FiremedicMike

I knew the first response would be "leave your partner". What about a post from the other perspective. "My partner is trying to get a job after quitting without anything lined up. They want to move and I really love them and don't want to leave them, but I'm firmly rooted here for (insert reasons)” So many nurses here treat relationships as disposable.

I'd like to follow the money trail on that legislation...

I wish my wife's SNF did this, they just screw over the on duty nurse and they get more patients until someone hopefully (if ever) shows up. "management is available to come help" (they never do).

Standardized testing is not the problem, the entire current state of our education system is. Students graduate high school without the skills needed to study and retain, begin their nursing journey with a minimal amount of low level college work, then get tossed into nursing programs filled with instructors who teach things that worked for them 35 years ago or nurses who rushed to their their MSN in education to get away from bedside. Combine all of this with a curriculum that is only loosely standardized and you produce nurses without critical thinking skills.

That's not a thing in my neck of the woods..

You know.. I can't pass a color vision test, I'm also short, old, and about 30 pounds overweight. No one would dare argue that I have any business being a fighter pilot or navy seal.. One of societies greatest current downfalls is the insistence that anyone can be anything they want to be just because they want to do it.

I do want to add one thing - cardiac arrest is a no brainer. I'm a huge data-nerd for cardiac arrest survival and no matter what toys, drugs, airways, we throw at these people, the ONLY thing that has shown statistical improvement in survival rate is early bystander CPR and early appropriately performed defibrillation.

I see this is your first post, welcome. Like akula, I've been a medic for a very long time (25 years) and an ED nurse for 3. I think I can authoritatively say from experience that nursing school does nothing to prepare anyone for the prehospital setting, nor does pretty much any nursing position other than flight nursing for companies that do a lot of scene flights - even then it's limited because most HEMS patients are already somewhat stabilized and differentiated prior to their arrival. On top of that, modern nursing is highly focused on diagnostic tools that aren't available in your personal car. The art of diagnosing, planning, and implementation are not skills that most nurses possess these days, especially a new grad.

Or we could rethink utilization of LPNs in the hospital and use them to help ease the burden. I've seen it work. When I come in and see my assignment and which (if any) LPN I have in my zone, it makes or breaks my day.

Another point of view- Certainly there is bullying in nursing, just as there is in every work environment on the planet. That said, our culture seems to be hyper focused right now and I think there are a lot of instances of frustration or disagreement that becomes mislabeled as bullying.

Our ED uses zones, each zone has 2 RNs covering 4 patients each and then a tech, medic, or LPN in the zone as well backing up both RNs. When we have an LPN in our zone, they'll be on the board looking for open orders and filling the ones they can (oral meds, labs, IV stuff, etc) and discharge patients. Essentially, they're techs who can give some meds and discharge. When we have a good LPN in our zone, it's amazing.

My evidence is clearly laid out in your two posts. You took coursework to satisfy the graduation requirements of your DNP program that was clearly not accepted by the ANCC. Your program should have never allowed you to take any courses that were questionable. More than that, your program should have provided you with appropriate and approved coursework so that you weren't in a position to find your own patho class, which clearly turned into a disaster that delayed your ability to practice and earn money. For the record, your response was also devoid of evidence. I'm happy to hear your take on how you feel your program didn't screw you, but it'll be a tough sell..

I'll repeat what I said in the other thread. Your program failed you. You likely paid them a significant amount of money and then were apparently on your own for scheduling required coursework. Then at the end when there was a question, where were they to help? Nowhere, obviously.. You should name and shame your program so that no one else wastes their money at that pathetic "college" and finds themselves on a similar island.

I don't think many applicants have the knowledge or access to the "right people" to get the real scoop on a job.

Not to be argumentative but this advice is given a lot and it isn't realistic. Most nurse applicants have no way to know which program is more supportive, which manager is better, which system has the best new grad onboarding, etc .