puggymae

puggymae

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  1. Lesson Plans Teaching Plans

    puggymae replied to rnfullofbs's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Does the text book you are going to use for the CNA class have a teachers manual with lesson

  2. Lesson Plans Teaching Plans

    puggymae replied to rnfullofbs's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Try your Board of Nursing. In Kentucky CNA courses are regulated by the Board - I have taught CNA once when another instructor quit on the spur of the moment - there was a huge notebook of curriculum...

  3. RN-BSN and Grad School easier than undergrad?

    puggymae replied to PeachPie's topic in General Nursing

    RN to BSN was way easier than my two year program. My graduate program was pretty intense but then I worked full time and went to grad school full time

  4. How is this fair?

    puggymae replied to hhrhrn41's topic in General Nursing

    In the words of my former Nurse Manager - "Nobody ever said it was going to be fair or that YOU were going to like it." Followed by "and if you don't like it feel free to tender your resignation at...

  5. Best route to become a professor

    puggymae replied to reznurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I would go for the NP & PhD - It is a powerful combination. Being an NP enhances my teaching so much - I truly understand physiology, can describe courses of treatment.... When my child is bigger...

  6. What's special about male nurses?

    puggymae replied to GBS_Fan's topic in General Nursing

    The male nurses I have worked with look at things differently than the female nurses do - and they don't tend to bottle up how they feel about a situation (good or bad). I find that to be a good...

  7. Bsn

    puggymae replied to weirdRN's topic in General Nursing

    That is a perfectly good platform to use for your "I want to go back to school" pitch. Good

  8. Wisconsin Nurse being charged with criminal neglect

    puggymae replied to psalm_55's topic in General Nursing

    I see this situation differently than most of the other posters do. I think this falls under criminal negligence - the nurse failed to do the most basic nursing actions associated with administering...

  9. Best route to become a professor

    puggymae replied to reznurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I am an Associate Professor at a small college in the Nursing Department. I have an ADN, BSN, & MSN. My MSN is in Family Nurse Practitioner. I started out 14 years ago as an instructor and have...

  10. It's that time again! Working Christmas?

    puggymae replied to scrmblr's topic in General Nursing

    For the first 15 years of my nursing career I worked every Christmas Eve 3-11 and Christmas Day 7a -7p so that the nurses with children could be home with them. When I did have a child I was...

  11. What's your favorite shift and why??

    puggymae replied to np_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

    3-11 for me - I like coming home, staying up for a while and wathcing TV, then going to bed and sleeping in. You still have to do errands before going to work if you need to. Of course I haven't...

  12. smelly stethescope?

    puggymae replied to all4schwa's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    Try calling Littman - they may have a solution for your problem. They may even offer you new

  13. Eleven pound baby!

    puggymae replied to P_RN's topic in General Nursing

    My baby weighed 11-3 and I pushed him out with 4 pushes - some women are made to have big babies and some are not (my sister had a c-section after she pushed for 3 hours with a 6 pounder). I wasn't...

  14. RN job in jeopardy please help

    puggymae replied to fe3's topic in General Nursing

    I would call a lawyer, and have that person present when you are "called

  15. 12 patients in a day on the floors

    puggymae replied to NurseCherlove's topic in General Nursing

    When I staffed we often had this problem until our floor went autonomous. We fussed, fumed, and cursed about this until the DON told us to come up with a solution. Our solution was that our floor...

  16. How To Deal With Difficult Coworkers?

    puggymae replied to 1RECROOMRN's topic in General Nursing

    What a jerk! I would not let anyone talk to me like that - that is harassment and you do not have to put up with that for a minute. And as far as treating patients like that I think that is...

  17. Anyone gone union?

    puggymae replied to liljsmom02's topic in General Nursing

    I vote union all the way. Although some people have bad experiences (just like in every situation) with unions I have had nothing but positive

  18. Breaks?

    puggymae replied to miko014's topic in General Nursing

    My advice - take your allotted time. You do not get any brownie points or anything else for short changing yourself. Plus, if you cannot get your work done on time that shows managment that due to...

  19. I failed dosage and calculations

    puggymae replied to keldel's topic in General Students

    I teach this course at a community college nursing program - it lasts 45 hours! I cover the calculation party for 30 hours and spend 15 hours on actually giving medications (injections, crushing meds...

  20. Halloween and Nursing

    puggymae replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

    We always dressed up for Halloween until we had a a code on the floor where we worked. All the nurses on our floor had matching clown costumes. The lab people were all dressed like Dracula, The xray...

  21. Just a uniform question

    puggymae replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    Every nursing program that I have ever had any contact with allowed students a choice of a dress or pants. Nobody will care - they will be too busy doing their work and you will be too busy doing...

  22. Getting 12 hour shifts on unit

    puggymae replied to jannrn's topic in General Nursing

    When we first changed to 12 hour shifts there were numerous people who did not want to change. Managment let them stay on 8 hours if they wanted to - BUT - they had to have other nurses to cover the...

  23. Do you have a GED?????

    puggymae replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    One of my favorite nursing school instructors had a GED. She now has a PhD and is department chair of the program I attended. I don't think it matters - what matters is the present as far as school...

  24. grading written papers / assignments

    puggymae replied to psalm_55's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    We get more complaints from students about this than anything. Alot of it has to do with the instructors education level - Alot of our instructors have a BSN, some have a MSN, others have or are...

  25. student med error, what happens to the instructor?

    puggymae replied to RN1263's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    In our program students get an Unsatisfactory for making a med error - 3 unsatisfactories and you fail clinical. As the instructor I check the medications before they are administered - if I find a...