delilah1010

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1. Education Conspiracy

   delilah1010 replied to Avid reader's topic in ADN/BSN

   I will be perfectly honest that I don't see a big difference in performance between ADN level nurses and BSN nurses. I am old enough that I remember the hospital trained diploma nurses. They were my mom's generation, and they were excellent nurses. B...

2. So is there really a nursing shortage?

   delilah1010 replied to VegGal's topic in General Nursing

   I am a physician with 25 years of experience in primary care. I am of the opinion that some of the very best nurses that I have worked with over the past 30+ years, from medical school onwards, were those who were trained in the hospital diploma pro...

3. School Nurses Hoping for a Snow Day

   delilah1010 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in School

   So far this year, we have been pretty lucky with snow days. Unfortunately, we had a lockdown due to a threat at our HS right before the last day of finals this past fall. It put the HS behind one week in terms of instruction because finals were del...

4. Nurse Practitioner Restrictions

   delilah1010 replied to travelNP's topic in NP

   There's always the option of applying to medical school, attending, graduating and doing a residency. Then you would be a physician. That's the route that MDs and DOs took. I don't know about the training of an NP. We have NP students occasionall...

5. Do patients know a "good nurse"?

   delilah1010 replied to NursesRmofun's topic in Relations

   In outpatient practices, MA's are used to put patients in rooms, which involves taking and recording their vital signs, including weight, recording a brief reason for the visit, and, ideally, reconciling the medications that the patient is taking. A...

6. Snow & calling out of work

   delilah1010 replied to CrazyGoonRN's topic in General Nursing

   Technically, so are physicians.

7. Snow & calling out of work

   delilah1010 replied to CrazyGoonRN's topic in General Nursing

   We live in an area that gets snow often, but usually not very much. We are just south of I-70, and most of the really heavy snow that occurs further north misses us. We don't have a great infrastructure for dealing with snow that they have further no...

8. Online Nursing Schools vs Traditional Schools

   delilah1010 replied to canwil2082's topic in General Nursing

   I know that nursing is different from academic fields in many ways. However, it should not come as a surprise that an on-line degree from a minor college wouldn't be regarded as equivalent from one from a ranked university. For example, my undergra...

9. Professional name vs. legal name?

   delilah1010 replied to Justabitoff's topic in General Nursing

   I am physician who has been in practice for 20 years using my maiden name professionally. I am married, and use my husband's name socially, and when I was in medical school, I had my name changed legally to my birth/maiden name. As long as the rea...