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  1. Question of the Month: Should All Adjunct Faculty Have a Masters Degree?

    grannynurse FNP replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    One of the reasons I am return to a graduate program to obtain my MSN as a Family NP, is because I miss the patient contact. When I worked as a case manager, I had daily contact with my clients,...

  2. What is the #1 healthcare problem in the USA?

    grannynurse FNP replied to nurse_wannabe's topic in General Nursing

    i would like to address some of your comments. and perhaps, i am in the unique position to respond, as i suffer from asthma, am an insulin dependent diabetic and am hypertensive, as well as having a...

  3. Too Many Crabby Nurses!!

    grannynurse FNP replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse for thirty-seven years and have seen many nurses and many attitudes, on many different days. Attitudes change, just like the seasons change. They become volatile and then...

  4. When did you start working?

    grannynurse FNP replied to JoniL&DRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Well Joni, back in the old days, 1971 I started working a week after my graduation. That, of course, was after taking off a week from my old position, as an LPN. And I had to wait until July to take...

  5. ANA rec BSN vs ASN

    grannynurse FNP replied to TypicalFish's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry but I have to disagree with your view regarding unions, United, GM and globalization be the causes of the downturn in retirement benefits. The major cuase, for western industry, has been...

  6. questions about Air Force nursing

    grannynurse FNP replied to adh_09's topic in Government, Military

    I was not on active duty Air Force but was in the Air National Guard. And did my OCT at Lackland (?) Air Force Base. Yes, I need to know how to swim but that was not a problem, I was a sufer, in San...

  7. Question of the Month: Should All Adjunct Faculty Have a Masters Degree?

    grannynurse FNP replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    When I went to my associate degree program, 1969-1971, all of our faculty had to have or be working on a MSN. Today, 2005 all most all of the faculty has their PhDs or are working on them, including...

  8. What are the pros of getting your BSN?

    grannynurse FNP replied to browsing's topic in General Students

    I am currently a student in an MSN program. I began my education in a diploma program, went to an associate degree program, went on to get my BSN and a MS in Hospital Administration. I advise anyone...

  9. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    grannynurse FNP replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if this qualifies as a ghost story but here it is. I was taking care of a 12 year old with aplastic anemia. A week before she die, every day, at 12:15PM I would get a cold chill across...

  10. Yelled at by NA for shaving pt.

    grannynurse FNP replied to Nellie Nurse's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Is it a unit or facility policy that patients be shaved with an electric shaver? If it is, then you were in error. However, even if it isn't, no matter how careful one is, you can still nick the...

  11. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    grannynurse FNP replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Would you believe it was because my parents would not allow me to remain, in California, when they moved back to NYS? I was offered a scholarship, for 62 credits, at a NYS DMH School of Nursing. The...

  12. State board "delinquent"status

    grannynurse FNP replied to Blackcat99's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know what it means in California but I can tell you what it means in Florida. I allowed my license to laspe, in 2000, in Florida. I went to reactivate it, in 2004 and found that they had...

  13. Fire Ants

    grannynurse FNP replied to nurseangel78's topic in General Nursing

    I had been bitten numerous times and experienced the usual symptoms of minor infection and itchness. The I was bitten and had a severe respiratory reaction to just a few bites. I now carry and epi...

  14. What will YOU do with your first "real" paycheck!?

    grannynurse FNP replied to DZcarrie's topic in General Students

    I bought my daughter a bunch of new summer clothes. Grannynurse

  15. NJ vs Florida license

    grannynurse FNP replied to nurse cc's topic in General Nursing

    Are you going to continue to work? School nursing does not pay that well, here in Florida. And I'm not sure if Naples Community has an OB unit. If not, the nearest one is a Lee Memorial in Ft....

  16. U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens

    grannynurse FNP replied to BeachNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I suggest you update your facts a little. One, you cannot receive SSDI unless you have nine or more quarters paid into it. Second, no one receives social securit benefits unless they or a parent has...

  17. Personal Health Insurance?

    grannynurse FNP replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, going on line is a bad idea. Any good insurance company will rule out pre-exisiting conditions. And the ER record will verify that your brother's infection is pre-existing. Take him to a...

  18. Sask. family furious that 84-year-old dad waited 52 hours in emergency room

    grannynurse FNP replied to nbnurse95's topic in International Nursing

    A fifty two hours wait is a very long time but it is not that usual for a patient to have to wait for a bed, in any hospital, Canda or the United States.

  19. is RUE a mistake?

    grannynurse FNP replied to deegale's topic in Online Distance Learning

    The clincials of EC are not a walk in the park for anyone. And they make it very clear. Your mother was tested on every aspect of her nursing care, from introducing herself to the patient to doing a...

  20. Nursing Issue - Medication Aides

    grannynurse FNP replied to M&MRN2005's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sorry but I am the world's worse speller. And my spell check doesn't work on this board. And I don't always have access to a dictionary. So, you will have to just put up with some of us spelling...

  21. Army Nursing Questions. Please Help!!!

    grannynurse FNP replied to andreamae's topic in Government, Military

    You are classified as a medic. It is akin to being a paramedic in civilian life, although I know there are paramedics who will disagree. You can work on your pre or co requistes, while you are on...

  22. Nurses with disabilities

    grannynurse FNP replied to zipcat's topic in Nurse Disabilities

    I am also a disabled nurse. The fact that your facility is unwilling to accomodate your disability may be a violation of bot5h your state and federal law. I suggest you look into that, inside of...

  23. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    grannynurse FNP replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    I find your comments both amusing and judgemental. I am a chronic pain suffer, as well as an insulin dependent diabetic and an asthmatic. And guess what, I am under the care of physicians, on a...

  24. Diabetic Education Inpatient? Outpatient?

    grannynurse FNP posted a topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    I am an insulin dependent Type 2 diabetic. It has been some years since I did any diabetic teaching and am now preplexed at some of the information that I have received, both as an inpatient and as...

  25. Diabetic Education Inpatient? Outpatient?

    grannynurse FNP replied to grannynurse FNP's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Yes, endocrinologists are in short supply. And likely you are correct in your judgement of the physician. And a good family practice physician will refer for evaluation, as to the need for insulin....