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Hey JSJ, Good luck to you with nursing school. To answer your question about dating a male nurse. Most likely no, first and foremost...I most likely on some level work with them, whether totally or on a phone call...etc I don't mix dating and work. O...

I enjoyed your response, very thought out and great of you to be that way with new nurses. Now here is a thought to consider....this is kind of how I see it, I have met a few nurses who were braniacs....Aced every test, can ramble things off to you ...

WOW there are alot of judgemental generalizations being made on this thread. I don't think it is fair to alot of LPN's....Before you cast judgement always think....If you were an LPN, then you understand the education and schooling that is done and h...

Congrats to you and your wife...I am not too familiar with Olympia, only lived here for 2 1/2 years. I take it you just PCSed here? MAMC, can get a bad reputation...but so does McChord. Healthcare is a difficult thing to run when you got people co...

No they don't have any GS nursing positions. I am a contracted LPN at their clinic. I like working with the military...the pay works well getting me thru school. I take it you are at the lovely MAMC?? Annette

Well Corvette Guy, The problem your having is cause of your name....CORVETTE guy...lol Sorry Mustang fan....BTW hello from Lakewood...I work on McChord, civilian contracted nurse with them!!! Annette

You crack me up....outstanding point!!! If the public wants us not to wear our scrubs then get the hospitals or the places we work pay for ones for us and give us lockers to change...or just shut up and mind your own buisness.... I didn't wanna shake...

I already started hun, everything you see posted on here, I sent to them...every email...actually joined their forum...LOL And posted on there. I think they may kick me off, some people cannot always handle such strong decisive fews as the wonderful ...

Oh Ali gator, I am not upset or offended by you...you are not the one who did this...to be honest with you, I had to spend over an hour on their website till I found it...they have it hiden well...but now that I have it posted on 5 boards including t...

Just to begin this for the injustice served to LPN's, I have posted the above on additional websites...I also joined their forum and posted this...here is a link.... http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1...

Marie_LPN, I found what you were talking about and I am absolutely disgusted. Now I understand more the lack of respect at nurses for all levels...LPN, ADN, BSN...they are not advocating nursing...they are dividing us and making LPN's look like inco...

Marie_LPN, I was looking at that nursingadvocacy website, can quiet find a clear picture on LPN's...could you possibly direct me in the right direction? Thank you Annette

Ali Gator, I agree hun, we should def. encourage it...but some people are just happy where they are...they don't want that extra "work" some have families...that is why I advocate for pay raises for such things...also after the first year that BSN's ...

Ok Ali gator, I can see that point more of rather a degree than r/t nursing. You are right, I don't think NCLEX could test on alot of that stuff. So we are at square one again...LOL a part of me thinks that BSN's should get a differential, but anot...

I didn't state that one nurse was better than the other...I think by offering higher pay to BSN's is classifying them as better than ADN's. Honestly, I am refering to ONLY NEW GRADS...not nurses that have a experience for one, or nurses that were at...

So pricklybear, the NCLEX states to you the basic knowledge to practice nursing at a graduate level...so in essence you just proved my statement...new grad whether that be ADN or BSN, same pay...after all it is just the basic information...to enter n...

Again they both enter as new grad RN's. If this change was to take place, I think it would affect LPN's...because I look at LPN's as the entry level into nursing...so would LPN's still exist? what capacity? would they still be a "nurse"? We too pe...

Ali gator, Maybe on a small scale, but I feel alot of nurses choose ADN because it is quicker...esp. ones with families..we need those nurses. A while back I mentioned about a shortage of nurses if entry level was BSN, a reply I can't remember who, ...

I understand your confusion. What I am saying is this...ADN's and BSN's sit for the same exam...so ultimately a BSN choices to learn what an ADN learned in 4yrs vs the 2yrs, speaking theothetically here...because we all know they take more classes. ...

I agree with you 100%, but as in perfecting those technical skills we are also learning and understanding the whys. It isn't the procedure but rather the rational behind it, including the implications.

Wow beginning to realize how much I can type...LOL I did want to tell you guys this...in my practical nurse program...there was a mandatory requirement for each skill or assessment to be performed. If that clinical time didn't present that oppurtuni...

Ali gator, As a patient that is what I have seen every time. I am not lieing to you about it, to even post something like that on this board would be as good as being dead. So I would only do it to shed some light on situations. I DO BELIEVE there a...

thankyou sunnyjohn for answering that question...so it is safe to say that 75% of dreads are do to their popular and appealing nature. Ok that is cool.Rastafarianism-do you know what the roles in this religion that dreads played? I like to learn th...

Ok first of when we state collar, opviously we don't wear collars anymore, I guess a better way to state it is off the shoulders and out of the face... Rational; first as you know Sterile technique, also how would you feel if you were lying sick and ...

Ali gator, You qouted me, I did not take a cheap shot... I didnot classify all BSN's as being what I experienced. I did state I know they(BSN Good ones) are out there and I hope to encounter one as a patient. That is not a cheap shot, that is just ...