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Can you see what is happening with our communications ? New and experienced are all providing valued input. Now learn from the input and share with those you work with for solutions and the lines of separation will disappear. Great feedback you guys!

If we do not come together as a team we are only defeating ourselves and that hurts nursing and the patients we are devoted to. In all my years anyone who has remained is because of dedication not a paycheck or status.

Florence Nightingale Nursing is referred to as the nursing assistant stage of nursing because all the things nurses are educated in currently developed over time. Example my sister was a diploma nurse who graduated in the 60's in Milwaukee,Wi. Even then doctors were still doing assessments, foley insertions, NG's, phlebotomy... Nursing was educated progressively with these skills and more. Current example; Nursing in many institutions does the complete physical exam,research,run codes, epilepsy monitoring, normal pressure hydrocephalus and the list goes on. It is not demeaning what she did just showing the progression over time as a science.

Teaching has been a focus of my career since a nursing assistant my first 13 years of Florence Nightingale nursing. We all learn and teach as we go and it is what we pass to those in the future so go for that Masters with confidence. Do you realize that you can go straight through your nursing education to a Masters without stopping for BSN or work based experience along the way? Go for it and let me know how it turns out....

Due to issues such as Magnet employers are being pushed to require BSN as a qualification. I am an ADN with 16+ years experience and because of my experience I am often ahead of newer BSN prepared nurses educationally because learning does not stop with getting the nursing degree. it can have a negative impact on your career. Many schools offer 100% on liine BSN at your own pace. To maintain status and stability continue to educate. I have been in health care for 28+ years and it is the way you survive and move forward. You can also pursue degrees outside of nursing as well as an adjunct to nursing. good luck

This is for experienced and new nurses. We all have value. The issue appears to be amongst nurses however the true instigators are often times who is signing the paycheck and please think this through before judging what I am about to convey. When an employer hires they already have calculated what a full time employee will cost them during a course of a full career. They will utilize the employee to the best or least of capacity and when that is complete so is your tenure with the particular company. At will employers are not required to explain themselves to anyone unless a serious employee event has occurred. Now the one thing that is evident is when pitting employees against one another employers remain in control. If employees ultimately agree and team together that control is lost because the numbers in nursing for example are so massive. This unfortunately is why we read about the tolerance of lateral work place violence. There is a solution and it requires all nurses to actively promote and example a work environment that accepts all nurses and does not allow ourselves to be drawn in to attacking one another. To accomplish this each of us needs to do self reflection and cliches will fall to the way side. I am speaking from personal experience. I was told I was too smart and did my job too well. It was viewed as a threat and I was terminated even with an exemplary employee profile. Be careful everyone is at risk. The need is to realize the methods applied to control and disseminate and learn to stand together against it. This is the way to make the conflicts stop. Peace.....