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  1. Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    WillRegNurse posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hi all. I am a new graduate RN who is enjoying his first job as a med-surg nurse. I don't know about everyone else, but I am so tired of the nurse practitioner craze that seems to be overtaking the...

  2. Is anyone else annoyed by the expectations of male nurses in transferring patients?

    WillRegNurse posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    At my new job on a med-surg floor, we have only two pieces of lifting equipment: a sit-to-stand machine and a hoyer lift. When you want to use them, they never seem to be around. They are shared...

  3. Are online ANP degrees destroying our credibility?

    WillRegNurse replied to jilljw's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    It doesn't matter zenman. Yale university does not control hiring within Yale New Haven Hospital or the Hospital of Saint Raphael, which are its two teaching

  4. Are online ANP degrees destroying our credibility?

    WillRegNurse replied to jilljw's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I work for a teaching hospital of Yale school of medicine and online NPs wouldn't be hired. Instead, they would be derided by the Yale

  5. Discrimination Against Relocaters

    WillRegNurse posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hi everybody, I am a registered nurse who graduated this past May of 2011, and I have observed a very disturbing phenomenon that is taking place. About two weeks ago, I began orienting on a...

  6. Do you think that a "high school dropout" mentality exists in the field of nursing?

    WillRegNurse posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This thread might draw ire, but I feel that it has to be said. In my carefully considered opinion, one of the biggest things that holds nursing back as a profession is what I view as a high school...

  7. Do you think that a "high school dropout" mentality exists in the field of nursing?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I respect young people just starting out in nursing, who are working for the floor and giving it their all. The ones who aren't jaded, weary, and constantly using dark humor in order to cope. They...

  8. Do you think that a "high school dropout" mentality exists in the field of nursing?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The term I thought was apt. One of the characteristics that unites people with this mentality is that they have very low ambition. They are content working as a floor nurse, because it lets them...

  9. Do you think that a "high school dropout" mentality exists in the field of nursing?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There's often a little more to it than that, such as their reasons for quitting school. Writing off "whatever reason" as something unrelated to the identity of a high school dropout is flawed.High...

  10. Penn State is now officially the most prestegious school with online RN-BSN program

    WillRegNurse replied to UGADawgs's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I've begun the PSU program and it's excellent. I'm so glad I found out about Penn State's RN BSN

  11. Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm not intimately familiar with Martha Rogers' views on nurses transitioning into medicine, but if she and I are of one stance on this, then she sounds like an intriguing individual whose views might...

  12. Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I may be a new as a nurse, but if you are gloating about how, as if it were supposed to be a "news flash," that a lot of people are disagreeing with me, then I think you need experience more badly...

  13. Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    My last physical exam was with an NP for employee health at my new job. I have never seen so rushed an exam in my life. Definitely gave the "I've done this already 10x today" impression. Have...

  14. Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    In the end, it's the appendectomy that saves the patient with appendicitis. Not the NP's "holistic" spew. No disrespect to the NPs out there, or their training, but I see the bedside nurses as...

  15. Is anybody else tired of the nurse practitioner craze?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    People are commending NPs without any actual reasoning here, it seems. I think this is due to loyalty to the profession rather than actual logic. You guys are just giving anecdotal "crappola"...

  16. when to use a transfer belt?

    WillRegNurse replied to esunada's topic in General Nursing

    What do you mean they are not used anymore..? They are used all the time in rehab. Ideally, everyone is transferred using a gait belt. Unfortunately that is a reality in few facilities. I can't...

  17. Is anyone else annoyed by the expectations of male nurses in transferring patients?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Men in Nursing

    Uncooperative patients are supposed to transferred using a lift. They should not be handled directly if it can be avoided, and they shouldn't be forcefully ushered into standing, sitting, or walking....

  18. Is anyone else annoyed by the expectations of male nurses in transferring patients?

    WillRegNurse replied to WillRegNurse's topic in Men in Nursing

    Yeah, I'm not that big of a guy either. I am 6 feet tall and weigh 155 lbs. That is pretty skinny, and half of the female nurses I work with surely weigh more than me, from the looks of some of...