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I get where you might interpret my comment that way, but that's not what I meant. I meant to say choosing someone for a leadership position based on clinical skills and experience alone without considering other factors. I did not mean to say ignore ...

I would find the highly patronizing comments about not getting a charge position because I'm so good as a staff nurse to be extremely offensive and a cop out for not giving me your real reasons for not choosing me. Having said that, I have also seen...

MBARNBSN made some very good points about the possibilities of your situation. They could just be blowing smoke dangling a carrot in front of you to see how much you will do with an empty promise of a manager position. With respect to your questions...

If your only interest in CO is as a travel nurse, then don't forget that CO is a compact state as is MS. So if you get licensed in MS, you can take travel assignments in CO without having to get a CO license.

OK I think I get where we agree and differ. I think we have two separate situations here. Allow me to me clarify. Yes, CEO and COO positions can be held by someone who happens to be a nurse but it's not generally a requirement so often it's business...

I see the nurse educator certificate offered as part of some MSN programs. Are they worth getting? Do they have any value in the academic or staff development world? I have no experience with teaching or formal education roles in hospitals so I was...

Although I like and agree with your post, keep in mind that nurses with BSN's are doing the job now with no masters period so to say that an MSN or MBA alone aren't sufficient to perform the job is a bit misleading. They learned on the job with no ac...

I will very respectfully disagree. I wanted an MBA and not another nursing degree but that is not where this profession or health organizations are headed. I too see nurse managers with MBA's and MHA's at my facility but this is fading away and my o...

Now that's one of the best rants that I've read in years. I'd like to add when I'm posting about something that happened during a shift and a student or newbie breaks in with "Oh my is this what I have to look forward to as a nurse? Did I make the w...

Those are discriminatory and most likely illegal hiring practices in your state. I'm not saying that those things don't go on in the real world every day, but that DON is an idiot for flat out admitting to engaging in those hiring practices to you as...

There are many layers to what's being discussed here. It's not just one factor or simply comparing full-time females to males. Not always, but men tend to go where the money is. This is evident in the fact that you see very few male nurses working i...

Agreed. I don't pay much attention to those types of remarks either because you can slam the program all you want, but my track record, evaluations, and work history speak for themselves and can't be disputed. Regardless of how I feel about the CPN...

I'm an EC grad of 2003 and have mixed feelings on the matter. I joined AllNurses a few months after graduating and felt like I was the only one who "passed" who didn't sing the praises of EC. It seemed in those days that if you dared to speak out ag...

I'm confused. You are studying for both certification exams? In any case I mostly used the purple Perianesthesia certification review questions book more than anything and passed CPAN the first time around in 2011. I used the green Core Curriculum ...

Not sure about the 70's and 80's, but I started as a CNA in LTC in 1994 and yes the sense of entitlement was prevalent then too. I have some good memories of some very genuine and appreciative families to be fair, but the bad memories are still very...

Today I was in charge of handing out ribbons and trinkets to all of our certified nurses on the unit for Certified Nurses Day. It felt awkward to "skip over" RN's who were not specialty certified so I tried to do it as discreetly as possible. An I o...

Because anesthesia handles that in the OR. If a patients pressure falls, it's anesthesia that starts pressers, not the OR circulator. OR is a different skill set and they are not critical care trained nurses. PACU is different because anesthesia is ...

I thought that if I clarified that no one was having an emotional meltdown over it that it might tame some of the heated comments. That was not intended to be a slight to your comment as I wanted honest feedback. I just didn't think that the subject ...

Thank you all for the very thoughtful comments for me to put things into perspective. I needed to look at it differently I guess. However, a few comments were a little over the top so let me clarify that no one was having an emotional meltdown over i...

There is no endless or ever growing pile of studies on BSN nurses and patient mortality. There has been only one study by Linda Aiken so it's far from being a basic fact of life. It's another example where if something gets repeated enough times, it ...

From the description it looks like you need to be working as an LPN when you apply. As far as IL is concerned, you will need to get licensed in another state and work as an RN for two years there before you can endorse into IL as an RN.

My manager believes that our unit is too strict with visitation and wants us to be more in step with ASPAN standards of visitation. She wants our input and to come to a decision about how to make visitation more open. I'd like to know how different ...

I participated in an MSN vs. MBA type thread when I was just finishing my BSN 3 years ago. Some questions answered, but still more cloudy areas as I continue on in nursing 3 more years later. It seems like a lot of responses are of the "It depends o...

The first comment from the nurse educator who cautioned against making any changes in the number of new grads they churn out every year was most interesting to me. Of course she doesn't want any changes. The more new grads that get churned out, the ...

It is due to conditioning and our culture, to value physicians, not education. Yes the public is confused and in the dark about what educational requirements are involved in different levels of nursing. Those same people are no more savvy in knowing...