meanmaryjean DNP, RN

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    Advice for former patient

    meanmaryjean replied to Jpfr's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What a lovely thing to do! I guarantee she will be thrilled and
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    Teaching with DNP and not a MSN

    meanmaryjean replied to XPerez's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Without some graduate level.work in education, you ate unlikely to find a position. My state's BON requires this for educators at all levels except instructing in an LPN
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    Macbook Air or Macbook Pro for Nursing School?

    meanmaryjean replied to tmccstu2018's topic in General Students

    I would not spend the money on a Mac. I would get a basic HP or whatever- it's really all you need. Unless you have money to
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    Shouldn't Have Gone Down that Rabbit Hole ...

    meanmaryjean replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in General Nursing

    I feel your pain OC. Try as we might, some people have to make the mistake for themselves before they learn. See also: West Coast University and that 'school' in Florida that only lets you take...
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    DUI

    meanmaryjean replied to Julesss28's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    The police don't just randomly pull people over for 'no reason'. And coming to ask for advice- and then dictating what type of advice is acceptable indicates that you are not owning this. It strikes...
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    What is your favorite specialty of nursing? (ER, MedSurg, ICU, Pediatrics, etc.)

    meanmaryjean replied to LindseyPar's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto - peds was my favorite and peds ICU the hands-down BEST. I miss patient
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    Online Accelerated BSN - options

    meanmaryjean replied to futura4's topic in Online Distance Learning

    You are looking for a
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    Dropped Pill - Do you give it?

    meanmaryjean replied to applesxoranges's topic in General Nursing

    Dropping a pill is not a med error. Technically or otherwise.
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    Dismissal from nursing school without failing any course

    meanmaryjean replied to Beebee18's topic in General Students

    If there are policies in place which support the school's actions, you do not have a case. And to your other question, you cannot transfer nursing courses between schools. You will be starting again...
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    Medical Assistant or Straight to BSN?

    meanmaryjean replied to FlowerAD's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    The problem with MA is it is less applicable to nursing AND it sort of locks you into clinic hours - which is not flexible for nursing school. MA program is going to cost you money and time- and not...
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    Traveler RNs rude to me

    meanmaryjean replied to RNbirdie1018's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I suppose it depends on what you consider disrespectful? And what part respect for you personally impacts the care they give to
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    Prioritize this for me

    meanmaryjean replied to NursinAround's topic in General Students

    For future reference, next time read your post and title aloud. This comes across as you commanding us to do your homework for you. That never ends
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    Young Nurse Not Taken Seriously in the Workplace

    meanmaryjean replied to efoxrn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    How in the heck are you a BSN grad at 19? Did clinical sites know you were a minor during the
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    Blood Transfusion

    meanmaryjean replied to Suzeee's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Nipride? Yes Blood? Never seen
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    Self Righteousness

    meanmaryjean replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto!
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    BSB & A-BSN Comment/Question

    meanmaryjean replied to sleepyinscience's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    No, you will be obtaining a BSN in five and an additional more generic degree that you will never use but spend decades paying student loans on for no good reason. If you want to be a nurse, go...
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    Nursing program

    meanmaryjean replied to Tjones02's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yes it is. It's hard, but it is
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    Difficulty finding jobs?

    meanmaryjean replied to justsaiyanRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    The answer (as it is so many times) is "It depends". Are you wanting to go into clinical education (hospital based)? If so, the opportunities with an MSN are largely predicated on being aggressive in...
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    Private Duty Nursing

    meanmaryjean replied to middleagednurse's topic in Nursing Career

    Agreed! There is such a need, and such reward in that
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    Question for you retired RNs

    meanmaryjean replied to Grobyc82's topic in Retired Nurses

    I feel you! We are planning to buy a place in FL near two of the kids for when the hubs retires in March, and I will move into an apartment here in IN for a couple years- splitting my time between...
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    Getting a pediatric hospital job

    meanmaryjean replied to Klscholl's topic in Pediatric

    Get ANY hospital job- that acute care experience plus your home care background (maybe keep the home care as a per diem side gig) would open may
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    BSN to Masters

    meanmaryjean replied to DanielleM0411's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I would strongly advise you to work as an RN before your NP program. It gives you a depth of understanding you will be lacking if you don't. And (no snark intended- truly) PTA is nowhere near the...
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    Advancement in nursing career

    meanmaryjean replied to StaceyTr88's topic in General Nursing

    Usually continuing education is the key to advancement. There are a jillion RN-to-BSN programs out there - find one and get started. Then think about what you want to do with
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    Psych or OR

    meanmaryjean replied to ApolloC's topic in General Nursing

    There are no demonstrable differences- what one has outside of work is up to the individual, not the job. Salary and benefits are pretty standard within a hospital and mainly dependent upon length of...
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    I need to vent about my Nursing program

    meanmaryjean replied to mariawong86's topic in General Students

    More than likely, the reason you feel this way is because you haven't had much (if any) opportunity to APPLY any of it yet. Once you start applying what you've learned to clinical situations- you'll...