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At the end of the day, the courses are pass/fail. If you achieve a grade above the minimum requirement, you've passed.; if you don't, you've failed. The only thing that pass/fail affects is your overall GPA. Many nursing schools cannot change their g...

Hi all, So, I'm full time faculty and recently found out I'm pregnant (yay!), due the end of November. When did you tell your dean/director that you are expecting? I'm thinking that I might be able to make it to the end of the fall semester before I...

I have a Master of Public Administration.

I never did...opens you up to much liability. There are nursing interventions that you can use as a stop gap until you can get an official order. If it's a life-threatening event and you need immediate orders, that's why we have rapid-responses and c...

I strongly encourage you to *not* do this. You will most likely make some waves for yourself in your school that you don't want to have to surf. It's difficult to find clinical placements for students and a student calling to find out why they can't ...

You may want to change your username if that is your real name...

Why should the sitter have to be exposed to their carcinogenic smoke?

Are you 100% sure that there wasn't additional assigned readings that were not in the textbook? Or that the instructor didn't mention it during lecture?

I'm also interested in learning more.

I'm *still* writing my dissertation...this has proven to be an exercise in patience...lol

My thoughts as well...what are you going to do when she gets disciplined, or denied her choice of specialty/schedule/vacation at work? There's no reason you still can't be her biggest supporter/confidant, but it's time for her to fight her own battle...

I always hated having my stethoscope round my neck, so I carried it in the cargo pocket of my scrub pants. Of course, this required me to ut only scrub pants with a cargo pocket...

I've always wondered how expensive having a horse is, can you tell me how much your horse costs or would the number be skewed as yours is a very high horse?

Question for all the school nurses: for those of you that need to go with the students requiring a med, does that leave the rest of your student population without a healthcare professional to administer their meds?

When I was still working in acute care, we needed provider orders to access a port. That was not considered to be within the scope of nursing judgment.

What if they aren’t?? Then they don't deserve the money that motivated them to get the license in the first place...that's a self-correcting problem.

Why would she?

Hi and congrats on your progress for your MSN! I'm currently writing my dissertation for my PhD and can speak to some of your questions. I didn't find the course work to be much different from my Master's courses, just a lot more writing and statisti...

Thanks, but I didn't say it! Twas someone named Meggy Doodle, she said it quite eloquently!

I didn't write this, so I can't take credit for it... I had a major epiphany today. Some of you aren’t going to like this, but it’s flu season so here we gooooo ??‍♀️... I think that people who don’t want to vaccinate should have the freedom to do s...

Take a look at what you are spending each month and try to reduce the non-essentials. At 6 months into your first year of nursing, you need your days off/down time to rest and prepare for your next shift...you've got to try to have a good work-life b...

I love this. Thank you for using that euphemism...I will be using it!

I used to ask families how much they wanted to know...and then provide that information in a caring, compassionate way. It allowed them to have some control over an uncontrollable situation. Look up mindful listening...there's quite a bit on that top...

I agree...I had a similar experience as a new grad. Started at a Magnet hospital, hated the culture and went to a smaller community hospital that was much more welcoming to new grads.