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Are nurses considered blue collar or white collar workers? My co-workers and I were having this conversation and there was no consensus.

Do you do anything more than inserting air and auscultating? Please share...

Hey guys, I only have 2 books left if anyone is still interested in buying: 1. Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing by M. Hockenberry 8th edition ($40) - You'll use this for Pediatrics 2. Community-based Nursing an introduction by McEwen 3rd editio...

Mine FINALLY showed up today on the site. I agree - the wait (and fees!) for this state are so ridiculous.

Has anyone heard any updates about why it's taking so long? It's been 3 weeks since I sent in my check and form.

I just graduated from ResU. I would recommend it to people whose goal is to graduate in a short amount of time. The program is fast-paced (it is accelerated after all) and you need to keep up, but it's doable. Your life for the next 16 months will ch...

For the people who were PM'ing me about the titles of the books I have, I will just post here so everyone can see: 1. Wong's Essentials of Pediatric Nursing 8th edition 2. Health Promotion Strategies Through the Life Span 8th edition 3. Publication M...

I don't agree with this mentality at all. How can you deliberately subject yourself to misery? That is just sad. Nursing can be one thing to one person and a completely different thing to another. It's different on every unit, every hospital, every s...

I was in a Pt's room (in a nursing home) and looked at some photographs of people framed on her wall. Me: "Aw, your kids look just like you!" Totally acceptable in any other situation; however, this facility was exclusively for former priests and nun...

I think more people should consider living in places like Oak Park or Riverside (suburbs really close to the city). It's only a 10-12 min drive into downtown from Oak Park, you don't have to worry about parking or street congestion, the area is nice ...

Hey all! I just graduated from Res and I am willing to sell my books for a discount if anyone is interested. I have the book for Peds, Community, Leadership, the Health Assessment lab manual workbook (not the textbook), the APA book, and Health Promo...

please find some way to keep your dog without having to crate her for 12+ hours a day. no, it's not healthy for her. it made me sad to even read this.

I thought, if anything, nursing would be categorized as white collar. I just don't see a profession that has the education requirements, knowledge-level, responsibility, and licensure that we have to be blue collar. But I never looked up the actual d...

To me, it looks sneaky. Typically people list their nursing education next to their "RN," not their education in different fields. It looks like you're trying to purposefully embellish and that could hurt you in the long run.

Congrats! How many SATA questions did you get?

The MA's at the physician's office I go to all call themselves nurses. I even asked one of them once while she was taking my blood pressure "Are you a nurse?" and she said yes. I didn't say anything bc I was kind of shocked that she would just blatan...

You would do 200mL/80minutes x 15 = 37.5 gtt/min It's always mL/time (in minutes) x drop factor

"Hey, I thought my pickup line, 'You could catheterize me any day' was pretty clever."

Wow, every feeding or med administration? That seems really excessive.

I just wanted to say that the title of this thread cracked me up

That helps a lot, thanks everyone!

Are you in a NICU? The reason I ask is because at the NICU I'm at, they verify by auscultating for air in the stomach. I recently did my first NG tube insertion on a preemie and I just wanted to know if there was something more I could have done.

grody!

"Excuse me, sir, can I see some ID? There's no such thing as a CAT Scan Patient Taste-Tester"

Hi, I graduated with a 6.0 GPA from my accelerated BSN program while juggling 4 kids, a husband and a monkey, was inducted into Sigma Beta Alpha Beta Alpha Metta World Peace, passed my NCLEX with 75 questions in 6 minutes while battling a crippling c...