Cold Stethoscope

What would you propose someone do if they're injured by a volunteer who doesn't have the training to safely turn patients? Just suck it up?

Everyone seems to think that they're millionaires, and will be affected by estate taxes. Americans are nothing if not wishful thinkers. Estate Tax and the Founding Fathers (Economist, Lexington's Notebook, 2010)

If the company is marketing to kids, they should be held liable. The cigarette companies were held liable for doing that. Food and drug regulation in this country is spread over several government agencies. It's incoherent, and therefore, regulation ...

That regime is highly recommended for all students who would like to succeed, while minimizing cardiovascular risk.

Alcohol + stimulants is a very dangerous combination, which is why Four Loko and other similar drinks in their original formulation were banned in the U.S. They were being marketed to young people, and were very popular on college campuses, and their...

Uh-oh. :) I have no statistics, but I think that, in general, people are less apt to bully a man than a woman in most cultures.

Study the ATI book carefully. Regarding the science part, review mitosis and meiosis. Brush up on chemistry — make sure you understand the periodic table and bond types. Try to get a reasonable amount of sleep in the days before the test. I didn't do...

There is virtually no way you won't be accepted into both tracks with that GPA (I assume that's your science pre-req GPA) and that TEAS-V score. They are both very good. There is not much room for "meant to be" in MDC's ADN admissions. It's a matte...

So I think you're saying that, for a highly experienced nurse, a BSN offers virtually nothing over an ADN regarding one's practice, but someone with no experience might derive some benefits from the extra courses (and at least in some cases, more hou...

* * * * It seems pretty clear that you're stating that states don't license facilities. How else could that be interpreted? ScottE corrected your statement. He was right. You meant to say, The state give you your nursing license; the facility d...

The contradiction is between "I agree that the new standard should be entry BSN," and, "I recommend that you get a BSN at the start of your career because it will facilitate your job search, even though a BSN adds no real value to your practice."

If Medicare is starved of funding, it will "crash." If it's not, then it won't.

I sense a contradiction. Whether a BSN is justified or not, I think very few nurses at any level of education think that experienced ADNs should lose their jobs for lack of a BSN. The MBAs who make the staffing decisions are the ones who need to hear...

You seem to think that all your tax money goes to health insurance. It's simply not true. At the end of the day, what matters is how much it costs in total, and the quality of the service (i.e., the value). You don't like paying for the Canadian soci...

This is generally not true, for the reasons RNsRWe points out. The deceased is not able to defend his wishes, and there's little risk of litigation in following the wishes of the family.

Out of the zillions of BSNs you get a tiny percentage of haughty malcontents who post here anonymously and stir the pot. I don't think they're representative. You should see what some people post anonymously on political message boards.

Isn't the common convention to provide references under separate cover, if the person doing the interviewing is interested? A resume goes out all over the place. It's not fair to the people you use as references to have their names and contact inform...

Talk to someone who has cancer but no insurance and get back to me. Or talk to someone in his 40's paying $800 a month for mediocre coverage with high hospitalization co-pays. Some insured people here go bankrupt after being treated for a serious ill...

I don't understand that statement. Are you too old for your continuing education classes? And yet, many ADN RNs have jobs, and many will in the future, especially those with experience. You may run into discrimination based on your age, which is comm...

My comment makes less sense since it was edited. I linked three other, older threads on this site on the same subject, and pointed out that a lot of people in those threads were strongly against "losing it" in front of a patient. Apparently that type...

Then which managers are hiring the bullies, given that they're so common on nursing units, if this site is to be believed? Do they all have pristine resumes, and exhibit great acting ability at interviews? Are nursing managers skilled at eliminating ...

It's a difficult problem. When you get a very large number of resumes for an open position, even if you use every objective measure you can think of to winnow the pile, you will still be left with a lot of resumes. (And you may have eliminated the be...

I made the "leap" based on what you said. I even quoted you. I'm not saying that they were in any way justified in firing you regardless of whether you were informing your manager(s) about staffing numbers, staffing performance, or whatever. I'm not ...

This has nothing to do with protected classes. It has to do with defamation of character/libel/slander. Without union representation, you are on your own. It sounds like you are either in SLC, Vatican City, or Riyadh. Given your appealing military ba...

The is is, the criterion is not, "Who will the patients like?" Rather, it's, "Who do I (the hiring manager) like?" To me the world of nursing management is Bizarro-land. In my previous life I worked on projects as part of a team, and members of the t...