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    Reality check: Are my expectations high?

    BrandonLPN replied to lewisac6's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    What's REALLY going to get you a job is who you know and where you've worked. New grads who were techs during school are way better placed upon graduation than those who weren't. The new RN who was a...
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    Question for night-shift and/or weekend nurses

    BrandonLPN replied to bloodorange's topic in General Nursing

    Many night shifters will tell you that having little contact with the NM is one of the biggest perks​ of working nights in the first
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    Who looks out for them?!

    BrandonLPN replied to tlklvn13's topic in General Nursing

    The only way the average pay at Big Lots is $20/hr is if the bigwigs at the top who make millions are thrown into the mix, thus skewing the results. I doubt very much Joe Blow stocking shelves at Big...
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    Who looks out for them?!

    BrandonLPN replied to tlklvn13's topic in General Nursing

    If any group of employees are unsatisfied with their wages or working conditions, the only productive option is to organize. Sitting around and hoping management has a change of heart is an exercise...
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    Nursing Bullying USA and Australia

    BrandonLPN replied to MsEve22's topic in General World

    What an oddly specific topic. I'm not surprised youre having trouble finding info. I'm guessing your best bet would be to find an Australian nurse online and compare his/her experiences to your own. I...
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    Am I crazy for this?

    BrandonLPN replied to Skylar-blue's topic in General Nursing

    If you passed the NCLEX PN, why isn't your LPN licence valid? I don't understand that part. If you have a PN licence I recommend getting a job as a LPN ASAP. Then you can work FT as LPN and save up...
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    Legally Protect the word "Nurse?"

    BrandonLPN replied to applesxoranges's topic in General Nursing

    That's crazy. I wonder if Wisconsin's BON would actually do something if someone "reported" a LPN for calling himself a nurse? I bet they wouldn't
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    Legally Protect the word "Nurse?"

    BrandonLPN replied to applesxoranges's topic in General Nursing

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    Nursing dilemma

    BrandonLPN replied to NS81's topic in Nursing Career

    If doctors offices or clinics are hiring in your area, that is one way to get a more "normal" schedule. Be aware that the pay is usually lower in a clinic than it is in a hospital or nursing home. But...
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    Nodding off...

    BrandonLPN replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing

    Ah, ok. That makes me even more puzzled as to why they would be so drastic. 3am with no patients, people might nod off a second. OP, I wonder if you did something else that made your employer single...
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    Nodding off...

    BrandonLPN replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing

    I think it's unfair if this was your first offense. Since they apparently didnt fire anyone else on the spot for nodding off, I would've just flat out asked them if there was another reason. And, out...
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    % of Nurses that smoke

    BrandonLPN replied to twinner05's topic in Health, Stress Management

    No one is perfect. Most of us have some habit or another that isn't healthy. A nurse who smokes isn't any more a hypocrite than the nurse with an eating disorder or an out of shape doctor. I have yet...
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    Life is beautiful if one has his/her life centered on God

    BrandonLPN replied to guyna's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Of course not. But that's where the whole "flying spaghetti monster" thing comes from. NO RELIGION can be disproved. In the eyes of the scientific community, Adam and Eve is as likely a story as the...
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    "compassionate" Atheists...

    BrandonLPN replied to Anona-mouse's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Last time I checked, the definition of "spirituality" is not "Christianity". You are a poster with very few posts and very few likes starting a thread that is purposefully inflammatory. And after...
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    Life is beautiful if one has his/her life centered on God

    BrandonLPN replied to guyna's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    Well, I meant more in general terms. Religions as a whole respond to questions and debate with evasiveness or hostility. Individual people, of course, might or might not want to debate the particulars...
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    AANP Response to Comments on O'Reilly Factor

    BrandonLPN replied to Corey Narry's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    What? You mean I can't get my NP degree at community college? There goes my career
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    Life is beautiful if one has his/her life centered on God

    BrandonLPN replied to guyna's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    I took the last line of the OP: "Want to be a better nurse? Trust in the Lord!" as being a pretty obvious and clear-cut assertion that Christians make better nurses than non-believers. Imagine if I...
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    Legally Protect the word "Nurse?"

    BrandonLPN replied to applesxoranges's topic in General Nursing

    In most states it means either RN or LPN. That doesn't seem vague or like "it could mean many things" to me. It means only two things. (or maybe three if you're counting AP RN's as separate from all...
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    You think the "Nursing Glut" is bad now?

    BrandonLPN replied to Guttercat's topic in General Nursing

    What I took issue with was how you implied that nurses should quit whining over working conditions since employers can always just replace them with cheaper
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    Refusing care based on sexual orientation

    BrandonLPN replied to CrazierThanYou's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    In some parts of the country more than
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    Do you have a clever way to do IS teaching?

    BrandonLPN replied to EGVnurse's topic in Patient Education

    "Use this or you will catch pneumonia and die" (maybe word it a little
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    Nurse giving discontinue medications to other patients

    BrandonLPN replied to Nurse Amy Jolie's topic in Patient Medications

    OP, why do you think this is
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    Are you good at charting in "real time?"

    BrandonLPN replied to Ativan's topic in General Nursing

    Don't you know by now that they care more about charting that a task is done than they do about whether or not the task was actually
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    Nurses who believe in herbal nonsense, alternative medicine, anti vaccine etc

    BrandonLPN replied to mhy12784's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My question is: Why aren't herbal or dietary supplements regulated by the FDA or a comparable government agency? It makes my suspicious mind assume they have something to hide. An herbal remedy can...
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    Written warning for a care plan written prior to my employment

    BrandonLPN replied to LTCNS's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I think, when called into the office, many employees fail to realize that not signing a write-up is even an option. Employers are seen as holding all the cards, unfortunately. Employees feel obliged...