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  1. Will BSN get jobs over ASN in this recession?

    RN34TX replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    llg always has great career advice. Wish I had someone similar in my life in the 90's when I was in my 20's and

  2. Will BSN get jobs over ASN in this recession?

    RN34TX replied to HeartsOpenWide's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    A BSN does help in weeding out the competition. If it didn't, you wouldn't see so many ASN nurses going back for their BSN later. But I admit that is an overly simplistic/generalized statement with...

  3. Texas Excelsior Alumni: Help with Legislation to Protect EC

    RN34TX replied to EricJRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I sent letters to both my state Rep and Senator as soon as I got the e-mail. I just wish we could have gotten more notice to be in Austin today or I would have been

  4. New nurse needs help moving to Philly!

    RN34TX replied to Scooby484k's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Thank you for saying that. I felt a little guilty earlier for talking about Center City like that as I don't want to discourage the OP from moving there because I truely believe that it really is an...

  5. New nurse needs help moving to Philly!

    RN34TX replied to Scooby484k's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    Scooby484K: Michael Singer Real Estate owns a lot if not most Center City rental property so look there first. It's been years since I lived in Philadelphia so things may have changed but for...

  6. Gay male nurse stereotype?

    RN34TX replied to greygooseuria's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I read these comments here from time to time and I still don't get it. Just where are these straight guys working or going to school where they are supposedly so outnumbered and surrounded by gay men...

  7. Lawsuit Against The College Network

    RN34TX replied to mdhammons's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I'll start by saying that I would love to see one of these rip-off publishing companies get successfully sued because they are truely predators in every sense. However, I am tired of people who come...

  8. New grad programs in Houston and Dallas?

    RN34TX replied to greygooseuria's topic in Texas Nursing

    Like I stated in my earlier post, that explains a lot for my friend who got strung along by MH when there was never going to be an OR internship for January 09 to begin with. Yes UTMB is laying off a...

  9. New grad programs in Houston and Dallas?

    RN34TX replied to greygooseuria's topic in Texas Nursing

    It's not stupid because many new nurses graduate in December. Not everyone graduates in May/June. St. Joseph in downtown Houston is hiring new grads and offering internships in specialty areas. I...

  10. University of Phoenix, Diploma Mill? Do you respect the school, and view it equal?

    RN34TX replied to RiderRN's topic in School, College Programs

    As another Excelsior LPN to ASN grad, I second that remark. But regarding Univ. of Phoenix for the ADN to BSN program, I have friends who have graduated from there and one was a business major, not...

  11. UTMB Layoffs

    RN34TX replied to Mody's topic in Texas Nursing

    From the Galveston Daily News, here's a good story about what you are describing: http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=15077feaca10d3e6 And as someone else already stated, the medical...

  12. Opinions on UT Southwestern OR in Dallas

    RN34TX posted a topic in Operating Room

    I have a friend who works OR considering a job at UT Southwestern. I worked at St. Paul/Zale as a med/surg and telemetry float years ago before it was UT and was less than impressed to say the least....

  13. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    RN34TX replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    As an EC alumni, I have been watching these discussion boards and board of nursing decisions being made for several years since California of 2003. I have written multiple letters to state reps and...

  14. LPN's managing RN's in LTC setting

    RN34TX replied to Thor77's topic in General Nursing

    Several threads? I've seen a lot of discussion about this in recent months. What is with the sudden intererest in LPN's supervising RN's in LTC? It's hardly a new concept. Since I've never worked as...

  15. What types of patients do you all recover in your PACU?

    RN34TX replied to debtor11's topic in PACU

    Are you sure we don't work together at the same hospital? When I charge I get the same sob story from cath lab, special procedures, endo, you name it right around 4 pm because the nurses there want to...

  16. Career Guidance: Where to go after a BSN?

    RN34TX replied to KalipsoRed's topic in General Nursing

    Again, your advice is always top-notch in terms of career development, but I respectfully disagree with your comment about travel nursing not getting you anywhere career-wise. I know some mid-level...

  17. Career Guidance: Where to go after a BSN?

    RN34TX replied to KalipsoRed's topic in General Nursing

    That is great advice (as always from llg) and this is coming from someone who didn't follow it and has always moved from job to job and state to state. When I lived in Dallas in the early 2000's the...

  18. GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

    RN34TX replied to zimsaint's topic in Excelsior College

    Although not in GA, as an EC grad myself I am highly interested in this topic and would like to keep up with the latest developments. It is however, somewhat confusing to keep flipping through the...

  19. When is it safe for a pt to come to the floor from recovery?

    RN34TX replied to Med Surge 2's topic in General Nursing

    As a PACU nurse, I'm sure they weren't amused but I wouldn't beat you up over it. You need to do what your nursing judgement tells you is safest. With the limited info you provided, no this patient...

  20. Family Visitation in the PACU

    RN34TX replied to smidgen21's topic in PACU

    When we started to liberalize visitation policies, the above post is what we were afraid of. We've had our share of family members trying to wander around and look in at other patients, listening to...

  21. a rapid response team that responds to the pacu?

    RN34TX replied to cully24's topic in PACU

    No, we call anesthesia. The rapid response team at our facility is for non-critical care settings and PACU is considered a critical care unit and we do not use

  22. No Beds

    RN34TX replied to at2726's topic in PACU

    This is a major problem at my facility as well. Sometimes the cases are emergent and must be done regardless of bed availability, but more often than not, the non-emergent cases get done at the...

  23. Airways in PACU

    RN34TX replied to kezza444's topic in PACU

    Yes LMA's are used in the U.S. At my hospital only anesthesia removes ET tubes in PACU but I have heard of other hospitals where this is done by PACU nurses and it seems fairly

  24. Gay labeling, is it just plain mean? Or sexual harrassment?

    RN34TX replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in Men in Nursing

    Could you clarify that for me? I'm puzzled as to what exactly you mean by a "Texas/California mindset". From my perspective, I couldn't think of two states that are on more complete opposite ends of...

  25. from ER to PACU

    RN34TX replied to HAPPYNPROUD's topic in PACU

    All I can say is that last year my unit hired 3 nurses for contract work who had no PACU experience whatsoever. They were all 3 solid ER only experienced nurses. We badly needed the help so my manager...