Tommy5677

My advice to anyone encountering a situation with police is to DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU. Accidental or not, your resistance led to the assault charge. You will now need to include that every time you renew your license and on every job application. If you fail to disclose with a prospective employer and they find out, you will be terminated. Good luck.

A little Vick's vaporub under the nose with a mask usually does the trick. I think I was told this by an oncology nurse.

I'm not far behind you and graduated in '80. I too could have most any position I wanted until about 10 years ago. Now all the ads are either BSN preferred or required. I remember the days (I'm on the verge of retirement so that gives you a clue) when you could have a direct appt with the DON who oftentimes would hire you on the spot (a sign of desperation to be sure). Then HR took over. Now you need 2 interviews with HR before you even get to see the DON and then at least 2 interviews with the DON. All while competing with 200 other RN's for the same job. If you're not the greatest interviewee on the planet... I worked as a Health Coach on the west coast with an insurance company for 11 years, moved east, saw an ad for exactly the same job I was doing all those 11 years. They didn't even give me the time of day and I'm sure it was because of degree status. Oh and both were BCBS companies.

But the unfortunate part is that the ADNs have been relegated to nursing homes. Not to take away from nursing homes but there should be more options. If you don't want ADNs in management, fine, but don't take away hospital bedside. The notion that BSN's are better nurses is a myth and remember, we all take the same exam. If you want ADNs to be less than, give them a different exam but don't make them take the same exam and call them less than. That's what the nursing profession is doing.

I would probably agree with this but in a different way. I would encourage people to get the ADN, take the NCLEX, get a job, and then enroll in a RN-BSN program. It's likely that in the long run it will cost less money. The only deterrent I can see to this is that those programs will tell you things like you can do it in 3 semesters, except we're talking about 60 credits. You're probably not going to do that in 3 semesters but at least you can work.

It's an opinion

I'm in total agreement. Many with a BSN who got their ADN first will tell you it's nothing but fluff (community health and research, neither of which is on the NCLEX) There are also many BSNs, including one here, that will tell you stats show BSNs nurses are better. The research was done by a University with, are you ready, a BSN program. It's laughable. The nursing profession is it's own worst enemy, afraid to stand up for itself (if we wanted to we could put hospitals in their place, groveling at our feet).

Did you see where post COVID nurse salaries are plummeting? That's how much hospitals and admins think of you. As Boomers continue to age, we are heading for a serious crisis, as if we don't already have one.

Wow. I just learned how to do a simple algebra calculation for that one

43 Years ago I received my ASN from a private university. We started with 66 and graduated 32 so yes, there is a weeding out process. Also, when I did the ASN I did the entire thing in 2 years, including 2 semesters in the summers, which is kind of not a thing anymore.

Whatever you say. I'm apparently not allowed to disagree with you.

Finally, a voice of reason. Thank you for your post.

He gave it to the wrong patient and nearly killed her.

It doesn't matter because no one will hire her anyway. It's all moot. I never said she should return to any hands on clinical area. There are nonclinical things she can do that require a RN but people here don't even want her doing that. I think there was some kind of motive here with this post to get people's dander up and it has succeeded.

Thank you for that. They could still do case management (believe it or not) and prior authorization. Things that require a RN. What about nursing informatics or something of that nature? Well, for that she would probably need a MSN. I think most of those commenting here are just unreasonable. I'm not trying to excuse her. Had she followed policy and protocol she would not have made such an egregious mistake. Maybe she could make lemonade from lemons: go on the lecture circuit teaching nurses what not to do, or whatever that might look like. Here's an example of a guy who got lucky after a med error. Wrong med, wrong patient: Michael Villeneuve knows this firsthand. After graduating from nursing school and working in a neurosurgical intensive care unit, Villeneuve gave the wrong medication to a patient. He administered a dose of potassium intended for one patient to another. Villeneuve realized the error immediately and called for help as the patient's heart went into distress. All he could think about was that his career was over, that he was going to lose his license, and that the patient was going to die. Fortunately, the patient recovered. Villeneuve went on to head the Canadian Nurses Association, where he educated nurses on safety before his retirement in March 2022. Anyway, it happens. This guy could have still been revoked even though the patient recovered but he and the patient got lucky. Nurses wanting to be judge and jury is just tiresome.