questions.

Does the school have a daycare program? Can you post something on a school bulletin board (e-bulletin) about needing someone to watch the kids? Once you start classes, you might be able to trade off babysitting with another student. Use this trade w...

Not many people are aware of this, but it's federal law that a LTC facility must pay for tuition, books & fees, fee for the certification exam... I think it's up to each organization to determine how this actually works (my experience has been th...

When you are in school and in a lab setting, you learn how to do things the "right way", according to established standards and protocols. You are also taught to think critically, which should help prepare you with how to deal with the messiness of t...

I've read some of the other posts and agree that you should check your state's Nurse Practice Act. I would bet that there is some language in there about the ability of someone to practice nursing, incidental to a nursing education program of study t...

does anyone really believe that more always equals better? for some things, this adage certainly applies, but only to a point. exercise is good, but too much or too often can lead to injury. we need food to sustain us, but too much is not healthy. o...

I had a recent experience with my 88 year old mother with advanced dementia, who had been placed in a nursing home because my dad could no longer care for her. I was visiting her (I live out of state) and asked to see her MAR (I explained that I am ...

The dorms on our campus have study carrels and no one ever uses them (except during finals) - perfect if you need quiet and no distractions.

I forgot to mention that your instructor would not be very happy seeing test questions posted on the Web. I would guess that there is something in your nursing program's Student Handbook about not discussing test questions...

The questions are reasonable and well-worded. It's great that your instructor is giving you NCLEX-style questions in a freshman class - you will thank her/him when you are taking NCLEX! Success on NCLEX is due not only to a strong foundational unders...

Reminds me of an old article I always had my students read: "Too Post to Wash."