Tragically Hip

If it is your passion, though, from what I've read, psychaitric advanced practice nurses are in demand, and paid well.

As long as people's ideas of nursing reflects the reality of 2000, egged on by nursing school marketing, people will line up for their ADNs and BSNs. I'm surprised at how little research people do before committing themselves to 3 to 5 years of inten...

Good choice. Hopefully the stethoscope I chose will work out, but if not, I'll do what you did.

Congratulations, jasilady. You made it on on your own hard work and brains. I wish you great success.

ahh, but that's not outsourcing, like customer support line jobs. that's in-sourcing, which they didn't tell up about. they lay off 25 people virtually all at once, followed by hiring 25 younger people? that kind of pattern is hard to bury, even f...

The amount of money pharmaceutical companies pay out in lawsuits pales in comparison to their marketing budgets, which easily exceed their R&D budgets. And don't conflate lawsuits by the public with legal fines drug companies are forces to pay fo...

When you use a lot of expensive medical services, chances are that you're not going to be able to hide the fact from your boss. In a small company, one employee with cancer or other expensive illness can cause the rates an insurance company charges a...

In a local magnet hospital, ADN RNs are being "encouraged" (i.e., effectively forced) to get their BSN. I had a classmate from that hospital in my microbiology lab, and she hadn't taken a college class for a while. I'm pretty sure the hospital is pay...

They told us that nursing jobs could not be outsourced, and that nothing could stand in the way of the steady increase in those jobs, and that for reasons of limited faculty availability and the shortage of potential students who could make the grade...

You can get the same stethoscope cheaper on-line, including the cost of shipping (and normally, no sales tax). I got and ADC Adscope 601 with interchangeable parts for quite a bit less than the bookstore's price Classic II SE price. It seems very nic...

Congratulations, LCinT. There are indeed a lot of good people, or a lot of good things done by people.

Propofol — there was a circus of recalls within the past few years for contamination with minute stainless steel particles, exotoxic bacteria, hepatitis C. Instead of making single-use vials, Teva used cheaper (maybe they had a lot of them) larger vi...

So that's why people in comas get no service. The new age law of attraction thing is about having the right energy and that sort of thing, rather than petitioning the gods for favors. As far as Matthew 7:7 is concerned, you're assuming logical ands b...

Thoughts are made of gravitons, so they attract one another. They form great thought clouds. I think I saw it on Futurama. Remember the giant flying brains?

it's generally a prerequisite, and you will get a lot more out of the class if you take it first. my microbiology professor happened to be a chemistry freak, which for me was pretty cool. i did a little project on the metabolism and energy yield of a...

On this this MDC Web page it says that A&P 1&2 + labs have to be "Completed within 10 years of program entry date," but some courses (like microbiology) that should be there are missing, so the information is probably out of date. You need to...

I have a big issue with schools lying about how easy it is to get a job in the "rapidly expanding field of nursing," even in areas where it's very difficult for a new grad to find employment. It's fraudulent. My college did not try to pull the wool o...

I got the lab coat. It seems to fit OK. I wish I'd had it for chemistry and microbiology labs rather than the rip-prone disposable lab "coats" I used. I'm waiting for the bookstore to get scrub tops and bottoms in more men's sizes. If the next batch ...

It has nothing to do with companies not marketing drugs in which there is little profit? Why would a drug company bother when it can put its funds into marketing a little purple pill that does nothing more than the previous pink pill that's gone gene...

Most of the money pharmaceutical companies (certainly the large ones) take in goes to marketing. Their saturation advertising on cable channels, so that people are encouraged to wheedle prescription from their physicians doesn't come cheap. The fact ...

The Power of Negative Thinking, New York Times, 4 August 2012 "Oliver Burkeman is the author of the forthcoming book The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking."

The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps, The Chroincle of Higher Education, 6 May 2012 A few years ago an adjunct English instructor wrote a great essay on how hard it is to survive financially on the pay colleges offered, even given the large number of...

On my test there was a lot on meiosis. I'm glad I reviewed mitosis and meiosis before the test. There were no geology questions on my test, but they were mentioned either in the text of the ATI TEAS V book or in the practice tests. (I didn't bother w...

It's the chair of the generic programs (full- and part-time); her office is on Medical campus. You'll have to figure out who that is yourself. I'm not sure that the school requires it, but I think that the facilities in which you do your clinicals ...

Oops, I meant as an adjective. Editing time has passed, so unless an admin fixes it, it will stand. "American" is a adjective. "America" is a noun. You wouldn't say "America congressman" because it's grammatically incorrect. Likewise for "Democratic"...